David Badurina

Biography

David Badurina practises in all areas of intellectual property law. He worked at the firm in 2004 as a summer student and as an articling student in 2005-2006.

Mr. Badurina's graduate research involved the investigation of potential antimicrobial targets in order to address the growing concern of antibiotic resistance. Mr. Badurina has technical experience in biochemistry, enzyme kinetics, molecular biology and microbiology. He has published his research in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

Year of Call

• Ontario Bar 2006

Law School

• LL.B., Osgoode Hall - York University, 2005

EDUCATION

• M.Sc., Biochemistry, McMaster University, 2002
• B.Sc. (Hons.), Biochemistry, , McMaster University, 1999

Publications

• Badurina D.S., Zolli-Juran M., Brown E.D. (2003) CTP:glycerol 3-phosphate cytidylyltransferase (TarD) from Staphylococcus aureus catalyzes the cytidylyl transfer via an ordered Bi Bi reaction mechanism with micromolar Km values. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. 1646, 196-206.
• Yim V.C., Zolli M., Badurina D.S., Rossi L., Brown E.D., Berghuis A.M. (2001) Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction studies of glycerol 3-phosphate cytidylyltransferase from Staphylococcus aureus. Acta Crystallographica D Biological Crystallography, 57 (Pt 6), 918-20.

Memberships and Activities

• Law Society of Upper Canada
• Canadian Bar Association
• Toronto Intellectual Property Group
• Intellectual Property Institute of Canada