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David Vocadlo

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According to Wikipedia, David J. Vocadlo is a Canadian chemical biologist. He is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Chemical Glycobiology and Professor of Chemistry at Simon Fraser University. Early life and education Vocadlo was born in Brantford, Ontario, to a Czech father and a Finnish mother who met in Canada. Due to his father's job, Vocadlo lived overseas and in Montreal and Vancouver. He originally enrolled at the University of British Columbia with the intent on becoming an architect but switched to majoring in chemistry and biology. Following the completion of his undergraduate degree, Vocadlo he worked as a research assistant in the Biotechnology Laboratory at UBC which prompted him to continue his research. His thesis The catalytic mechanism of retaining [beta]-glycosidases earned him the 2003 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Doctoral Prize. While completing his postdoctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley, Vocadlo accepted a faculty position at Simon Fraser University for the 2004–05 academic year.

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