Tajinder Ubhi
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EDUCATION
PhD, Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Honors BSc, Biochemistry and Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
​AWARDS AND HONORS
Helen Hay Whitney Fellowship (2024)
​Outstanding PhD Thesis Award in Biochemistry (2023)
University of Toronto Student Initiative Fund (2023)
EMBO Workshop: DNA Damage Response in Cell Physiology and Disease Poster Award (2022)
Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canadian Institutes of Health Research Doctoral Award (2019-2022)
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (Declined) (2019-2020)
University of Toronto School of Graduate Studies Conference Grant (2019)
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2018-2019)
Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences Trainee Award (2019)
Genetics Society of America Career Development Symposia Award (2019)
University of Toronto Conference and Academic Engagement Grant (2019)
Canadian Symposium on Genome Integrity and Telomeres Travel Award (2019)
University of Toronto School of Graduate Studies Conference Grant (2018)
University of Toronto Dean’s List (2014-2016)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Ubhi T, Zaslaver O, Quaile AT, Plenker D, Cao P, Pham N, Békési A, Jang G, O’Kane GM, Notta F, Moffat J, Wilson JM, Gallinger S, Vértessey BG, Tuveson DA, Röst HL, Brown GW. Cytidine deaminases APOBEC3C and APOBEC3D promote DNA replication stress resistance in pancreatic cancer cells (2024). Nature Cancer (in press). 
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O'Brien S, Ubhi T, Wolf L, Gandhi K, Lin S, Chaudary N, Dhani NC, Milosevic M, Brown GW, Angers S. FBXW7-loss sensitizes cells to ATR inhibition through induced mitotic catastrophe (2023). Cancer Res Commun 3(12):2596-2607.

Olivieri M, Cho T, Álvarez-Quilón A, Li K, Schellenberg MJ, Zimmermann M, Hustedt N, Rossi SE, Adam S, Melo
H, Heijink AM, Sastre-Moreno G, Moatti N, Szilard RK, McEwan A, Ling AK, Serrano-Benitez A, Ubhi T, Feng S, 
Pawling J, Delgado-Sainz I, Ferguson MW, Dennis JW, Brown GW, Cortes-Ledesma F, Williams SR, Martin A, Xu D,
and Durocher D. A genetic map of the response to DNA damage in human cells (2020). Cell 182(2): 481-496.e21.   
 
Ubhi T and Brown GW. Exploiting DNA replication stress for cancer treatment (2019). Cancer Res 79(8): 1730-1739.