Dr. David Wishart > Professor
Contact
Room: 5-197, CCIS
Phone: (780) 492-0383
Fax: (780) 492-9234
Email: david.wishart@ualberta.ca
Academic Training
BSc: University of Alberta
MPhil: Yale University
PhD: Yale University
Research Interests
Dr. Wishart is cross appointed with the Department of Computing Science and the
NRC's National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT). Dr. Wishart's research interests
are very broad, touching on areas relating to nanobiology, genonics, proteomics, metabolomics,
bioinformatics and systems biology. His particular interests lie in developing novel methods or
improved experimental techniques to facilitate the understanding of biological systems at
the molecular (or nano) scale. Among the areas being actively pursued in Dr. Wishart's
lab are:
1) the development of novel bioinformatics software for rapid bacterial annotation;
2)
synthetic biology (the engineering of novel organisms or novel proteins),
3) protein structure
determinatinon (via NMR spectroscopy),
4) protein structure prediction,
5) prion structure
and dynamics; and
6) metabolomics and metabolite profiling.
Methods and techniques
used in the lab include NMR spectroscopy, MS spectrometry, high pressure liquid
chromatography, molecular biology, protein engineering, molecular modeling and computational biology. The systems being studied include viruses (picorna and pox viruses), bacteria
(E. coli), murine prions (hamster and mouse) and human biofluids (blood and urine).
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