Patrick O'Donoghue is Canada Research Chair in Chemical Biology and Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at The University of Western Ontario. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2004 and was Postdoctoral Fellow 2006 to 2010 and Research Associate from 2010-2013 at Yale University. His research areas Focus on Genetic Code Expansion and Evolution, Programmed Protein Modification, Mistranslation in Health and Disease and tRNA therapeutics.