Walid A. Houry
Professor
Department of Biochemistry
University of Toronto
Canada
Biography
Director of the Analytical Ultracentrifugation Facility in the Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Medicine, Medical Science Building, University of Toronto (September, 2004 – current). Founding member and on the organizing committee of the BiophysTO seminar series, University of Toronto (September, 2015 – current). Editorial board member of the Journal of Biological Chemistry (July 1, 2017 – June 30, 2022). Associate Editor of Frontiers in Protein Folding, Misfolding and Degradation, a section of Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences (January, 2014 – current). On the Editorial Board of Microbial Cell (January, 2014 – current). Editor for the Research Topic “The Role of AAA+ Proteins in Protein Repair and Degradation” in Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences (2017). Editor of the book “Systems Biology & Interactomics: The Molecular Chaperones Interaction Networks in Protein Folding and Degradation”, Springer Science + Business Media (2014). Editor of The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks Series on “Protein Homeostasis” (2011 – 2012). Special Editor for the journal Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Special Issue on AAA Proteins (February, 2010). Editor of The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks Series on “Molecular Chaperones: Principles and Diseases” (2006 – 2007).
Research Interest
Cellular Protein Homeostasis Research Group