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Jeff Waller

Department Head, Associate Professor
Office
Room 111A Barclay Building - Room 205 Gairdner Building
Office hours
Please email for appointment

Biography

2011-2013     Assistant Professor (term), 正品蓝导航

2013-2018     Assistant Professor (tenure-track), 正品蓝导航

2018- 2026    Associate Professor (tenured), 正品蓝导航

2026                Department Head

 

Education

1996-2000     BScH Life Sciences (Biochemistry, Biology), Queen's University at Kingston

2000-2006     PhD Biology, Queen's University at Kingston

2006-2011     Postdoctoral Fellow, Horticultural Sciences Dept, University of Florida at Gainesville

Teaching

Fall 2026

BIOC 3041 (3.00) Nucleic Acids Biochemistry

This course interlinks structural, mechanistic, and regulatory aspects of nucleic acid function. It explores the structures of DNA and RNA and how DNA assembles into chromosomes. It also reviews the mechanisms of DNA replication, repair, recombination, transcription, and RNA splicing. It examines the complexity and ingenuity of gene regulation in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. (Format: Lecture 3 Hours) (Exclusion: BIOC 4911 Nucleic Acids)

Winter 2027

BIOC 3501 (3.00) Advanced Metabolism

This course examines the coordinated biochemical transformations of matter, energy, and information through metabolic pathways, emphasizing nitrogen, lipid, and secondary metabolism, metabolic compartmentalization and integration, and bioenergetics. (Format: Lecture 3 Hours) (Exclusion: BIOC 3501 Metabolism)

Grants, awards & honours

NSERC Discovery Grant (2012-2024)

NSERC Research Tools and Instrumentation Grant (2013, 2015)

CFI John R. Evans Leaders Fund Instrumentation Grant (2014)

NBIF-RAI (2014-2015)

NBIF-Talent Recruitment Funding-Professor (2013-2018)