April 2024
Juli visits the Department of Chemistry at UBC-Okanagan in Kelowna, BC.
Juli is invited to present at the European Conference On Non-Linear Optical Spectroscopy 2024 in Vienna.
March 2024
Juli is invited to speak at the Geochemistry Symposium on “Fundamental Understanding of the Structure and Reactivity at Mineral-Water Interfaces” at ACS Spring 2024 in New Orleans.
January 2024
Sarika Malwesnonnappa starts her CHEM 401 project in our lab. Welcome, Sarika!
November 2023
Juli, Anantha, and Nahida attend the ATUMS Annual Meeting in Canmore, Alberta.
October 2023
Shyam and Ben’s paper explaining how MEM reveals the phase relationship between SFG and SHG is accepted in J. Chem. Phys. Congratulations, Drs!
Anantha and Nahida presented posters at Banff Symposium on Organic Chemistry ( BSOC)
August 2023
Juli presents at the Chemistry and Physics of Liquids GRC in Holderness, NH.
Santi and Eiman’s paper on protein knock-out with CRISPR-click with the Macauley lab is published in ACS Chemical Biology! Exciting! Well done!
New graduate student Aya Sherif joins our group. Welcome, Aya!
July 2023
New graduate student Paul Elinkpo joins our group. Welcome, Paul!
Juli attends the Supramolecular Aqueous Workshop in Bozeman, MT.
June 2023
Juli attends the CSC 2023 in Vancouver.
May 2023
Undergrad Emersan Kristel-Grinde joins our lab for the summer. Welcome, Emersan!
Juli presents at Nanolytica in Vancouver.
Nathaniel presents a poster at Surface Canada at McMaster University and comes home with the Jean-Denis Carette Prize. Congratulations, Nathaniel!
Laura and Nahida’s ATUMs collaboration with the Boekhoven lab is published in ChemComm regarding the combination of fuel-driven time-released hydrogels and our DNA-gold nanoparticle aggregate disassembly method. Great work!
The Chemical Reviews paper written by 20+ experts in the field of oxide-water interfaces with Juli as lead corresponding author is finally out! This started from a Mesilla Workshop in Feb 2020. Read a great article on this achievement from co-author Young-Shin Jun at Wash U here.
April 2023
Hansol’s final paper from her Ph.D. that describes the influence of the enzyme in LIDA is published in Chem. Eur. J. with collaborator Tony Mittermaier from McGill. Congrats, Hansol!
Shyam and Wentong’s paper that suggests a new origin of the pH-dependent response of SHG is published in J. Phys. Chem. C. Well done!
Nahida Akter receives the best oral presentation award at the Nucleic Acids Symposium at CCCE 2022.
March 2023
Juli participates in the Engineering Life Workshop as part of the 2023 Munich Institute for Astro-, Particle and BioPhysics (MIAPbP) program. Very stimulating!
Juli presents (virtually) in the ACS Spring Meeting at the symposium honoring Prof. Vicki Grassian 2023 GEOC Medal Winner of the ACS. Congratulations to Vicki for inspiring so many to work in environmental interfaces!
February 2023
Anantha and Nahida begin their 3-month research visit in the Boekhoven lab at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).
Juli attends the Mesilla Workshop on Geochemical Interfaces in sunny New Mexico.
January 2023
Ilia Gennadiev joins our research group. Welcome, Ilia!
Shyam successfully defends his thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Parshotam!
December 2022
Anantha passes her Candidacy exam. Congratulations, Anantha!
Juli visits the Department of Chemistry at the University of Iowa.
Shyam’s paper with Ben and Franziska is published at J. Phys. Chem. C. Yay, Team HOD (in D2O)!
November 2022
Juli, Anantha, and Nahida attended ATUMS Annual Meeting in Bernried, Munich. Glad to be back in Germany!
Mokhtar’s paper with Ben and our industrial collaborator at Graymont Nikolas Romaniuk on measuring the clay/silica interface is accepted into Langmuir. Congratulations, all!
September 2022
Fabian Spath joins our lab for an ATUMS research visit. Welcome, Fabian!
August 2022
Juli presents at the Vibrational Spectroscopy Gordon Research Conference at Bryant University, Rhode Island.
