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Marc Coppolino received his Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Waterloo in 1990 and completed his Ph.D. in Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto in 1998. His doctoral research focused on studying protein-protein interactions involved in cell adhesion during cancer progression. Coppolino has held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, where he researched mammalian host-pathogen interactions, particularly with Salmonella typhimurium. During this fellowship, he was honored with the John Charles Polanyi Award for Physiology and Medicine in 2000. Currently, he is a professor in the College of Biological Science at the University of Guelph, focusing on the molecular mechanisms connecting cell adhesion and migration in multicellular organisms. His lab's work has implications for understanding developmental disorders and diseases such as arthritis and cancer, emphasizing the biochemical signaling events and cytoskeletal reorganization critical to these processes.
University of Guelph • Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, focusing on research in cell adhesion and migration.
Department of Clinical Studies. Offers MSc by thesis (2 years) and MSc by coursework (1 year).