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Laboratory for Membrane and Protein Dynamics Schedule:

Recent News:

  • June 15th, 2010
    Prof. Rheinstadter is teaching at the CIFAR Summer Forum on Interdisciplinary Nano Science, June 13-17, 2010, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
     
  • June 11th, 2010:
    Clare Armstrong received the award for The Best Student Oral Presentation at the 2010 CAP Congress. Congratulations!!!
    Clare's presentation "Protein-Protein Interactions in Membranes" has been selected as best presentation in the Division of Medical and Biological Physics before entering the final competition.

     
  • June 2010:
    Clare Armstrong and Martin Kaye have presentations at the American Conference on Neutron Scattering (ACNS) 2010 in Ottawa.
     
  • June 2010:
    Clare Armstrong, Martin Kaye and Maikel Rheinstädter have presentations at the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) Congress 2010 in Toronto.
     
  • April 2010:
    Clare Armstrong's beam time propos    al "Concerted protein dynamics of bacteriorhopdopsin in purple membrane" has been awarded 6 days of beam time on the Cold Neutron Chopper Spectrometer (CNCS) at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS). Congratulations!
     
  • April 2010:
     Prof. Rheinstadter was interviewed by The Hamilton Spectator about the isotope and neutron beam crisis in Canada. (Read the article: PDF, HTML)
     
  • April 2010:
     Prof. Rheinstadter has been appointed Member of the Science Review Committee for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) neutron scattering facilities.
     
  • December 16, 2009:
    Our Laboratory has been     awarded a grant by the Canada Foundation for Innovation's (CFI) Leaders Opportunity Fund. Read the Daily News article.
     
  • December 8, 2009:
    Our neutron beam time proposal "Proteins at work: light-induced protein dynamics of bacteriorhopdopsin in purple membrane" has been awarded 14 days of beam time on the triple-axis spectrometer V2/FLEX at the Berlin Neutron Scattering Center. Allocation of beam time is a very competitive process and we are very happy. Congratulations!
     
  • November 27/28, 2009:
    The Soft-Matter and Biophysics group at McMaster organized its first SoftmatterBio@MAC Retreat, November 27-28, 2009.