Congrats to PhD candidate Ben for receiving recognition from the DGSC and an award for his oral research presentation!

The group welcomes our newest member to the team - Dr. Ladan Dawoody. Dr. Dawoody will use her background in cell biology to develop some iPSCs.

Interesting paper. Metabolic tolerance of sialic acid pathway - Boltje team provides insight into metabolic labeling and metabolic inhibitors of sialylation. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Fibrils of a fragment TMEM106B discovered in multiple neurodegenerative diseases - a potential important commonality. Great use of cryoEM. cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Cool new observation: sugaring out of proteins - not caused by glycation. Could open new avenues for research into physiologic effects of high glucose | ACS Chem Biol. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

The group welcomes Nita Lu, a recent graduate from UofT. She will gain some research experience in developing and evaluating novel glycosidase substrate probes in vitro.

Nice work in ACS Chemical Biology from the Chen team on optimized methods for high-throughput mapping and quantifying of O-GlcNAc. #glycotime pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

The group welcomes visiting student Jun Bian from Josef Voglmeir's group at Nanjing University. She will work on an ongoing collaborative project around deacetylases.

A little late, but congrats to Roger A Ashmus for receiving an oral presentation award (2nd place) at SFU's 8th Annual Postdoc Research Day.

I am excited to announce that I will soon be starting as an assistant professor at SFU (July 18th). I am excited to be joining this vibrant research community among so many inspirational colleagues @MbbSfu!

Nice commentary on new CO2 protein carboxylation paper in NCB. This methods paper enables in vitro mimicry of CO2-protein carboxylation and high-throughput mapping of CO2-modified lysine residues. Inspired by pioneering work of @MartinCann1 and others.nature.com/articles/s4158…

Check out our newest publication led by Matthew Deen and 1981zyp! Herein, we report a new and improved fluorescence-quenched substrate, LysoFQ-GBA, to quantitatively monitor GCase activity in stem-cell derived neurons and PBMCs. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…