Researcher Profile ALERT!! Presenting... STEPHAN PLESS!!

My good friend and colleague Stephan is the latest researcher to be profiled here at the Ahern Lab Blog!! Follow the link to his YouTube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGDJUTCLis0

Next year I will compile all the footage I took from Wreck Beach and we will have an even more intimate portrait of Herr Pless...

Researcher Profile ALERT!! Presenting... ANA NICIFOROVIC!!

The one person who keeps it all together, the glue that prevents us from falling apart, the scientist that can't stop making mutations (because Stephan won't let her), the one and only Ana is featured in the latest instalment of Ahern Researcher profiles. Follow the link to the YouTube video!!:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwXX05TvrPc

Stephan nabs the cover of Nature Chemical Biology

Stephan makes it 3 in 2011 with a new paper in Nature Chemical Biology to complete his research hat-trick. Thanks to Christina for the awesome cover art, and to the lab for the excellent stuff they do everyday.

Ahern Lab Bonus Video Featurette!!

As promised, here we present an extra dollop of wisdom from Dr. Sam Goodchild on the link between presenting a compelling scientific narative and producing a documentary film. No pipet tips were harmed in the recording of this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3jmqn4bYYA

Researcher Profile ALERT!! Presenting... DR. SAM GOODCHILD!!

At long last we get to see a senior member of the research staff in the Ahern lab, and hear some personal views on the narrative links between art and science. Also, some stuff about electrophysiology.

Here is the link to the YouTube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ysz_aMYPE0

A trip up north

Rebecca, Sam & Stephan took on a lot of snow to scale Tricouni Peak last weekend www.trekbc.ca/Members/Hikes/Location/Squamish/Tricouni Peak/index.php

Happy Days

It's official, the Ahern lab's first Nature family paper is out: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v2/n6/full/ncomms1351.html

For those less inclined to chew through all the scientific details, here is the Faculty of Medicine's take on it: http://www.med.ubc.ca/home.htm