Lab News

Maahika and Erin published a scoping review on gut microbiome therapies and bone health. Link to the open access article here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10408398.2024.2397459#abstract

Congrats to Christina for being awarded the BME graduate Program - Director Leadership Prize. Her hard work does not go unnoticed and is truly deserving of this award. Well done! 

At the 11th Annual International Conference on Children’s Bone Health in Salzburg Austria, our very own Erin Hodgson won one of the New Investigator Award for her amazing abstract and presentation on Robotic Walking for Bone and Muscle Health in Youth with Cerebral Palsy. Great work Erin!

Christina published article on adapting the intenity gradient for accelerometry data in children and adolescents. Link to the open access article here: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/10/3019 

For the second year in a row, Dr. Gabel has received a University of Calgary's Student Union Teaching Award - honorable mention. On top of captivating lectures, she provides excellent support and care to her classes. Keep it up!

Egi published a cross-sectional case-control study on bone health and physical activity in adolescents with juvenile idiopathic arthritis. link to open access article here: https://ped-rheum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12969-024-00982-4 

Patrick recently competed at UofC's 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) competition and the ACFAS Ma Thèse en 180 secondes (MT180) competition.  Both these competitions aim to challenge graduate students to give a 3 minute comprehensible speech about their studies in either English (3MT) or French (MT180). Pat performed well at both competitions, finishing as a finalist at the 3MT competition, while claiming 2nd place in the Master's category of the MT180 competition. Great work Pat!

 

If you want to hear his speech in English click on this link

Congratulations to Christina for successfully defending her Master's. She has the honor of being the first of our lab to do so and we couldn't be any prouder of her. We are also glad to announce that she is staying on the team and will be starting her PhD in May. Once again, a big congratulations to Christina from all of us at the MyMSK lab.

Dr. Leigh Gabel was awarded the Faculty Member of the Year award this year during the Human Performance Lab holiday social. This award is so well deserved, as a lab we greatly appreciate all your support and guidance. You have created a welcoming and encouraging environment to work in and everyone who is and has been a part of this lab knows how lucky they are to have worked with you. Congratulations to the greatest supervisor in the world. If it were up to us, you'd win every year.

The MyMSK lab has been crowned winners of the gingerbread house building competition at the Human Performance Lab holiday social. With our creation, dubbed the MyMSK GingerGym, we combine the sweet sugary goodness of a gingerbread house with the best way to burn off those extra calories! Great work team.

Dr. Gabel discusses "Planting the seeds for healthy bone development" at this year's Wood Forum. This year's theme was Building Better Bones. Watch the recording here.

Dr. Gabel was interviewed by the Toronto Star for an article discussing growth and development in young athletes.

Egi Vasil has won a Research Excellence Award from the Office of the Vice-President of Research for her project titled "Sex, Ethnic, and Age-Specific Centile Curves for DXA-Derived Measures of Bone Mineral Content and Areal Bone Mineral Density in Asian and White Canadian Youth". This project created centile curves for bone metrics in Asian youth which have not previously been reported. Awesome work Egi!

Another MyMSK trainee has won a scholarship, this time the Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship (AGES) has been awarded to Master's student Pat Whitman. Great Job Pat!

Congrats to one of our summer students Egi Vasil for winning 'Best Presentation in Human Mobility and Regenerative Medicine' at this year's BME Summer Undergraduate Symposium.

MyMSK trainee Christina Alexander is awarded an Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute (ACHRI) Graduate Scholarship. Congrats Christina!

Dr. Gabel and colleagues from Shriners Hospital for Children-Canada, Stanford University, and University of California San Francisco publish recommendations for high-resolution bone imaging in children and adolescents. Link to the open access article here: rdcu.be/dgxeV

MyMSK trainee Erin Hodgson leads high school students through the University of Calgary’s Human Performance Lab. Erin and patient partner, Alex, showcase the Trexo robotic walker: https://www.ucalgary.ca/news/high-school-students-get-insight-future-careers-human-performance-lab-open-house