Jeff Waller
Biography
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2011-2013 Assistant Professor (term), Mount Allison University
2013-2018 Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Mount Allison University
2018- Associate Professor (tenured), Mount Allison University
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 2024
BIOC 3001 (3.00) Experiential Biochemistry
This course teaches students to plan and conduct a range of current biochemical analyses including spectroscopy, gas analyses, and chromatographic separations and imaging, with particular emphasis on the new opportunities opened through high-throughput computerized data capture applied to both established and new instrumental analyses. In parallel it guides students through the processes of plotting, interpreting, and presenting the meaning of their results. (Format: Integrated Lecture and Laboratory, 6 Hours)
BIOC 3041 Nucleic Acids: Structures, Mechanisms And Regulations
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)
Winter 2025
BIOC 1001 (3.00) Introductory Biochemistry
This course introduces current topics and advances in Biochemistry and engages students in the scope and activities of the discipline. It examines the central role of water in biological systems, leading to an introduction of acid-base equilibria, the properties of biological membranes, and the bioenergetics of solutes moving across membranes. It introduces the principles of carbon bonding and electronegativity, leading to coverage of the bioorganic functional groups, whose characteristic properties and reactions combine to create the highly complex biological macromolecule classes of carbohydrates, proteins, nucleic acids, and lipids. (Format: Lecture 3 Hours, Tutorial 1.5 Hours)
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)