Congratulations to Ben and Shyam for their publication in JACS. Collaboration with Gieger lab.
July 2022
Shyam presents at the 12th Triennial Congress of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists in Vancouver & Canadian Symposium on Theoretical and Computational Chemistry in Kelowna.
Congratulations to Hansol for her publication in Chemical Communications.
June 2022
Juli presents at the Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CCCE) in Calgary.
Juli and Derek O’Flaherty from the University of Guelph organize the “Nucleic Acids in Chemistry and Biology” at the CCCE 2022.
Shyam, Nathaniel, Nahida, and Anantha present at the Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CCCE) in Calgary.
Laura Tebcharani from Boekhoven lab (TUM) begins a three months visit to our lab through the ATUMS program.
May 2022
Boris Stevanovic and Marlee Willier join us as undergraduate researchers, Welcome!
April 2022
Nahida passes her candidacy exam. Well done, Nahida!
Santiago successfully defends his Master’s thesis. Congrats Santiago!
Congratulations to Hansol & Eiman for their publication in Bioconjugate Chemistry. Collaboration with Macauley lab (U of A) & Hubbard lab (U of T)
March 2022
Ben’s paper was featured as part of “some of the most highly accessed and most cited articles of 2021” in J. Phys. Chem. Lett.!
February 2022
Anantha passes her 502. Well done!
January 2022
Hansol successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations Dr. Park!
December 2021
Hansol presents at the “Functional Nucleic Acids: Chemistry, Biology, and Materials Applications ” symposium at the 2021 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies
Juli presents at the “Chemical Complexity, Systems Chemistry and Actively-Driven Self-assembly” symposium, “Molecular Adsorption and Reactivity at Environmental and Biological Interfaces” symposium, and the “Advanced Understanding of Soft Interfaces at the Molecular-Scale” at the 2021 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies.
November 2021
Nathaniel passes his candidacy exam. Well done, Nathaniel!
September 2021
Mokhtar successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis. Congrats Dr. Rashwan
May 2021
Grace Deng joins us as an undergraduate researcher, Welcome!
March 2021
Ben’s paper on the effect of salt addition on the silica surface water structure was accepted in J. Phys. Chem. Lett.!
Wentong Zhang begins a 12-month visit to our lab through the China Scholarship Council from China University of Petroleum, Beijing. Welcome, Wentong!
February 2021
Nahida passes her 502, Well done!
January 2021
Stacey Idland joins us as CHEM 399 student, Welcome!
December 2020
Congrats to Safeenaz on her publication in Analytica Chimica Acta
November 2020
Shyam passes his candidacy exam, congratulations!
Congrats to Mokhtar and Ben on their publication in J. Phys. Chem. C!
October 2020
Nathaniel passes his 502, congrats!
Collaboration with the Boekhoven group “Accelerated Ripening in Chemically Fueled Emulsions” is published in ChemSystemsChem! Congrats on the Boekhoven lab and Hansol!
September 2020
Angela comes back as a CHEM 399 student in our lab, welcome back!
July 2020
Nathaniel Tetteh joins our group as a graduate student, Welcome!
Saf successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis. Congrats Dr. Alladin-Mustan!
Congrats to Eiman and Saf on their publication in Biopolymers!
Juli and Ben attend On-Line Telluride Science Research Center Workshop on Interfacial Molecular and Electronic Structure and Dynamics,
May 2020
Ben and Mokhtar attend online 2020 Chautauqua on Nonlinear Optics.
February 2020
Juli presents at the 2020 Pacific Conference on Spectroscopy and Dynamics in San Diego.
January 2020
Our collaboration with the Hore and Tyrode labs looking at the temperature-dependence of water SFG is published in JACS. Congrats to the team led by former student Dr. Azam!
Mokhtar is awarded the Norman and Magda Kemeny Jones Travel Award. Congrats, Mokhtar!
Franziska Busse begins a three months visit in our lab through a junior research fellowship between U of A and RWTH Aachen University.
Angela Chan joins us as a CHEM 399 student. Welcome!
Jisu An joins us as a CHEM 401 student. Welcome back!
Anantha Ealeswarapu joins our group as a new graduate student!
December 2019
Ben successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Rehl!
