Antibiotic resistance has become a global health problem in both clinical and community settings.
Our lab is interested in the structure-based design of inhibitors that either block existing antibiotic-resistance mechanisms or provide novel antibiotic therapies by targeting macromolecular assemblies essential to bacterial viability and/or pathogenesis.

(Credit: Rocky Mountain Laboratories,NIAID,NIH).
Contact Us
Dr. Natalie Strynadka
Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of British Columbia
Life Sciences Centre
2350 Health Sciences Mall
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
V6T 1Z3
Wet Lab: 604.822.7729
Computing Lab: 604.822.8032
Fax: 604.822.5227
Email: ncjs(at)mail.ubc.ca
Lab News
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September 2014
Welcome new graduate students Sean, Andrew and Franco to the lab.
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June 2014
Congratulations to Dustin for his contribution to paper in Nature identifying an inhibitor of NDM-1.
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March 2014
Welcome new postdocs Christian Lizak and Natalie Zeytuni.