A small molecule degrader of the translation termination factor eRF1 = a metal-dependent molecular glue on ribosomes Learn more here! rdcu.be/du2ZX

Hot of the press...a ribosome story with a twist! We show how the 3' to 5' exonuclease RNase R twists the head of the small 30S subunit by 160° to mediate degradation...rdcu.be/dx4V2

Next VRC meeting on March 18 at UBC LSI 4-7 pm. Great line up: speakers from Ly Vu Ly Vu, Gregg Morin, Andrew Varley RNA and Formulation Core and Lexogen! Networking with drinks/food after including raffles and prizes. Please join us!

Really enjoyed hosting the staff and faculty of UBC Biochemistry & Molecular Biology to say thank you for all the support as Head over that last eight years! Thank you all for making it such a great event!

Congratulations to Drs. Leonard Foster (Leonard Foster) and SabrinaRoseLeslie on being awarded grants through the CFI / FCI Innovation Fund! 🎉🔬👏 Learn more about their research projects: msl.ubc.ca/drs-leonard-fo… UBC Science @ubcmedicine UBC Biochemistry & Molecular Biology UBC PHAS

📢The Department of BMB would like to invite you to our Ph.D. Exit Seminar featuring Thomas Nguyen from the Teves Lab! Title:  “Mechanisms of Eukaryotic Transcription in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells” 📍 Monday, March 25, 2024, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm in LSC 3 and Zoom

A postdoc position is available in our lab to study how ion channels communicate with one another. Cryo-EM, electrophysiology, protein biophysics. A great opportunity for structural biologists to learn electrophysiology methods or vice versa. vanpetegemlab.com/opportunities.…

Grad students and postdocs need our support. I know the challenges they face firsthand. When I was at the university, I helped them secure funding, food, housing and heating. They have the ideas, do research now, and are also the future of research. Time to invest.

We are rapping today about arrest peptides!! Back-to-back manuscripts in ⁦Nature Communications⁩ showing how RAPP and SecM arrest peptides can stall the ribosome! SecM link here: rdcu.be/dBJTZ nature.com/articles/s4146…

Our structure of SecM-stalled ribosomes out in ⁦Nature Communications⁩. rdcu.be/dBJTZ. Great work by ⁦⁦felixgersteuer⁩ ⁦Martino Morici⁩ and collaborators, with data collected at the ⁦CSSB⁩ by ⁦haaris safdari⁩

Please join us at our next VRC talks May 13, 2024 4:00 pm, LSC3. Talks from labs of Syam Somasekharan (UBC, Prostate Centre), Neil Cashman (UBC, DMCBH), Amani Hariri (UBC, Chemistry) and industry talk from Genevant! Beverages/food after talks including raffle and prizes!

📢 BMB Faculty Promotion! Congratulations to Dr. Calvin Yip on his promotion to Professor with tenure! 👏 biochem.ubc.ca/faculty-2/calv…

Please join us for a special VRC career panel August 7 2024: 4-7 pm including a talk from Trilink, fantastic industry panelists, networking, food/drinks and a raffle! Please register!

#jvirology “Identification of the proteolytic signature in CVB3-infected cells” from Jan et al. Eric Jan The Overall Lab. doi.org/10.1128/jvi.00…

📢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…

University of British Columbia Recruitment ALERT! UBC Faculty position in Nucleic Acid Based Nanomedicine — Associate Professor or Professor | Departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Chemical & Biological Engineering. For application details: tinyurl.com/UBCNanomedicin…

Hiring alert📢 Our School of Biomedical Engineering at UBC UBC School of Biomedical Engineering is looking for a new junior faculty member to establish and lead a research program in Neuro Bioengineering! Please spread!

I am happy to share that I've begun my new role as an Assistant Professor University of British Columbia in the Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences UBC Cellular & Physiological Sciences UBC Life Sciences Institute The lab will explore the mechanisms of lipid transport and lipid quality control in organelles 1/4

Congrats to Subash, Nicolas and Amir and all collaborators and team members! We discovered new IRESs with atypical genome architectures. journals.plos.org/plospathogens/…