Congratulations to Jiahui and all of our collaborators. We’re sure the REX-GECO will ultimately prove to be one of the most popular red fluorescent Ca2+ indicators! The introduction of calcium ion (Ca2+) indicators based on red fluorescent proteins (RFPs) has created new opportunities for multicolour visualization of intracellular Ca2+dynamics. However, one drawback of these indicators is that…

Graduate students Yi Shen and Matthew Wiens describe a Photochromic and Thermochromic Fluorescent Protein. The Accepted Manuscript was published today in RSC Advances.

Recent graduates, Jiahui and Yongxin, both received prestigious Faculty of Science Doctoral Dissertation Awards this year. A hard-earned and well-deserved accomplishment!

A warm welcome to Chem 299 students Jasmina, Niuniu, and Jennifer!

Jiahui, the developer of most of our red Ca2+ indicators, gave a fantastic public seminar and a great defence of his thesis this afternoon.

The Campbell lab is looking to recruit one or more Ph.D. or M.Sc. students this year. Take a look at our recently updated website and contact Dr. Campbell (rc4@ualberta.ca) to set up an appointment to meet in person. We’ve got lots of exciting projects!

Jiahui’s manuscript on red fluorescent Ca2+ indicators for use in mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum was published today in Biochemical Journal. via Biochem. J. (2014) Immediate Publication – 2. Wu et al..

Yongxin’s paper describing FP to Arch FRET has now been published in Nature Communications. Congratulations to him and our collaborators in the Cohen lab.  

Congratulations to both Yan and Nazanin for each successfully defending their M.Sc. thesis this summer!