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Dr. Pauline Sameshima Receives Teaching Innovation Award

Dr. Pauline Sameshima Receives Teaching Innovation Award

“Dr. Pauline Sameshima (Professor and Canada Research Chair in Arts Integrated Studies) has received a 2022 Teaching Innovation Award from Lakehead University’s Senate Teaching and Learning Committee.

The Committee highlighted Pauline’s implementation of the “the Slides Strategy,” a teaching technique that “stimulates high levels of engagement in students, allowing them to understand each other’s perspectives well and affording much more creativity and the ability to participate in reading assignments to a greater depth than existing alternatives.”

The Teaching Innovation Award recognizes the development and/or implementation of innovative pedagogical practices and technologies.

For an explanation of “the Slides Strategy,” please see the publication by Pauline Sameshima and Tashya Orasi, “What’s better than the asynchronous discussion post?”

Congratulations, Pauline!”

Glazer and Omer Are New Members of National Academy of Medicine

“Peter M. Glazer, MD, PhD, Robert E. Hunter Professor and chair, department of therapeutic radiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn. For discovering that tumor hypoxia causes genetic instability and that IDH1 mutations suppress DNA repair in cancers, conferring vulnerability to radiation and PARP inhibitors. He developed novel DNA repair inhibitors for cancer therapy and triplex-forming oligonucleotides for gene editing. His work led to multiple new clinical trials for cancer.”

In collaboration with HOPE, Dr. Glazer works with triplex-forming oligonucleotides targeting the latent HIV provirus.

Check out this article Glazer and Omer Are New Members of National Academy of Medicine

Pauline Sameshima has been awarded the Ontario Art Education Association’s Post Secondary Teacher of the Year 2022!

The Ontario Art Education Association (OAEA) recognizes excellence in Visual and Media Arts education in this province. They maintain public awareness about the importance of exemplary art education. They honour visual art schools and community educators who exemplify standards of quality in art education, in Ontario. OAEA honours these educators’ achievements during our annual awards night.

Pauline Sameshima has been awarded the Ontario Art Education Association’s Post Secondary Teacher of the Year 2022! This award is given to an professor that shows excellence in visual arts education in a post-secondary setting and leadership in and/or contributions to art education in the candidate’s institution, organization, or community. Excellence in art education refers to an educator or teacher who promotes a culture supportive of visual art education. Join us in the celebration on Tuesday Nov 8th (more details to come).

HOPE Members Win Best Poster at Fusion Conference

Mexico – Matthew Bendall, Bhavya Singh and Jez Marston presented HOPE related studies at the Fusion Conference: Probing Human Disease Using Single-Cell Technologies, in Mexico in May 2022. Their poster entitled “Single cell retrotranscriptomics with Stellarscope: Developing a single cell transposable element atlas of human cell identity” won the best poster award. Congratulations to all of the authors!

 

HOPE Members Host Successful Codeathon

New York, NY – The 2021 Telescope “dark matter” codeathon, hosted by the Nixon Lab at WCM, brought together an international team of biologists, computational scientists, and bioinformaticians for an intense week of coding, analysis, and writing. The goal of this codeathon was to develop a robust, open source software pipeline for analyzing transposable element expression in single cell RNA-seq data.

MHRP a Partner in Two NIH-funded HIV Cure Collaboratories

Bethesda, MD – MHRP is part of two multi-institution research teams, or “Collaboratories”, that were awarded funds from NIH to develop an integrated approach to finding an HIV cure. These research projects bring together some of the leading researchers in the cure field and will help advance strategies to induce HIV remission.