{"id":4225,"date":"2025-12-01T09:13:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/?p=4225"},"modified":"2025-12-01T09:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:15:14","slug":"biochemistry-student-spotlight-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/2025\/biochemistry-student-spotlight-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Biochemistry Student Spotlight &#8211; Nashira Ridgeway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Biochemistry Student Spotlight\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"687\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2025\/12\/Nashira-2-1024x687.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2025\/12\/Nashira-2-1024x687.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2025\/12\/Nashira-2-512x343.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2025\/12\/Nashira-2-320x215.jpg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2025\/12\/Nashira-2-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2025\/12\/Nashira-2-1536x1030.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2025\/12\/Nashira-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2025\/12\/Nashira-2.jpg 2006w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"xxxxmsonormal\"><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Publication alert:<\/strong> Using machine learning to explore post-translational modifications<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"xxmsonormal\">Nashira Ridgeway (B.Sc. Computational Biochemistry\/2017) has published research on an approach to potentially streamline the discovery of post-translational modification-inducing enzyme activity. This work was part of a larger project in the group of Prof. Kyle Biggar (Institute of Biochemistry). The approach offers a refined method for the prioritized identification of enzyme-substrate networks and the features of substrates that influence selection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the research here (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s42004-025-01717-6\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s42004-025-01717-6<\/a>). For more information on Prof. Biggar\u2019s research, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/people\/kyle-biggar\/\">https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/people\/kyle-biggar\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publication alert: Using machine learning to explore post-translational modifications Nashira Ridgeway (B.Sc. Computational Biochemistry\/2017) has published research on an approach to potentially streamline the discovery of post-translational modification-inducing enzyme activity. This work was part of a larger project in the group of Prof. Kyle Biggar (Institute of Biochemistry). 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