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What
is the: Dr. Suzanne Bernier Memorial Award in Skeletal Biology?
A
memorial fund has been established by the family, friends and
colleagues of Dr. Suzanne M. Bernier through Foundation Western. This
fund supports a graduate student award, named “The Dr. Suzanne
Bernier Memorial Award in Skeletal Biology”. It is awarded
annually to a full-time graduate student at The University of Western
Ontario who is carrying out a Masters or PhD thesis research project
in the field of Skeletal Biology. Selection is based on academic
achievement (minimum 78% average) and research accomplishments.
Should multiple candidates demonstrate equivalent merit, preference
will be given to female candidates. The Bernier Award Committee,
composed of members of the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral
Studies working in the field of the Skeletal Biology, will select the
recipient. A student can only receive this award once.
What
is the Dept. of Anatomy and Cell Biology 'Suzanne Bernier Publication
Award'?
This
award is given to a graduate student within the Dept. of Anatomy and
Cell Biology, judged by the Graduate Affairs Committee to have
published the 'best' paper in the previous year.
Latest News:
8th Annual Suzanne Bernier Lecture in Skeletal Biology.
Congratulations
to both Michael Pest and Nikolas Knowles
It was a difficult
decision this year so two
'Suzanne Bernier Memorial Award in
Skeletal Biology' were awarded this year.
And
congratulations to Scott Caterine who won the Dept. of Anatomy and
Cell Biology
'Suzanne Bernier Publication Award'
Cheryle
Seguin, Scott Caterine, Shirley Bernier, Jeff Regan, Nancy Lane,
Nikolas Knowles and Michael Pest.
For other 2015 pictures click the title above.
2015 Speaker:
Nancy E. Lane, MD
University
of California, Davis
School of Medicine
Endowed
Professor, Medicine, Rheumatology
and Aging Research
Director,
Center for Musculoskeletal Health
Director, Building
Interdisciplinary Research
Careers in Women’s Health
(BIRCWH)
Principal Investigator, Sex Differences in
Musculoskeletal
Diseases Across the Lifespan Program
“Treatment
for bone diseases and inflammatory arthritis
…with
a little help from your own stem cells”
Dr. Lane is an Endowed Professor of Medicine and Rheumatology and Director of the Center for Musculoskeletal Health, Academic Geriatric Resource Program and the Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH) at UC Davis. Dr. Lane is an internationally recognized scientist in the fields of both osteoporosis and osteoarthritis. Her translational research team has been instrumental in defining the role of glucocorticoids in bone fragility including their effects on cell stress and vulnerable cell populations including osteocytes. Dr. Lane developed a novel compound to direct stem cells to the bone to grow new bone and treat osteoporosis. In addition she has uncovered novel genetic variations that predispose individuals to osteoarthritis and has studied novel treatments for osteoarthritis.
Her research accomplishments have been recognized by the American College of Rheumatology for the Oscar Gluck Memorial Lecture for outstanding work in Osteoporosis (2011), the Remodeling in Bone “RIB Award” by the International Society of Bone and Mineral Research (2012), her election as a Master of the American College of Physicians (2012) and David Trentham Lectureship and Women in Medicine Lectureship at Harvard Medical School (2013). She was elected to the Association of American Physicians (2006), has been named Best Doctors in America annually since 2004, and continues to have an active rheumatology practice.
May 5, 2015 – 2:00 pm
McKeller Room, UCC 290, University Community Centre, Western University.
Reception to follow at The Wave.
7th Annual Suzanne Bernier Lecture in Skeletal Biology.
Congratulations to Jake Bedore – he is the 2014 Suzanne Bernier Memorial Award in Skeletal Biology Winner.
Jake Bedore, Shirley Bernier, Jeff Regan and Maurizio Pacifici.
Professor,
Orthopaedic Surgery,
University of Pennsylvania
Director,
Orthopaedic Research,
Children’s Hospital of
Philadelphia
“Synovial
Joint Development and Postnatal Function:
Molecular
Regulators and Therapeutic Targets”
McKeller Room, UCC 290, University Community Centre, Western University.
Reception to follow at The Wave.
6th Annual Suzanne Bernier Lecture in Skeletal Biology.
Congratulations to Lauren Soloman – she is the 2013 Suzanne Bernier Memorial Award in Skeletal Biology Winner!
Jeff
Regan presenting award to Lauren
Solomon
2013 Speaker:
Dr. Lisa A. Fortier, DVM, PhD, DACVS
"Lessons
Learned from the Equine Model of Cartilage Injury and Repair”
May 9, 2013 – 2:00 pm
London Health Sciences Centre – University Hospital - Auditorium A – 3rd Floor
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5th Annual Suzanne Bernier Lecture in Skeletal Biology.
Speaker: Dr. Lynda Bonewald
Dr. Bonewald (an internationally renowned leader in the field of osteocyte biology) is the Director of the Bone Biology Research Program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Dentistry Oral Biology and Director of the Center in the Study of Mineralized Tissues.
May 10, 2012 – 2:00 pm
London Health Sciences Centre – University Hospital - Auditorium A
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2011 Suzanne Bernier Memorial Award Winner
Ryan Gillespie is the 2011 winner of the Suzanne Bernier Memorial Award in Skeletal Biology. He is researching the effects of the glycogen synthase kinase 3 beta (GSK-3B) on skeletal development.
Pictured
here: Ryan Gillespie (2011 Award winner), Jeff Regan, Shirley
Bernier, and Shirine Usmani (2009 Award Winner).
4th Annual Suzanne Bernier Lecture in Skeletal Biology.
Speaker: Bjorn R. Olsen MD, PhD
May 13, 2011 – 2:00 pm
London Health Sciences Centre – University Hospital - Auditorium A
Dr. Olsen is Dean of Research, Professor of Developmental Biology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Hersey Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical Cente. More details on Dr. Olsen's work can be found here.
Lecture Title: From Ectopic Bone Formation to Hemangioma Tumor Regression - Remarkable Consequences of Endothelial-Mesenchymal Transition
Reception to follow.
This event is an open event – all are welcome.
2010 Suzanne Bernier Memorial Award Winner
Matthew McCann is the 2010 winner of the Suzanne Bernier Memorial Award in Skeletal Biology. His project title: Delineating the role of the notochord during intervertebral disc development.
Congratulations Matt!
3rd Annual Suzanne Bernier Lecture in Skeletal Biology.
Speaker: Dr. Karen J.L. Burg
May 14, 2010 - 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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to Suzanne's Memorial Fund
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.