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Dr. Hugh Kim and Dr. Harry Brumer
Biochemistry welcomes two new Associate Members: Dr. Hugh Kim and Dr. Harry Brumer. Dr. Hugh Kim, an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Dentistry is a Principal Investigator in The Centre for Blood Research, UBC. Dr. Brumer is a full professor who holds joint appointments in both Chemistry and The Michael Smith Laboratories. […]
Bjorn Bean – Doctoral Exam
Thesis title, “Insights into Cargo Adaptor Function Through The Study of Novel Interactors” by Bjorn Bean. Wednesday, July 8, 2015 at 9:00 am in Room 200, Graduate Student Centre, 6371 Crescent Road ABSTRACT In Eukaryotes, luminal and transmembrane proteins are moved to their functional locations by conserved membrane trafficking machinery. In this process, cargo adaptors […]
Postdoctoral Seminar Series – Gesa Volkers
Week #4, Friday, June 19 from noon-1:00 pm in LSC 3 Dr. Gesa Volkers Postdoctoral Fellow, Strynadka Lab Molecular Insights into the Polysialylation of Human Cell Surfaces – Structure of ST8SiaIII Sialyltransferase Polysialylation in eukaryotes is catalyzed by sialyltransferases of the ST8Sia family that attach negatively charged sialic acid sugars onto glycoprotein and -lipid acceptors. […]
Postdoctoral Seminar Series – Patrick Chan
Week #4, Friday, June 19 from noon-1:00 pm in LSC 3. Dr. Patrick Hau Wing Chan, Postdoctoral Fellow in Thibault Mayor Lab presents, “Proteomic profiling of the [PSI+] yeast prion strain by quantitative mass spectrometry” Prions proteins can adopt a second conformation that induces the formation of amyloid fibrils that are responsible for the transmissible […]
Postdoctoral Seminar Series – Soumya De
Postdoctoral Seminar Series Week #3, Friday, June 12 from noon-1:00 pm in LSC 3. Dr. Soumya De a Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Lawrence McIntosh. He is in Vancouver from August 2011. Soumya earned his Bachelor and Master of Science degrees from IIT Kharagpur. He joined the doctoral program at Cornell University in Ithaca, USA and […]
Postdoctoral Seminar Series – Michael Yuchi
Postdoctoral Seminar Series Week #3, Friday, June 12 from noon-1:00 pm in LSC 3. Dr. Michael Yuchi, Postdoctoral Fellow in Van Petegem Lab presents, “Crystal Structures of Novel RyR Domains Reveal Binding Determinant for FKBP12”
Postdoctoral Seminar Series – Madhavan Chalet
Postdoctoral Seminar Series is back, due to popular demand. Week #2, third presentation on Friday, June 5 from noon-12:30 pm in LSC 3. Dr. Madhavan Chalet, Postdoctoral Fellow in R Molday Lab, presents, “C-terminal domain of Lipid Flippase, ATP8A2: The two-faced autoregulation of protein activity.”
Postdoctoral Seminar Series – Julien Bergeron
Postdoctoral Seminar Series is back, due to popular demand. Featuring 8 speakers over four weeks. First presentation Friday, May 29 from noon-1:00 pm in LSC 3. First Presenter: Dr. Julien Bergeron, Postdoctoral Fellow, Strynadka Lab “Secretion of the third kind: Architecture and assembly of the type III secretion system”
Postdoctoral Seminar Series – Guillaume Lamour
Postdoctoral Seminar Series is back, due to popular demand. Featuring 8 speakers over four weeks. First presentation day will be Friday, May 29 from noon-1:00 pm in LSC 3. Second Presenter: Dr. Guillaume Lamour Postdoctoral Fellow, Gsponer Lab “Material properties of prion nanofibrils”
May Graduation
Congratulations Biochem graduates!! May Graduation, we have 2 separate days to celebrate your achievements. UBC will be conferring: MSc and PhD degrees on Wednesday, May 20th at 8:30 a.m. BSc degrees will be held on Monday, May 25th at 1:30 p.m