Cell biology

This class comprises research and experimental development in cell biology.
Parent Category
Sub-Categories
Cell differentiation, proliferation and death
Cell metabolism
Cellular interactions (including adhesion, matrix and cell wall)
Protein trafficking in cell biology
Cell and nuclear division
Intracellular signaling, signal transduction, receptor and membrane biology
Structural biology (including macromolecular modelling)
Computational cell biology
Human biophysics
Cytoskeleton studies
Organelle function
Cell biology, n.e.c.
 
 
 
 

UBC Researchers conducting research in Cell biology

C

Conibear, Elizabeth

Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Other basic medicine and life sciences; Protein trafficking in cell biology; Molecular genetics; Functional genomics; Membranes; Enzymes and Proteins; Vesicle Trafficking; Molecular Genetics; Neurodegenerative diseases; Protein Palmitoylation; Cell Signaling and Cancer

G

Graf, Daniel

Department of Oral Biological & Medical Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Bone, skin and cartilage science; Cell differentiation, proliferation and death; Developmental genetics (including sex determination); Developmental and degenerative pathologies associated with cartilage, bone, and teeth

H

Hoodless, Pamela

Department of Medical Genetics, School of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Computational cell biology; Cancer; Genomics; Medical and biomedical engineering; Nucleic acids studies; Developmental Genetics; Embryology; Embryonic Development; Epigenetics; Heart Valve / Valvular Diseases; Heart valve formation; Liver; Liver development; Stem Cells and Organogenesis; transcriptional regulation

J

Jean, Francois

Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Medical virology; Protein trafficking in cell biology; Proteomics; Enzymes (including kinetics and mechanisms, and biocatalyst); Organelle function; Virology; Systems biology; Cellular virology; Emerging human viruses; COVID-19; Host-virus interactions; Broad-based antiviral agents; Antiviral agents; Natural products as antiviral agents; Lipid-modulating drugs; Cellular protease inhibitors; Viral protease inhibitors; Human coronaviruses; SARS-CoV-2; Human flaviviruses; Dengue virus; Zika virus; West Nile virus; Influenza A virus; Human microRNAs; Therapeutic microRNA; Viral and cellular biomarkers; Molecular diagnostics for detecting viral infection; Circulating exosomes; Exosomal microRNAs; Proteomics-based technologies; Multiplexed and Mass Spectrometric quantitation assays

L

Luciani, Dan

Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Cell metabolism; Cell differentiation, proliferation and death; Organelle function; Other basic medicine and life sciences; Diabetes; Pancreatic beta-cell function and failure; Mitochondrial physiology; Lysosomal physiology; Cell calcium signalling; Cell stress signalling; Mechanisms of cell death; autophagy; Cellular senescence; fluorescence microscopy

M

Matsubara, Joanne Aiko

Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Sensory systems, visual; Cellular interactions (including adhesion, matrix and cell wall); Gene and molecular therapy; Cellular neuroscience; neuroscience; vision; cell and development; cell death pathways; innate immune response; eye disease, retinal degenerations; Alzheimer's disease; neurodegeneration

Matsuuchi, Linda

Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Intracellular signaling, signal transduction, receptor and membrane biology; Cell Biology; Immunology

Maxwell, Christopher

Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Mechanisms of carcinogenesis; Cell differentiation, proliferation and death; Pediatric cancer; Cancer progression and metastasis; Hereditary Cancer; Cell division; Cell migration; Differentiation; Cell polarity

P

Parker, Seth

Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Metabolomics; Cell metabolism; Pediatric cancer; mass spectrometry; Childhood disease; Cancer; Solute carriers; Metabolism; Mitochondria; Stable-isotope tracing; Functional assay development

S

Somasekharan, Syam

Department of Urologic Sciences, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Cancer, n.e.c.; Cell biology, n.e.c.; RNA Biology; Cell Biology; molecular biology; Biomolecular Condensates; Nucleolus; mRNA Translation; Liquid-liquid Phase Separation

Sun, Jim

Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Cellular immunology; Pathogenesis; Intracellular signaling, signal transduction, receptor and membrane biology; Bacteriology; Host immunity to tuberculosis; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Cellular microbiology; Host-directed therapy; TB drug discovery; Macrophage biology; Intracellular pathogens

T

Tang, Xin

Michael Smith Laboratories, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Bioinformatics; Artificial intelligence (AI); Cell biology; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Mathematical biology; Genetics; Medical and biomedical engineering; Cancer; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Explainable and Interpretable Learning, Representation Learning, Knowledge Distillation; Biologically Informed Neural Network, Physically Informed Neural Network; Knowledge Distillation, Biological LLM, Biomedical Image Processing; Computational Cell Biology, Single-cell Biology, Multi-omics, Virtual Cell, Spatial Omics; Brain-Computer Interface, Neuroscience, Brain Mapping; Cancer Genomics, Development, Aging

