Dr. Laird in Lecture
Cx30 G59R mutant in REK cells
Laird Lab Personnel
Pannexin 2
Tumor Analysis
Making Connexin Research Happen
Connexin Research in Good Hands
We are a research laboratory within the Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. Together with contiguous laboratories with research programs in gap junction biology, we collectively occupy over 2000 square feet of space in the Dental Science Building. Personnel in the Laird laboratory have direct access to a variety of core instruments and facilities located on the same floor as the main laboratory space. Typically, 8-14 trainees and staff are involved in connexin and pannexin biology in healthy tissues and in disease.
Principal Investigator: Dale W. Laird, Ph.D.
Dale W. Laird holds a B.Sc. in Biology from the University of Prince Edward Island, and a M.Sc. and Ph.D., both in Biochemistry, from the University of British Columbia. After completing a post-doctoral fellowship at the California Institute of Technology in 1992, his initial academic appointment as an Assistant Professor was at McGill University in Montreal. After receiving promotion and tenure to Associate Professor, Dr. Laird relocated to the University of Western Ontario in 1997 where he was promoted to Full Professor in 2002.
Dr. Laird has received awards which include the Premier's Research Excellence Award, the Medical Research Council Scientist Award, a
Faculty Scholar Award and the Dean’s Research Excellence Award. He currently holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair until 2018. Dr. Laird's research interests involve studies related to the function of gap junction proteins, connexins, and a related family of channel proteins, pannexins, in health and disease.
Dr. Dale W. Laird
Anatomy & Cell Biology
Western University
Dental Sci Bldg, Rm 00077
London, Ontario
N6A 5C1 Canada
Ph: 661-2111 Ext. 86827
Fx: (519) 850-2562
Dale.Laird@schulich.uwo.ca
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