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📢 We're moving to Bluesky! 💙
We’re making Bluesky our go-to place for research news, key updates, and events. X will be phased out, so make sure to follow us here:
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📢Attn: Grad Students📢
Teaching Assistant positions are now open for the 2025 Winter Session🌟 Apply by June 30!
Learn more & apply 👉 biochem.ubc.ca/about/career-…
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UBC Biochemistry & Molecular Biology retweeted
So proud of @thomasfnguyen and co-authors on the publication of this manuscript. Now out in Genetics!
See full paper here! academic.oup.com/genetics/ad…
Thank you to the editors of Genetics for effiecient handling, and to the peer reviewers for excellent feedback
🎉Excited to share our new preprint on Biorxiv 🥳
We uncover how RNA Polymerase III (Pol3) dynamically regulates tRNA transcription during heat shock (HS) stress!
So what did we find? 🧵
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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UBC Biochemistry & Molecular Biology retweeted
In a recent study, a team of researchers led by @CTropini and @AVogelCiernia (@UBCbiochemistry) reports how gut microbiome disruption influences behaviour, sex hormones, and brain structures in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease.
Learn more: mbim.ubc.ca/news/exploring-t…
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Check out more on how Dr. Emilia Lim is uncovering the relationship between air pollution and lung cancer 🫁
🌟 Congratulations to Dr. Emilia Lim, recipient of the Dr. Victor Ling Terry Fox New Investigator Award! With $525K in funding, Dr. Lim will explore how air pollution promotes lung cancer, aiming to prevent pollution-related cases. 🧵
Learn more 🔗 tfri.ca/our-research/researc…
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Congratulations to Dr. Emilia Lim for being named the Dr. Victor Ling Terry Fox New Investigator!
🚨Exciting news! TFRI has named five early-career scientists as the 2025 Terry Fox New Investigator awardees. With $2.6M in funding, they will advance critical research in melanoma, lung, brain, blood and pediatric cancers. Congratulations to the awardees! tfri.ca/updates/news/news-it…
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📢Teaching Assistant Positions Available for the 2025 Summer Session!
Apply by April 15
Learn more: biochem.ubc.ca/about/career-…
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📢Special Seminar!
Join us next Thursday for an in-person presentation by Dr. Bowen Li, Assistant Professor, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, hosted by Dr. Eric Jan.
📷 February 27 , 1PM in LSC3
Hope to see you there!
@CHBEUBC
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📢Special Seminar!
Join us next Monday for an in-person presentation by Dr. Annie Lin, Associate Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology at the UTSA.
📷 Feb 24 , 9:30AM in MSL 102
See you there!
@CHBEUBC
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📢Special Seminar!
Join us next Tuesday for an in-person presentation by Dr. Maxim Berezovski, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa, hosted by Dr. Eric Jan.
📷 February 18 , 3PM in LSC3
Hope to see you there!
@CHBEUBC
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Join us for an engaging Scientific Communication Workshop designed to empower scientists like you to share your work with clarity, impact, and creativity.
🗓️: Feb 13th at 12PM PT/3PM ET on Zoom
🎓 Featuring: Two biochemistry PhD candidates, Steven Harland and Helena Sverak.
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📢 LSI-BMB Joint Seminar!
Join us this Friday for an in-person presentation by Dr. Steven DeLuca, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Montana State University, hosted by Dr. Ethan Greenblatt.
📍 January 10th , 3PM in LSC3
Hope to see you there!
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We would like to invite you to our Discussion Group Seminar Series, featuring Dr. Reinhart Reithmeier, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto.
📍 January 13, 2:30 PM in LSC 3 & Zoom
Host: Dr. Eden Fussner-Dupas
See you there!🌟
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🌟BIOCAPS Spotlight 📸
The first BIOCAPS Spotlight of 2025 shines on Dr. Scott Covey👏
Dr. Covey is currently an Associate Professor of Teaching and also appointed as the Associate Department Head.
Check out our post to learn more about Dr. Covey: biochem.ubc.ca/biocaps-spotl…
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The @UBCbiochemistry Administration Office will be closed from December 24, 2024, and will reopen on January 2, 2025. Wishing everyone a delightful holiday season and a fabulous start to the New Year!🌟
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Thank you to everyone who came and joined us in celebrating the holiday season! Your presence made it a cheerful and memorable evening 🎄✨
More photos on our website: biochem.ubc.ca/2024-bmb-holi…
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UBC Biochemistry & Molecular Biology retweeted
Congratulations to MSL graduate Jorge Holguín Cruz, who was presented the Governor General’s Gold Medal at convocation today in recognition of his outstanding academic record during his studies in the #GsponerLab.
Learn more about this achievement at: msl.ubc.ca/msl-graduate-rece…
ALT Jorge Holguín Cruz stands, holding his medal, next to his graduate supervisor Dr. Jörg Gsponer in the lobby of the Michael Smith Laboratories building.
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UBC Biochemistry & Molecular Biology retweeted
Stress in action: crystal structure of PKA bound to a preferred substrate in CaV1.2. Comparing proposed sites in CaV1.2 and Rad shows two tiers of substrates.
jbc.org/article/S0021-9258(2…
@OmidHGhassemi @randyjsyoo Marvin Bader Jiaming Xu @ciaranmcfarlane @UBCbiochemistry
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📢Next Wednesday: In-person BMBDG Seminar!
We would like to invite you to our Discussion Group Seminar Series featuring Dr. Natalie Zeytuni from McGill University.
📆Nov 20, 2024 | 10:00 AM
📍 LSC 1003 and Zoom
Host: Dr. Natalie Strynadka
We hope to see you there! 🤩
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We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Dr. Jörg Gsponer as the BMB Department Head! 🎉
Dr. Gsponer is a Professor in the Department of BMB and holds a joint appointment at the Michael Smith Laboratories, Faculty of Science.
Read more: biochem.ubc.ca/biocaps-spotl…
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