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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hub:
Toronto

Interests

systems biology in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, nutrient signaling, cell cycle control, chemical genetics, spatial control of gene expression, neuroeconomics & neuroethics

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Organizing Committee Member
2009 Canadian Science Policy Conference
http://sciencepolicy.ca
A comprehensive, national-level, multi-sector, multi-disciplinary conference for discussion of Canada’s most important science policy issues; to be held in Toronto in October 2009.

Co-founder, administrator, and contributor
Science Canada Blog
http://sciencecanada.blogspot.com
The Science Canada blog highlights science policy issues in Canada’s political arena and media.

Senior Policy Editor
Hypothesis journal
http://www.hypothesisjournal.com
A journal for the discussion of science, based at the University of Toronto.

Occasional Guest Blogger
MaRS Blog
http://blog.marsdd.com/Jeff?aid=84
MaRS is a non-profit innovation centre connecting science, technology and social entrepreneurs with business skills, networks and capital to stimulate innovation and accelerate the creation and growth of successful Canadian enterprises.

Science Advisor and Chair of Research Committee
Canadian Secular Alliance
http://www.secularalliance.ca/
A political advocacy organization advancing church-state separation and the neutrality of government in matters of religion.

Grantwriter
Freethought Association of Canada
http://freethoughtassociation.ca/
A registered charitable organization whose mandate is to educate the public about the principles of critical thinking and sceptical inquiry.

Volunteer
Centre for Inquiry Ontario
http://www.centerforinquiry.net/ontario
A non-profit think-tank, educational and outreach organization that encourages evidence-based inquiry into science, pseudoscience, medicine, and ethics.

Publications

  • Rapid regulation of protein activity in fission yeast. BMC cell biology 9 (1) , 23 (2008) (Epub 05 May 2008) PubMed ID:(18457584)

  • Roy S, Sharom J, Houde C, Loisel T, Vaillancourt J, Shao W, Saleh M, Nicholson D. Confinement of caspase-12 proteolytic activity to autoprocessing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105 (11) , 4133-8 (2008) (Epub 10 Mar 2008) PubMed ID:(18332441)

  • Sharom, JR. The scientific workforce policy debate: Do we produce too many biomedical trainees? Hypothesis 6 , 17-29 (2008)

  • Jorgensen P, Rupes I, Sharom J, Schneper L, Broach J, Tyers M. A dynamic transcriptional network communicates growth potential to ribosome synthesis and critical cell size. Genes & development 18 (20) , 2491-505 (2004) (Epub 01 Oct 2004) PubMed ID:(15466158)

  • Sharom J, Bellows D, Tyers M. From large networks to small molecules. Current opinion in chemical biology 8 (1) , 81-90 (2004) PubMed ID:(15036161)

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