Welcome back fellow bio grad students!!

Hey guys! The BGSA is hosting a FREE Welcome back/ orientation BBQ next week! WHO: All Biology graduate students and postdocs WHAT: BBQ (veggie and meat options), snacks and drinks (soda and other adult beverages) WHEN: Wednesday September 4th from 4pm till it's over or Thomson House kicks us out. WHERE: Reservoir field, the big grassy field across from Thomson House between Dr Penfield, des Pins and McTavish WHY: Because the food is FREE and we're lots of fun to hang out with! This is a great way to meet new students, catch up with old friends, and kick off the new school year. Please bring your labmates! Hope to see you there! Your friendly neighbourhood BGSA

End of Year BBQ!!!!!!!!!

Hello BGSA! To cap off a great school year, the Biology Graduate Students Association (BGSA) is hosting a FREE BBQ on Tuesday May 14th at 4pm. There's also a softball game that day at 6pm that everyone is welcome to stay for! WHO: All Biology graduate students and postdocs WHAT: BBQ (veggie and meat options), drinks (soda and other adult beverages) & softball WHEN: Tuesday May 14th from 4-6 pm, softball from 6pm till it's over or Thomson House kicks us out. WHERE: Reservoir field, the big grassy field across from Thomson House between Dr Penfield, des Pins and McTavish WHY: Because the food is FREE and we're lots of fun to hang out with! This is a great way to meet new students, catch up with old friends, and kick off the summer. You don't have to be able to catch, throw or hit the ball in order to play with us! Please bring your labmates! Hope to see you there! Your friendly neighbourhood BGSA

2013 CEEB Wrap-up

Hello CEEB Retreaters, On behalf of the 2013 organizing committee I would like to thank all the speakers, moderators and participants for contributing to an outstanding CEEB retreat. A number of you requested the slides from the workshops and we have make them available on BGSA Speaker Deck account: https://speakerdeck.com/bgsa

 Carly Zitter also live tweeted Workshop #2. If you missed the workshop or want to relive it you can find the transcript as on Storify here: http://storify.com/cziter/graphical-design-for-publications-and-your-researc 

See you at next years retreat!

 PS These workshops are great for the whole department, not just CEEB!

BGSA Welcome Back Event

BGSA, 

Not sure what to do this Thursday? Please refer to the attached decision map the BGSA officers have created for you. 

All models suggest you attend the 2013 BGSA Welcome Back event this Thursday at Thomson House from 5-7pm. The BGSA will be providing snacks, beverages and the First Annual Masterpiece crafts competition. Where we give you a picture like this or this and you have to recreate it with a team consisting of any combination of lab, friends, enemies from popsicle sticks, glue and some pipe cleaners with prizes for the best interpretation as judged by a panel. All you have to bring is a good time and your lab mates.  

Come catch up with me, other graduate students, faculty and meet new people. 

See you Thursday, 

Monica 

BGSA President 

Thursday Decision Map by

R, Pumpkins, and Grants!

Hello fellow biology minions!

This post comes as announcements of the past, present, and very near future. First up, the ghost of Halloween past shows how to get it done! Congratulations to the returning champions, the Ricciardi lab, who once again, captured first place in the annual pumpkin carving contest. This year's theme was 'mutation' and Susan Bocti and Frank Scopelleti served as our illustrious judges. In second place was the L. Chapman lab, and in third place was the collaborative efforts of the Moon/Lasko/Dancourt lab!!

For photos, visit here:
https://picasaweb.google.com/111919271963074240179/2012BGSAIronPumpkinCarvingContest

#-----------------------------R Workshop -----------------------------
#in the very near future, there will be an awesome R workshop that
#will help get you started in the R environment. Come join the
#R Montreal User Group will be checking out the Hadley Wickham
#general awesomness for this workshop.

#location: Notman House (51 Sherbrooke W)
#time: 6pm
#Bring your own laptop!

#------------------------------------------------------------------------

And lastly, congratulations to our BGSA travel grant draw winners!

Rowshyra Castaneda is our lucky winner! The first runner up and second runner up, who will be contacted in the event that the winner declines the award or becomes ineligible, were Michal Wieczorek and Bronwyn Rayfield

Congratulations to all!

Happy midterm marking!

-the BGSA