News
Sep 2023:
Welcoming Rahima Hasmani, MSc student (uOttawa-CMM) to our team!
Aug 2023:
We had a blast golfing with the CHEO-RI (even dressed as a scientist!!)
Summer 2023:
The CHEO Student Wellness Committee organized a super fun science olympics and we had a ton of fun! Our team "Gene-ius Squad" came as a super close second place! haha
July 2023:
Welcoming Dr Simran Kaur, postdoc joining our team!
Summer 2023:
Moving to Ottawa-ON, Canada to start the Pena Lab at CHEO-RI.
2021:
Picower institute (MIT) news article from September 2nd, reporting my participation on a first pitch ceremony by the Boston Red Sox on the historical Fenway park to celebrate our efforts on science communication for vaccine awareness. I was there representing the volunteers that received the first covid19 mRNA vaccines as part of the Moderna clinical trials. What an honor!
2020:
1. MIT cover article of May 3rd, 2020 talking about my efforts to fight COVID19 misinformation:
2019:
I was selected as one of the ten 2019 Pew Latin American fellows !
See my Pew profile here:
The Whitehead Institute has a series of profiles of its postdoctoral fellows. Here is my interview:
2018:
Best Oral Presentation Award at the 10th Postdoctoral Research Day organized by the Postdoctoral Association of the Faculty of Medicine (University of Ottawa).
Picture: Best oral presentation winners, 10th Postdoctoral Research Day (March/2018). Only girl!!
2017:
Genes to Genomes blog about our Zebrafish model of PDE : http://genestogenomes.org/zebrafish-offer-hope-for-understanding-severe-form-of-epilepsy/
Our paper is the highlight of the December/2017 edition of Genetics! See here.
Check the final version of the article here: http://www.genetics.org/content/genetics/207/4/1501.full.pdf
CHEO Telethon live 2017 - Izabella Pena explaining her epilepsy research projects at CHEO in a simple way and showing what "mad scientists" do:
Celebrating the support of the Canadian government to open science and structural biology: https://www.simcoe.com/news-story/7368922--open-science-is-freedom-genomics-consortium-receives-33m-boost/
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6280150093182103552
Photo: CHEO researcher Izabella Pena shows Ministers Reza Moridi and Kirsty Duncan a 3D protein structure model, at the announcement of $33 million invested in the Structural Genomics Consortium. C/O Genome Canada
I received the best oral presentation at the Brain Health Research Day 2017 organized by the Brain and Mind Research Institute of the University of Ottawa :)
Picture: Collaborators Yann Roussell (PhD student, best poster award) and Prof. Tuan Bui and Izabella Pena at the BHRD 2017.
Advocating for Rare Diseases in the Genomics on the Hill event:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/genetic-rare-disease-rsearch-1.3968566
CTV Morning live - Izabella Pena, Nafisa Tasnim and Lynn Kyte talking with Sarah Freemark about science and promoting the CHEO Telethon:
http://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1136068&binId=1.1487308&playlistPageNum=1
2016:
Izabella received the Best Oral Presentation Award at the 8th Postdoctoral Research Day organized by the Postdoctoral Association of the Faculty of Medicine (University of Ottawa).
8th Postdoctoral Research Day (2016)
