Dr. Miroslaw Cygler - Biography

Dr. Miroslaw Cygler
Tel.: (514) 496-6321
Fax: (514) 496-5143
E-mail: mirek.cygler@cnrc-nrc.gc.ca

Miroslaw Cygler is the Principal Research Officer and the head of the Macromolecular Structure Group at the National Research Council Canada (NRC), Biotechnology Research Institute (BRI). He obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Lodz, Poland, in 1976. He was a Research Associate at the Division of Biological Sciences, NRC, Canada from 1979 to 1981 working with one of the pioneers of crystallographic programming, Dr. FR Ahmed. Dr Cygler is closely associated with McGill University and holds an adjunct professor position in the Department of Biochemistry as well as in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology. He is a member of the American Crystallographic Association, the Protein Engineering Network Centres of Excellence (PENCE), the International Network of Protein Engineering Centers (INPEC), the CIHR Genomics Institute advisory committee on proteomics, the Protein Crystallography Beamline Design Team at Canadian Light Source as well as the steering committee of the E. coli Model Cell Consortium, USA. Dr Cygler has published over 160 papers and reviews and is currently on the Editorial Advisory board of Protein Science and Protein Engineering, Design and Selection journals. He has also received numerous awards, including the NRC Outstanding Research Achievement Award and the BRI Director General award for research achievements. His current research activities are directed toward high-throughput structural biology and automation of all the steps from cloning to structure analysis as well as interactions between macromolecules and enzymatic mechanism at the molecular level studied by crystallographic methods.

To know more about the Macromolecular Structure Group research activities, please visit the Macromolecular Structure Group section on the NRC-BRI web site.