W

Wang, Ying

Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Cardiology and circulatory sciences (including cardiovascular disease); Cell differentiation, proliferation and death; Drug discovery, design and delivery; atherosclerosis; Diabetic cardiomyopathy; Vascular biology; Spatial 'Omics'; Drug repurposing and therapeutic design; Disease modeling; Digital Pathology

Williams, Karla

Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Cancer progression and metastasis; Intracellular signaling, signal transduction, receptor and membrane biology; Cancer biology; Metastasis; Tumor and plasma biomarkers; Therapeutic target identification and validation; tumor microenvironment

Wisnovsky, Simon

Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Cancer genetics; Tumour immunology; Cellular immunology; Glycomics and glycobiology; Chemical genetics; Systems biology; Cellular interactions (including adhesion, matrix and cell wall); Genomics; Cancer molecular targets; glycobiology; carbohydrates; Tumor immunology; Functional genomics; CRISPR screening; Glycomics; Biochemistry; Molecular Genetics; Cell Biology; Cancer

Z

Zhu, Xinwen

Faculty of Medicine

Postdoctoral Fellow

Cell biology; Systems Biology; Synthetic biology; Cell signaling; Developmental biology
 

Student & Alumni Stories in Cell biology

Elyn Rowe

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (PhD)

Vascular Contributions to Alzheimer Disease: A Focus on High-Density Lipoproteins containing ApoE

Reid Warsaba

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (PhD)

Investigating the Role of a Redundant Viral Protein

Ariene Cabantog

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Oncology (PhD)

An improved culture protocol for primary multiple myeloma cells

Gina McNeill

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Cell and Developmental Biology (PhD)

The Role of Oxygen in Modulating Trophoblast Differentiation

Jake Felker

Student

Master of Science in Microbiology and Immunology (MSc)

Investigating the antibacterial response of macrophages to Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Connor Thompson

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Microbiology and Immunology (PhD)

Molecular and cellular studies of novel broad-spectrum natural product antivirals against viruses of pandemic concern

Arlo Adams

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Cell and Developmental Biology (PhD)

Junction Turnover in Testis

Jigyasa Verma

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Cell and Developmental Biology (PhD)

Characterisation of novel targets of metabolic acid stress resistance in malignant cells

Lianna Wat

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Cell and Developmental Biology (PhD)

Understanding how females and males store and metabolize fat differently

Vaishnavi Sridhar

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Cell and Developmental Biology (PhD)

Investigating the role of putative lipid transport proteins at ER-PM membrane contact sites

Pan Deng

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering (PhD)

Neutrophil inflammatory responses: neutrophil reverse migration and NETosis

Omar Bashth

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Engineering (PhD)

Uncovering the Role of Human Stem Cell Competition in Pluripotency and Lineage Commitment

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Kevin Jeffers

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Medical Genetics (PhD)

Identifying novel adaptors and localization mechanisms of the neurological disease-associated, Vps13
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Heather Baker

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (PhD)

Identifying key E3 ubiquitin ligases and co-factors that target disease-associated mutant cytosolic proteins for degradation

Elizabeth Castle

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Engineering (PhD)

Controlling endothelial cell dynamics to direct blood cell emergence

Brianna Bristow

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Neuroscience (PhD)

Discovery and interpretation of a novel, hybrid cell type in the brain

Abisola Kehinde

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (PhD)

Understanding the metabolic consequences of the systemic alanine depletion in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

Shawn Shortill

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Medical Genetics (PhD)

Investigating the roles of a novel VPS9-domain GEF complex in membrane tethering and transport

Mia Frier

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Medical Genetics (PhD)

Regulation of endosomal protein sorting by Vrl1 and the VINE complex

Arun Kumar

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Medical Genetics (PhD)

Investigating the role of SUMOylation in nuclear protein quality control

Calem Kenward

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (PhD)

Structural Characterization of SARS-CoV-2 Proteins

Geoffrey Woollard

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science (PhD)

Simulation and inference in cryogenic electron microscopy

Alexandria Shaw

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (PhD)

Investigating the molecular mechanisms of PI4KA regulation

Cariad Knight

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Physics (PhD)

Development of myelin-specific MRI contrast mechanisms using 31-phosphorous
 
 

Academic Units in Cell biology

Cell & Developmental Biology Program
 
 
French Name
Biologie cellulaire
French Description
Cette classe comprend la recherche et le développement expérimental en biologie cellulaire.
 
 

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