421/422 Projects

SSP Project/Supervisor Selection:

Step 1: You will find all projects listed on our website beginning December 15, 2023. You will have an opportunity to go through them over the holidays to see where your interest is.

Step 2: Once you return in January, you should arrange to meet with potential supervisors to ask questions about the lab and research project. (Please note: Supervisors would not be able to guarantee during the discussions that you would be selected into their lab).

Step 3: You can go to this document: HERE

to rank your top three selections. The document will open on January 4, 2024 and close at 4pm on January 26, 2024. We will endeavor to do our best to give you one of your choices. Please only submit your choices once.

Step 4: In the case where more than one person have listed the same supervisor for 1st choices, the supervisor will be given the opportunity to choose. Keep in mind that there is no guarantees or promises given to students in advance of our decision. You will know by February 16, 2024, who your supervisor will be and which project you will be working on.

Step 5: Once final marks in May have been received we will ensure that everyone meets the requirements to be in BCHM 421 and BCHM 422.

PREREQUISITE: Level 4 and (registration in a BCHM Specialization Plan) and (a cumulative GPA of 2.9 in BCHM 313/3.0, BCHM 315/3.0, BCHM 316/3.0, BCHM 317/6.0, BCHM 218/3.0).

SUPERVISOR	PROJECT TITLE
Abraham, Sheela	Developing a biomarker assay for acute myeloid leukaemia
Allingham, John #1	Structural basis for exposure of the amyloid-forming region by the Als adhesins of Candida albicans
Allingham, John #2	Targeting the mitotic kinesin Kip3 in Candida albicans as a novel antifungal strategy
Aristizabal, Maria	A MS approach to examine the effect of cancer-associated mutations on histone posttranslational modifications
Brennan, Faith	Neuroinflammation of spinal cord injury
Brockhausen, Inka #1	Neurodegenerative disease: role of membranes and glycosylation in protein aggregation
Brockhausen, Inka #2	Polysaccharide biosynthesis in pathogenic bacteria
Brockhausen, Inka #3	O antigen synthesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Capicciotti, Chantelle #1	Cellular Glyco-Engineering to Investigate Glycan-Protein Binding Interactions
Capicciotti, Chantelle #2	Bioconjugation through Glyco-Engineering to prepare Antibody-Conjugated Nanomedicines
Chan, Edmond	Targeting mitochondria inner membranes to inhibit cancer metabolism
Craig, Andrew	Genome editing of C19MC-positive melanomas to identify functions and targets of C19MC miRNAs
Craig, Andrew & Gaudreau, Pierre-Olivier	Develop a lung cancer/T cell co-culture model for testing new cancer immunotherapies combinations involving mitotic kinases
Davies, Peter #1	Preventing bacterial infections by blocking adhesins
Davies, Peter #2	Structure-function relationships in ice nucleation proteins
Ghasemlou, Nader #1	Identification of a novel CCR4 antagonist to treat pain
Ghasemlou, Nader #2	Galectin-9: a novel neuropeptide controlling inflammation
Maurice, Donald	The Primary Cilium: A Hyper-localized Compartment for cAMP Signaling
Ross, Avena	Investigating the biosynthesis of tambjamine natural products
Smith, Steve	Structural and functional analyses of KLF-associated transcriptional networks associated with cardiac development and disease
Snedden, Wayne	Investigating calcium signal transduction in plants
Zongchao, Jia	His- and Lys-repeat protein modification by polyphosphate and regulation of protein function

SSP Project/Supervisor Selection:

Participating Faculty 2024-2025