Martin Schmeing
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
📧 karine.auclair@mcgill.ca
🔬 Research interest: antibiotics and resistance, bioprocesses and biomedical systems, chemical synthesis and catalysis, drug metabolism, organic molecules and biomolecules
Dan Bernard
📧 daniel.bernard@mcgill.ca
🔬 Research interest: molecular endocrinology, neuroendocrinology, reproduction, pituitary, ligand, receptor, transcription, structure-function, mouse genetics
Bastien Castagner
📧 bastien.castagner@mcgill.ca
🔬 Research interest: Clostridioides difficile, bacterial toxins, drug discovery, chemical biology, gut microbiota, prebiotic, carbohydrates, inositol phosphate, polyphenols.
Allen Ehrlicher
📧 allen.ehrlicher@mcgill.ca
🔬 Research interest: mechanobiology, motility, cytoskeleton, mechanotransduction, cell mechanics, rheology, traction forces, actin, biomimetic materials, metastasis
Alba Guarné
📧 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
📧 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
📧 nathan.luedtke@mcgill.ca
🔬 Research interest: chemical biology, nucleic acids, fluorescentprobes, diagnostic methods, therapeutic oligonucleotides, click chemistry, virus research,oncology, precision medicine
Marc McKee
📧 marc.mckee@mcgill.ca
🔬 Research interest: biomineralization, mineralized tissues, bones, teeth, eggshells, electron and X-ray microscopy and tomography, nanostructure of biominerals
Gerhard Multhaup
📧 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
📧 joaquin.ortega@mcgill.ca
🔬 Research interest: cryo-electron microscopy, antimicrobials, antibiotiotics, ribosomes, single particle analysis
Natalie Reznikov
📧 natalie.reznikov@mcgill.ca
🔬 Research interest: FIB-SEM, biomineralization, water, 3D imaging, hierarchical materials, image analysis, cryo-EM
Alvin Shrier
📧 alvin.shrier@mcgill.ca
🔬 Research interest: cardiac electrophysiology, cardiac dynamics, potassium channels, TRP channels, trafficking, arrhythmias
Mike Strauss
📧 mike.strauss@mcgill.ca
🔬 Research interest: structural virology, cryo-electron microscopy, electron tomography, microbial biofilms
Youla Tsantrizos
📧 youla.tsantrizos@mcgill.ca
🔬 Research interest: structure-based design, synthesis of molecular tools to probe the function of biological targets
Caroline Wagner
📧 caroline.wagner@mcgill.ca
🔬 Research interest: disease transmission, hydrogels, rheology, mucus, fluids, biopolymers
Paul Wiseman
📧 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
Chris Thibodeaux
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
📧 christopher.thibodeaux@mcgill.ca
🔬 Research interest: natural products, peptides, biosynthesis, genome mining, enzymology, mass spectrometry, antimicrobial resistance, biofilms
Susanne Bechstedt
📧 susanne.bechstedt@mcgill.ca
🔬 Research interest: microtubules, MAPs, mitosis, cryo-electron microscopy, intrinsically disordered proteins
Gary Brouhard
📧 gary.brouhard@mcgill.ca
🔬 Research interest: cytoskeleton, microtubule, mitosis, neurons, cancer therapy, microtubule-associated protein, single molecule biophysics, cryo-electron microscopy
Gonzalo Cosa
📧 gonzalo.cosa@mcgill.ca
🔬 Research interest: nanomaterials, optics and photonics, organic molecules and biomolecules, sensors and devices, supramolecules and autoassembling
Kalle Gehring
📧 kalle.gehring@mcgill.ca
🔬 Research interest: NMR, X-ray crystallography, SAXS, ubiquitin, Parkinson’s disease, parkin, polyA binding protein, protein disulfide isomerase
Shuaiqi (Phil) Guo
📧 shuaiqi.guo@mcgill.ca
🔬 Research interest: Microbial adhesins, biofilms, secretions systems, cryo-electron tomography, biochemistry, microbiology, structural biology
Adam Hendricks
📧 adam.hendricks@mcgill.ca
🔬 Research Interest: kinesin, dynein, microtubules, intracellular transport, neurodegenerative disease, single-molecule biophysics, optical tweezers
Gergely Lukacs
📧 gergely.lukacs@mcgill.ca
🔬 Research interest: molecular cell biology, protein quality control and sorting
Anthony Mittermaier
📧 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 Münter
📧 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-Lamothe
📧 rodrigo.reyes@mcgill.ca
🔬 Research interest: DNA replication, chromosome, plasmid, single-molecule microscopy, live cell imaging, bacteria, budding yeast
Reza Salavati
📧 reza.salavati@mcgill.ca
🔬 Research interest: gene regulation, drug discovery, functional genomics
Maria Vera Ugalde
📧 maria.veraugalde@mcgill.ca
🔬 Research interest: Protein homeostasis, age-related neurodegeneration, Heat Shock Proteins, mRNA, gene expression, single-molecule fluorescence microscopy
Jérôme Waldispühl
📧 jerome.waldispuhl@mcgill.ca
🔬 Research interest: RNA 3D structure, RNA - small molecule binding, Algorithms, Machine Learning, Graph modeling, Structural bioinformatics, cheminformatics
Yu (Brandon) Xia
📧 brandon.xia@mcgill.ca
🔬 Research interest: computational biology, bioinformatics, structural biology, systems biology, network biology, molecular evolution, biomolecular engineering
Natalie Zeytuni
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
📧 albert.berghuis@mcgill.ca
🔬 Research interest: antibiotic resistance, drug development, enzyme mechanism, protein-drug interactions, protein engineering, structure-based drug design
Khanh Huy Bui
📧 huy.bui@mcgill.ca
🔬 Research interest: cilia, cytoskeleton, macromolecular complex, cryo-electron microscopy, cryo-electron tomography, correlative light-electron microscopy
Masad Damha
📧 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
📧 anja.geitmann@mcgill.ca
🔬 Research interest: plant cell biology, plant development, plant reproduction, plant cell wall, cytoskeleton, cell mechanics, mechanical modeling, morphogenesis
Matt Harrington
📧 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
📧 codruta.ignea@mcgill.ca
🔬 Research Interest: synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, terpenoid biosynthesis, membrane engineering, precision fermentation, biomanufacturing
Maureen McKeague
📧 maureen.mckeague@mcgill.ca
🔬 Research interest: nucleic acids, aptamers, DNA damage, biosensors, oligonucleotide therapeutics, leukemia, synthetic biology
Nicolas Moitessier
📧 nicolas.moitessier@mcgill.ca
🔬 Research interest: medicinal chemistry, drug discovery and development, software development, asymmetric synthesis, Parkinson’s disease
Bhushan Nagar
📧 bhushan.nagar@mcgill.ca
🔬 Research interest: innate immunity, RNA silencing, signalling, protein kinases, translation initiation, X-ray crystallography, small-angle X-ray scattering
Nahum Sonenberg
📧 nahum.sonenberg@mcgill.ca
🔬 Research interest: translation, eIF4E, miRNA, virus replication, protein synthesis, cancer, Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, autism, metabolic disease
Jean-François Trempe
📧 jeanfrancois.trempe@mcgill.ca
🔬 Research interest: Parkinson’s disease, mitochondria, parkin, PINK1, ubiquitin, X-ray crystallography, NMR, SAXS, mass spectrometry
Jackie Vogel
📧 jackie.vogel@mcgill.ca
🔬 Research interest: microtubules, g-tubulin, +TIPs, kinesin, mitosis, biological machines, protein structure, quantitative microscopy, biophysics
Stephanie Weber
📧 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
