Research
Innovative Multidisciplinary Strategies

CNSB will continuously develop and apply innovative multidisciplinary strategies to identify macromolecules of broad biomedical significance. These include powerful integrative computational approaches to combine our proteomic data with complementary genomic and metabolomic information.

CNSB generates ground-breaking probabilistic molecular interaction “maps” to define the roles and associations of the many new protein complexes we discover: we pay particular attention to their functional significance in normal and disease states.

Together, the innovative tools, training, and datasets created by the CNSB will serve as valuable resources for the broader scientific community. By drawing together an outstanding team of experts in network biology, systems biology, molecular biology, chemical biology, genomics, and computational modelling, the CNSB aims to create a world class platform for exploring molecular networks and their links to human health and disease.

Outstanding publications record

CNSB’s research findings are widely accessed via public databases, and our own dedicated web portals and publications.

Over the past decade, we have produced over 150 high-impact peer-reviewed papers, including 75 in the past 5 years alone, which have garnered over 20,000 citations. These include the first proteome-scale studies of protein interaction networks in yeast, E. coli, humans and many other animals.

COVID-19 Research

Researchers affiliated with the CNSB are very active in multiple covid-related collaborative efforts:

Using systems biology and quantitative mass spectrometry-based approaches to study how the virus hijacks the host cellular protein machinery. Evidence suggests replication via a network of viral protein interactions with human cell surface receptors, as well as intracellular signaling, and metabolic and biomolecular replicative pathways. We aim to find actionable targets to boost adaptive cell- and tissue-level host responses in human and animal models.

Additional resources:

Sharing Protocols

FAIMS

Expansion Microscopy

Solid Phase Micro Extraction

Desalting

Operating Agilent HPLC

Tissue Homogenization

Zip Tip Desalting

Notable publications by center members include:

Actionable Cytopathogenic Host Responses of Human Alveolar Type 2 Cells to SARS-CoV-2.

Human transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), causative pathogen of the COVID-19 pandemic, exerts a massive health and ...

BraInMap Elucidates the Macromolecular Connectivity Landscape of Mammalian Brain.

Connectivity webs mediate the unique biology of the mammalian brain.

A Mutation in Hnrnph1 That Decreases Methamphetamine-Induced Reinforcement, Reward, and Dopamine Release and Increases Synaptosomal hnRNP H and Mitochondrial Proteins.

Individual variation in the addiction liability of amphetamines has a heritable genetic component. We previously identified Hnrnph1 (heterogeneous nuclear ...