Group News -
February 2010 -
- Petra Bouten has joined the lab for a 6 month internship. Welcome!
January 2010 -
- Justin Conway joins the lab after finishing his Masters at Concordia. Welcome!
- Bryson Ussing is a visiting post doc for 3 weeks from Texas A&M before heading off to Qatar. Best of Luck!
- Jing Wang is a visiting collaborator from Yale for 3 weeks. Welcome!
November 2009 -
- Hua Yang, Andrzej Rys and Chris McLaughlin publish a paper in Angew. Chem. on the DNA-templated creation of different metal environments. The paper is selected for front cover of Angewandte Chemie. Congratulations!
- Hua Yang's Ph.D. Oral- Congratulations! She is off to U.B.C. for her post-doc with Dr. David Dolphin! Best of Luck!
- Katie Castor, Andrea Greschner, and Graham Hamblin pass their First Year Reviews! Congratulations!
September 2009 -
- Yifan Huang and Ziwen Dai join the lab. Welcome!
- We're getting a newly renovated lab made possible by a CFI grant! Will be completed by 2011.
- Karina Carneiro wins Best Poster at CSACS Conference in Sherbrooke. Congratulations!!
August 2009 -
- Roxanne Kieltyka joins the lab of Prof E. W. (Bert) Meijer at Eindhoven, Netherlands for a postdoc- Best wishes, Roxanne!
- Yongqiang Wen returns to China as Assistant Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing - Best wishes, Yongqiang!
July 2009 -
- Roxanne Kieltyka's Ph.D. Oral- Congratulations!
- Peggy Lo and Andrzej Rys attended the 13th International IUPAC Conference on Polymers and Organic Chemistry in Montreal.
- Hua Yang, Chris McLaughlin, Graham Hamblin, Andrzej Rys publish a paper on Metal-Nucleic Acid Cages in Nature Chemistry, in collaboration with Prof. Isabelle Rouiller- it received a 'News and Views' coverage in Nature Chemistry - Congratulations!
June 2009 -
- Karina Carneiro wins Best TA award through the Department of Chemistry!
- Katie Castor, Graham Hamblin, Karina Carneiro, and Florian Altvater attend a conference at SUNY-Albany in Albany, NY.
- Faisal Aldaye receives the Governor General Medal and the Principal Prize for best PhD thesis - Congratulations, Faisal!
May 2009-
- Graham Hamblin and Chris McLaughlin attend the CIFAR Conference in Whistler, B.C.
- H. Sleiman receives the 2009 Strem Award of the Canadian Society for Chemistry
April 2009-
- Graham Hamblin receives the NSERC CGS-M scholarship. Congrats, Graham!
- Faisal Aldaye, Peggy Lo and Chris McLaughlin, in collaboration with Pierre Karam and Gonzalo Cosa publish a paper on DNA nanotubes in Nature Nanotechnology
March 2009 -
- Faisal Aldaye receives the IUPAC Young Chemist Prize 2009- Congratulations, Faisal!
- Peggy Lo ’s paper in JACS is selected for a Nature Chemistry Research Highlight
- Peggy Lo ’s paper on nucleobase-templated polymerization appears in JACS
- Florian Altvater joins our lab as an exchange student from Freiburg, Germany. Welcome, Florian!
- Roxanne Kieltyka and Pablo Englebienne's wedding in Argentina. Congratulations and best wishes to both of you!
- Cheen Euong Ang receives the CSACS award, as well as the SURA award to carry out summer research in our lab, in collaboration with Prof. Chris Barrett
December 2008 -
- Yongqiang Wen is appointed as a Junior Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research - Nanoelectronics Program.
- Mohamed Slim's Ph.D. Oral- Congratulations!
November 2008 -
- Faisal Aldaye Ph.D. Oral- Congratulations!
- Kim Metera's Ph.D. Oral- Congratulations!
- Katie Castor is awarded a CIHR Chemical Biology scholarship - Congratulations!
October 2008 - Rachel Nassif submits her M.Sc. thesis- Congratulations!
September 2008 -
- Graham Hamblin, Andrea Greshner and Katie Castor join the lab. Welcome!
- Graham Hamblin receives the Tomlinson graduate scholarship- Congrats, Graham!
August 2008 - Faisal Aldaye joins the lab of Pam Silver at Harvard Medical School for a postdoc- Best wishes, Faisal!
June 2008 -
- Chris McLaughlin is awarded a CIHR Chemical Biology scholarship
- Hua Yang receives the Robert Zamboni research award
- Kim Metera receives the Robert Zamboni research award
- Chris McLaughlin receives the Sterry Hunt teaching award
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