Natalie Strynadka

Strynadka was educated at the University of Alberta where she was awarded a PhD in 1990.^[14] Her thesis committee included Michael N. G. James and Sir David Chilton Phillips.^[14]

Strynadka was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015. Her certificate of election reads:^[1]

Natalie Strynadka is a pioneer in the study of proteins and protein assemblies essential to bacterial pathogenicity and antibiotic resistance. Her agenda-setting dissection of the membrane assemblies involved in infection, virulence and bacterial cell wall synthesis is having major impact in the development of therapeutic agents; both antibiotics and vaccines.