University of British Columbia
Undergraduate co-op student Jennifer Mitchell was awarded a summer studentship award from the School of Biomedical Engineering to fund her summer research project! She will be working on using CRISPR-Cas9 to uncover the mechanisms of how transcription factors act as regulators of Pol II transcription.
Congratulations Jennifer!
Congratulations to co-first authors Rachel Price and Marek Budzynski on publishing their research project!
We examined how heat shock transcription factors interact with mitotic chromosomes. To our surprise, we found that they behave very differently than most TFs studied thus far. Read all about it here!
Congratulations to co-first authors James Kwan and Thomas Nguyen on publication of their first project as PhD students in the Teves lab!
We found that, contrary to most molecular biology textbooks, the general transcription factor TBP is not required for Pol II transcription in mouse embryonic stem cells. Read all about it here!
The Biochemistry and Molecular Biology department held our first in-person departmental retreat since the pandemic started. It was a cold February, but the company was definitely fun and crazy.
After graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from UBC in 2019, Henry worked with Artron BioResearch Inc to help develop the Health Canada approved SARS-CoV2 antigen test kit that’s now widely available.
Henry joins the Teves lab as a Masters student on Jan 2023. Looking forward to hearing more about Henry’s future projects in the Teves lab!
For our end of the year celebration, we split up into two groups to tackle 2 escape room puzzles. After all the brain exercises, we built up an appetite for a lab dinner!
A great way to end the roller coaster 2022 year!
Dr. Sheila Teves is one of 3 LSI PIs newly appointed as Canada Research Chairs in 2022. Read about their awards here: https://lsi.ubc.ca/2022/11/18/three-lsi-researchers-named-canada-research-chairs/
Our latest work on how Heat Shock Transcription Factors interact with mitotic chromosomes is now posted as a preprint in BioRxiv. Here, graduate student Rachel Price and postdoctoral fellow Marek Budzynski discovers a new mode of TF-mitotic chromosome interaction using a combination of genomics, live cell imaging, and single particle tracking microscopy. Read all about it here!
We’re very proud to announce that Marek received a prestigious 3-year Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. Congratulations Marek!
Read the announcement here: https://healthresearchbc.ca/award_researcher/marek-budzynski/
Iris joined us in Sept 2021 as a Co-op student. A year later, she completes her co-op and returns to finish her last year for Bachelor’s degree. She received an NSERC USRA award, and has collected data that will be included in a research manuscript.
Estelle joined as in May 2022 as a BMB EDI work-learn student. She leaves us to start her 3rd year of undergrad studies.
Best of luck to Iris and Estelle with the coming academic year!
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