November 2019
Welcoming short visit of Felix Eckmann from Prof. Stutzmann’s lab at TU Munich as part of our ATUMS collaborations
Hansol, Mokhtar and Juli attend the ATUMS annual meeting in Canmore, AB.
October 2019
Shyam passes his 502! Well done!
September 2019
Yuning successfully defends his Master’s thesis. Congratulations, Yuning!
Undergraduate Hubert Piatkowski joins our group as CHEM 399 student. Welcome!
Santiago Tijaro Bulla joins our group as a collaboration with our lab and Dr. Macauley’s lab!
Nahida Akter joins our group as new graduate student. Welcome Nahida!
August 2019
Juli presents at the American Chemical Society National Meeting & Expo in San Diego, CA!
July 2019
Juli and Ben present at the 10th International Conference on Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy (ICAVS 10) in Auckland, New Zealand!
June 2019
Ben is awarded the Norman and Magda Kemeny Jones Travel Award. Congratulations, Ben!
Juli presents at the International Workshop on Nonlinear Optics at Interfaces 2019 in Shanghai!
Juli presents at “Nucleosides, Nucleotides, and Nucleic Acids” symposium and organizes “Precision Measurements of Interfacial Phenomena” symposium at 102nd Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CCCE 2019) in Québec city!
May 2019
Luca joins our group as a research assistant. Welcome, Luca!
Jisu joins our group again as an undergraduate researcher!
Baby Farha Rashwan joins the lab as the youngest member. Congratulations to Mokhtar! She is lovely!
April 2019
Congrats to Ben on his J. Phys. Chem. C. publication!
Hansol passes her candidacy exam! Congratulations!
Mokhtar passes his candidacy exam! Congrats!
March 2019
Eiman returns as a post-doc in our lab! Welcome back
January 2019
Anyeld defends her Master’s thesis successfully and completes a joint MSc program between the Departments of Chemistry (Faculty of Science) and the Department of Biomedical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Medicine). Congratulations, Anyeld!
Yuning starts three months ATUMS research exchange program in Prof. Boekhoven’s lab at TU Munich. Have fun!
November 2018
Juli and Mokhtar attend the ATUMS Annual Meeting in Munich, Germany.
September 2018
Eiman successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Osman!
Baby Zeyaan Mustan joins the lab as the youngest member. Congratulations to Saf and Rid! He is adorable!
Undergraduate Jisu An joins our group as CHEM 399 student.
August 2018
Yuning presents his poster at the XXIII International Roundtable of Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Nucleic acids in San Diego!
July 2018
We celebrate Juli’s 10th year anniversary in the Department of Chemistry at the UofA! Congrats!
Congrats to Eiman on her ChemBioChem publication!
Shyam presents his poster at the Quantum Alberta Workshop at the University of Calgary.
June 2018
Ben and Hansol start their three months research exchange in Prof. Rieger’s lab and in Prof. Boekhoven’s lab, respectively, at TU Munich as part of the ATUMS program. We’ll miss you guys, Good luck!
Juli attends the nonlinear optics TSRC and interfaces workshops in Telluride!
May 2018
Juli organizes and presents at the two symposiums “Spectroscopy and Microscopy at Material Interfaces”, “Advances in Nucleic Acid Chemistry and Technologies” in the 101th CSC in Edmonton.
Ben and Saf give a talk about their research in the 101th CSC in Edmonton.
Eiman, Hansol, Shyam, Yuning, and Mokhtar present their poster at the 101th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CSC 2018) in Edmonton.
Mokhtar and Shaym give small talks on Thirteenth Annual Chautauqua on Nonlinear Optics at Purdue University.
Mokhtar passes his 502! Yay!
Gunwant Matharu joins our group as an undergraduate researcher funded by Alberta Innovates Health Solutions. Welcome and Congratulations Gunwant!
April 2018
Anyeld starts her two months research exchange in Prof. Boekhoven’s lab at TU Munich as part of ATUMS program. We will miss you, Anyeld! Have fun!
March 2018
Hansol passes her 502! Great job!
Congrats to Ben and Dr. Li on their Langmuir publication!
January 2018
Shyam Parshotam joins our group as a collaboration with our lab and Dr. Brown’s lab!
Undergraduate Tianli Liu joins our lab again as CHEM 401 student. Welcome back Tianli!
