Gary Brayer Research – Cover Art in the journal Glycobiology
A recent paper from Gary Brayer’s research lab has proved to be very well-received…in fact the “Most Popular” paper of 2013 in the journal Glycobiology. See the banner headline on their website http://glycob.oxfordjournals.org/. The paper is titled, “The structure of the Mycobacterium smegmatis trehalose synthase reveals an unusual active site configuration and acarbose-binding mode“. Read More
Jonathan Penfield – Completed MSc Thesis
Congratulations Jonathan! Jonathan successfully defend his MSc thesis,“The substrate specificity and conformational flexibility of ketosteroid hydroxylases”. Jonathan studied in the Eltis lab. Read More
Antonio Ruzzini’s research highlighted in Biochemistry
Some of Antonio Ruzzini’s PhD thesis work has been selected to be highlighted on Biochemistry’s website. http://pubs.acs.org/journals/bichaw/index.html “A substrate-assisted mechanism of nucleophile activation in a Ser-His-Asp containing C-C bond hydrolase.” Author(s): Ruzzini, Antonio; Bhowmik,Shiva; Ghosh, Subhangi; Yam, Katherine; Bolin, Jeffrey; Eltis, Lindsay Published in American Chemical Society Journal Biochemistry. Biochemistry. 2013 52:7428-38. Summary Meta-Cleavage product […] Read More
Allan Mills – Completed MSc Thesis
Congratulations Allan! At the end of September, Allan successfully defend his MSc thesis,“Characterization of interactions of TonB and Colicin M with FhuA reconstituted into Nanodiscs”. Allan studied in the Duong lab. Read More
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research: 10 Biochem Post Docs Receive Awards
MSFHR Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards Biomedical Category – July 2013 (total 30 in category) Award Recipient Project Title: Lab Julien Bergeron Architecture and assembly of the bacterial type III secretion system injectisome Natalie Strynadka Deborah G. Conrady Characterization of the bacterial cell wall synthesis enzyme BacA Natalie Strynadka Ulrich Eckhard Placental proteomics: protease networks to identify […] Read More
Pieter Cullis: New Director of the Life Sciences Institute
Effective immediately, Pieter Cullis appointed as new director of the Life Sciences Institute. Read More
Christian Kastrup – 2013 Early Career Award Recipient
The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies announced the 2013 Early Career Scholar Award. Dr. Christian Kastrup is one of thirteen outstanding UBC faculty to receive this award. “Each scholar is provided with $10,000 in funding, and an additional $10,000 to be used to secure a course release during their term of appointment. The term […] Read More
Thomas Jefferies – Completed MSc Thesis
Congratulations Thomas! He successfully defend his MSc thesis “Expression, purification, and characterization of RD3, the protein associated with Leber’s Congenital Amaurosis Type 12”. Thomas studied in Dr. Robert Molday’s lab. Read More
Peter Wang – Awarded Premier-Wesbrook Prize
Third year Biochemistry student, Peter Wang awarded the Premier-Wesbrook Prize This is a very prestigious UBC combined award, the Premier Undergraduate Scholarships and Wesbrook Scholars, only 20 such awards are made each year to cover all undergraduates across ALL faculties through years three and four. Peter was one of only three awardees in the whole […] Read More
New Graduate Award: Ronnie Miller Graduate Scholarship in Personalized Medicine
Ronnie Miller Graduate Scholarship in Personalized Medicine This award arises from a new joint initiative of Rx&D and Hoffman-LaRoche Canada to provide $50,000 over 5 years to support a graduate student studying personalized medicine in the Department of Biochemistry at UBC. The award is named to honour former Board Chairman, M. Ronnie Miller, to recognize […] Read More