The Schmeing Lab

Visualizing and understanding nature’s biosynthetic macromolecular machines

Recognitions

It’s very much appreciated when scholarship, awards and prize committees think the research we do is fun and interesting too. Thanks to them for their support and encouragement. Go team!

2023

Elias             - CRBS Travel Award
Itai               - Biophysical Society of Canada Thesis Award
Angelos       - FRQS Prix Annuel d'Excellence

2022

Martin          - James McGill Professorship
Anirudh        - CRBS Scholarship
Linda           - FRQS PBEEE Award
Natalia         - Shuk-Tak Liang Fellowship
                    - CRBS Travel Award
Elias             - Extension to the German Academic Scholarship Foundation Scholarship
Itai               - McGill MedStar Award


2021

Martin          - Early promotion to full professor
Natalia        - CRBS Scholarship
Tim             - Faculty of Medicine Scholarship


2020

Angelos       - CRBS Scholarship
Tim             - CRBS Scholarship
Elias            - German Academic Scholarship Foundation Scholarship


2019

Angelos       - Faculty of Medicine Scholarship   
Diego           - MedStar Paper Prize
Elias             - CRBS Scholarship for Tuition & CRBS Scholarship
Itai               - CRBS Scholarship
Janice          - Michael Bancroft PhD Thesis Award of the Canadian Light Source
                            (National award for 2018 theses bestowed in 2019)
Camille        - Great Lakes Symposium, Oral Presentation Award
Max             - CRBS Symposium Poster Award


2018

Martin          - Department of Biochemistry & McGill Nominee for CIHR Gold Leaf YIA
Camille        - NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships-PhD Award
Itai               - Max Pinz Studentship
Max             - Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds Studentship
David           - NSERC USRA


2017

Martin          - New Investigator Award, Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences
Itai               - Jenny Panitch Beckow Scholarship
Ingrid           - CIHR Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s Award
Sean            - NSERC USRA
Camille         - Faculty of Medicine Scholarship


2016

Martin          - Joe Doupe Young Investigator Award, Canadian Society for Clinical Investigation       
                    - CIHR Foundation Grant
                    - Department of Biochemistry Nominee for Leo Yaffe Teaching Award
                    - Canada Research Chair in Structural Biology in Macromolecular Machines
Asfarul          - Canadian Foundation for the Development of Microscopy Travel Scholarship
Frederik        - DKK FNU -Styrelsen for Forskning og Innovation, Sapere Aude: DFF-Forskertalent
Diego           - CONACYT Scholarship Extension
                    - 23th Jerusalem Life Sciences School Travel Assistance Award
                    - GRASP Symposium Poster Award
Camille         - NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s Award
                    - Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Clarisse       - Graduate Excellence Fellowship
                    - Rose Johnstone Award
                    - GRASP Student Award
Janice          - GRASP Symposium Poster Award


2015

Asfarul         - GRASP Postdoctoral Award
Kris              - Graduate Research Enhancement Travel Award
Janice          - Maysie MacSporran Studentship (declined)
                    - McGill University BGSS Research Day Poster Award
Jessie          - CREATE Bionanomachines USRA
                    - NSERC USRA


2014

Fabien            - Chemical Biology Fellowship
                      - CREATE Bionanomachines Postdoctoral Award
                      - GRASP Travel Fellowship
Asfarul           - Chemical Biology Fellowship
Kris                - CREATE Bionanomachines Graduate Award
Janice            - NSERC Graham Alexander Bell Studentship!
Laura             - CREATE Bionanomachines Undergraduate Award
Amanda         - CREATE Bionanomachines Undergraduate Award


2013

Kris              - American Crystallographic Association Travel Grant
                    - Graduate Research Enhancement Travel Award
Janice          - GRASP Student Award
                    - Faculty of Medicine Scholarship
Diego           - PBEEE Quebec - Mexico Award
Martin A.      - Chemical Biology Studentship
                    - Maysie MacSporran Studentship
                    - NSERC USRA


2012

Fabien         - GRASP Postdoctoral Award
Kris              - Graduate Excellence Fellowship
                    - J. P. Collin Fellowship
Janice          - Maysie MacSporran Studentship
Martin A.      - CREATE Bionanomachines Undergraduate Award


2011


Martin          - CIHR Bhagirath Singh Early Career Award in Infection and Immunity
                    - CIHR New Investigator Award (declined)
                    - Canada Research Chair in Structural Biology in Macromolecular Machines
Mike            - CIHR Postdoctoral Fellowship
                    - GRASP Recruitment Award
                    - McLaughlin Fellowship (declined)
Kris              - Chemical Biology Studentship
                    - Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Janice          - Chemical Biology Studentship
                    - Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Diego           - CONACYT Scholarship
                   - SRE-MELS Tuition Fee Waiver


2010

Martin         - Human Frontier Science Program Organization Career Development Award
Kris             - Provost’s Recruitment Fellowship