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  • How RNA decay promotes transcriptional rewiring during DNA replication stress

    Raphael Loll-Krippleber from the Brown lab describes how yeast cells exposed to DNA replication stress induced by the anti-cancer drug hydroxyurea use RNA decay to reprogram gene expression. Using complementary functional genomics approaches Raphael found…
  • Cellular Signalling in Virtual Reality

    Aidin Balo in the Ernst laboratory delivers seminars about the structural details of rhodopsin signalling entirely in virtual reality for large audiences at international conferences using technology developed at Autodesk Life Sciences. A paper describing the novel…
  • Houry Lab uncovers over 1000 novel interactions of chaperones in yeast

    Kamran Rizzolo, in the laboratory of Professor Walid Houry, spoke with Faculty of Medicine’s writer Jim Oldfield about his lab’s recent  Cell Reports paper on the chaperone network in yeast. Click here to read the…
  • Crystallographers celebrate 1,000th protein structure

    Scientists have solved 1,000 protein structures using data collected at the Canadian Light Source CMCF beamlines. The Canadian Light Source (CLS) is a national research facility, producing the brightest light in Canada. The Canada Foundation…
  • Mapping the molecular chaperone network

    Rizzolo et al. from the Houry group provided a comprehensive view of molecular chaperone function in the cell through the use of a systematic global integrative network approach based on physical (protein-protein) and genetic (gene-gene…