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February 2026<\/h4>\n

Juli is invited to the 2026 Mesilla Chemistry Workshop on Chemistry in Nanoconfined Aqueous Systems.<\/p>\n

January 2026<\/h4>\n

Preeti heads to Japan to work in the Tahara Lab at RIKEN for our collaboration.<\/p>\n

Paul defends his Master’s thesis.\u00a0 Congratulations, Paul!<\/p>\n

November 2025<\/h4>\n

Juli visits UVic, UBC, and SFU on an exciting whirlwind tour of our neighboring province.<\/p>\n

September 2025<\/h4>\n

New graduate students Dennis Nguyen, Matteo Busato, and Fatemeh Gholami join our lab.\u00a0 Welcome!<\/p>\n

Juli is invited to present at the 3rd International Symposium on Confinement-Controlled Chemistry at the Ruhr University Bochum.<\/p>\n

Ilia successfully defends his Master’s thesis!\u00a0 Congratulations, Ilia!<\/p>\n

August 2025<\/h4>\n

Anantha successfully defends her PhD thesis and begins an internship through the Technology Alberta TechBoost Stream with Bio Stream Diagnostics.\u00a0 Congratulations, Dr. Ealeswarapu!<\/p>\n

July 2025<\/h4>\n

Juli is invited to present at the Conference on Surface Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy at the Institute for Molecular Science (IMS), Okazaki, Japan.<\/p>\n

June 2025<\/h4>\n

Juli co-organizes symposium with Prof. Karthik Shankar (UAlberta) and Prof. Sathish Ponnurangamat (UCalgary) at the Joint 99th ACS Colloid Symposium & 18th IACIS Conference in Edmonton.<\/p>\n

Juli and Ilia attend the 2025 CSC Annual Meeting in Ottawa.<\/p>\n

May 2025<\/h4>\n

Preeti attends the first Interfaces for Energy and the Environment Conference (IEEC) at PNNL in Richland, WA.<\/p>\n

March 2025<\/h4>\n

Juli co-organizes \u201cElectrolytes at Charged and Metallic Surfaces\u201d symposium with Prof. Rick Remsing (Rutgers) at the Spring ACS Meeting in San Diego, CA.<\/p>\n

January 2025<\/h4>\n

Nathaniel successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis.\u00a0 Congratulations, Dr. Tetteh!<\/p>\n

Dr. Jon Strobl joins the lab as a postdoc.\u00a0 Welcome, Jon!<\/p>\n

December 2024<\/h4>\n

Juli attends American Geophysical Union annual meeting in Washington, D. C.<\/p>\n

October 2024<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Rana Elbahy Abdelmoety joins the group as an incoming graduate student.\u00a0 Welcome to the group, Rana!<\/p>\n

September 2024<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Dennis Nguyen begins his BIOCH 499 artificial cell project in our lab. Welcome, Dennis!<\/p>\n

Kyla returns to start a CHEM 401 in our lab.\u00a0 Welcome back!<\/p>\n

August 2024<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Nathaniel and Shyam’s paper on specific ion effects in the Stern and diffuse layers is accepted to JPC Lett.\u00a0 Hooray!<\/p>\n

Juli and former group member Ben attend the GRC on Vibrational Spectroscopy at Bryant University, RI.\u00a0 Ben wins a best poster presentation award on his work from our group.\u00a0 Congrats, Dr. Rehl!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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July 2024<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Kathreen (Kyla) Miralles joins our lab as a BIOCH 398 student.\u00a0 Welcome, Kyla!<\/p>\n

Juli is a discussion leader at the GRC on Water and Aqueous Solutions in Holderness, NH.<\/p>\n

June 2024<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Shyam and Ben’s collaborative paper with the Borguet lab appears in JPCC.\u00a0 Alumina vs Silica!<\/p>\n

Dr. Preeti Gahtori joins our lab and Team Laser as a new postdoctoral fellow.\u00a0 Welcome, Preeti!<\/p>\n

Juli attends the Telluride Science Research Centre Workshop on Nonlinear Optics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Nathaniel attends the CSC in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n

Nahida’s paper on self-replicating DNA nanoassemblies is accepted to JACS!!!<\/p>\n

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April 2024<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Juli visits the Department of Chemistry at UBC-Okanagan in Kelowna, BC.<\/p>\n

Juli is invited to present at the European Conference On Non-Linear Optical Spectroscopy 2024 in Vienna.<\/p>\n

March 2024<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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.<\/p>\n

January 2024<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Sarika Malwesnonnappa starts her CHEM 401 project in our lab.\u00a0 Welcome, Sarika!<\/p>\n

