March 2017

June 4, 2017 No Comments

Congratulations, Amani, for being awarded the 2016/2017 Carl Winkler Award! This is given annually to the PhD candidate who, upon graduation, is judged to be of outstanding academic excellence.
Hanadi joins the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Organic Chemistry
Congratulations, Katherine on your successful PhD defense!

February 2016

February 23, 2016 No Comments

Our paper “Reprogramming the assembly of unmodified DNA with a small molecule“, by Nicole, Andrea, Faisal, Violeta, Dr. Anne Petitjean, appears in Nature Chemistry.

November 2015

November 27, 2015 No Comments

Our paper “Transfer of molecular recognition information from DNA nanostructures to gold nanoparticles,” appears in Nature Chemistry (link: http://www.nature.com/nchem/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nchem.2420.html). The authors are: Tom Edwardson, Kai Lau, Danny Bousmail, Chris Serpell and Hanadi Sleiman. See media coverage here.
Amine Garci joined our lab as a Swiss National Foundation postdoctoral fellow. Welcome!
Our paper: “Dynamic DNA Nanotubes: Reversible Switching between Single and Double-Stranded Forms, and Effect of Base Deletions” appears in ACS Nano (link: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsnano.5b04387). The authors are: Janane Rahbani, Amani Hariri, Gonzalo Cosa and H. Sleiman.
Our paper: “Antisense precision polymer micelles require less poly(ethylenimine) for efficient gene knockdown” appears in Nanoscale (link: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2015/nr/c5nr05157f#!divAbstract) ; the authors are: Johans Fakhoury, Tom Edwardson, Justin Conway, Tuan Trinh, Farhad Khan, Maciej Barlog, Hassan Bazzi and H. Sleiman.
Justin Conway started a Research Scientist position at the company IntelgenX in Montreal. Congratulations!
Mohammad Askari joined the research group as an NSERC postdoctoral fellow. Welcome!
Alex Prinzen, Xin Luo and Casey Platnich join the research group as new graduate students. Welcome!

June 2015

July 16, 2015 No Comments

– Congratulations, Justin, on successfully defending your Ph.D. thesis!
– Tom Edwardson moved to ETH Zurich as a postdoc in Prof. Don Hilvert’s group. Congratulations and good luck!

May 2015

May 6, 2015 No Comments

Graham and Janane’s paper, “Sequential growth of long DNA strands with user-defined patterns for nanostructures
and scaffolds” appears in Nature Communications. See media coverage here.

March 2015

March 11, 2015 No Comments

Amani and Graham’s paper, “Stepwise growth of surface-grafted DNA nanotubes visualized at the single-molecule level” appears in Nature Chemistry. This work is in collaboration with Prof. Gonzalo Cosa. See media coverage here.

November 2014

November 19, 2014 No Comments

Chris, Tom, Pongphak and Karina’s paper in JACS received a JACS Research Spotlight. Congratulations! (http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja511555b)

October 2014

October 20, 2014 No Comments

Chris, Tom, Pongphak and Karina’s paper entitled: “Precision Polymers and 3D DNA Nanostructures: Emergent Assemblies from New Parameter Space” appears in J. Am. Chem. Soc.

September 2014

September 18, 2014 No Comments

Congratulations, Katherine for receiving 2nd Best talk award at the CSACS student symposium!

Welcome to our new undergraduate researchers Tolu, John and Kitty!

Welcome to our new graduate students Alex, Aurelie and Donatien!

Justin’s paper entitled “Dynamic Behavior of DNA Cages Anchored on Spherically Supported Lipid Bilayers” appeared in J. Am. Chem. Soc.

Congratulations to Andrea for her new Post-doctoral position in the group of Prof. Marc Gauthier at the INRS! (Institut national de la recherche scientifique, with a postdoctoral fellowship from FQRNT)

Congratulations Graham for his new postdoctoral position in the group of Prof. David Tirrell at Caltech! (With an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship)

July 2014

July 7, 2014 No Comments

Congratulations to Tom for receiving the Pall award from McGill for excellence in graduate research!
Congratulations to Graham for receiving the McGill University D. W. Ambridge Prize, ‘conferred upon an outstanding McGill graduate receiving a Doctoral degree in 2013-2014 in Physical Sciences or Engineering, in recognition of exemplary academic record, thesis excellence and research significance’!
Congratulations to Tom! His paper in Nature Chemistry 2013 entitled “Site-specific positioning of dendritic alkyl chains on DNA cages enables their geometry-dependent self-assembly” was selected as best paper of the year by the Center for Self-Assembled Chemical Structures!
Congratulations to Tom, Chris and Karina! Their paper in Angew. Chem. 2014 was selected as ‘Very Important Paper’ and appeared on the journal cover page!
Congratulations to Graham for receiving an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship!
Congratulations to Andrea for receiving an FQRNT postdoctoral research fellowship!
Congratulations to Graham, Katie and Andrea for the successful defense of their PhD thesis!

December 2013

December 16, 2013 No Comments

NATURE CHEMISTRY | THE SCEPTICAL CHYMIST

Nature Chemistry’s Altmetric top 10 for 2013

11 Dec 2013 | 00:25 GMT | Posted by Stuart Cantrill | Category: Journal journeys

This paper was selected number 8 in the top 10 Nature Chemistry papers for 2013 by Altimetric scoring.

8=. Site-specific positioning of dendritic alkyl chains on DNA cages enables their geometry-dependent self-assembly
Thomas G. W. Edwardson, Karina M. M. Carneiro, Christopher K. McLaughlin, Christopher J. Serpell & Hanadi F. Sleiman
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