Natalie Strynadka facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Natalie Strynadka FRS
Strynadka in 2015
Born	1963 (age 61–62)
Alma mater	University of Alberta
Awards	Prize Steacie [fr] (2002) FRS (2015)
Scientific career
Fields	Biochemistry Bacterial cell structure Beta-lactamase inhibitor proteins
Institutions	University of British Columbia Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Thesis	Probing molecular interactions at various levels of structural definition (1990)
Doctoral advisor	Michael N. G. James

Natalie C. J. Strynadka is a Canadian biochemist who is a professor of Biochemistry in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of British Columbia.

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.