Horace Wei Completed MSc Thesis
Congratulations Horace! He successfully defend his MSc thesis “Identifying Novel Regulators of Rhol signaling in Saccharomyes cerevisiae”. Horace studied in Dr. Elizabeth Conibear’s lab.
Dr. Christian Kastrup – Co-Invents New Adhesive Gel
Dr. Christian Kastrup, Assistant Professor co-invents a new gel, which can be used on weakened blood vessels to prevent rupturing. Read more
Paolo Lobo completed MSc thesis
Congratulations Paolo for completing the MSc program! The title of his thesis is “Ligand and Modulator Binding in the Skeletal Muscle Ryanodine Receptor”. Paolo studied in Filip van Petegem’s lab.
Dr. Christian Kastrup – Awarded Grand Challenge Grant
Christian Kastrup has won a grant from Grand Challenges Canada to develop a low-cost, easily-administered treatment for post-partum bleeding for use in low-income countries. The nano sized self-propelling coagulant particles can be used for other bleeding trauma. Read more
Michael Kobor: “Genes and Immune System Shaped by Childhood Poverty, Stress”
Michael Kobor looks at how experiences beginning before birth and in the years after can affect the course of a person’s life. His findings were recently published in a special volume of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Read more
Photo Contest Winners
Dr. LeAnn Howe is proud to announce the winners of the “Website Revamp Photo Contest”: Dr. Franck Duong (for Duong Lab, a 3D clay model of a nanodisc) Matt Dahabieh (phto map of HIV integration sites in infected cultured T cells) Marta Guarna (collecting bee sampes for proteometics). Each received a $50 gift card from UBC. […]
Natalie Strynadka Receives Senior International Research Scholar Award
Congratulations to Natalie Strynadka on the news that she is awarded a Senior International Research Scholar award from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Natalie is one of only 13 scientists worldwide to be named for this award, as announced on September 26, 2012. Since joining the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 1997, […]
Biochemistry Photo Contest
The new Biochemistry website has been launched, but we need your photos! If you have pictures that highlight the exploits of our department (i.e. people, lab space, cool data, group outings, etc.) please forward them to LeAnn (ljhowe@mail.ubc.ca). Please use your name as the file name as we will be awarding $50 gift cards for […]
New website look
We’ve been working on a new website look over the summer, moving content from the existing (previous) site and putting into the new UBC templates in WordPress. The new site will go live late afternoon Tuesday September 4. If you’re looking for something on the new site and can’t find it, or have other comments […]
Alexander Wong completes MSc Thesis on PNPase Enzyme
Alexander Wong from the Mackie Lab successfully completed his M.Sc. thesis on studies of the RNA-degrading PNPase enzyme – congratulations!