Pezacki Lab

Congratulations to Eryn, Parrish, and Elexa on their recent review, just published in Early View - Unnatural Amino Acid and Emerging Chemistry Approaches to Map RNA–Protein Interactions - Lundrigan - Angewandte Chemie International Edition onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Congrats to Jason, Kaitlyn, Didier, and Masaya (Nakajima sensei) for their latest contribution to bioorthogonal chemistry examining the potential of oxadiazolinones. Well done! cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Big thanks to the uOttawa Science Students Association (SSA) for inviting me to your formal at the Rogers Centre! Big shout out to Julia, Sarah and Maya for all that they do! Big surprise and great honour to be awarded the 2025 Prof of the Year! Many thanks to all my students!

Congratulations to Eryn, Spencer, Christina and Nadine for their paper on SARS-CoV-2 helicase and its connection to the important noncoding RNA, human microRNA miR-146a! Well done! Just published online: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Congratulations to Professors Ambros and Ruvkun! All of my Cell Reg students @uottawa for the past decade and more know all about your groundbreaking work on the discovery of microRNAs. It’s nice to see your contributions recognized - 2024 Nobel Prize nobelprize.org/prizes/medicin…

Congrats to Eryn, Parrish and Spencer for their contributions to our News and Views article on charting the ligandable proteome. Great work! #ABPP #Chemoproteomics #drugdiscovery nature.com/articles/s4155…

Congratulations to Mariam, Jason, Shadi, and Masaya for the recent publication: 3‐Oxidopyridinium Ions Are Versatile Bioorthogonal Dipoles for Use in Cycloadditions with Cyclooctynes - Serhan - 2024 - Chemistry – A European Journal - Wiley Online Library …mistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ch…

Santa Barbara is a very special place where you can see dolphins and sea lions at Stearns Wharf, see blue whales flip their tails, and even humpback whales breaching in playful displays of acrobatics! Very lucky to be here visiting ⁦@ucsbchemistry⁩! #fulbright CRC

⁦@scrippsresearch⁩ is one of my favourite places to visit and spend time! Special thanks to Ben Cravatt and Chris Parker for hosting my visit! A full day of exciting meetings with some of the world’s best scientists and innovators! TSRI is truly an exceptional place!

Big thanks to ⁦@christhechang⁩ ⁦@UCB_Chemistry⁩ for the visit and opportunity to share some of our recent work ⁦@PezackiLab⁩! Berkeley is so steeped in history and is one of the top chemistry departments in the world (#1?)! What a great place to do science!

Really great to visit ⁦@jenn_prescher⁩ ⁦@UCIChemistry⁩! Thanks for a great day and a wonderful set of meetings with so many talented colleagues! So much fun to meet so many leaders in the field! Great to finally meet Greg Weiss and Matt Griffin! Thanks again JP!

Big thanks to ⁦@EllenSletten⁩ ⁦@uclachem⁩ for the invite to visit this great department! ⁦@uclachem⁩ is a powerhouse and a very exciting department to visit! What a great Chembio program with top students!Congrats on the new hires including Stuart Conway!

Santa Barbara is one of the most beautiful places to live and work! So lucky to be spending time here with ⁦@ucsbchemistry⁩!

Big thanks to ⁦@FulbrightCanada⁩ ⁦@FulbrightSchlrs⁩ for the Fulbright Canada Research Chair! Big thanks to ⁦@ucsbchemistry⁩ for being an amazing host! UCSB Chemistry and Biochemistry is amazing! Great colleagues and collaborative atmosphere! I am very lucky!

So, ever since Twitter changed to X I have been pretty inactive on social media. Am I the only one to be confused about the changes and the role of social media in my day-to-day? Anyway, I feel like sharing and have some catching up to do with some posts. Here we go!

Congratulations to Nadine, Magen, Noreen, and Alyson! Great job! #SARSCoV2 #metabolism #microRNA #antiviralmechanisms

Congratulations to Noreen, Nadine and Didier from ⁦@PezackiLab⁩ ⁦@uOttawaScience⁩ ⁦@uOttawa⁩ for their latest publication - An unnatural enzyme with endonuclease activity towards small non-coding RNAs! Great work! #citeas" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nature.com/articles/s4146…

Sorry! I was given the wrong numbers for this tweet! @uOttawaCHM @uOttawa have raised the minimum stipend to $26000 starting May 2023, and agreed to raise it further to $27000 starting May 2024. Canadian funding agencies need to do their part! Please!

Happy to report that my department ⁦@uOttawaCHM⁩ ⁦@uOttawa⁩ this week decided to raise the minimum graduate student stipend to $23000 starting May, 2023 and to $24000 starting May 2024 through increased contributions from our professors in support of our students.

Congratulations to Prof Howard Alper from our department ⁦@uOttawaCHM⁩ ⁦@uOttawaScience⁩ ⁦@uOttawa⁩ for being appointed as “Companion of the Order of Canada”. Congratulations to Howard for this recognition, bestowed by Governor General Mary Simon!!