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Spring 2011

De Souza, Andrea

The proteome, a hybrid term from protein and genome, is the total set of proteins expressed by a genome in a cell, tissue, or organism at a given time. Proteomics, the study of the proteome, is concerned with a variety of topics such as identity, quantity, activity, structure, protein-protein...

Fall 2013

Chen, Lu

Mass spectrometry (MS) is widely used in proteomic work for protein identification and characterization. A key to the success of MS for protein analysis is related to sample preparation. Current sample preparation methods do not meet all the needs of protein or proteome analysis. My thesis work...

Spring 2011

Lo, Andy

This thesis describes the characterization, automation, and applications of a stable isotope labelling method for quantitative proteomics by mass spectrometry. Known as 2MEGA, the method uses guanidinylation to convert peptide lysine residues to homoarginine followed by reductive methylation of...

Fall 2012

Xu, Mingguo

The overall goal of this thesis research is to develop a spectral searching strategy capable of identifying peptide sequences from MS/MS spectra with high sensitivity and accuracy. First, a shotgun proteome analysis method was developed and successfully applied to the identification of proteins...

Spring 2010

Lu, Qingye

Interest in microfluidic platforms has surged as an alternative for sample preparation in the past two decades, with the potential for miniaturization, portability, automation, integration and parallelism driving this research. However, it is still very challenging to develop an integrated...

Fall 2020

Chan, Calvin J

The Golgi complex resides at the center of the cellular trafficking pathway, where it functions in the modification, sorting, and trafficking of over one third of human proteins to their correct cellular destination. Initiation of vesicle formation at the Golgi requires activation of small...

Fall 2021

Araya, Luam Ellen

Caspases are a family of enzymes that regulate biological processes, such as inflammation and programmed cell death, through proteolysis. For example, in the intrinsic pathway of apoptosis, cell death signaling involves cytochrome c release from the mitochondria, which leads to the activation of...

Fall 2024

Araujo, Gala P

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death globally and exert a significant burden on healthcare systems and public governmental institutions. Atherosclerosis is a predominant form of CVD characterized by the accumulation of cholesterol-rich lipoproteins within the innermost...

Spring 2021

Umer, Brittany Anne

Vaccinia virus (VACV) has shown promise as an oncolytic agent for treating a variety of tumour types, with preliminary results suggesting that this strategy holds promise for treating breast cancer. Our lab has previously modified VACV by deleting virally-encoded enzymes responsible for dNTP...

Fall 2023

Storozynsky, Quinn

Glioblastoma (GBM) is a malignant and immune-suppressed brain cancer that remains incurable despite the current standard of care. Radiotherapy is a mainstay of GBM treatment, however invasive cancer cells outside the irradiated field and radioresistance preclude complete eradication of GBM cells....