11th July 2025 — Congratulations to Perry for placing in the top 6 posters at the Frontiers in Biophysics this year, hosted by UBC. The poster presents Perry and Drew’s development work on DNA handles for the study of proteins where the preservation of their disulfide bonds is essential and accessing high force, up to the melting of the B-helix DNA double strand at ~65 pN, is required.
28th June 2025 — Congratulations to Leslie for winning best poster at this year’s Protein Society meeting in San Francisco! Both Drew and Leslie were winners of travel awards to the conference. Her poster details the purification of a cold-adapted aspartic protease documented in a yeast found in the antarctic permafrost.
June 2024 — Lentil protein fibrilisation paper in collaboration with Simone Castellarin’s research group is out now in Food Chemistry!
- An acidic, rather than alkaline, protein extraction method is better suited for producing homogeneous, long, and straight fibrils from lentil proteins. The recombination of isolated phenolics and proteins at high pH result in distinct morphology, implicating a role for polyphenol oxidase also in modifying proteins during alkaline extraction. These results help disentangle the complex factors affecting legume protein fibrillisation.
March 2024 — CIHR bridge funding, CsgA amyloid cryoEM structure resolution
- LFS announcement on CIHR funding for biofilm protein research
- Fan’s collaborative project to resolve the CsgA amyloid with cryoEM has been published in mBio (open access).
March 2023 — Yuran’s pea and soy amyloid fibril paper is now available online.
- Morphology, Formation Kinetics and Core Composition of Pea and Soy 7S and 11S Globulin Amyloid Fibrils.
Feb 2023 — Drew and Profs Dee & Yada have published a perspective.
- Reframing prosegment-dependent folding and limits on natural protein folding landscapes from an evolutionary perspective
July 7-10th, 2022 — Yuran and Charlotte attended the 2022 Protein Society Annual Symposium in San Francisco. Charlotte gave an invited oral presentation (flash talk) and Yuran won $250 for her poster presentation.
June 15, 2022 — Congratulations to Vivian, Prerana and Yu for placing 3rd in the IFT 2022 Protein Innovation Challenge, for their proposal “Using plant protein nanofibril hydrogel emulsion as a fat replacer in low-fat processed meat products“.
