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- Valentin Jaumouillé and Ryan Morin Receive Faculty of Science Research Awards
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- Lionel Pereira receives Faculty of Science Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching Award
- Scientists develop tool to predict sepsis in apparently healthy newborns
- Dr. Lynne Quarmby, cool new discoveries about Watermelon Snow
- Dr. Valentin Jaumouillé and Dr. Amy Lee, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry researchers receive Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar awards
- Verheyen Lab breakthrough identifies gene that may reverse Parkinson’s disease
- Dr. Ryan Morin has been honored with the Bernard and Francine Dorval Prize from the Canadian Cancer Society
- MBB researchers awarded $2 million in funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Dr. Glen Tibbits honoured as Distinguished SFU Professor
- Reflecting on barriers and progress towards equity in science
- 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
- 2023
- Dr. Dustin King speaks to Molecular Cell about sustainability and molecular biology
- Science Advances paper by new MBB PhD, Casey Engstrom and Professor Lynne Quarmby uses satellites to study the impact of Watermelon Snow on glacier loss in North America
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RESEARCH SUPERVISORS
Tim Audas
Assistant Professor
Email: taudas@sfu.ca
Phone: (778) 782-3788
Office: SSB 7114
Non-coding RNA, cellular stress and amyloid aggregation
Christopher Beh
Professor
Email: ctbeh@sfu.ca
Phone: (778) 782-6801
Office: SSB 7142
Membrane Trafficking and Cell Signaling
Lorena Braid
Assistant Professor
Email: lorena_braid@sfu.ca
Phone: (778) 782-3495
Office: SSB 7153
Mesenchymal Stem / Stromal Cells
Fiona S.L. Brinkman
Professor
Email: brinkman@sfu.ca
Phone: (778) 782-5646
Office: SSB 7110
Bacterial Genomics and Bioinformatics
Mark Brockman
Associate Professor
Email: mark_brockman@sfu.ca
Phone: (778) 782-3341
Office: BLU 11702
HIV Virology and Immunology
Jack N. Chen
Professor
Email: chenn@sfu.ca
Office: SSB 8111
Bioinformatics, Genome Architecture and Expression
Jonathan Choy
Professor
Email: jonathan.choy@sfu.ca
Phone: (778) 782-8701
Office: SSB 7105
T cell biology, Vascular Biology
Lisa Craig
Department Chair and Professor
Email: licraig@sfu.ca
Phone: (778) 782-7140
Office: SSB 8174
Structural biology assembly of bacterial Type IV pili
Sharon M. Gorski
Professor
Email: sgorski@bcgsc.ca
Office: TASC II 8006
Autophagy, Apoptosis, Cancer, Treatment Resistance
Nancy Hawkins
ASSOCIATE DEAN, ACADEMIC AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Email: nhawkins@sfu.ca
Chair's Office: SSB 7100
Asymmetric Cell Division in C. elegans
Robert Holt
Professor
Email: rholt@bcgsc.ca
Office: M. Smith Genome Sci. Cntr.
High-throughput DNA Sequencing, Genomics
William Hsiao
Associate Professor
Email: wwhsiao@sfu.ca
Phone: (778) 782-3299
Office: BLU 11008
Bioinformatics, health informatics and public health infectious disease genomics
Valentin Jaumouillé
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Email: v_jaumouille@sfu.ca
Phone: TBD
Office: SSB 7144
Innate immunity, membrane and cytoskeleton dynamics, mechanobiology
Mani Larijani
Shrum Chair and Associate Professor
Email: mani_larijani@sfu.ca & larijani.lab.sfu @gmail.com
Phone: (778) 782-7276
Office: SSB 6146
Genome-editing Processes, Immunity, Cancer, Evolution
Amy Lee
Assistant Professor
Email: ahl23@sfu.ca
Phone: (778) 782-4627
Office: SSB 7107
Bioinformatics and Genomics
Michel R. Leroux
Professor
Email: leroux@sfu.ca
Office: SSB 6134
Cytoskeleton and sensory cilia in health and disease
Ryan Morin
Associate Professor
Email: rdmorin@sfu.ca
Office: SSB 7151
Bioinformatics and Cancer Genomics
Mark Paetzel
Professor
Email: mpaetzel@sfu.ca
Office: SSB 6142
Protease Structure-Function and Inhibitor Design
Frederic F. Pio
Associate Professor
Email: fpio@sfu.ca
Office: SSB 6112
Cell Death and Immunity, Bioinformatics and Proteomics
Lynne Quarmby
Professor
Email: quarmby@sfu.ca
Phone: (778) 782-4474
Office: TASC II 8008
Snow Algae Microbiomes: Ecology, genomics and cell biology
Dipankar Sen
Professor
Email: sen@sfu.ca
Phone: (778) 782-4386
Office: SSB 7108
Catalytic DNA/RNA, Biosensors
Jenifer Thewalt
Professor
Email: jthewalt@sfu.ca
Phone: (778) 782-3151
Office: SSB 8103
NMR studies of membrane structure and dynamics
Glen F. Tibbits
PROFESSOR
Email: tibbits@sfu.ca
Phone: (778) 782-3658
Office: K 9630
Molecular Cardiac Physiology
Peter J. Unrau
Professor
Email: punrau@sfu.ca
Phone: (778) 782-3448
Office: SSB 6114
RNA Chemistry and Evolution
Esther M. Verheyen
Professor
Email: everheye@sfu.ca
Phone: (778) 782-4665
Office: SSB 8108 B
Drosophila developmental genetics, signal transduction and cancer models
David Vocadlo
Professor
Email: dvocadlo@sfu.ca
Phone: (778) 782-3530
Office: C 9066
Chemical Biology of Glycosylation
Edgar C. Young
Associate Professor
Email: youngec@sfu.ca
Phone: (778) 782-4751
Office: SSB 7155
Conformational Dynamics in Signaling Proteins