November 2023<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Juli, Anantha, and Nahida attend the ATUMS Annual Meeting in Canmore, Alberta.<\/p>\n

October 2023<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Shyam and Ben’s paper explaining how MEM reveals the phase relationship between SFG and SHG is accepted in J. Chem. Phys.\u00a0 Congratulations, Drs!<\/p>\n

Anantha and Nahida presented posters at Banff Symposium on Organic Chemistry ( BSOC)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

August 2023<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Juli presents at the Chemistry and Physics of Liquids GRC in Holderness, NH.<\/p>\n

Santi and Eiman’s paper on protein knock-out with CRISPR-click with the Macauley lab is published in ACS Chemical Biology!\u00a0 Exciting! Well done!<\/p>\n

New graduate student Aya Sherif joins our group. Welcome, Aya!<\/p>\n

July 2023<\/strong><\/h4>\n

New graduate student Paul Elinkpo joins our group.\u00a0 Welcome, Paul!<\/p>\n

Juli attends the Supramolecular Aqueous Workshop in Bozeman, MT.<\/p>\n

June 2023<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Juli attends the CSC 2023 in Vancouver.<\/p>\n

May 2023<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Undergrad Emersan Kristel-Grinde joins our lab for the summer.\u00a0 Welcome, Emersan!<\/p>\n

Juli presents at Nanolytica in Vancouver.<\/p>\n

Nathaniel presents a poster at Surface Canada at McMaster University and comes home with the Jean-Denis Carette Prize.\u00a0 Congratulations, Nathaniel!<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 Great work!<\/p>\n

The Chemical Reviews paper written by 20+ experts in the field of oxide-water interfaces with Juli as lead corresponding author is finally out!\u00a0 This started from a Mesilla Workshop in Feb 2020.\u00a0 Read a great article on this achievement from co-author Young-Shin Jun at Wash U here.<\/a><\/p>\n

April 2023<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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!<\/p>\n

Shyam and Wentong’s paper that suggests a new origin of the pH-dependent response of SHG is published in J. Phys. Chem. C.\u00a0 Well done!<\/p>\n

Nahida Akter receives the best oral presentation award at the Nucleic Acids Symposium at CCCE 2022.<\/p>\n

March 2023<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Juli participates in the Engineering Life Workshop as part of the 2023 Munich Institute for Astro-, Particle and BioPhysics (MIAPbP) program. Very stimulating!<\/p>\n

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!<\/p>\n

February 2023<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Anantha and Nahida begin their 3-month research visit in the Boekhoven lab at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).<\/p>\n

Juli attends the Mesilla Workshop on Geochemical Interfaces in sunny New Mexico.<\/p>\n

January 2023<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Ilia Gennadiev joins our research group. Welcome, Ilia!<\/p>\n

Shyam successfully defends his thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Parshotam!<\/p>\n

December 2022<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Anantha passes her Candidacy exam. Congratulations, Anantha!<\/p>\n

Juli visits the Department of Chemistry at the University of Iowa.<\/p>\n

Shyam’s paper with Ben and Franziska is published at J. Phys. Chem. C. Yay, Team HOD (in D2O)!<\/p>\n

November 2022<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Juli, Anantha, and Nahida attended ATUMS Annual Meeting in Bernried, Munich. Glad to be back in Germany!<\/p>\n

Mokhtar’s paper with Ben and our industrial collaborator at Graymont Nikolas Romaniuk on measuring the clay\/silica interface is accepted into Langmuir.\u00a0 Congratulations, all!<\/p>\n

September 2022<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Fabian Spath joins our lab for an ATUMS research visit. Welcome, Fabian!<\/p>\n

August 2022<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Juli presents at the Vibrational Spectroscopy Gordon Research Conference at Bryant University, Rhode Island.<\/p>\n

Congratulations to Ben and Shyam for their publication in JACS.\u00a0<\/em>Collaboration with Gieger lab.<\/em><\/p>\n

Matt and I are interviewed about Hansol and Eiman’s CRISPR-Click paper in CRISPR Medicine<\/em><\/a>!<\/p>\n

July 2022<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Congratulations to Hansol for her publication in\u00a0Chemical Communications.<\/em><\/p>\n

June 2022<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Juli presents at the Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CCCE) in Calgary.<\/p>\n

Juli and Derek O’Flaherty from the University of Guelph organize the “Nucleic Acids in Chemistry and Biology\u201d at the CCCE 2022.<\/p>\n

Shyam, Nathaniel, Nahida, and Anantha present at the Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CCCE)\u00a0 in Calgary.<\/p>\n

