Assistant Professor
The University of Toronto
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology
Scientist
The University of British Columbia
Faculty of Medicine
Centre for Blood Research
2024
CIHR Postdoctoral Fellow
Stanford University
School of Medicine
Department of Molecular & Cellular Physiology
Molecular Physiology (with Chris Garcia) 2023
PhD
The University of British Columbia
Faculty of Medicine
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Biochemistry (with Natalie Strynadka) 2020
BSc Hons
The University of Victoria
Faculty of Science
Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
Biochemistry (with Steve Evans) 2015
Nathanael A Caveney, PhD
Nathanael is a structural biologist and protein engineer with expertise in cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM) and the molecular architecture of signalling proteins. He completed his BSc (biochemistry, 2015) at the University of Victoria and a PhD (biochemistry, 2020) at the University of British Columbia. As a graduate student, Nathanael studied the structural and functional mechanisms of bacterial enzymes involved in cell wall biosynthesis, work that provided new insights into penicillin-binding proteins and antibiotic resistance.
After completing his PhD, Nathanael pursued postdoctoral research at Stanford University in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology. There, he applied cryo-EM and structural biology to dissect immune receptor signalling pathways. This work revealed the structural basis for cytokine signalling across a diverse range of cytokines and signalling mechanisms, and how these molecular interactions shape immune responses.
Nathanael is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology at the University of Toronto. Here, his interdisciplinary team investigates how protein structure governs immune signalling and receptor activation, with the goal of informing new therapeutic strategies for immunological disease and infection.
Email: n.caveney@utoronto.ca
2023
2023
2020 – 2023
2019 – 2021
2018 – 2022
2019
2019
2017 – 2018
2017 – 2018
Select Awards and Honours
Centre for Blood Research Transition Award
Canadian Society for Immunology Travel Award (Declined)
CIHR Postdoctoral Fellowship
NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship-Doctoral
UBC Four Year Fellowship
UBC Centre for Blood Research Travel Award
UBC Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Travel Award
UBC GSI Award
UBC Centre for Blood Research Graduate Student Award