Name Natalie Strynadka | ||
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Fields BiochemistryBacterial cell structureBeta-lactamase inhibitor proteins Institutions University of British ColumbiaHoward Hughes Medical Institute Thesis Probing molecular interactions at various levels of structural definition (1990) Doctoral students Andrew AlexanderBrianne BurkinshawDustin KingFranco LiMatt SolomonsonSean Workman | ||
Doctoral advisor Michael N. G. James | ||
Natalie C. J. Strynadka FRS is a professor of Biochemistry in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of British Columbia.
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Education
Strynadka was educated at the University of Alberta where she was awarded a PhD in 1990. Her thesis committee included Michael N.G. James and Sir David Chilton Phillips.
Awards and honours
Strynadka was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015. Her certificate of election reads:
Natalie Strynadka is a pioneer in the study of proteins and protein assemblies essential to bacterial pathogenicity and antibiotic resistance. Her agenda-setting dissection of the membrane assemblies involved in infection, virulence and bacterial cell wall synthesis is having major impact in the development of therapeutic agents; both antibiotics and vaccines.