Gosh thank you soo much Carolina, Baby Briscoe, Angel😇Dallas, FosterLab Dallas and to everyone who retweeted to make this possible!! 😲👇🏽🥲🐽💦🎈💛 You guys are all the best!! 🌎🐾💙 we already have a bunch of much-needed Hankster supplies on the way.. 🥳📬💌 💉💉🫙🫙🔘🔘💌❤️
Thank you all for sharing @Labs4rescue and spreading the love. As promised 🙏❤️🐕
And @hankster_the , happy 1/2 birthday 😊🎂🎉
❤️❤️❤️ Carolina and Briscoe
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7 Feb 2024
This new CIHR funding will support several research projects involving the #KronstadLab, #FosterLab, #JefferiesLab and #TokurikiLab at the MSL!
7 Feb 2024
New @CIHR_IRSC funding will help #UBC Science researchers bolster anti-fungal therapies, combat mosquito-borne pathogens, and advance next generation vaccine research.
@UBCMicroImmuno @SaganLab @BenMatthewsUBC @ubcmsl @ZoologyUBC @UBCphas
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13 Apr 2023
With the support of a CBR @CBR_UBC Transition Grant, Dr. Alison McAfee @ali_mcafee #FosterLab (@lenjf) @CBR_UBC @ubcmsl @UBCbiochemistry is investigating how different types of bees withstand hot temperatures. cbr.ubc.ca/hot-bees-are-dead…
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15 Feb 2023
Looking forward to today's Trainee and Faculty Talks with presentations from the #FosterLab (@lenjf), #KastrupLab, #LeslieLab and Dr. Freda Miller!
TODAY: 3-4pm, PST
MSL lecture theatre (room 102) & Zoom
Hosted by: Dr. Brett Finlay
Event details: msl.ubc.ca/event/msl-seminar…
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11 Feb 2023
Dr. @ali_mcafee of the #FosterLab (@lenjfl) received both the 2022 @LOrealGroupe-@UNESCO #FWIS International Rising Talents Award & the Excellence in Research Fellowship!
Learn about her groundbreaking #honeybee research: bit.ly/3zH1CY0
#IDWGS #IDWGIS #WomenInSTEM
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9 Feb 2023
PhD candidate Mopelola Akinlaja from the #FosterLab (@lenjf) won second place in @ubc’s Three Minute Thesis competition! Learn more about her research on a pathogen called #Nosema that causes infection in the honeybee gut: bit.ly/3ltHljm
#3MT #IDWGS #IDWGIS #WomenInSTEM
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25 Oct 2022
100 climate researchers listening to each other and our Scientific Advistory Council (represented by @fosterlab, Marion Gehler, @fmkdejong, @JuneYiLee1) in the Bjerknes Annual Meeting today.
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27 Jun 2022
Congratulations Dr. @ali_mcafee! 👏We're proud of you and the impactful research you do with the #FosterLab!🐝
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17 Jun 2022
🥳Congratulations Dr Alison McAfee (@ali_mcafee) from the #FosterLab (@lenjf) for receiving the @LOrealGroupe - @UNESCO @4womeninscience International Rising Talents Fellowship for her “...pioneering research on honeybee reproduction and fertility”! 🎖️🐝
fondationloreal.com/our-prog…
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26 May 2022
🐝What's it like to "bee" a honeybee scientist?
Follow a day in the life of Abigail Chapman, a PhD student in the #FosterLab, as she plans summer experiments, works with beehives, and heads into the lab. @lenjf
📷Photos & writing by @rhothygesen: ow.ly/27Sq50Ji5SK
ALT PhD student Abigail Chapman sitting on the roof of the Networks of Centres for Excellence, near the beehives
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5 May 2022
"I enjoyed looking at my #proteins as they were arranged in these gel pieces, and their color reminded me of sapphire jewelry."
Check out this #proteomics work from Dr. @AichaHoufani, submitted to our CBR Cover Art Contest: ow.ly/lhJx50IZv1m
#FosterLab
@lenjf
@ubcmsl
ALT Image submitted by Dr. Aicha Asma Houfani to the CBR Cover Art Contest, April 2022: protein corona in a well plate, which looks like blue circles in a well plate
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30 Mar 2022
Congrats to #UBC3MT winners:
🏆2nd place - Mopelola Akinlaja, #FosterLab (@lenjf)
🏆3rd place tie - Nicolas Pereyra, #DevineLab (@DrDanaDevine)
Great to learn about the honey bee gut (Lola) & improved platelet storage devices (Nicolas).
🎉Kudos to all finalists & participants!
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16 Mar 2022
🗓️Join us for the March edition of MSL Trainee Talks today at 3pm, PST!
Featuring trainee talks by #BlakneyLab, @BrumerLab & #FosterLab and a faculty talk by Dr. @SabrinaRLeslie.
Join in person at the MSL or by zoom:
msl.ubc.ca/event/msl-seminar…
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17 Feb 2022
Exciting new research from Dr. @ali_mcafee of the #FosterLab (@lenjf)!🐝
Male #bees can’t hack extreme stress like females can news.ubc.ca/2022/02/17/male-… via @ubcnews
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23 Nov 2021
🥳Congratulations to Dr. @ali_mcafee for receiving L'Oréal-UNESCO 2021 Excellence in Research Fellowship!
Learn more about this prestigious award & Dr. McAfee’s research on honey bee fertility in @lenjf's #FosterLab, using #proteomics & #massspectrometry: bit.ly/3nN6Jj7
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1 May 2020
FosterLab Group Meeting -- remote for 7 weeks and still going strong!
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25 Dec 2019
Here is Molly, our fosterlab for Christmas, enjoying a paddle at Rosemarkie beach.
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19 Sep 2019
Great day at today's @SwonAlliance meeting. So much great research from all the institutions! Big shout out to @Lund_va Kasia Oli (and obviously myself) for showing what the #Fosterlab has been up to
19 Sep 2019
Amazing representation of the #FosterLab in this talk about virulence of different S. aureus hydrolases mutants on animal models from @MrJafs at the @SwonAlliance meeting! Sad to be leaving Newcastle, hope to come back some time soon 😁👏
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19 Sep 2019
Amazing representation of the #FosterLab in this talk about virulence of different S. aureus hydrolases mutants on animal models from @MrJafs at the @SwonAlliance meeting! Sad to be leaving Newcastle, hope to come back some time soon 😁👏
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19 Sep 2019
Great talk from @Lund_va representing #FosterLab explaining how does STORMForce works! Great discussion with the rest of @SwonAlliance 👏👏
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