Suzanne Bernier - Memorial Website - Announcements
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3rd Annual Suzanne Bernier Lecture in Skeletal Biology.
Speaker: Dr. Karen J.L. Burg
May 14 - 1:30 pm
London Health Sciences Centre – University Hospital - Auditorium A
Dr. Burg is in the Department of Bioengineering at Clemson University (South Carolina). In 2003, she was named as one of the world*s 100 Top Young Innovators by MIT's Technology Review. Karen is recognized for her contributions to the field of tissue engineering. Her interests include the development of materials and processes for orthopedic and dental tissue engineering. As well, she works on minimally invasive procedures to rebuild breast tissue in breast cancer survivors. Karen also serves as executive editor of "Biomaterials Forum", the official news magazine of the "Society For Biomaterials".
This event is an open event and is open to faculty, students, from UWO and friends and family of Suzanne's.
May 22, 2009
2009 Suzanne Bernier Memorial Award Winner
Shirine Usmani from Dr. Frank Beier's lab is the 2009 winner of the Suzanne Bernier Memorial Award in Skeletal Biology. Shirine's project looks at the Mechanisms of cartilage degradation in osteoarthritis.
Professor
Stephen Sims presenting the award to Shirine Usmani.
Congratulations Shirine!
More information on research and team members can be found here.
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June 1, 2009
On May 22, 2009, Dr. Zena Werb spoke at tne 2nd Annual Suzanne Bernier Lecture in Skeetal Biology.
Dr. Werb is currently Professor and Vice-Chair of the Department of Anatomy at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Werb received a BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Toronto, and a PhD in Cell Biology under the supervision of Professor Zanvil A. Cohn at Rockefeller University. She then joined Strangeways Research Laboratory in Cambridge for postdoctoral training.
Dr. Werb has contributed over 400 scientific publications. She is an Elected Member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has been awarded such honours as the FASEB Excellence in Science Award and the E. B. Wilson Medal from the American Society for Cell Biology “for far-reaching contributions to cell biology over a lifetime in science”. Dr. Werb is Associate Editor of the journal “Matrix Biology” and consulting editor or board member of eleven other journals.
Dr. Werb’s research focuses on the roles of matrix metalloproteinases in normal and pathological tissues. She has demonstrated the importance of proteolysis as a mechanism of altering extracellular signaling. The skeleton and the mammary gland require extensive tissue remodeling during development. Dr. Werb studies how bone recruits a vascular system during endochondral ossification. She also investigates epithelial differentiation and morphogenesis during mammary development. Her studies promise to provide a molecular mechanistic framework for understanding tissue morphogenesis and remodeling
Click here for the PDF version of the poster..
July 1, 2008
In the month of May, two events were held in Suzanne's Honour.
The Inaugural Suzanne Bernier Lecture in Skeletal Biology was
held on May 9th.
And the Medical Students held the Dr. Suzanne
Bernier Memorial Tree Planting on May 30th.
Pictures
of both can be found here.
September 5, 2007
- Added a picture showing some of the props
used when Suzanne taught the first year medical and dental students.
Click: Dr. Bernier -
Dedicated Researcher
- Baseball team logo added to Leisure
Time
August 10, 2007
- Relay for Life pics. added to Kind
Words
- Several recently found pics. added to the The
Growing Years
August 1, 2007
- Added some new early lab pictures, and
Suzanne working at the bench to Dr. Bernier
- Dedicated Researcher
July 17, 2007
- Added information on Suzanne's Memorial
Award/Fund found on the home page
June 2007
- Added many pictures across site - if you looked it
in early June, take a look again.
May 2007
- Site turned up.