- Congratulations to Sara Haghayegh Khorasani for successfully defending her PhD proposal and passing her comprehensive exam
- Congratulations to David Wulff for successfully defending his PhD: Development of Physically Modified Starch Microparticles for Uptake and Release of Drugs
- Congratulations to Prof. Brian Dixon, who led a proposal we put in to the COVID-19 Immunity Task Force, and was awarded a significant grant to study immunity against SARS-CoV-2 on campuses and surroundings in Waterloo
- Highlighted in WEAL! Developing a vaccine
- Welcome to Chris Nogueira, who just started a Post-Doc in Chem Eng working on the interaction of viruses with contact lenses!
- Congratulations to Scott Boegel (and Marco Quattrociocchii) and David Wulff for for having manuscripts accepted this week: Enhanced characterization of yeast hydrolysate combining acid digestion and 1D-1H NMR targeted profiling, and, Characterizing internal cavity modulation of corn starch microcapsules, respectively.
- Welcome to Salma Jimenez, who will be starting a Post-Doc in Chem Eng and working with Theraphage
- Welcome to Ko Currie, Shifa Javed who will be starting as Post-Docs in Chem Eng and working with Mediphage Bioceuticals
- Welcome to Aaron Yip and Sara Sadr, who are starting MASc in Chemical Engineering co-supervised with Brian Ingalls
- Welcome to Deborah Pushparajah and Andrew Ng, who are starting their MSc in Pharmacy co-supervised with Roderick Slavcev
- While my students continue to expand our body of knowledge around viruses and vaccines - I am tackling the challenge of becoming the Interim Chair of Chemical Engineering at Waterloo (until they find a full time replacement). Wish me luck!
- Congratulations to Merve Marcali, who defended her PhD Thesis "Non-Newtonian Droplet Production and Bioassay Applications in a Microfluidic Network". Great work!
- Our work with the Dixon Lab is highlighted by the Faculty of Science: The tell-tale sign of antibodies: Determining COVID-19 immunity with blood testing
- Join us for a panel discussion on how engineers are fighting COVID19: Engineering our way through the pandemic
- Our work highlighted by the department: Chemical engineers tackle COVID-19
- Interview with Brian Crombie: The Brian Crombie Hour - University of Waterloo on COVID-19 Vaccine
- Some of our COVID-19 RESEARCH: Highlight from CTV News
- Congratulations to David for having his work on imaging starch by helium ion microscopy, "Helium ion microscopy of corn starch", accepted in the journal Starch
- Congratulations to Sadru whose work with the CSA has just been published. Testing the Effect of Faucet Flowrate on Handwashing Efficacy
- Congratulations to Sadru whose review on methods for assessing viral inactivation by surfaces, "A Critical Evaluation of Current Protocols for Self-Sterilizing Surfaces Designed to Reduce Viral Nosocomial Infections" has been published in the American Journal of Infection Control
- Welcome to Faranak who joined us as a post-doctoral fellow to work on moving the Vero platform to suspension culture!
- Congratulations to Megan whoose long term collaboration with Prof. Ting Tsui has resulted in another publication: "Limitation in controlling the morphology of mammalian Vero cells induced by cell division on asymmetric tungsten-silicon oxide nanocomposite" - in press in Material, an MDPI journal.
- Congratulations to Scott Boegel, whose MASc thesis "Towards a Chemically Defined Medium for Sf-9 Cell Culture: Micronutrients Reduce Depence on Yeast Extract" has been accepted!
News
- I'm excited to say that I just finished teaching the first offering of Chemical Engineering Design Studio 1 (ChE180) and I had a blast! A big thank you goes out to all of those who helped make this course such a success!
- Congratulations to Harika and Meagan, whose company, Theraphage, was named one of Hello Tomorrow's Deep Tech Pioneers!
- SHE DID IT! Congratlations to Sandi Yen for succesfully defending her PhD thesis!
- Congratulations to Eduardo Ramirez who completed his MASc and has bewen hired by Microbix!
