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Natalie Strynadka
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Natalie Strynadka at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2015
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Natalie C. J. Strynadka
1963 (age 60–61) |
Alma mater | University of Alberta (BSc, PhD) |
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Thesis | Probing molecular interactions at various levels of structural definition (1990) |
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.
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.