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CMMT Newsletter July 2023
La Dolce Vita Costanza Ferrari Bardile arrived in Vancouver during the Covid 19 pandemic, in January 2021. She was relocating from Singapore, where she had done her PhD and then worked as a post-doctoral fellow in Dr. Mahmoud Pouladi’s lab. Dr. Pouladi had subsequently hired Costanza to continue her work investigating white matter pathology in […] Read More
OnTarget: in silico design of MiniPromoters for targeted delivery of expression
Abstract MiniPromoters, or compact promoters, are short DNA sequences that can drive expression in specific cells and tissues. While broadly useful, they are of high relevance to gene therapy due to their role in enabling precise control of where a therapeutic gene will be expressed. Here, we present OnTarget (http://ontarget.cmmt.ubc.ca), a webserver that streamlines the […] Read More
CMMT Newsletter March 2023
The Space in Between Seth Parker, an Assistant Professor in the department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UBC, arrived at CMMT to set up his own lab in 2020, on the heels of Covid 19. Fresh from New York, where he was a postdoctoral fellow at New York University School of Medicine, Dr. Parker […] Read More