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By: Haydn Pritchard and Farrah RooneyThe Graduate Studiesoffice is moving!In mid January 2011, the administrative office of ourgraduate studies program moved from UBC to VGH.This places the office of the Graduate Program Directorand Program Assistant into a more centrally locatedfacility. It is anticipated that this will create easier accessto our services for both faculty and students.Our offices are in the newly formed Pathology EducationCenter on the 3rd floor of the Jim Paterson PavilionNorth at VGH. This facility houses a newly refurnishedmeeting room that may be used for student teaching,committee meetings, comprehensive examinations andPhD/MSc final exams. Please drop by and say hello!Our new mailing address and phone numbers are:UBC Pathology Education CentreVancouver General HospitalJim Pattison Pavilion NorthRoom 3200, 910 West 10th AveVancouver, BC, Canada V5Z 1M9Haydn Pritchard, PhDProgram Directorhpritchard@pathology.ubc.caCell: 604-551-2773Farrah RooneyProgram Assistantfrooney@pathology.ubc.caTel: 604-675-3945 Ext: 21075Fax: 604-875-3941GraduateStudiesCatching up with pastGraduatesIn this newsletter, we highlightthe career path of one of ourGraduating PhD students.Name: Tyler HickeySupervisors: Dr. Richard Stokes & David SpeertGraduation Date: June 2009Title of Doctoral Thesis: Identification of Cpn60.2 asa Surface Ligand of Mycobacterium tuberculosis thatFacilitates Bacterial Association with Macrophages viaCD43.What have you been doing since you graduatedfrom the PhD Program in Pathology at UBC? Sincegraduating from the PhD program in Pathology, I amnow in second year of the UBC Medicine Undergraduateprogram.Can you tell us a bit about the research you are doingnow? This past summer, I completed a research projectin the lab of Dr. Patrick Tang at the BCCDC. I usedPathology News 7