Lauren Davey

PhD Candidate

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Email: lauren.davey@dal.ca

 

 

Why Dal?

Research-intensive university in a great city, and the opportunity to train at the Canadian Center for Vaccinology.

What inspires me

Disulfide bonds are important for protein stability, but little is known about how they are formed in Gram-positive bacteria. By investigating disulfide bond formation in Streptococcus gordonii, a potential live vaccine vector, I hope to contribute to our understanding of protein production in this group of organisms, and to the development of novel S. gordonii based vaccines.

Teaching, labs, research groups

  • Teaching assistant, Introduction to General and Oral Microbiology (MICI 1200)
  • PhD candidate working under the supervision of Drs. Song Lee and Scott Halperin at the Canadian Center for Vaccinology

Publications

  • L. Davey, C. K. W. Ng, S. A. Halperin, S. F. Lee (2013) Functional analysis of paralogous thiol-disulfide oxidoreductases in Streptococcus gordonii. Journal of Biological Chemistry 288:16416-16429.
  • S. R. Kurissery, N. Kanavillil, K. T. Leung, A. Chen, L. Davey, H. Schraft (2010) Electrochemical and microbiological characterization of paper mill biofilms. Biofouling 26(7): 799-808.
  • M. Tian, N. Kanavillil, L. Davey, K. T. Leung, H. Schraft, A. Chen (2007) Direct growth of biofilms on an electrode surface and its application in electrochemical biosensoring. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 611: 133–13.

Awards, honours, conferences

  • Izaak Walton Killam graduate scholarship
  • NSERC postgraduate scholarship-D
  • Dalhousie President’s Award
  • NSERC Canadian graduate scholarship-M  
  • Poster, 62nd Annual Conference of the Canadian Society of Microbiologists, Vancouver, BC, June 20-23, 2012