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Patrick O’Donoghue is an Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Western Ontario, holding the Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Chemical Biology. He leads research on proteome diversity and its role in cancer and neurodegeneration. His lab develops methods for programmed protein modification and investigates mistranslation in live cells. Key research areas include genetic code expansion, protein modification signaling, and neurodegenerative disease pathways linked to tRNA mutations.
Education: PhD from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University. Awards include NSF Biological Informatics Fellowship and PhRMA Foundation Informatics Fellowship.
Teaching includes courses like Biochemistry/Chemistry 4415B and 9703. Recent publications focus on tRNA variants in disease, Akt1 phosphorylation mechanisms, and ubiquitin signaling in Parkinson’s disease.
His lab’s innovations include fluorescent reporters for mistranslation detection and engineered tRNAs to study protein synthesis errors. Research highlights include uncovering links between tRNA mutations and neurodegenerative diseases, and developing tools for live-cell protein modification analysis.
