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- Lionel Pereira receives Faculty of Science Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching Award
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- Dr. Valentin Jaumouillé and Dr. Amy Lee, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry researchers receive Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar awards
- Dr. Ryan Morin has been honored with the Bernard and Francine Dorval Prize from the Canadian Cancer Society
- Verheyen Lab breakthrough identifies gene that may reverse Parkinson’s disease
- MBB researchers awarded $2 million in funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Dr. Glen Tibbits honoured as Distinguished ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Professor
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- Royal Society of Canada bestows Dr. Vocadlo with country’s highest academic honour
- Decoding the genome to predict the clinical course of lymphomas
- 2023 Award for Excellence in Supervision: Esther Verheyen
- In a recent Nature Communications paper, the Audas lab demonstrates that proteins can act as microscopic thermometers to sense and respond to changing environmental conditions
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September 26, 2024
Aleksa Nenadic
"Nuclear poly-glutamine aggregates rupture the nuclear envelope and hinder its repair"
Korsten et al. (2024). J Cell Biol 223(11):e202307142.
October 10, 2024
Ece Yücel
"Cell fragmentation in mouse preimplantation embryos induced by ectopic activation of the polar body extrusion pathway"
Pelzer, D., de Plater, L., Bradbury, P., Eichmuller, A., Bourdais, A., Halet, G., & Maître, J. (2023). The EMBO Journal, 42(17). https://doi.org/10.15252/embj.2023114415
October 24, 2024
Arlene Gidda
"ANP32e Binds Histone H2A.Z in a Cell Cycle-Dependent Manner and Regulates Its Protein Stability in the Cytoplasm"
Dijkwel, Y., Hart-Smith, G., Kurscheid, S., & Tremethick, D. J. (2024). Molecular and Cellular Biology, 44(2), 72–85. https://doi.org/10.1080/10985549.2024.2319731
October 31, 2024
Kitty Leung
"Rab11 is required for lysosome exocytosis through the interaction with Rab3a, Sec15 and GRAB"
Escrevente C, Bento-Lopes L, Ramalho JS, Barral DC. J Cell Sci 1 June 2021; 134 (11): jcs246694. doi:
November 7, 2024
Aaron Bernstein
"Migratory autolysosome disposal mitigates lysosome damage"
Takami Sho, Ying Li, Haifeng Jiao, Li Yu; J Cell Biol 2 December 2024; 223 (12): e202403195. doi:
November 14, 2024
Kyle Newcomb
"Bacteria conjugate ubiquitin-like proteins to interfere with phage assembly"
Hör, J., Wolf, S.G. & Sorek, R; Nature 631, 850–856 (2024). doi:
November 21, 2024
Karampal Grewal
"Huntingtin contains an ubiquitin-binding domain and regulates lysosomal targeting of mitochondrial and RNA-binding proteins"
G.M. Fote, V.V. Eapen, R.G. Lim, C. Yu, L. Salazar, N.R. McClure, J. McKnight, T.B. Nguyen, M.C. Heath, A.L. Lau, M.A. Villamil, R. Miramontes, I.H. Kratter, S. Finkbeiner, J.C. Reidling, J.A. Paulo, P. Kaiser, L. Huang, D.E. Housman, L.M. Thompson, J.S. Steffan. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 121 (32) e2319091121, (2024).
November 28, 2024
Harleen Buttar
"Global identification of SWI/SNF targets reveals compensation by EP400"
Martin BJE, Ablondi EF, Goglia C, Mimoso CA, Espinel-Cabrera PR, Adelman K. Cell. 2023 Nov 22;186(24):5290-5307.e26. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.10.006. Epub 2023 Nov 2. PMID: 37922899; PMCID: PMC11307202.