- Welcome to David Wulff who joined our group as he finishes off his PhD
- Welcome to Sara Haghayegh Khorasani who joined our group as a PhD student and will be a joint student with Brian Ingalls group here at the University of Waterloo
- Welcome to Harika Nagireddy who joined our group as a MASc student and will be our second CREATE student along with Meagan Cardno, both of which are co-supervised by Roderick Slavcev in Pharmacy here at the University of Waterloo
- Welcome to Lisa Nielsen who has joined our group as PhD student in Biology
- Congratulations to Sadru Walji who completed his MASc and is now off to McMaster University to do his PhD
- Congratulations to Megan Logan who is taking a temporary leave to become the CTO of Membio, a start-up company looking to enhance blood supply!
- Welcome to Madhuja Chakraborty starting her MASc programs in Chemical Engineering!
- Congratulations to Julia Manalil who succesfully defended her MASc and is now off to McGill University to undertake a PhD!
- Congratulations to Paul Brogee who completed his MASc and continues to have great success in music!
- CONVOCATION 2018! Eric Blondeel
- Congratulations to Eric Blondeel who completed his PhD! He's already surpassed me in funds generated and people supervised! Check out ExVivoLabs
- Congratulations to Michelle Gabriel who has been hired as a Scientist at Trojan Technologies!
- Welcome back to Sarah Meunier who is joining our group as a Research Associate to continue work on the irradiation of cell culture media.
- Congratulations to Emma Dare who has left our group to take on a permanant position in the Faculty of Applied Health.
- Congratulations to Marco Quattrociocchi on the completion of his his MASc and his thesis entitled: Partial Characterization of yeast Hydrolysates for Insights on Chemically Defined Media for Sf9 Insect Cells!
- Welcome to Sophie Jurmann who will be working in our lab as part of her schooling at the Technical University of Braunschweig!
- Welcome to Sadru Walji starting his MASc programs in Chemical Engineering!
- Congratulations to Merve Marcali for successfully defending her PhD proposal on developing bubble-based microfluidics for studying cell infection!
- Congratulations to Megan Logan for successfully defending her PhD proposal on developing a suspension Vero cell line for better vaccine manufacturing!
- Welcome to Scott Boegel starting his MASc programs in Chemical Engineering!
- Congratulations to Mark Bruder for successfully defending his PhD proposal on developing genetic tools to enhance control in the BEVS!
- Welcome to Claudia Wang who will be doing a Chem494 project on enhancing VLP escape from cells!
- OSPE Interview. Who's in control? Meet the chemical engineer challenging the cell
- UW iGEM News. Waterloo captures top awards at iGEM contest
- CONVOCATION 2016! Stanislav Sokolenko, recipient of an Outstanding Achievement Award
- CONVOCATION 2016! Steve George
- Congratulations to Sandi Yen on her recent wedding!
- Welcome to Patrick Diep who will be doing a Biol499 project on using CRISPR to silence genes in the BEVS!
- Welcome to Eduardo Ramirez and Alex-Pritchard-Oh, both starting their MASc programs in Chemical Engineering!
- Congratulations to Steve George on his new job and successfully defending his PhD thesis!
- Congratulations to Stan Sokolenko on successfully defending his PhD thesis!
- Best Wishes to our post-doc Sarah on her new baby boy!
- UW iGEM News.Waterloo students capture top awards at international iGEM Giant Jamboree
- Congratulations to Val and Megan on completing their Master degrees! Good luck to Val at his new job and best wishes to Megan on her PhD.
- Welcome to our new graduate students Paul, Julia and Mark!
- Congratulations and Good Bye to Sandi and Jann who have completed their Master Degrees! Good luck to Jann at McMaster and Sandi at University of Guelph!
- UW iGEM News. Waterloo team takes top award for synthetic bacterium to prevent infection.
- OSPE Interview. Who's in control? Meet the chemical engineer challenging the cell
- ACCN Interview. Going Viral