Laura Tebcharani from Boekhoven lab (TUM) begins a three months visit to our lab through the ATUMS program.<\/p>\n

May 2022<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Boris Stevanovic and Marlee Willier join us as undergraduate researchers, Welcome!<\/p>\n

April 2022<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Nahida passes her candidacy exam. Well done, Nahida!<\/p>\n

Santiago successfully defends his Master’s thesis. Congrats Santiago!<\/p>\n

Congratulations to Hansol & Eiman for their publication in Bioconjugate Chemistry. Collaboration with Macauley lab (U of A) & Hubbard lab (U of T)<\/em><\/p>\n

March 2022<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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.<\/em>!<\/p>\n

February 2022<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Anantha passes her 502. Well done!<\/p>\n

Our CFI-JELF for the Collaborative Ultrafast Spectroscopy Lab (CUSL) was highlighted by Canada Foundation for Innovation and in the Financial Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

January 2022<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Hansol successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations Dr. Park!<\/p>\n

December 2021<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Hansol presents at the “Functional Nucleic Acids: Chemistry, Biology, and Materials Applications ” symposium at the 2021 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

November 2021<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Nathaniel passes his candidacy exam. Well done, Nathaniel!<\/p>\n

September 2021<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Mokhtar successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis. Congrats Dr. Rashwan<\/p>\n

May 2021<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Grace Deng joins us as an undergraduate researcher, Welcome!<\/p>\n

March 2021<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Ben’s paper on the effect of salt addition on the silica surface water structure was accepted in J. Phys. Chem. Lett.<\/em>!<\/p>\n

Wentong Zhang begins a 12-month visit to our lab through the China Scholarship Council from China University of Petroleum, Beijing. Welcome, Wentong!<\/p>\n

February 2021<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Nahida passes her 502, Well done!<\/p>\n

January 2021<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Stacey Idland joins us as CHEM 399 student, Welcome!<\/p>\n

December 2020<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Congrats to Safeenaz on her publication in Analytica Chimica Acta<\/em><\/p>\n

November 2020<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Shyam passes his candidacy exam, congratulations!<\/p>\n

Congrats to Mokhtar and Ben on their publication in J. Phys. Chem. C<\/em>!<\/p>\n

October 2020<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Nathaniel passes his 502, congrats!<\/p>\n

Collaboration with the Boekhoven group “Accelerated Ripening in Chemically Fueled Emulsions” is published in ChemSystemsChem!\u00a0<\/em>Congrats on the Boekhoven lab and Hansol!<\/p>\n

September 2020<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Angela comes back as a CHEM 399 student in our lab, welcome back!<\/p>\n

July 2020<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Nathaniel Tetteh joins our group as a graduate student, Welcome!<\/p>\n

Saf successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis. Congrats Dr. Alladin-Mustan!<\/p>\n

Congrats to Eiman and Saf on their publication in Biopolymers<\/em>!<\/p>\n

Juli and Ben attend On-Line Telluride Science Research Center Workshop on Interfacial Molecular and Electronic Structure and Dynamics,<\/p>\n

May 2020<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Ben and Mokhtar attend online 2020 Chautauqua on Nonlinear Optics.<\/p>\n

February 2020<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Juli presents at the 2020 Pacific Conference on Spectroscopy and Dynamics in San Diego.<\/p>\n

January 2020<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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!<\/p>\n

Mokhtar is awarded the Norman and Magda Kemeny Jones Travel Award. Congrats, Mokhtar!<\/p>\n

Franziska Busse begins a three months visit in our lab through a junior research fellowship between U of A and RWTH Aachen University.<\/p>\n

Angela Chan joins us as a CHEM 399 student. Welcome!<\/p>\n

Jisu An joins us as a CHEM 401 student. Welcome back!<\/p>\n

Anantha Ealeswarapu joins our group as a new graduate student!<\/p>\n

December 2019<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Ben successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Rehl!<\/p>\n

November 2019<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Welcoming short visit of Felix Eckmann from Prof. Stutzmann’s lab\u00a0at TU Munich as part of our ATUMS collaborations<\/p>\n

Hansol, Mokhtar and Juli attend the ATUMS annual meeting in Canmore, AB.<\/p>\n

October 2019<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Shyam passes his 502! Well done!<\/p>\n

September 2019<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Yuning successfully defends his Master\u2019s thesis. Congratulations, Yuning!<\/p>\n

Undergraduate Hubert Piatkowski joins our group as CHEM 399 student. Welcome!<\/p>\n

