Prof. Gilles A. Lajoie

BMSL Director

Sherbrooke University (BA, BSc)

McGill University (Ph.D)

Oxford University (PDF)

Professor, Department of Biochemistry (UWO)

Senior Scientist, Child Health Research Institute

glajoie@uwo.ca
 

Prof. Lajoie's UWO Faculty Webpage

Current Members

I joined Prof. Lajoie's team as a Laboratory Technician with a B.Sc. in Chemistry from McMaster University.  I have over 12 years of experience in both the Chemical and Pharmaceutical QC/QA industries.

My responsibilities in the Biological Mass Spectrometry Lab and in the Peptide Synthesis Lab include purification and characterization of synthetic peptides and biomolecules by HPLC, MALDI-MS, LC-ESI-MS, etc.

I obtained my M.Sc. in Computer Science from UWO in 2005.

I am currently developing new proteomics software using VC++ on data statistics and analysis.  This software will be implemented for the identification of proteins and peptides using accurate masses and LC retention times.

I received my PhD degree from Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, in 2003. My PhD project was the analysis of neurosteroids from rat brain using nano LC/ES/MS. Since then, I have been working as a Post Doctoral Fellow in Prof. Lajoie's lab.

The joint projects involve proteomics analysis of IUGR and preeclampsia, protein-ligand interaction of nuclear receptors, and analysis of surfactant proteins using mass spectrometry.

I came to the Lajoie lab from the Genome BC Proteomics Centre at the University of Victoria. My graduate work here is co-supervised by Mick Bhatia at the McMaster Cancer and Stem Cell Research Institute.

When not in the lab I keep myself busy by warming my favorite stool at Western's Grad Club. You can learn more about my escapades from my website.

I started in the Lajoie lab after finishing my undergraduate degree in biology at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, ON.

I am currently doing research in the field of proteomics for my masters.

I graduated from UWO with a Specialization in Biochemistry degree in August 2007.

I am currently working on peptide inhibitors for PIN1 that contain novel and unusual residue side chains.