Email: jhedges@chem.ubc.ca
B.S., Honours, University of Western Ontario, 2013
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Chemistry, 2015 – 2021
Recipient of the Arthur S. Hawkes Award, 2016
Recipient of the Sandra Morris and Richard Tillyer Scholarship in Chemistry, 2017
Recipient of the UBC Chemistry Award for Graduate Research Excellence, 2019
Current position: Xilio Therapeutics, Boston, MA
Representative Publications:
Hedges, J.B. & Ryan K.S. (2020) Biosynthetic Pathways to Non-Proteinogenic α-Amino Acids. Chem. Rev. 120(6): 3161-3209.
Hedges, J.B. & Ryan K.S. (2019) In vitro reconstitution of the biosynthetic pathway to the nitroimidazole antibiotic azomycin. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 58(34): 11647-11651.
Hedges JB, Kutasjah E, Du Y-L, Eltis LD, Ryan KS. Snapshots of the catalytic cycle of an O2, pyridoxal phosphate-dependent hydroxylase. ACS Chem Biol. 2018, 13, 965.
Vaccarello D, Hedges J, Tapley A, Love D, Ding Z. Dynamic aspects of CuInS2 light absorbing nanocrystal thin films. J Electroanal Chem. 2015, 738, 35.
Hedges JB, Vahidi S, Yue X, Konermann L. Effects of Ammonium Bicarbonate on the Electrospray Mass Spectra of Proteins: Evidence for Bubble-Induced Unfolding. Anal Chem. 2013, 85, 6469.
Tapley A, Vaccarello D, Hedges J, Jia F, Love D, Ding Z. Preparation and characterization of CuInS2 nanocrystals for photovoltaic materials. Phys Chem Chem Phys. 2012, 15, 1431.