Principal Investigator: Dr. Zongchao Jia (email / web)
Dr. Zongchao Jia
Dept. of Biochemistry
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
Canada K7L 3N6
Tel: (613) 533-6277
Fax: (613) 533-2497
email: jia@queensu.ca
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Structural Biology
Department of Biochemistry
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
Canada K7L 3N6
Our lab is actively involved in three-dimensional structure characterization of macromolecules using X-ray crystallography as a primary tool, with an increasing emphasis on functional studies. We apply crystallographic, biophysical, biochemical and cell biology methods to study a wide variety of biologically important proteins. Current projects focus on cancer structural biology, bacterial structural genomics, phosphatases & kinases, and EF-hand calcium-binding proteins.
Our well-equipped protein crystallography lab is funded by the Faculty of Health Sciences at Queen's University, Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and Ontario provincial government. Our research is supported by operating grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
For more information about our facilities and projects, go to our projects, publications and equipment pages.
Staff Students
Dr. Qilu Ye (email)
Dr. Susan Yates (email)
Dr. Mona Rahman (email)
Dr. Daniel Lee (email)
Natalie Roy (email)
Andrew Wong, PhD candidate (email)
Jimmy Zheng, PhD candidate (email)
Kateryna Podzelinska, PhD candidate (email)
Mark Currie, PhD candidate (email)
Laura Dryden, PhD candidate (email)
Brent Wathen, PhD candidate (email)
Former Lab Members
Students:
Steffen Graether, Ph.D. 1999 (now at University of Guelph)
Daniel Lim, M.Sc. 1999 (now at MIT)
Christopher Hosfield, Ph.D. 2001 (now at Cytochroma)
Eeva Leinala, Ph.D. 2002 (now at Health Canada)
Salima Nurmohammed, M.Sc. 2005 (now at University of Cambridge)
Melanie Adams, Ph.D. 2006 (now at SGC, University of Toronto)
Mike Suits, Ph.D. 2006 (now at York Univeristy, UK)
Clark Zhang, visiting PhD student 2008 (now at Beijing Normal University)
Research Staff:
Dr. Chris Udell (now at National Research Council of Canada)
Jim Blonde
Dr. Gour Pal (now at EMBL)
Neilin Jaffer (now at University of Alberta)
Dr. Vinay Singh (now an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Queen's Biochemistry)
Contact Information
If you would like to know more about our X-ray lab at Queen's, please contact Dr. Z. Jia at the following address.
Dr. Zongchao Jia
Dept. of Biochemistry
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
Canada K7L 3N6
Tel: (613) 533-6277
Fax: (613) 533-2497
email: jia@queensu.ca
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