Gregory Fairn, PhD
Professor
Laboratory Location:
Room N103, Life Sciences Research Institute
1344 Summer St.
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. B3H 0A8
Email: gfairn@dal.ca
Phone: 902-221-3719
Mailing Address:
- Cellular basis of innate immunity
- Host pathogen interactions
- Endocytosis and endomembrane traffic
- Protein lipidation in Crohn's and fatty liver disease
- Formation and dissolution of phagosomes
- Lipid metabolism, signaling and post translational modifications
- Live-cell and super-resolution microscopy
- Lipidomics and Proteomics
Biography
Dr. Gregory Fairn completed his B.Sc. in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Microbiology & Immunology with Co-op placements along the way at Novartis and Merck.
Dr. Fairn's PhD was completed at Dalhousie University in the lab of Dr. Chris McMaster studying yeast genetics, vesicular transport, and lipid metabolism. Next, Dr. Fairn moved to Toronto for postdoctoral studies in the lab of Dr. Sergio Grinstein at the Hospital for Sick Children. Continued studying vesicular transport and organelle function and further extended the research into innate immunity and host-pathogen interactions.
In the summer of 2012, he started own lab at St. Michaels Hospital (Toronto) and continued to study a variety of aspects related to vesicular and non-vesicular transport of lipids, membrane dynamics, innate immunity, and cell biology.
In May 2021, Dr. Fairn relocated to Dalhousie University in the Department of Pathology.