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Meet our faculty
The Chemical Biology graduate program at McMaster includes 40 participating faculty members from three Faculties (Sciences, Engineering, and Health Sciences) across seven departments (Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, Biology, Pathology, and Molecular Medicine, Medicine, Chemical Engineering, Physics, and Astronomy). Several of these investigators are nationally and internationally recognized research leaders (12 prestigious Canada Research Chair holders) as well as emerging researchers.
Paul Ayers, Ph.D. (UNC-Chapel Hill)
e-mail: ayers@mcmaster.ca
Density functional theory; computational modelling of enzymes
Sara Andres, Ph.D. (McMaster)
e-mail: andressn@mcmaster.ca
DNA Damage Response and Repair, Drug Resistance Infections
Paul J. Berti, Ph.D. (McGill)
e-mail: berti@mcmaster.ca
Microbiological Biochemistry and Antimicrobial Research
Rusell Bishop, Ph.D. (Alberta)
e-mail: bishopr@mcmaster.ca
Biogenesis of the Gram-negative Cell Envelope
Dawn Bowdish, Ph.D. (UBC)
e-mail: bowdish@mcmaster.ca
Role of the Macrophage Scavenger Receptors in Host Defence
John D. Brennan, Ph.D. (Toronto)
e-mail: brennanj@mcmaster.ca
Bioanalytical Chemistry and High Throughoput Screening
Katherine Bujold, Ph.D. (McGill)
e-mail: bujoldk@mcmaster.ca
Synthesis of oligonucleotides with modified backbones
Philip Britz-Mckibbin, Ph.D. (UBC)
e-mail: britz@mcmaster.ca
Bioanalytical Chemistry; separation science; metabolomics; cellulomics
Eric Brown, Ph.D. (Guelph)
e-mail: ebrown@mcmaster.ca
Microbiological Biochemistry and Antimicrobiological research
Fred Capretta, Ph.D. (McMaster)
e-mail: capretta@mcmaster.ca
Organic synthesis and medicinal chemistry, parallel synthesis.
Brian Coombes, Ph.D. (McMaster)
e-mail: coombes@mcmaster.ca
Microbiology Biochemistry and Antimicrobial Research. Cell Biology and Gene Regulation
Marie Elliot, Ph.D. (Alberta)
e-mail: melliot@mcmaster.ca
Bioinformatics & Functional Genomics, Microbiology & Plant Biology
Carlos Filipe, Ph.D. (Clemson University)
e-mail: filipec@mcmaster.ca
Applied Molecular biology, protein expression and purification, mRNA enginnering
Turlough Finan, Ph.D. (Guelph)
e-mail: finan@mcmaster.ca
Molecular genetic studies on symbiotic N2 fixation and phosphate metabolism.
Cecile Fradin, Ph.D. (Univ.Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France )
e-mail: fradin@physics.mcmaster.ca
Molecular Biophysics
Paul H.M. Harrison, Ph.D. (Alberta)
e-mail: pharriso@mcmaster.ca
M.C.I.C. Bioorganic chemistry; biosynthetic processes; biomimetics
Adam Hitchcock, Ph.D. (UBC)
e-mail: aph@mcmaster.ca
F.C.I.C. Electron impact and synchrotron spectroscopic; X-ray microscopy of proteins
Yingfu Li, Ph.D. (Simon Fraser)
e-mail: liying@mcmaster.ca
Structural Biology and Protein/Nucleic Acid Structure/ Protein
Yu Lu, Ph.D. (U of Washington)
e-mail: yu.lu@mcmaster.ca
Proteomics, Protein/ Nucleic Acid interactions and Stem cell biology
Nathan A. Magarvey, Ph.D. (Minnesota)
e-mail: magarv@mcmaster.ca
Natural products chemical biology and drug discovery
Jake Magolan, Ph.D. (Western)
e-mail: magolanj@mcmaster.ca
Medicinal chemistry, organic synthetic methods, natural products synthesis
Andrew McArthur, Ph.D. (Victoria)
e-mail: mccarthua@mcmaster.ca
Bioinformatics, functional genomics, and computational biology
James McNulty, Ph.D. (Toronto)
e-mail: jmcnult@mcmaster.ca
Synthesis; organophosphine chemistry; anticancer drugs; natural product isolation
Giuseppe Melacini, Ph.D. (U. of San diego)
e-mail: melacin@mcmaster.ca
Biological NMR, protein structure & dynamics, biomolecular interactions, structural genomics
Jose M. Moran-Mirabal, Ph.D. (McMaster)
e-mail: mirabj@mcmaster.ca
High-Resolution Fluorescence Microscopy, Micro and Nanofabrication
Ishac Nazy, Ph.D. (McMaster)
e-mail: nazii@mcmaster.ca
Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia, Immune thrombocytopenia, Platelet disorders
Robert Pelton Ph.D. (Bristol University)
e-mail: peltonrh@mcmaster.ca
Polymer colloids, water-soluble polymers, interfacial engineering, flocculation, and latex's
Anthony Rullo, Ph.D. (Toronto)
e-mail: rulloa@mcmaster.ca
Chemical Immunomodulatory approaches to fight cancer, metastatic cell targeting oligomers, etc
Heather Sheardown, Ph.D. (Toronto)
e-mail: sheardow@mcmaster.ca
Biomaterials, tissue engineering, mathematical modeling of physiologic processes, etc
Saman Saedghi, Ph.D. (Toronto)
e-mail: sadegs10@mcmaster.ca
Radiochemistry, radiopharmaceutical development, and validation, electrochemistry, microfluidics and instrumentation.
Jennifer Sterns, Ph.D. (Waterloo)
e-mail: stearns@mcmaster.ca
Bioinformatics, 16S rRNA gene surveys, colonization, infant gut, microbial ecology, etc
John F. Valliant, Ph.D. (McMaster)
e-mail: valliant@mcmaster.ca
Medicinal inorganic and radiopharmaceutical chemistry
Geoff Werstuck Ph.D. (McMaster)
e-mail: gwerstuck@thrombosis.hhscr.org
Diabetes mellitus; cardiovascular disease
John Whitney, Ph.D. (Toronto)
e-mail: jwhitney@mcmaster.ca
Microbial warfare, Bacterial toxins, and Protein X-Ray crystallography
Gerard Wright, Ph.D. (Waterloo)
e-mail: wrightge@mcmaster.ca
Microbiological Biochemistry and Antimicrobial Research
Jianping Xu, Ph.D. (Toronto)
e-mail: jpxu@mcmaster.ca
Ecology & Evolution, Microbiology & Plant Biology
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