Department of Chemistry – Seminar Series
Yurij Mozharivskyj, PhD.
Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
McMaster University
DATE: Friday, September 29
TIME: 12pm
LOCATION: H313
Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Science, Seminar Series
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Department of Chemistry – Seminar Series
Joe B. Gilroy
Department of Chemistry and the Centre for Advanced Materials and Biomaterials
The University of Western Ontario
DATE: Friday, October 6
TIME: 12pm
LOCATION: H313
Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Science, Seminar Series
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Brock University is hosting the St. Catharines Terry Fox Run this weekend, and it’s giving the community a chance to tour the labs where critical cancer research is taking place. Two labs are home to research funded directly by the Terry Fox Research Institute (TFRI) and a third is separately funded, but also conducts important cancer research.
WHEN: Sunday, September 17 – lab tours will start at 10:45 a.m
NOTE: Participants can sign up for tours at the run registration table, but space is limited.
Read more about the researchers and labs here
Almost two dozen Brock researchers – the majority from the Faculty of Mathematics & Science – received funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). The $3.8 million in funding under NSERC’s 2017 competition for the Discovery research programs, is more than $1.4 million over last year’s results.
Brock’s funding includes Discovery Grants, Discovery Development Grants, Discovery Accelerator Supplements and the Northern Research Supplement, as well as master’s and doctoral student awards. Read the full story and the names of all recipients here
Yiaolong Yang, a candidate in the Department of Chemistry, will present his Master of Science thesis defence by video conference on Thursday, Aug. 17 at 11 a.m. in Mackenzie Chown H-Block 313.
His thesis is titled, (A) Constructing a Three-Dimensional DNA Nanomachine to Achieve Rapid Isothermal Signal Amplification for Nucleic Acid Detection (B) Regulation of DNA Strand Displacement Using an Allosteric DNA Toehold.
His examination committee members are Dr. Rick Cheel, Chair; Dr. Julianne Gibbs-Davis, External Examiner, (University of Alberta); Dr. Feng Li, Supervisor; Dr. Heather Gordon and Dr. Art van der Est, Committee Members.
All are invited to attend.
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In his four decades of studying water contamination, Ian Brindle has learned that when something doesn’t smell right, there’s likely more to the story. That’s why the Brock University Emeritus Professor of Chemistry isn’t buying the story of the Niagara Falls, N.Y. Water Board that a discharge from a wastewater treatment plant which turned part of the Niagara River black on the weekend was completely above board. Read the full story here
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Associate Professor in Brock University’s Department of Chemistry, Travis Dudding, shares information about Justin Timperio, a Centre for Biotechnology grad (BSc ’10), who was severely injured in a shooting at a New York City hospital last week. According to Dudding, the Biotechnology grad left quite an impression on many people he encountered during his time at the University. Read the full story here
Kiel Ormerod and Lee Belding arrived at Brock as undergraduate students in the Faculty of Mathematics & Science and stayed on to obtain a PhD. Now these PhD graduates are pursuing post doctoral fellowships at two of the world’s most prestigious institutions – Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Congratulations to Kiel and Lee! Read more about their story here
When Van Hung Mai walks across Brock’s Convocation stage on June 9 as part of the Spring Convocation Class of 2017 to receive his PhD in Chemistry, he will be fulfilling the dreams he’s had since he was a child growing up amid poverty in a small mountain village in Vietnam. Mai will also be recognized for his contributions in research as a recipient of a Jack M. Miller Excellence in Research Award. Read his story here
Tomas Hudlicky, Brock University chemist and a leading Canadian scientist, has developed a synthetic compound that appears to be capable of killing cancer cells while leaving healthy cells intact. Tomas has created and patented several variations of the compound pancratistatin, which has been tested on 20 different types of cancer cells by a research team at the University of Windsor. The team’s paper, “Cancer Cell Mitochondria Targeting by Pancratistatin Analogs is Dependent on Functional Complex II and III,” appeared in the February issue of Scientific Reports. Read Cathy Majtenyi’s full article here
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