Events

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

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”

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 – 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 – 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 – Patrick Hau Wing 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 – 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. […]