December 2017
The Gibbs group welcomes Juli’s lovely cousin, Parker Montfort from Northern Arizona University for her short research visit!
November 2017
Welcome visiting graduate student Max Speckbacher from Prof. Turnow’s lab and Raphael Grötsch from Prof. Boekhoven’s lab at TU Munich as part of our ATUMS collaborations.
Farewell to Dr. Kerian as she joins Gilead, it was awesome to have you in our lab! All the best wishes to you!
Hansol, Yuning, Eiman, Anyeld, Ben and Dr. Gibbs go to the ATUMS Annual Meeting in Jasper.
October 2017
Eiman, Safeenaz, Ben and Hansol attend BSOC 2017, enjoy your time folks!
September 2017
We welcome Mokhtar Rashwan as a new graduate student in our laser lab! Wish you a productive year!
Congrats to Akemi on her J. Phys. Chem. C. publication!
August 2017
Ben successfully passes his candidacy exam! Awesome!
June 2017
Emma, Sun and Azam’s paper is accepted in J. Phys. Chem. Lett. This work was a collaboration with Professors Liu and Zeng in Chemical & Materials Engineering. Great job team!
Akemi presents at the Clay Minerals Society Annual Meeting in Edmonton.
Juli and Emma present at International Conference on Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy (ICAVS 9) in Victoria.
Sun successfully defends her Master’s thesis. Congratulations, Sun! We’ll miss you!
Juli is a discussion leader at the Nucleosides, Nucleotides & Oligonucleotides GRC in Newport, Rhode Island.
Prof. Azam returns for a two-month sabbatical in our lab.
May 2017
Juli is invited to present at Surface Canada 2017 in Montreal.
Juli presents at the 100th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition in Toronto
Eiman begins her three-month stint in the Boekhoven Lab at TU Munich as part of ATUMS
Tianli Liu joins our lab as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome, Tianli!
Juli is invited to the 4th Annual Alberta Nanotechnology Research Symposium in Calgary.
Visiting graduate student Reka Csiki from Prof. Stutzmann’s lab at TU Munich begins a three-month stint in our lab as part of ATUMS. Welcome, Reka!
April 2017
Juli receives the Faculty of Science Research Award, and Eiman receives a Faculty of Science Teaching Assistant Award. Great job, Eiman and well-done team!
March 2017
Ben passes his 502! Hooray Ben!
January 2017
We welcome Hoi Pui Chao as an undergraduate researcher.
November 2016
Juli, Ben, Eiman and Anyeld attend the ATUMS annual meeting at the Raitenhaslach monastery in Burghausen, Germany. Cool!
September 2016
Visiting graduate student Max Speckbacher from Prof. Turnow’s lab at TU Munich begins a three-month stint in our lab as part of ATUMS. Welcome, Max!
Ben leaves us for three months to join the Rieger lab at TUM as part of the ATUMS program. We’ll miss you. Have fun!
We welcome new graduate students Hansol Park and Yuning Liu. We hope the best for their future endeavours!
August 2016
Baby Maeyra Mustan joins the lab as the youngest member. Congratulations to Saf and Rid! She’s beautiful!
July 2016
Eiman presents at the 22th International Round Table on Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids in Paris, France.
Juli attends two TSRC Meetings: one on Nucleic Acids and another on Interfacial Molecular and Electronic Structure and Dynamics in Telluride, CO.
June 2016
Tendai leaves us to start her assistant professor position next month at Kansas State University. Manhattan, KS will never be the same! We will miss you, Dr. Gadzikwa!
Ben presents a poster at the CSC Meeting in Halifax, NS.
Juli attends the Telluride Science and Research Center (TSRC) Workshop on Nonlinear Optics in Telluride, CO.
May 2016
Undergraduate Sarah Hales and graduate Anyeld Ubeda join the lab. Welcome! Anyeld will begin a joint Master’s in Bioengineering in the fall as a collaboration with our lab and Prof. Uludag.
Kausar, Eiman and Tendai’s paper is accepted in the Analyst. Great job!
March 2016
Juli presents at the ACS National Meeting in San Diego.
New postdoctoral fellow Dr. Emma Kerian joins the lab. Welcome, Emma!
January 2016
Eiman passes her candidacy exam. Great job!
Juli visits UC San Diego and UCLA.