TURNER LAB
Insane in the Membrane

Projects & Personnel

Updated January 2011

Protein Translocation by the Tat system (CIHR funded)

Tara Winstone (PhD) – ligand binding of REMPs

Thorin Leach (MSc) – Interaction of DmsD with other chaperones

Vy Tran (MSc) – NTP binding to DmsD

Undergraduates:

* Openings for a PhD Graduate student and/or a Post Doctoral Fellow

Integral Membrane Protein Folding (NSERC funded)

Raymond Chew (MSc) – Folding and functionality of different EmrE constructs

Jason Burt (MSc) – interactions between EmrE dimmers & Biochemistry of SugE

Maria Beketskaia (MSc) – phenotypes of SMR mutants

Dr. Denise Bay (Research associate)

– Folding and assembly of EmrE & Bioinformatic analysis.

Undergraduates:

Simon Taylor & Leeanna El-Houjeiri – mutagenesis of EmrE

Metal Exposure to Bacteria (NSERC & Industry funded)

Biofilm physiology

Michelle Stan (MSc) – di-c-GMP binding domain proteins and biofilm tolerance to antimicrobials.

Water Quality

Monika Schwering (MSc) – drinking water biofilms

(Patricia de Oliveria (PhD) - visiting student evaluating cooling water biofilms.

Oil sands tailings & Bioremediation

Suzi Golby (MSc) – Oil Tailings pond microbial communities.

Marc Demetre (MSc) – Oil Tailings community biofilms and naphthenic acid biodegredation

Sean Booth (MSc) – Metabolomics and Proteomics of PCB bioremediation

Dr. Joe Lemire (PDF) – Oil Tailings pond microbial biofilms

Undergraduates:

Iain George – single species biofilms and naphthenic acid biodegredation

Photochemistry of Tryptophan

Dr. Rob A. Edwards (Collaborator) – Organic chemistry

Undergraduates:

Mohammad Kamal Pour-Ausan

* Opening for a Graduate student and/or a Post Doctoral Fellow

Other Research

Nico Tambellini (MSc) – Lipidomics analysis of yeast.

Undergraduates:

Rashi Thirandandani – Metalloprotome study of antibiotic stress to microbes.