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11/11/2019

A September visit to Tuebingen & Freiburg

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I was invited to give a Departmental Seminar at the ZMPB in Tuebingen, where I had the wonderful opportunity to visit with former Monaghan Lab member and Queen's alum Danalyn Holmes who is now there working on her PhD. I enjoyed meeting with friends and colleagues at the ZMPB and discussing our ongoing work on the regulation of cytoplasmic protein kinases. I then travelled to Freiburg for a few days to join the Plant Proteostasis meeting, where I presented our work on the immune-induced ubiquitome.

Thanks for the bretzels, weizen, and great science - Prost! 

9/25/2019

Congrats to Irina and Kristen, who successfully defended their MSc theses

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​Congratulations to Irina and Kristen, who successfully defended their MSc theses last month. 
​Well done both, and all the best for your futures! 

7/29/2019

Jacqueline visits the Sainsbury Lab in Norwich, UK

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After the IS-MPMI meeting in Glasgow, I headed south to Norwich to meet with colleagues at the Sainsbury Lab, where I did my postdoctoral research from 2010-2015. Former MSc student Lauren Grubb is currently working at the affiliated John Innes Centre as a PhD student with Myriam Charpentier - it was fantastic to see that she is doing so well and enjoying living abroad. Norwich is a well-preserved medieval city with lots of old-world charm. 
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7/29/2019

Melissa and Jacqueline travel to Glasgow, Scotland, to attend the International Congress on Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions

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Melissa and I recently attended the IS-MPMI congress in Glasgow, Scotland. This meeting is always a favourite because of the  truly outstanding science, and the fact we get to visit with many friends and colleagues who live around the world. The opening reception was held at the Glasgow Science Centre - a perfect spot for nearly 1500 scientists to convene. Thank-you for a great meeting. See you in Jeju Korea in 2021! 
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7/29/2019

The Monaghan Lab presents at Plant Canada 2019

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The Monaghan Lab was well-represented at this year's Plant Canada meeting, held at the University of Guelph. It was four days of excellent plant science! I chaired a session on Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions, where both Melissa and Irina gave seminars, and Carmen presented a poster. All three of them were recipients of Duff Travel Awards from the Canadian Society of Plant Biology to help offset their travel expenses - thank-you to CSPB for supporting these young scientists. I am so grateful to be a part of the community of plant scientists in Canada. We encourage and help each other work towards understanding as much as we can about the biology of plants while at the same time mentoring the next generation of scientists.Thanks to the meeting organizers for bringing us together to discuss our latest research. See you next year in Saskatoon! 

6/19/2019

Congratulations Suba, Alex, and Ruxandra on your graduation!

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Congratulations to Queen's Hons BSc graduates and former Monaghan Lab members Suba, Alex, and Ruxandra. I am so proud of these talented young women, who each contributed to our research program. 

Thank-you for your hard work, best of luck, and keep in touch! 

5/29/2019

New publication: Pattern-triggered oxidative burst and seedling growth inhibition assays in Arabidopsis thaliana



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Congratulations to Melissa, Irina, and Kristen, co-authors of 'Pattern-triggered oxidative burst and seedling growth inhibition assays in Arabidopsis thaliana', now published in JoVE.  This dream team worked together to create a comprehensive methods article, accompanied with a video, that outlines how we conduct PAMP-triggered oxidative burst and seedling growth inhibition assays in our lab. Special congratulations to Master's student Kristen as this is her very first publication! 

To celebrate, we popped some popcorn before viewing the final cut and toasted with bubbly. 

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5/1/2019

Katy is off to Germany for the summer

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Congratulations to MSc student Katy Dunning, who was awarded a Michael Smith Foundation Foreign Study Supplement from NSERC to work with our collaborator Marco Trujillo this summer at the University of Freiburg. To bid her farewell, we went to our local German restaurant for some tasty weisse and schnitzel.

Auf wiedersehen, enjoy, and see you in August! 

4/25/2019

New publication: Modulation of plant innate immune signaling by small peptides

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Small peptides regulate the cellular coordination of growth, development, and stress tolerance in plants. In addition to direct antimicrobial activities, small secreted peptides have emerged as key signaling molecules in the plant immune response. In this review, now published in  Current Opinion in Plant Biology, Cecile Segonzac and I highlight how small peptides amplify and fine-tune immune signaling. 

Cecile Segonzac and I became friends during our postdoctoral work at The Sainsbury Lab several years ago and now each run our own research groups.

We thoroughly enjoyed this opportunity to work together again and hope you enjoy reading this short review. 

3/14/2019

Suba presents her work at Honours Thesis Poster Day

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Congratulations to Suba, who won third place at last week's Biology Undergraduate Honours Thesis Poster Day.  Suba has been working on generating a quintuple mutant in Arabidopsis whereby five related E3 ubiquitin ligases are knocked out. It's been a trying exercise in PCR genotyping and some serious patience!  She is now very ​close to obtaining this mutant, which will allow us to test some hypotheses about the function of these enzymes in protein turnover. 

This award reflects her hard work - congrats Suba! 
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