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Areas of Practice:

Serge Shahinian joined Goudreau Gage Dubuc as a Partner in 2005. He has been practicing the intellectual property field since 2000 and is a registered Patent Agent in Canada and in the United States. He was appointed Senior Partner on January 1, 2008. He specializes in the following areas :

• Patents (biotechnological, chemical, pharmaceutical, proteomics)

Education:

Ph.D., Biochemistry, McGill University, 1996

B.Sc., Biochemistry, University of Toronto, 1988

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Professional Affiliations:

Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC)

The Association of University Technology Managers

BioQuébec

Department of Biochemistry, McGill University

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Publications:

Shahinian, S., Silvius, J.R., «High-yield coupling of antibody fab’ fragments to liposomes containing maleimide-functionalized lipids», Methods in enzymology Journal, Vol. 387, p. 3-15, 2004

Shahinian, S., "L’importance de la demande provisoire", Trans Script, Vol. 2, No. 4, Winter 2004

Levinson, J.N., Shahinian, S., Sdicu, A.-M., Tessier, D.C., and Bussey, H. (2002), "Functional, comparative and cell biological analysis of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Kre5p", Yeast 19: 1243-59

Roopchand, D.E., Lee, J.M., Shahinian, S., Paquette, D., Bussey, H., Branton, P.E. (2001), "Toxicity of human adenovirus E4orf4 protein in Saccharomyces cerevisiae results from interactions with the Cdc55 regulatory B subunit of PP2A", Oncogene 20: 5279-90

Shahinian, S., and Bussey, H. (2000), "ß-1,6-glucan synthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae", Mol. Microbiol. 35: 477-89

Lussier, M., Sdicu, A.-M., Shahinian, S., and Bussey, H. (1998), "The Candida albicans KRE9 gene is required for cell wall beta-1,6-glucan synthesis and is essential for growth on glucose", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95: 9825-30

Shahinian, S., Dijkgraaf, GJ.P., Sdicu, A.-M., Thomas, D.Y., Jakob, C., Aebi, M. and Bussey, H. (1998), "Involvement of protein N-glycosyl chain glucosylation and processing in the biosynthesis of cell wall beta-1,6-glucan of Saccharomyces cerevisiae", Genetics 149: 843-856

Romero, P.A., Dijkgraaf, GJ.P., Shahinian, S., Herscovics, A. and Bussey, H. (1997), "The yeast CWH41 gene encodes glucosidase I", Glycobiology 7: 997-1004

Schroeder, H., Leventis, R., Shahinian, S., Walton, P.A. and Silvius,J.R. (1996), "Lipid-modified cysteinyl-containing peptides of diverse structures are efficiently S-acylated at the plasma membrane of mammalian cells", J. Cell Biol. 134: 647-60

Shahinian, S. and Silvius,J.R. (1995), "A novel strategy affords high-yield coupling of antibody Fab' fragments to liposomes", Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1239: 157-67

Shahinian, S. and Silvius,J.R. (1995), "Doubly lipid-modified protein sequence motifs exhibit long-lived anchorage to lipid bilayers", Biochemistry 34: 3813-22

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Conferences and Seminars:

"Le monde des brevets", BioConnexion, Université Laval, 2004 and 2005

"Les brevets dans le domaine de la biotechnologie", Parc Technologique du Québec Métropolitain, 2003

"Career information workshop for CANVAC trainees", CANVAC Third Annual Scientific Meeting, 2003

"An overview of patents and other intellectual property", Spin-offs Workshop : Practical advice from the experts, McGill University, 2001

"Le monde des brevets", Career Fair of Université Laval, 2001

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