Department of Chemistry – Seminar Series
Henning Jacob Jessen
Chair of Bioorganic Chemistry
Institute of Organic Chemistry
Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg Germany
DATE: Thursday, July 12
TIME: noon
LOCATION: MC H313
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Department of Chemistry – Seminar Series
Marcus A. Tius
Associate Member
Cancer Biology Program
University of Hawaii Cancer Centre
DATE: Monday, July 30
TIME: noon
LOCATION: H313
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Department of Chemistry – Seminar Series
Guy Bertrand
UCSD-CNRS Joint Research Chemistry Laboratory
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California San Diego, La Jolla
DATE: Friday, April 27
TIME: noon
LOCATION: H313
Stable carbenes and related species as powerful tools in organic, organometallic and inorganic chemistry
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During the Faculty of Graduate Studies’ Mapping the New Knowledges Conference awards ceremony, two graduate students from the Faculty of Mathematics and Science were honoured with the 2018 Jack M. Miller Excellence in Research Award. This award is given to research-based graduate students who are working on innovative projects.
This year’s Faculty of Mathematics and Science recipients are:
Alyssa Davis
MSc Earth Science
Studying “Paleoatmospheric and paleoenvironmental interpretations of the Early Paleozoic”
Guan Wang
PhD Chemistry
Studying, “Analytical devides and assays for point-of-care disease diagnosis”
Department of Chemistry – Seminar Series
David Liscombe
Vineland Research and Innovation Centre
DATE: Friday, April 20
TIME: noon
LOCATION: H313
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Creating a device to detect prostate cancer. Determining how and why perfectionism impacts adolescent health. Understanding the process that leads to children forgetting to carry out a future intention.
These areas of interest will be pursued by three Brock University researchers thanks to a grant from the Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry Feng Li is one of the three who received funding this year under the Ministry’s Early Researcher Awards program.
“These rare and prestigious awards are reserved for early-career researchers whose innovative work is recognized as crucial to the social, cultural, economic and intellectual future of Ontario,” says Brock Vice-President, Research Tim Kenyon.
“For a university of Brock’s size to receive three awards in one year is amazing and will definitely turn some heads. But it is not surprising to anyone who knows the incredible research talent that Brock has been recruiting for years.”
Li and his team of four graduate students will develop a single device that will examine blood and urine samples for the presence of certain proteins and nucleic acids that are present in the early stages of prostate cancer.
The device will give results in about an hour. Li previously created a three-dimensional, nano-sized robot that detects disease, which the new device, made out of paper, will read and interpret.
At the moment, testing for these proteins and nucleic acids is done separately and requires highly complicated, time consuming and expensive equipment and processes.
“You would use this device like you would do a pregnancy test,” he says. “You mix your samples with the 3D robot and load it onto the paper device. You would see coloured strips, just like in a pregnancy test,” says Li.
The Early Researcher Awards program enables new researchers working at publicly funded Ontario research institutions to build research teams.
Read about the other researchers’ work here
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Department of Chemistry – Seminar Series
Arturo Orellana
York University
DATE: Friday, March 23
TIME: noon
LOCATION: H313
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Chemistry instructor Paul Zelisko and CSL Silicones Inc. are working together to improve a chemical method involved in the production of the company’s proprietary silicone polymers used to manufacture products that insulate high-voltage insulators.
Zelisko’s research team at Brock includes a postdoc and four undergraduate and graduate students.
“We are truly pleased and privileged to have two senior PhD level researchers and the laboratory manager from the partnering company who are coaching, mentoring and engaging students in this project,” he says.
The Brock team is using specialized equipment and testing methods found within Brock labs, including matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry, viscometry, a durometer, contact angle micrometer and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
Zelisko began working with CSL Silicones nearly four years ago on a project funded by an Engage Grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and VIP I grant from the Ontario Centres of Excellence.
Successes from that first project laid the groundwork for the current research, which began in the fall and was funded in part by Ontario Centres of Excellence, along with CSL as its industry partner.
“It’s an exciting partnership,” says Zelisko. “They’re a wholly-owned Canadian company committed to scientific and applied research, working collaboratively with academia to improve their products, while satisfying their global client’s application needs.”
The partnership is expected to create two Brock University student co-op positions in manufacturing and scientific research.
Read the full story here
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Department of Chemistry – Seminar Series
Maria Laura Sechi
Supervisor: Dr. Costa Metallinos
Brock University
DATE: Friday, March 16
TIME: noon
LOCATION: H313
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Department of Chemistry – Seminar Series
Hui Peng
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and School of the Environment
University of Toronto
DATE: Friday, March 9
TIME: Noon
LOCATION: H313
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