How do lysosomes (cellular recycling centers) function? How do they contribute to aging? Can synthetic extracellular vesicles be therapies?
Christopher Brett
- Concordia University Research Chair in Applied Cell Science
- Professor
- Department of Biology
- Co-Director
- Centre for Microscopy and Cellular Imaging
- lysosome
- extracellular vesicles
- aging (ageing)48
- synthetic biology20
- biochemistry of cell membranes7
- bioimaging16
- yeast genetics6
- saccharomyces cerevisiae4
- organelle fusion/fission
- fluorescence microscopy4
- mechanisms of autophagy2
- cell signaling8
- vesicle transport2
- nanocarriers5
- molecular and cellular biology29
- drug delivery9
- nanoscience20
- protein degradation
- nutrient recycling
- lysosomal storage disease
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Alisa Piekny
cytoskeleton regulation, cytokinesis, mitosis
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Vladimir Titorenko
aging (ageing), mechanics of apoptosis, anti-aging molecules
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Michael Sacher
vesicle recognition, biochemistry of cell membranes, protein complexes
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Malcolm Whiteway
candida albicans, biomedical engineering, cell cycle control
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Vincent Martin
synthetic biology, bioproduct development, microbial genomics
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Jung Kwon (John) Oh
biomedical engineering, materials science, biomacromolecules
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John Capobianco
lanthanide-doped nanoparticles, magnetic nanoparticles, luminescence
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Christine DeWolf
surfaces and interfaces, biochemistry of cell membranes, lipid monolayers as model systems
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Ann M. English
cell signaling, molecular and cellular biology, peroxidases
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Paul Joyce
tRNA nucleotidyltransferase, biochemistry of cell membranes, protein targeting
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Laurent Potvin-Trottier
synthetic biology, systems biology, microfluidics
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Brandon Helfield
therapeutic ultrasound, microbubbles, ultrasound imaging
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Rafik Naccache
nanoscience, carbon quantum dots, plasmonic nanoparticles
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Luc Varin
plant molecular genetics, plant growth and development, stress response signaling pathways
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Sylvia Santosa
metabolic consequences of obesity, nutrition, metabolism
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Claudine Gauthier
cerebral metabolic imaging, cerebral vascular imaging, BOLD-contrast imaging
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Andrew Delong
machine learning, deep learning, genomics
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Chiara Gamberi
RNA biology, messenger RNA translation, Drosophila
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Mojtaba Kahrizi
nanosystems, quantum devices, MEMS/NEMS
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Adrian Tsang
genomics, enzymes for industrial processes, fungal genomics
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Jin Suk Lee
cell signaling, peptide signals, plant biology
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Christophe Grova
neuroimaging, bioimaging, biomedical engineering
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Elena Kuzmin
genotype-phenotype relationship, evolutionary genomics, disease mechanisms
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Michael T. Hallett
computational biology, bioinformatics, systems biology
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Aashiq H. Kachroo
yeast systems genetics, synthetic biology, systems biology
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Melissa K. Passerelli
imaging mass spectrometry, single-cell 'omics, ToF-SIMS analysis
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Isabelle Benoit Gelber
fungal physiology, fungal genomics, lignocellulosic biomass
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Habib Benali
computational neuroscience, neuroimaging, brain functions
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William Zerges
photosynthesis, chlamydomonas reinhardtii, chloroplast biogenesis
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Steve Shih
microfluidics, synthetic biology, biofuels and biochemicals
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David Kwan
synthetic biology, molecular and cellular biology, directed evolution
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Reginald Storms
renewable energy, biofuels and biochemicals, bioremediation strategies