Brock Williams wins first place at CNS 2019!
Congratulations to Brock Williams, who won first place in the Infographic Award Competition at the Canadian Nutrition Society Annual Conference in Niagara Falls this month! Brock is a PhD Student in the Karakochuk lab, spearheading a randomized controlled cross-over trial on folic acid supplementation in children with sickle cell disease. As a Clinical Dietitian at […]
Congratulations to Kelsey Cochrane – on receiving a CIHR Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarships – Master’s (CGS-M) Award!
The CGS-M Program provides financial support to high-calibre scholars who are engaged in eligible master’s or, in some cases, doctoral programs in Canada. The award provides an annual stipend of $17,500 for one year. Kelsey’s Master’s thesis research is investigating the effectiveness of two forms of folate supplements to raise blood folate concentrations in pregnant […]
Healthy Starts Research Day 2019
Our lab attended the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute’s Healthy Starts Research Day on February 6, 2019. We were honored to welcome Dr. Deborah O’Connor from the University of Toronto, Department of Nutritional Sciences, who gave an inspiring keynote address. Brock, Jordie (pictured here), Kelsey and Shannon presented posters of their research.
Shannon Steele publishes in the Journal of Clinical Medicine!
Congratulations, Shannon! Her work investigating the effect of iron supplementation on non-transferrin bound iron concentrations in Cambodian women was recently published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine (2017 Impact Factor: 5.6). See the full text here.
Kelsey Cochrane presents her MSc research proposal
Kelsey did a fantastic job completing her MSc research proposal seminar at the Human Nutrition Graduate Student Seminar series on Wednesday. Well done! 🙂
Welcome Grace Goh and Theresa Schroder!
Grace and Theresa are joining the Karakochuk team as Post-Doctoral Fellows, funded through a Mitacs scholarship in collaboration with Molecular You (www.molecularyou.com), a personalized health company. Their project will focus on integrating personalized nutrition recommendations, based on metabolomic, proteomic and genetic data, into Molecular You’s personalized health platform. They will use data mining to gather […]
Cara Mayer presents her research at BCCHRI
Cara did an outstanding job presenting her summer research project at the BCCHRI summer student presentation series. Congratulations Cara, well done!
Congratulations to Dr. Stanley Zlotkin!
I was honored to attend the Spring 2018 Convocation ceremony at Simon Fraser University (SFU) and celebrate Dr. Stanley Zlotkin (my MSc supervisor from the University of Toronto) who was awarded an honorary doctorate for his pioneering work in global child health. See the convocation ceremony summary below for more details on Dr. Zlotkin’s international […]
Shannon Steele and Kaitlyn Samson present their research at Nutrition 2018 in Boston
Shannon Steele (pictured left) and Kaitlyn Samson presented their MSc research at the Nutrition 2018 conference in Boston, USA this week. Excellent work and an excellent conference! Stay tuned for their abstracts soon to be published in Current Developments in Nutrition.
Congratulations Jeff Holmes for receiving the APNM Undergraduate Research Excellence Award!
Jeff Holmes was awarded the 2018 Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism (APNM) Undergraduate Research Excellence Award. The 16 winners from across Canada for 2018 have each received a certificate of recognition and have been granted free electronic access to APNM for one year. Jeff completed a 3-credit directed studies course with Dr. Karakochuk which included an […]