Rewind the time and let it go forward: will we, or nature, make the same discoveries and innovations? Seeking ways to test "Reproducible Discovery" hypothesis.

Edmonton, Alberta
Joined October 2017
"Later but Better" -- nice title for this highlight of our work (thank you, Guoqing Jin!) nature.com/articles/s41570-0…
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To distract everyone from the devastating NIH news, I recommend reading this Mirror Image Life discussion in Science magazine science.org/doi/10.1126/scie… or popular press cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/scie… and our view on this topic: TLDR: do not forget about Glycans! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Congrats to GlycoNet Investigator, Dr. Matthew Macauley from @Ualberta, the 2025 X-Chem Research Excellence Award winner! His work on Siglec-glycan interactions is advancing immune system research. Read more: canadianglycomics.ca/glycone… #glycotime #Glycoimmunology #Immunology
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Next at #SFG2024 @RatmirDerda talks about is liquid arrays to study glycan-lectin interactions, e.g., effect of ligand density on Siglec binding or effect of high expression of a lectin on a cell line. Also detection of glycan ligands or lectins binding to tissues in a mouse.
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Congratulations to Kejia Yan @yantwohappyyyy the lead on the most complex and comprehensive @acsJACS publications from @derda_lab to date. Big thanks to @48HourDiscovery and Dustin Maly Lab for their contribution. See "late stage reshaping" paper at doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c13561
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I finally know how it feels like to own a Ferrari. Every morning my email goes from 0 to 60 unread emails in 2.4 seconds.. sends shivers down my spine
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DNA-encoded, Liquid Glycan Array (LiGA) and its application to cell-surface profiling is out in @NatureProtocols . Big thanks to @miratsojitra for leading the effort and @MatthewMacaule4 + members of Macaluley Lab and @derda_lab ! rdcu.be/dXaNJ
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Calling all Chemical Biologists in Canada and beyond. Submit your abstracts to the Canadian Society Conference (CSC) in June 2024. Deadline Extended to Feb 6. Check out the Chemical Biology session organized by myself and Fred Menard (UBC) cheminst.ca/conference/canad…
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Apologies: ran out of characters: BIG thanks to @MatthewMacaule4 Lab @JameZeynab + Eddie @glycocode Lara Mahal, Claire Yang+Justine Lai in Raymond Lai's Lab (UofA Oncology), Gisele Monteiro, super-alumnus @miratsojitra and of course, the fearless leader: Guilherme Meira Lima
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I'm curious about any feedback from #Glycobiology #glycan #carbohydrate #glycotime community on @derda_lab preprint on DNA-encoded liquid #lectin arrays (LiLA). [LiLA] non-lineary amplifies detection of compositional differences of the cellular #glycocalyx biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Big shout out to all collaborators on a paper that finally came out in @NatureComms with @Fe_Will26 @Yu_Shan_Lin @MatthewMacaule4 qic.ai/ , @Vukovic_Lab, Vederas Lab and many contributors from @derda_lab @JeffYKWong @ARUNIKAEKANAYA1 nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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I do rather like this one. #scRNAseq
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Congratulations to our superstar undergrad @ryannqiu for winning the best oral presentation award at the #wcucc2023!!! Very well deserved for all his hard work and dedication.
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From the University of Alberta, @CanadianPeptide CPPC student representative @ARUNIKAEKANAYA1 wins an oral presentation award at the @ampepsoc symposium! #peptides2022 @ualbertachem @derda_lab
One of our "Young Investigators," Arunika Ekanayake from University of Alberta, presents her very well received "Genetically Encoded Fragment-Based Discovery, GE-FBD, from Covalent and Non-Covalent Pharmacophores" talk. #Peptides2022
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Today is the international "you have 0 unread emails" day! (celebrated by various academics worldwide once a year around this time in summer). For reviewers who don't believe me, see Figure 1 below:
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