Thrilled to receive the 2026 Melanie O’Neill New Investigator Award in Biological Chemistry. Grateful for the phenomenal students, postdocs, collaborators and mentors who power every discovery in our lab! Onward with more nucleic acid chemistry, gene activation and biosensing!!! #NucleicAcids

Assistant/Associate Professor (Tenure Track), Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Toxicology (L000054) Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ...

Do you do toxicology research? Come be my colleague (please!) apply to the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics @handle.invalid
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Amazing work to all the students - what a great a collaboration!

Fluorogenic oligonucleotide cleavage probes with a branched linker improve RNA detection Abstract. Fluorescent probe-based quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) is essential for DNA/RNA quantification widely used in research and clinica

Long story: doi.org/10.1093/nar/.... Shorter story: nucleic acid 🧬👩‍🔬chemistry (a flexible glycerol linker) resulted in modular synthesis of DNA probes with the quencher closer to the fluorophore, allowing ~single molecule detection of viral RNA by qPCR amplification & excellent multiplexing capacity!

The 2014 McGill Reporter by the numbers - McGill Reporter In 2014, McGill Reporter stories have been viewed over 565,000 times (and still counting) with people logging in from some 216 countries, from Azerbaijan to Zambia. What 10 countries read the most Rep...

After an amazing effort to help with lack of qPCR test materials, @crbsmcgill.bsky.social got together & delivered 15,000 COVID tests to the hospital. #throwback reporter.mcgill.ca/15000-covid-... Then, the nucleic acid chemists began working on improving qPCR detection.

Fluorogenic oligonucleotide cleavage probes with a branched linker improve RNA detection Abstract. Fluorescent probe-based quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) is essential for DNA/RNA quantification widely used in research and clinica

Excited that Bruk's paper academic.oup.com/nar/article/... is published in 1 of my all-time favourite journals - @narjournal.bsky.social This work is special to me: a collaboration with mentor & amazing colleague Prof. Masad Damha & supportive partner/collaborator, Prof. Nathan Luedtke @mcgill.ca

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