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November Convocation
Congratulations Biochem grads!! Fall Graduation a time to celebrate your momentous achievements. UBC will be conferring MSc and PhD degrees on Friday, November 29th at 9:00 a.m.
BMBDG Seminar: Gaurav Sahay – Jan 27 @3:00 pm
“Cellular factors that impact drug delivery,” Dr. Gaurav Sahay, Post-Doctoral Associate, MIT.
BMBDG Seminar: Metka Lenassi – Nov 18 3:00 pm
“A fungus on a high salt diet, and what its genome tells us about it,” by Dr. Metka Lenassi, Institute of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Ljubljana. Monday, November 18, @ 3:00 pm, LSC #3, 2350 Health Sciences Mall
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.
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 […]
BMBDG Seminar: Horacio Bach – Oct 28, 3:00 pm
“Single-chain Antibodies – The next generation of research, diagnostic and therapeutic antibodies,” by Horacio Bach, Adjunct Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, UBC. Monday, October 28 @ 3:00 pm, LSC #3, 2350 Health Sciences Mall
Gairdner Symposium – Kim Nasmyth and Sir Gregory Winter Oct 21 2013
Gairdner Symposium – Monday, October 21, 2013 from 4:00-6:00 pm, LSC #2, UBC Two dynamic and high profiled researchers: Dr. Kim Nasmyth 2007 Canada Gairdner International Award Recipient Presentation: How are chromosomes held together? Sir Gregory Winter 2013 Canada Gairdner International Award Recipient Presentation: The antibody revolution: new pharmaceuticals for a new age. More information […]
United Way Pancake Breakfast – Oct 24, 8:00 to 11:00 am
Come join us for a pancake breakfast, only $5.00. We are part of the LSI community participating in the United Way Pancake Breakfast. Thursday, October 24th, in LSC West Atrium, 2350 Health Sciences Mall, from 8:00 to 11:00 am
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.
Xin Du – Doctoral Exam, September 25
Thesis title: “Structural Requirements for the Elastolytic and Collagenolytic Activities of Cathepsins and the Identification of Exosite Inhibitors,” by Xin Du. Friday, September 25, 2013 at 9:30 am, Room 200 203, Michael Smith Laboratories