Outside of the Lab
We have a united team; we have get-together occasions outside of the lab for recreation and charity events. The members of the Verdu Lab have been consistent supporters of the Crohns and Colitis Canada Gutsy Walk. Throughout the year we team up with other Farncombe Institute lab faculty to fund-raise and bring awareness to the foundation’s research.
This page contains recent news from the lab, and events.
VerduLab on Twitter!
The Verdu Lab now has an official twitter account! Follow for news, updates, and more!
Congrats to the new graduates, Mark and Janet!
Last week was very special, as both Mark and Janet successfully defended their theses. Reach your peak, that’s the goal, and you both did it! Now, climb the next one. Congratulations to the new Janet Szeto, MSc, and Dr. Mark Wulczynski
Building Bridges Symposium
Mark, UK, Janet, Kelly and Amber attending the Building Bridges Symposium, looking here sharp and wise!
From the lab bench to the pottery wheel!
This week, Verdu lab traded pipettes for pottery tools during a much-needed creative retreat at a ceramics workshop. The results? A beautiful mess of mugs, vases, candle holders, donuts, unknown creatures… and yes — someone sculpted a mouse and a phage! Happy for the...
Wonderful end to CDDW
What a wonderful end to a fantastic joint CDDW-CLM conference where we learned about the great basic, translational and clinical science in gastroenterology that Canadian teams are doing. Farncombe Institute trainees and faculty alongside academic partners, patient...
New lab member!
It is an honour to welcome the newest member to the lab, Wyatt Glenn Swayze! Congratulations to the proud parents Heather and Adam, as well as to his rather furry big brother. Wyatt's thesis topic has yet to be decided.
VerduLab at Crohn’s & Colitis Congress
PhD students Kyle Jackson and Amber Hann represented the Farncombe Institute at the Chron's and Colitis Foundation Congress, presenting their cutting-edge research on phage therapy in IBD and microbial protease pathogenesis. Making us proud! Also, Kyle seems to be...
Huge Congratulations to Dr. Sara!
I’m thrilled to congratulate Sara on successfully defending her PhD in the Verdu lab — and her defense went incredibly well! After years of dedication, she’s Ph.inally D.one! It has been a privilege to be her supervisor, and I’m excited to see all the amazing things...
ICDS Sheffield 2024
Just wrapped up a wonderful international Symposium in Celiac Disease (ICDS) 2024, at Sheffield, UK. Congratulations to Sara and UK for winning travel awards on behalf of the Society for Study of Celiac disease. In 2 years…Melbourne, Australia! And now for some...
Award for UK from Celiac Canada
A big thank you to Celiac Canada and a huge congratulations to Utkarshini for being awarded the 2024 Dr. J.A. Campbell Research Grant. We are very grateful for the support of our research. Stay tuned to see the fruits of UK's work!
Best Oral Presentation by Amber Hann
So proud of Amber Hann for being awarded the oral presentation award at WCI 2024 in Quebec! Well done Amber and congratulations for a stellar presentation on microbial proteolytic activity in IBD.