Wednesday, July 24, 2013

NMR paper in Science

J.-F. Trempe, V. Sauvé, K. Grenier, M. Seirafi, M.Y. Tang, M. Ménade, S. Al-Abdul-Wahid, J. Krett, K. Wong, G. Kozlov, B. Nagar, E.A. Fon, K. Gehring, "Structure of Parkin Reveals Mechanisms for Ubiquitin Ligase Activation," Science 340 (2013) 1451-1455.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1237908

Thursday, July 11, 2013

NSERC 2013 Competition Results

Discovery Grants [NSERC]
Richard Epand (McMaster) Membrane Interactions and Diacylglycerol Kinases

Michael Gerken (Lethbridge) Sulfur in Inorganic Fluorine Chemistry and the Development of a New Class of Weakly Coordinating Anions

Michel Lafleur (Montréal) Characterizing, Understanding and Exploiting lipid-lipid interactions

Isabelle Marcotte (Québec à Montréal) Nuclear magnetic resonance study of membrane interactions: from intact microorganisms to model membranes

Igor Mastikhin (New Brunswick) Magnetic Resonance Imaging of two-phase systems

Lawrence McIntosh (UBC) Glycosidases and Glycosyl Transferases

Scott Prosser (Toronto) Protein Functional Dynamics and Energy Landscapes

Giles Santyr (Western) Novel Approaches for Hyperpolarized Xenon-129 Magnetic Resonance Imagin

Abdelhamid Sayari 
(Ottawa) Nanostructured Materials for Separation and Catalysis

Simon Sharpe
 (Toronto) Structure, assembly, and biological activity of amyloid peptides and proteins

George Shimizu 
(Calgary) Synthesis and properties of metal organic frameworks

Roderick Wasylishen (Alberta) Magnetic Resonance Studies of Molecular Structure and Dynamics

Anand Yethiraj (Memorial) Tunable hydrodynamics and restricted motions: probing dynamics and the mechanisms of self-organization in soft matter

Tom Ziegler (Calgary) The development of new density functional based methods and their application to catalysis

Josef Zwanziger (Dalhousie) Structure/Property Relationships in Inorganic Glasses

Discovery Accelerator Supplement 
$120,000 over three years
Scott Prosser (Toronto) Protein Functional Dynamics and Energy Landscapes

Research Tools and Instruments (RTI)
Kim Baines (Western) Replacement Probe for Inova 600 MHz NMR Spectrometer

Steve Bourgault, Isabelle Marcotte and Borhane Annabi (Québec à Montréal) A protein purification platform for biochemistry and structural biology research

Richard Epand (McMaster) Isothermal titration calorimeter

Scott Prosser (Toronto) Essential Equipment for Membrane Protein Preparation and Purification