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
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!
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 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!
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!
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 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!
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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!