Author Archives: katherine ryan

Mel published a method for making deletion mutants in Bifidobacterium longum subspecies infantis ATCC 15697. Congratulations, Mel!

Alyssa successfully defended her M.Sc. in December 2020. Congratulations, Alyssa!

Congratulations to Tina on receiving the 2020 Sandra Morris and Richard Tillyer Scholarship in Chemistry!

Congratulations to Mostafa on receipt of the 2020 British Columbia Graduate Scholarship.

Congratulations to Jay on receipt of a 2020 British Columbia Graduate Scholarship.

Evelande Gedeon joined the group. Welcome!

Congratulations to Menghua on receipt of a MSFHR Award!

Congrats to Kalindi for publication of her combined genome mining + 15N-NMR screening method for the targeted isolation of piperazic acid-containing peptides … leading to two new structures, incarnatapeptins A & B.

Check out her paper in Organic Letters.

Congrats to Elesha on her article on “Emergence of oxygen- and pyridoxal phosphate-dependent reactions” published in The FEBS Journal!

We closed the physical lab space in mid-March to begin social distancing and to end any possible contribution to the emerging COVID-19 pandemic. We are paying attention to the daily advice and press briefings from Dr. Bonnie Henry, the Provincial Health Officer, who is guiding our province through this pandemic.

We are on Zoom for get-togethers on Thursdays, and working hard from home. We are also lucky to still be able to take walks and bike rides (2 meter distance from anyone!) to enjoy the beautiful BC springtime.

Be safe, everyone!

if you want to help out the medical community, and you are healthy, consider donating blood:  https://www.blood.ca/en