BHT Conference 2016

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This year’s conference marks the 25th Annual Buffalo-Hamilton-Toronto Symposium. In addition to the keynote speaker and afternoon showcase of research projects from several crystallography labs, the conference today featured a special <The First 25 Years – History of the BHT Symposium> session, where the elders talked about their memories of how this annual event came to inception. The journey of crystallography is heavily influenced by the advancement of technology, and with the constant improvement of high-throughput crystal drop-setting machines, X-ray systems and cryo-EM development, as well as better software for processing the images, it’s quite perceivable that this bottleneck in structure determination will be less of a problem as time goes on.

And, pictures of the some of us that attended the conference:

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Tim does fencing?

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To keep myself healthy, I try to maintain one major academic activity complemented with one major physical activity at any point. This regiment has worked very well for me, allowing me to explore intellectually in different fields of studies, while at the same time trying out all the “cool” sports. Currently, when I’m not grinding experiments in the lab, my favourite thing to do is…well, cut people. Safely. For sports.

Usually, the varsity fencing season in Ontario doesn’t really start until the last weekend of October, with the RMC Cup Team Tournament as the first official tournament of the year. However, this year we started early with the Mustang Invitational, hosted by us at the University of Western Ontario.

And here are some photos: