DIRECTOR

📧 martin.schmeing@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: nonribosomal peptide synthetases, NRPS, X-ray crystallography, electron microscopy, antibiotics, green chemicals, chemical biology, macromolecular machines, protein structure, megaenzyme

📧 karine.auclair@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: antibiotics and resistance, bioprocesses and biomedical systems, chemical synthesis and catalysis, drug metabolism, organic molecules and biomolecules

📧 daniel.bernard@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: molecular endocrinology, neuroendocrinology, reproduction, pituitary, ligand, receptor, transcription, structure-function, mouse genetics

📧 bastien.castagner@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: Clostridioides difficile, bacterial toxins, drug discovery, chemical biology, gut microbiota, prebiotic, carbohydrates, inositol phosphate, polyphenols.

📧 allen.ehrlicher@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: mechanobiology, motility, cytoskeleton, mechanotransduction, cell mechanics, rheology, traction forces, actin, biomimetic materials, metastasis

📧 alba.guarne@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: DNA repair, DNA mismatch repair, DNA replication, transposition, protein-DNA interactions, weak protein interactions, X-ray crystallography, small-angle X-ray scattering, electron microscopy

📧 arnold.hayer@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: autonomous and collective cell migration, actin cytoskeletal dynamics, RhoGTPase signaling, cadherin-based cell-cell adhesion, live-cell imaging, computational image analysis

​📧 nathan.luedtke@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: chemical biology, nucleic acids, fluorescentprobes, diagnostic methods, therapeutic oligonucleotides, click chemistry, virus research,oncology, precision medicine

📧 marc.mckee@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: biomineralization, mineralized tissues, bones, teeth, eggshells, electron and X-ray microscopy and tomography, nanostructure of biominerals

📧 gerhard.multhaup@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: neurodegeneration, Alzheimer disease, amyloid, amyloid precursor protein, amyloid toxicity, amyloid clearance, secretases, biomarkers, metal-ion binding proteins, targeted proteomics

📧 joaquin.ortega@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: cryo-electron microscopy, antimicrobials, antibiotiotics, ribosomes, single particle analysis

📧 natalie.reznikov@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: FIB-SEM, biomineralization, water, 3D imaging, hierarchical materials, image analysis, cryo-EM

📧 alvin.shrier@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: cardiac electrophysiology, cardiac dynamics, potassium channels, TRP channels, trafficking, arrhythmias

📧 mike.strauss@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: structural virology, cryo-electron microscopy, electron tomography, microbial biofilms

📧 youla.tsantrizos@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: structure-based design, synthesis of molecular tools to probe the function of biological targets

📧 caroline.wagner@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: disease transmission, hydrogels, rheology, mucus, fluids, biopolymers

📧 paul.wiseman@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: biophysical chemistry, biophysics, image correlation spectroscopy, image cross-correlation spectroscopy, fluorescence microscopy, multiphoton microscopy, cell migration, cell adhesion, cell transport, oligomerization

His lab and legacy is now continuing under the supervision of Dr Sidong Huang from the Biochemistry department at McGill University.

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

📧 christopher.thibodeaux@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: natural products, peptides, biosynthesis, genome mining, enzymology, mass spectrometry, antimicrobial resistance, biofilms

📧 susanne.bechstedt@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: microtubules, MAPs, mitosis, cryo-electron microscopy, intrinsically disordered proteins

📧 gary.brouhard@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: cytoskeleton, microtubule, mitosis, neurons, cancer therapy, microtubule-associated protein, single molecule biophysics, cryo-electron microscopy

📧 gonzalo.cosa@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: nanomaterials, optics and photonics, organic molecules and biomolecules, sensors and devices, supramolecules and autoassembling

📧 kalle.gehring@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: NMR, X-ray crystallography, SAXS, ubiquitin, Parkinson’s disease, parkin, polyA binding protein, protein disulfide isomerase

📧 shuaiqi.guo@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: Microbial adhesins, biofilms, secretions systems, cryo-electron tomography, biochemistry, microbiology, structural biology

📧 adam.hendricks@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research Interest: kinesin, dynein, microtubules, intracellular transport, neurodegenerative disease, single-molecule biophysics, optical tweezers

📧 gergely.lukacs@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: molecular cell biology, protein quality control and sorting

​📧 anthony.mittermaier@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: protein and nucleic acid dynamics, allostery, enzyme catalysis, drug design, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, isothermal titration calorimetry, differential scanning calorimetry

📧 lisa.munter@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: Alzheimer’s disease, cholesterol, rhomboid intramembrane proteases, protein-cholesterol interactions, cholesterol transport, glucose metabolism, physiological protein functions, brain, cell culture, mouse models

📧 rodrigo.reyes@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: DNA replication, chromosome, plasmid, single-molecule microscopy, live cell imaging, bacteria, budding yeast

📧 reza.salavati@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: gene regulation, drug discovery, functional genomics

📧 hanadi.sleiman@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research Interest: 

📧 david.thomas@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest:

📧 maria.veraugalde@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: Protein homeostasis, age-related neurodegeneration, Heat Shock Proteins, mRNA, gene expression, single-molecule fluorescence microscopy

📧 jerome.waldispuhl@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: RNA 3D structure, RNA - small molecule binding, Algorithms, Machine Learning, Graph modeling, Structural bioinformatics, cheminformatics

📧 brandon.xia@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: computational biology, bioinformatics, structural biology, systems biology, network biology, molecular evolution, biomolecular engineering

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

📧 natalie.zeytuni@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: membrane transporters, bacterial secretion systems, bacterial pathogenesis, cryo-electron microscopy, X-ray crystallography, structure-function studies

📧 albert.berghuis@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: antibiotic resistance, drug development, enzyme mechanism, protein-drug interactions, protein engineering, structure-based drug design

📧 huy.bui@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: cilia, cytoskeleton, macromolecular complex, cryo-electron microscopy, cryo-electron tomography, correlative light-electron microscopy

📧 masad.damha@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: biological and biochemical mechanisms, cerebral tumors, DNA and RNA chips, organic molecules and biomolecules, organic or synthesis materials

📧 anja.geitmann@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: plant cell biology, plant development, plant reproduction, plant cell wall, cytoskeleton, cell mechanics, mechanical modeling, morphogenesis

📧 matt.harrington@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: biological materials, bio-inspired materials, structural proteins, self-assembly, collagen, liquid-liquid phase separation, liquid crystals, metal coordination, adhesives, self-healing materials, mussels

📧 codruta.ignea@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research Interest: synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, terpenoid biosynthesis, membrane engineering, precision fermentation, biomanufacturing

📧 maureen.mckeague@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: nucleic acids, aptamers, DNA damage, biosensors, oligonucleotide therapeutics, leukemia, synthetic biology

📧 nicolas.moitessier@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: medicinal chemistry, drug discovery and development, software development, asymmetric synthesis, Parkinson’s disease

📧 bhushan.nagar@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: innate immunity, RNA silencing, signalling, protein kinases, translation initiation, X-ray crystallography, small-angle X-ray scattering

📧 walter.reisner@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: 

📧 don.sheppard@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest:

📧 nahum.sonenberg@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: translation, eIF4E, miRNA, virus replication, protein synthesis, cancer, Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, autism, metabolic disease

📧 jeanfrancois.trempe@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: Parkinson’s disease, mitochondria, parkin, PINK1, ubiquitin, X-ray crystallography, NMR, SAXS, mass spectrometry

📧 jackie.vogel@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: microtubules, g-tubulin, +TIPs, kinesin, mitosis, biological machines, protein structure, quantitative microscopy, biophysics

📧 steph.weber@mcgill.ca

🔬 Research interest: cellular biophysics, spatial organization, membraneless organelles, biomolecular condensates, phase separation, transcription, ribosome biogenesis, size scaling, anomalous diffusion, non-equilibrium activity

In 2022, the CRBS has instituted a new award - the Jason Young Service Award - in honour of our CRBS colleague who died of cancer in February 2022.