Rachel completed her Master's degree in October 2012 and was hired as a instructor at Columbia College teaching first year biology.
Shaan successfully defended her PhD in July of 2012 and starting a post-doc in Dr. Phil Hansbro’s lab at the University of Newcastle in Australia. She is working on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) respiratory infections and lung microbiome.
Andrea successfully defended her thesis in April 2012 and immediately began working as a Research Manager in Dr. Mel Krajden's Lab at BC Centre for Disease Control. Her research is focused on the molecular epidemiology of Hepatitis C virus in clinical patients and injection drug using cohorts in British Columbia using Sanger and next generation sequencing technologies.
Drs. Joanne Fox and Steven Hallam receive 2012-2013 UBC Killam Teaching Prizes UBC awards Killam Teaching Prizes each academic year to acknowledge outstanding instructors who have displayed the ability to motivate students, stimulate critical thinking, sustain teaching excellence, develop innovative teaching approaches, and create exceptional opportunities for student learning both in class and via extracurricular activities.
Costanza successfully defended her PhD in Sept 2012 and began work with Prof. Antonio Lanzavecchia at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Bellinzona Switzerland. She is using human B cells and human plasma cells libraries to study neutralizing antibodies against different viruses in response to both natural infections and vaccines and characterization of autoantibodies in different human autoimmune diseases.
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