Roberto A. Chica, Ph. D.
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Roberto A. Chica, Ph. D. |
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Dr. Chica was born in San Salvador, El Salvador. When he was one year old, he moved with his family to Montréal, Canada, where he was raised. He received a B. Sc. degree in Biochemistry from the Université de Montréal. It was at this time that he became fascinated by proteins, in particular by the relationships that exist between protein structure and function. To learn more about this topic, Dr. Chica completed a Ph. D. degree in Chemistry at the Université de Montréal where he worked on enzyme engineering under the supervision of Dr. Joelle Pelletier and Dr. Jeffrey Keillor. He then undertook a postdoctoral fellowship in computational protein design working under Dr. Stephen L. Mayo at the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Chica joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Ottawa in 2010 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2016.
Positions Held
Since 2018 |
Director, NSERC CREATE Advanced Protein Engineering Training, Internships, Courses, and Exhibition (APRENTICE) program |
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Education
2007-2009 |
Postdoctoral Fellowship |
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2001-2007 |
Ph. D. Chemistry |
1998-2001 |
B.Sc. Biochemistry |
Honours & Awards
Melanie O'Neill Young Investigator Award in Biological Chemistry, Canadian Society for Chemistry (2019)
Young Investigator Award, Biophysical Society of Canada (2019)
Scientific Advisory Board, ProtaBank, the Protein Engineering Database (since 2016)
Editorial Advisory Board, Protein Science (since 2016)
Early Researcher Award from the Ministry of Research and Innovation of Ontario (2015)
CNC-IUPAC Travel Award (2015)
FRQNT Postdoctoral Fellowship (2007-2009)
Ocean Nutrition Canada Prize for best oral presentation at the 89th CSC (2006)
Merck-Frosst Scholarship (2006)
Merck Frosst Scholarship (2005)
Poster prize at the 5th Annual Symposium of PROTEO (2005)
NSERC Ph. D. Scholarship (2004-2006)
Boehringer-Ingelheim Ph.D. Award (2003)
Graduate Student Award, Université de Montréal (2002)
FRQNT M.Sc. Scholarship (2002)
NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (2000)
NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (1999)
Affiliations
Center for Catalysis Research and Innovation, University of Ottawa
PROTEO, the Quebec Network for Research on Protein Function, Structure, and Engineering
Institute for Science, Society and Policy, University of Ottawa
Invited Lectures
2020/05/05. 14th Girona Seminar Conference, Girona, Spain
2019/09/18. Protein Engineering & Design Symposium, Bayreuth, Germany
2019/07/24. Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA
2019/06/03. 102nd Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Quebec City, Canada
2019/05/28. 5th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Canada, Mississauga, Canada
2019/03/05. New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
2018/09/29. XLIII Congress of the Brazilian Biophysics Society, Santos, Brazil
2018/05/16. Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada
2018/03/01. Atum (formerly DNA 2.0), Newark, USA
2018/02/26.
University of California - San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
2017/12/05. Protabit, Pasadena, USA
2017/07/25. 31st Symposium of The Protein Society, Montreal, Canada
2017/06/21. Gordon Research Conference on Proteins, Holderness, USA
2017/05/29. 100th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Toronto, Canada
2017/05/19. Biomolecular Machines Conference, Banff, Canada
2016/11/18. Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
2016/10/27. University of California - San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
2016/09/22. Whitman College, Walla Walla, USA
2016/05/20. Abbott Point of Care, Ottawa, Canada
2016/02/19. University of California - Davis, Biophysics Graduate Group, Davis, USA
2016/02/18. University of California - Berkeley, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, Berkeley, USA
2016/02/15. Caltech, Division of Biology, Pasadena, USA
2015/11/25. Université de Montréal, Department of Chemistry, Montreal, Canada
2015/11/06. Wilfrid Laurier University, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Waterloo, Canada
2015/07/29. Rosetta Conference, Leavenworth, USA
2015/04/29. Yale University, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, New Haven, USA
2015/04/01. Emory University, Department of Chemistry, Atlanta, USA
2015/03/31. Georgia
Tech, School of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Atlanta, USA
2015/02/26. Carleton University, Bioinformatics Group, Ottawa, Canada
2014/11/28. Université de Sherbrooke, Department of Biochemistry, Sherbrooke, Canada
2014/11/21. University of Alberta, Department of Chemistry, Edmonton, Canada
2014/06/01. 97th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Vancouver, Canada
2014/04/11. SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Department of Chemistry, Syracuse, USA
2013/12/11. Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Department of Chemistry-Biology, Trois-Rivières, Canada
2013/05/16. PROTEO Annual Meeting, Laval, Canada
2012/11/13. University of Ottawa, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Ottawa, Canada
2012/08/28. Syracuse University, Department of Chemistry, Syracuse, USA
2012/06/25. 2nd China-Canada Systems Biology Symposium, Ottawa, Canada
2012/04/19. La Cité Collégiale, Ottawa, Canada
2011/06/06. 94th Canadian Chemistry Conference & Exhibition, Montreal, Canada
2011/05/20. OCCI Day, Ottawa-Carleton Chemistry Institute, Ottawa, Canada
2011/04/08. Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM), Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Montreal, Canada
2011/02/28. Concordia University, Centre for Research in Molecular Modeling (CERMM), Montreal, Canada
2010/11/30. INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, Laval, Canada
2010/10/01. Iogen Corporation, Ottawa, Canada
2010/04/13. University of Ottawa, New Professor Lecture, Ottawa, Canada