🏆 Three projects led by UBC Life Sciences Institute researchers have been awarded funding from CFI / FCI Innovation Fund Grants. Congratulations to Drs. Leonard Foster (Leonard Foster), Jim Johnson, PhD, Elizabeth Rideout (Elizabeth Rideout (@ejrideout.bsky.social)), and Natalie Strynadka! 👏: bit.ly/4aFVf6w

Honey bee stressors everywhere all at once! Our new BeeCSI study in Current Biology, finds that stressor networks in honey bee colonies are complex and dependent on crop and region Amro Zayed BeesYU Leonard Foster. Read more here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1ixih3QW8S6E… [doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…]

Hot off the press from BeeCSI: Honey bee stressor networks are complex and dependent on crop and region: Current Biology Sarah French @skfrench.bsky.social Leonard Foster Amro Zayed Ontario Genomics Genome Canada GenomeBC BeesYU cell.com/current-biolog…

Join us to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Manitoba Centre for Proteomics and Systems Biology - June 12 with an incredible line-up of speakers. Register: bit.ly/4ayjCmP U of M Rady Faculty Shared Health CancerCare Manitoba Foundation CHRIM HSC Foundation University of Manitoba Canadian National Proteomics Network

💡 Spotlight on the Leonard Foster lab latest: Lucy Chi reveals how male and female brain cells differ in viral defence, opening new paths for targeted medical treatments. Dive into the world of single-cell proteomics at: msl.ubc.ca/unveiling-the-… #ScienceNews #HealthInnovation

Our review on honey bee pathogen and pesticide resistance is out in the world in Physiology. journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.11…

Our review is on the cover of Physiology! and what a pretty cover it is! Leonard Foster Alison McAfee, PhD #honeybees Mechanisms of Pathogen and Pesticide Resistance in Honey Bees | Physiology journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.11…

Join us in welcoming Dr. Corinna Schindler and Dr. Corey Stephenson as professors to the Departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Chemistry UBC Chemistry! 🎉 ➡️Dr. Schindler: biochem.ubc.ca/schindler-cori… ➡️Dr. Stephenson: biochem.ubc.ca/stephenson-cor… Congratulations! 🥳

📢 We are hiring! The Strynadka Lab UBC Biochemistry & Molecular Biology invites applications for a Research Associate. Apply by July 21, 2024 ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcfacul…

Congratulations to BMB Faculty Dr. Eric Jan, Dr. Lindsay Rogers, and Dr. Annie Ciernia on receiving the 2024 Faculty of Medicine Distinguished Achievement Award! 👏 med.ubc.ca/news/2024-facu…

A unique window to the personalized response to nutrients and insulin release via pancreatic islet cell donors and multi-omic assessment cell.com/cell-metabolis… Jelena Kolic Jim Johnson, PhD XX Leonard Foster Anna Gloyn @nictitate Cell Metabolism

Three researchers from @UBCmedicine are among the new and renewed Canada Research Chairs announced by the Government of Canada. 🎈 We send a huge congratulations to Drs. Corinna Schindler (SchindlerLab), Liam Brunham, and Annie Ciernia (Annie Vogel Ciernia)! bit.ly/4eK7DFp

Excited to announce our latest paper from Golfam Ghafourifar, PhD and Leonard Foster in the Journal of Proteomics! 🍾 We used novel coupling agents to facilitate #trypsin and #pepsin #proteomics, while streamlining #denaturation and #digestion procedures. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Hawkins Cheezies are da bomb. But they are also the only cheesy corn snack worth eating.

📢The Departments of BMB UBC Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and CHBE CHBE at UBC invite applications for an Associate Professor (tenure) or Professor (tenure) position! Apply by October 14, 2024 ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs…

Hot off the press BeeCSI : Pollen foraging mediates exposure to dichotomous stressor syndromes in honey bees academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/arti… BeesYU Genome Canada Ontario Genomics YorkU - Science

🗞️ Leonard Foster at the University of British Columbia is working to help keep honey bee queens healthy through Canadian winters, in partnership with ULethbridge and Université Laval. Learn more ▶️ tinyurl.com/3cb7sjbn #NSERCsupport

Research from the #GsponerLab published in PNASNews today focuses on the AlphaFold-Multimer platform, a platform recognized with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2024. This new paper evaluates and provides guidance for using the platform to predict binding interactions of

We correlated nAChRa7 subunit with sucrose responsiveness in clothianidin exposed bees in our newly published work! Leonard Foster University of British Columbia Proteome of Clothianidin Exposed Honey Bees Reveals a Possible Mechanism Behind Impairment of Sucrose Responsiveness doi.org/10.1111/jen.13…

My foray outside the world of honey bees continues. Our new paper is out, comparing proteomes across reproductive stage transitions of ant, honey bee, and bumble bee queens. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…