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Dinesh Christendat

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ProfessorDepartment of Cell and Systems BiologyUniversity of Toronto

Dinesh Christendat

Professor

Department of Cell and Systems Biology

Faculty of Arts and Science

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Principal investigator on 7 research grants (7 NSERC), most recently in 2023.

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Latest funding

High capacity protein expression and production incubators
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$78,953
High Capacity Microbial Growth Core Facility
NSERC · 2021 · Co-investigator
$39,646
The evolution of shikimate associated metabolic enzymes
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$252,000

All 10 grants and awards

High capacity protein expression and production incubators

Principal investigatorNSERC2023Research Tools and Instruments

Principal investigators: Christendat, Dinesh

$78,953

High Capacity Microbial Growth Core Facility

Co-investigatorNSERC2021Research Tools and Instruments

Principal investigators: Guttman, David

$39,646

The evolution of shikimate associated metabolic enzymes

Principal investigatorNSERC2020Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Christendat, Dinesh

Keywords: protein biochemistry; structural biology; metabolic enzyme; secondary metabolites; enzymology; plant metabolites; functional annotation of proteins; protein engineering; microbiology

$252,000

High resolution characterization of macromolecular structure and dynamics

Co-investigatorNSERC2017Research Tools and Instruments

Principal investigators: Houry, Walid

$145,571

Functional analysis of shikimate pathway gene duplicates

Principal investigatorNSERC2015Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Christendat, Dinesh

$225,000

Examining Biomolecular Interactions using Microscale Thermophoresis

Co-investigatorNSERC2014Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Moraes, Trevor

$150,000

Regulation of Arabidopsis shikimate pathway

Principal investigatorNSERC2013Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Christendat, Dinesh

$43,810

A system for protein purification

Principal investigatorNSERC2010Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Christendat, DineshSingh

$68,293

Regulation of the shikimate pathways in Arabidopsis

Principal investigatorNSERC2006Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Christendat, Dinesh

$306,670

Mechanistic analysis of proteins from the shikimate pathway of arabidopsis thaliana

Principal investigatorNSERC2002Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Christendat, DineshSingh

$140,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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