News & Announcements

Sabrina receives UBC’s 2021 faculty research award with the UBC Killam Accelerator Research Fellowship (KARF), supporting early-career researchers ready to launch the next stage of their careers. Find the official announcement here. Faculty Research Awards, such as the KARF, recognize the research excellence and scholarly achievements of faculty from across all

Two of our PhD students, Cindy Shaheen and Frank Stabile, attended the Biophysical Society of Canada’s annual meeting in Ottawa, Ontario. Frank presented a poster on CRISPR kinetics and Cindy presented a poster and a student talk on DNA structural dynamics. Congratulations to Cindy for winning the BSC travel award!

This year’s symposium gathered top researchers working in small RNAs to discuss their biology and to foster the invention of powerful clinical tools by employing RNAs in novel ways. Sabrina was invited to speak in Santa Fe, New Mexico where Convex Lens-induced Confinement (CLiC) microscopy was recognized as an emerging

Faith Liu University of British Columbia Supervisor: Dr. Sabrina Leslie Project Summary: This project will study changes in the biophysical properties of mRNA-delivery lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) as a function of buffer pH and ionic strength, toward better understanding the mechanisms of action of these important classes of LNP-RNA therapeutics and vaccines.

Formerly known as Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD), the PacifiCan Award is administered in British Columbia to promote a strong, competitive economy by supporting business, innovation, and economic development. Our lab has received 1.75 million dollars in funding for 3 new microscope platforms and we congratulate Dr. Leonard Foster for

Earlier this week we got together with the other Biophysics labs at UBC for the first-ever Biophysics Day event. Each group introduced their research with a series of fantastic graduate student presentations and it was an amazing chance to meet folks within the department. Huge thanks to the Michal, Plotkin,