Karine Auclair

Karine Auclair
Alma mater	University of Alberta
Scientific career
Institutions	McGill University
Thesis	Biosynthetic studies on the polyketide lovastatin : enzyme-catalyzed diels-alder reactions (1999)
Doctoral advisor	John C. Vederas

Karine Auclair is a professor of chemistry at McGill University in Montréal, Canada. She is the current Canada Research Chair in Antimicrobials and Green Enzymes.

Education and career

Auclair completed a Bachelor of Science in chemistry at Université du Québec à Chicoutimi in 1994, followed by a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in organic chemistry at the University of Alberta in 1999. She then completed a post-doctoral fellowship in pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco from 1999 to 2001.

Auclair began her teaching and research career at McGill University in 2002 as an assistant professor of chemistry. She has been a full professor since 2016.

Selected publications

• Kennedy, Jonathan; Auclair, Karine; Kendrew, Steven G.; Park, Cheonseok; Vederas, John C.; Hutchinson, C. Richard (21 May 1999). "Modulation of Polyketide Synthase Activity by Accessory Proteins During Lovastatin Biosynthesis". Science. 284 (5418): 1368–1372. Bibcode:1999Sci...284.1368K. doi:10.1126/science.284.5418.1368. PMID 10334994.
• Auclair, Karine; Sutherland, Andrew; Kennedy, Jonathan; Witter, David J.; Van den Heever, Johan P.; Hutchinson, C. Richard; Vederas, John C. (22 November 2000). "Lovastatin Nonaketide Synthase Catalyzes an Intramolecular Diels−Alder Reaction of a Substrate Analogue". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 122 (46): 11519–11520. doi:10.1021/ja003216+.
• Auclair, Karine; Hu, Zhengbo; Little, Dorothy M.; Ortiz de Montellano, Paul R.; Groves, John T. (May 2002). "Revisiting the Mechanism of P450 Enzymes with the Radical Clocks Norcarane and Spiro[2,5]octane". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 124 (21): 6020–6027. doi:10.1021/ja025608h. PMID 12022835.