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Intro | Professor of Biochemistry in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of British Columbia | |||
A.K.A. | Natalie C. J. Strynadka Natalie Catherine Jane Strynadka | |||
A.K.A. | Natalie C. J. Strynadka Natalie Catherine Jane Strynadka | |||
Places | United Kingdom | |||
is | Scientist Professor | |||
Work field | Academia Science | |||
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Birth | 1963 | |||
Age | 62 years | |||
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Biography
Natalie C. J. Strynadka FRS is a professor of Biochemistry in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of British Columbia.
Education
Strynadka was educated at the University of Alberta where she was awarded a PhD in 1990. Her thesis committee included Michael N. G. James and Sir David Chilton Phillips.
Awards and honours
Strynadka was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015. Her certificate of election reads:
Natalie Strynadka is a pioneer in the study of proteins and protein assemblies essential to bacterial pathogenicity and antibiotic resistance. Her agenda-setting dissection of the membrane assemblies involved in infection, virulence and bacterial cell wall synthesis is having major impact in the development of therapeutic agents; both antibiotics and vaccines.