The Rainey Lab
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Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada
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Feb 19 10

David wins a Student Travel Award to go to the 54th Biophysical Society Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
Feb 12 10

Tyler wins a Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement to go to the Sansom lab at Oxford. Sounds like fun, indeed.
Jan 10

Our 2009 apelin paper in Biochemistry was the 14th most accessed paper of 2009. Not too shabby!
Dec 09

Pascaline is awarded a CRTP Postdoctoral Fellowship - way to go!
July 13 09

Our JPK Nanowizard Ultra AFM has been installed! Stay tuned for exciting results. See pictures of the instrument on the research page.
June 09

Marie wins a travel award for the Canadian Society for Biochemistry, Molecular & Cellular Biology Meeting "Protein Folding in Health and Disease" in Niagara on the Lake. Way to go!
May 09

Thanks to Bruker, we have a new E-free, triple-resonance static solids probe for use on Dal's 700 MHz instrument. Bicelles here we come... A couple of pictures of the probe are on the research page.
May 09

Welcome to Aaron and Kyung and welcome back to Mike and Caitlin!
Apr 09

Marie & David win travel awards for the Chemical Biophysics Symposium in Toronto. Way to go!
Apr 09

Big congrats to both David & Tyler for receiving NSERC CGS-D awards!!!
Apr 09

An NSERC Research Tools & Instruments grant will be providing us with an upgraded HPLC system with diode array detector and fraction collector this summer. Should be nice!
Feb 19 09

New 700 MHz with 2 biomolecular NMR cryoprobes officially open! See the [not entirely accurate] Chronicle Herald coverage.
Feb 15 09

Our apelin structural paper in Biochemistry appears to be popular!
Jan-Feb 09

Welcome to Pascaline & Hiren! (And, welcome to grad school, Marie!)
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group Feb 09 Research in the Rainey lab focuses on developing molecular- and atomic-level understanding of biological processes involving proteins. A variety of structural biology techniques are exploited, including NMR spectroscopy and scanning probe microscopy alongside computation in order to use biophysical results. The major long-term research focus is on understanding cell-matrix interactions. To make this issue tractable, we are starting from the standpoint of study of individual proteins or supramolecular assemblies from both the extracellular matrix and the cell membrane.

The beautifully renovated laboratory is located on the 10th floor of the Tupper Medical Building. Tupper is right between downtown Halifax and the main (Studley) Dal campus. A big plus of being on the 10th floor is that the lab gives great views of the historic Halifax Citadel, downtown, Halifax Harbour, and the Atlantic Ocean. 


Last Update: Mar 5 2010