Teaching Faculty
Adrienne Wright
Teaching Professor
MSc University of Birmingham
PhD University of Alberta
581C Medical Sciences Building
Office: 780-492-5550
Fax: 780-492-0095
awright@ualberta.ca
Bio
Dr. Wright has a background in toxicology and pharmacology and has been teaching in the department since 2000. Her professional duties at the University of Alberta fall into three major categories: instruction, educational research, and course design and development.
Currently, she coordinates and teaches a large multi-section introductory biochemistry class (BIOCH 200) with an annual enrolment of over 1300 students and a senior laboratory course (BIOCH 401) with an enrolment of 32 students. She is also the coordinator of the Undergraduate Research Abroad Program; students in this program have the opportunity to carry out a 6-week research project in an international laboratory.
Jonathan Parrish
Teaching Professor
PhD Dalhousie
581A Medical Sciences Building
Office: 780-492-2866
Fax: 780-492-0095
jparrish@ualberta.ca
Bio
Dr. Parrish has been teaching in the Department of Biochemistry since 2006, and has been a full-time faculty member since 2007. His background is predominantly in the field of structural biology and molecular modelling of viral proteinases and their inhibitors. He currently teaches a wide variety of courses in the undergraduate program in the Department of Biochemistry, including BIOCH 200, 320, 330, 398 and 401. He is also the coordinator for the 300-level biochemistry classes and in the first and second-year advisor for students in the specialization and honors BSc program in biochemistry. He has also produced molecular/structural art for Pearson/Prentice Hall and for Oxford University Press.