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Chemical Biology

Developing chemical strategies
​to study neurobiological processes

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Recent News

 2019 – 
Sept 1
Chelsey Brien  continues her work exploring sulfur-based, traceless labelling groups. This year, she pursues an Honours degree. 

Aug 1
Students Matthew Heard and Anthony Tardif join our team this month.  Anthony will work towards a Master's degree while synthesizing sulfur-based traceless labelling groups for future use in neurobiological studies.

July 1 
Congratulations to Alicia Mercer on successfully defending her Master's thesis! 

June 20 
Zhenlin Tian earned his PhD after years of hard work and a fantastic defence. Well done Dr. Tian!

March 15 
Honour's student Nicole McGinn presents her research at the undergraduate research conference at UBCO in conclusion of her project. Congratulations, Nicole! 

2018 – 
Nov 22 
Wyatt Slattery successfully defends his Master's thesis! Congratulations, Wyatt!

2017 – 

2016 – 
Sept 14 
Visiting student Olivia Lajca joins our lab for a full year of research in organic synthesis. Olivia is a Masters of Chemistry student from the University of York, U.K. 

Sept 7 

The lab welcomes our contingent of Honours students for the year: Louise and Jon will synthesize chemical probes and Brianna and Mina will investigate the calcium signalling cascade in astrocytes.

May 14 

Jacky Deng is our latest summer intern for a Work-Study term.

Apr 28 

Melissa won the best oral presentation at the 2016 UBCO Undergraduate Research Conference. Congrats for a stellar performance and for a great year of results for her Honours thesis!

Apr 4 
We welcome postdoctoral fellow Dr. Vojtech Kapras.  Dr. Kapras obtained his PhD in total synthesis from the Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic and is supported by the Experientia Foundation.

Mar 15 
Congrats to Louise for being awarded one of the very competitive Barber School URA fellowship for the summer.

Feb 28 
The Canadian Chemical News magazine, ACCN, profiled Jeff in their Jan/Feb issue.  In the piece, we learn about Jeff's early interests in chemistry.

Jan 4 
We welcome two new graduate students: Alicia enrolled for a MSc in Organic Chemistry, and Mitra is an experienced scientist who joins the team to pursue a PhD in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology.

2015 – 
Dec  19
Sydney was awarded the prestigious ACPBC Schlolarship. Congrats!


Sept 8
PhD candidate Zhenlin joins the lab. He joins us from the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry.


July 21
Keen organic chemist Louise joins the lab.

July 10
We host our first visiting scholar: Raf joins our group to hone his synthetic skills.

June 1-6
The group travels to the 2015 CSC held in Ottawa. Sydney and Jeff presented their research. We all enjoyed a week of awesome Chemistry.

May 11
Laura joins the lab. She gets to start her first reactions!
We also welcome our resident biochemists: Ryan and Melissa—they will study calcium channels.
Biochemist undergrad Ranuk starts his Honours project on integrins aVb5. 

May 9
Congrats to Jeff winning a prize for his oral presentation at the Western Undergrad Chem Conference. A hat-trick of prizes–what a great year!

May 7
Jeff received the Teacher Assistant of the Year Award. 

April 23
Four Honours students have successfully defended their theses. Well done Anna, Bri, Jeff, and Sydney.

April 24
Co-op intern Mitch leaves us. His mad biochem skilz have been a phenomenal boost for our bioassays!

April 2
Congratulations to Jeff who was awarded a Barber School URA scholarship to conduct research in our lab.

March 6
Jeff received the prestigious UBC Undergraduate Researcher of the Year Award. 

March 5
Congrats to Sydney for being awarded a highly competitive NSERC USRA.


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