News and events

A collaboration between the Cameron and Boulanger lab on the structure of Treponema pallidum Tp0751.

Sarah Khan has been awarded the 2017 3M National Student Fellow for leadership. Sarah's desire is to see effective integrative health care centres in smaller communities in BC. As one of 10 3M National Student Fellows across Canada, Sarah Khan receives a cash award of $5,000 and is invited to attend the annual conference for the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE). There, she’ll participate in a 3M National Student Fellowship Program retreat and develop a cross-Canadian collaborative project to enhance teaching and learning at the post-secondary level.

Paul Kim wins both UVic and ACE Co-op Student of the Year awards

Lithgow et al have published an article in Nature Communications about a syphilis vaccine candidate

Dr. Caroline Cameron and Dr. Sheila Lukehart have received significant funding in their quest to develop a vaccine for syphilis.

Ramaswamy, Goomeshi Nobary, Eyeford, Pearson and Boulanger have a paper accepted by Protein Science describing the first reported structures of insect stage transmembrane proteins associated with Trypanosoma brucei.

Teesha Baker recently wrote a review with Drs. Jun Han and Christoph Borchers on Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization (MALDI) Mass Spectrometry Imaging (MSI) which is the technique she is using for her research on breast and prostate cancer at the University of Victoria-Genome BC Proteomics Centre.

Congratulation to John Burke and his students for the Nature publication on antimalarial drugs.

UVic, the BCCA and Zymeworks Inc collaborate to develop immunotherapy techniques for cancer treatment.

Having completed her PhD in Dr. Martin Boulanger's lab, Michelle has accepted one of two positions in the Postdoctoral Training Program in Clinical Chemistry at the University of Toronto.

The 16th IUBMB Conference, Signalling Pathways in Development, Disease and Aging will be held in Vancouver July 17-21, 2016. Deadline for registration is May 27, 2016. http://www.iubmb2016.org/

Scott Scholz was awarded the President's Distinguished Service Award for Excellence in Service. Scott is a valued member of this department and well deserving of this award.

As one of 10 3M National Student Fellows across Canada, Paul Junhyuck Kim receives a cash award of $5,000 and is invited to attend the annual conference for the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE). There, he’ll participate in a 3M National Student Fellowship Program retreat and develop a cross-Canadian collaborative project to enhance teaching and learning at the post-secondary level.

Compute Canada has provided 3 years worth of funding valued at $162,111 total towards the development of a frog sequence analysis platform (frogSAP).

Dr. Brad Nelson's research, which uses our own immune systems to battle cancer, is heading for clinical trials.

The SISCAPA team has won the 2015 HUPO Science and Technology Award presented at this past week's HUPO world congress in Vancouver.