News

December 2025

• Professor Kanelis is the recipient of the 2026 Biological and Medicinal Chemistry Award from the Canadian Society for Chemistry. She is both surprised and delighted to receive the award and is grateful current and past trainees for their hard work, dedication, and scientific insights. 

        https://www.cheminst.ca/awards/csc/bio-lectureship/

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September 2025

• The Kanelis Lab welcomes two new graduate students - Cosmina Filip and Faris Khalili. Welcome Cosmina and Faris! We are excited to work with you.

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• Tarek and Bhardia are assuming new roles as BIO481 thesis students.

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July 2025

• Our paper showing how the intrinsically disordered N-terminal extension of the metallochaperone HypB acts to connect the metal storgae protein SlyD and the G-domain of HypB itself just came out!  

             http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pro.70231

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• Professor Kanelis is pleased to share that she received a King Charles III Coronation Medal from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.Professor Kanelis is pleased to share that she received a King Charles III Coronation Medal from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.

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June 2025

• Congratulations to Sarah Quail for receiving a CSC Student Presentation Award for her talk entitled 'Studies of Structure and Interactions of the ATP-Binding Cassette Transporter, Ycf1p'. Great job, Sarah!
   

• Check out our new paper showing that, with perseverance and experimental design, samples of problematic proteins (NBD2) can be produced!

             https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1046592825000944

 

May 2025

• Warm welcomes to Meryem Matar and Tarek Nashed, our UTEA students for the summer! We are all excited to work with you.
   

April 2025

• Congratulations to Angelina Yen, 4th year student extraordinaire, for a great presentation in the CPS489 talks!

 

March 2025

• Welcome back Sarah Bickers, Ph.D., and thank you for giving a wonderful CPS colloquium! (And congratulations, again, on receiving a Fraser Code Thesis Award!)