Facilities

Our lab is located in the brand new Core Science Facility at Memorial University of Newfoundland. The Core Science Facility, which opened in Fall 2021, currently hosts the Departments of Chemistry, Biology and Biochemistry, as well as the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science in a collaborative environment. The student workstations in the Wilson group contain high-performance desktop computers with access industry leading computational biochemistry software. Computational biochemistry software commonly used in our group includes Gromacs, Amber, Python, and Gaussian, as well as visualisation programs such as VMD, GaussView and PyMol. Students also have access to high-performance computing clusters through ACENET and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada. 

Memorial University of Newfoundland is the only university in Newfoundland and Labrador, and is one of the top 20 research universities in Canada. Memorial University of Newfoundland residues in the ancestral homelands of the Beothuk, and the island of Newfoundland is the ancestral homelands of the Mi’kmaq and Beothuk. The university has more than 19,000 students from over 115 countries and offers a range of both graduate and undergraduate degrees. 

For more information about Memorial University of Newfoundland, the Core Science Facility or the Department of Biochemistry please visit their websites. 

St. John's is the capital city of Newfoundland and Labrador. St. John's is one of the oldest and most easterly cities in North America. The eastern location means St. John's is only a 5 hour flight to London, or a 3 hour flight to Toronto. St. John's has a temperate climate with warmer winters than many other Canadian cities (average winter temperature –1°C) and pleasant summers (average summer temperature of 20°C). The greater St. John's area has a population of over 200,000 people and contains a lively city centre with a vibrant arts and culture community. The city is also well situated within nature with its rocky cliffs and close proximity to the East Coast trail, Signal Hill National Historic Site, Cape Spear (the eastern most point of North America) and Terra Nova National Park. While exploring nature around St. John's you might be lucky enough to spot icebergs, whales, puffins, seals or moose.