Santiago Tijaro Bulla joins our group as a collaboration with our lab and Dr. Macauley’s lab!<\/p>\n

Nahida Akter joins our group as new graduate student. Welcome Nahida!<\/p>\n

August 2019<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Juli presents at the American Chemical Society National Meeting & Expo in San Diego, CA!<\/p>\n

July 2019<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Juli and Ben present at the 10th International Conference on Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy (ICAVS 10) in Auckland, New Zealand!<\/p>\n

June 2019<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Ben is awarded the Norman and Magda Kemeny Jones Travel Award. Congratulations, Ben!<\/p>\n

Juli presents at the International Workshop on Nonlinear Optics at Interfaces 2019 in Shanghai!<\/p>\n

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 Qu\u00e9bec city!<\/p>\n

May 2019<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Luca joins our group as a research assistant. Welcome, Luca!<\/p>\n

Jisu joins our group again as an undergraduate researcher!<\/p>\n

Baby Farha Rashwan joins the lab as the youngest member. Congratulations to Mokhtar! She is lovely!<\/p>\n

April 2019<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Congrats to Ben on his\u00a0J. Phys. Chem. C.\u00a0<\/em>publication!<\/p>\n

Hansol passes her candidacy exam! Congratulations!<\/p>\n

Mokhtar passes his candidacy exam! Congrats!<\/p>\n

March 2019<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Eiman returns as a post-doc in our lab! Welcome back<\/p>\n

January 2019<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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!<\/p>\n

Yuning starts three months ATUMS research exchange program in Prof. Boekhoven’s lab at TU Munich. Have fun!<\/p>\n

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November 2018<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Juli and Mokhtar attend the ATUMS Annual Meeting in Munich, Germany.<\/p>\n

September 2018<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Eiman successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Osman!<\/p>\n

Baby Zeyaan Mustan joins the lab as the youngest member. Congratulations to Saf and Rid! He is adorable!<\/p>\n

Undergraduate Jisu An joins our group as CHEM 399 student.<\/p>\n

August 2018<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Yuning presents his poster at the XXIII International Roundtable of Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Nucleic acids in San Diego!<\/p>\n

July 2018<\/strong><\/h4>\n

We celebrate Juli’s 10th year anniversary in the Department of Chemistry at the UofA! Congrats!<\/p>\n

Congrats to Eiman on her\u00a0ChemBioChem<\/em> publication!<\/p>\n

Shyam presents his poster at the Quantum Alberta Workshop at the University of Calgary.<\/p>\n

June 2018<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Juli attends the nonlinear optics TSRC and interfaces workshops in Telluride!<\/p>\n

May 2018<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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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.<\/p>\n

Ben and Saf give a talk about their research in the 101th CSC in Edmonton.<\/p>\n

Eiman, Hansol, Shyam, Yuning, and Mokhtar present their poster at the 101th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CSC 2018)\u00a0 in Edmonton.<\/p>\n

Mokhtar and Shaym give small talks on Thirteenth Annual Chautauqua on Nonlinear Optics at Purdue University.<\/p>\n

Mokhtar passes his 502! Yay!<\/p>\n

Gunwant Matharu joins our group as an undergraduate researcher funded by Alberta Innovates Health Solutions. Welcome and Congratulations Gunwant!<\/p>\n

April 2018<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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!<\/p>\n

March\u00a02018<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Hansol passes her 502! Great job!<\/p>\n

Congrats to Ben and Dr. Li on their\u00a0Langmuir<\/em>\u00a0publication!<\/p>\n

January 2018<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Shyam Parshotam joins our group as a collaboration with our lab and Dr. Brown’s lab!<\/p>\n

Undergraduate Tianli Liu joins our lab again as CHEM 401 student. Welcome back Tianli!<\/p>\n

December 2017<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The Gibbs group welcomes Juli’s lovely cousin, Parker Montfort from Northern Arizona University for her short research visit!<\/p>\n

November 2017\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Welcome visiting graduate student Max Speckbacher from Prof. Turnow’s lab and Raphael Gr\u00f6tsch from Prof. Boekhoven’s lab\u00a0at TU Munich as part of our ATUMS collaborations.<\/p>\n

Farewell to Dr. Kerian as she joins Gilead, it was awesome to have you in our lab! All the best wishes to you!<\/p>\n

Hansol, Yuning, Eiman, Anyeld, Ben and Dr. Gibbs go to the ATUMS Annual Meeting in Jasper.<\/p>\n

October 2017\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Eiman, Safeenaz, Ben and Hansol attend BSOC 2017, enjoy your time folks!<\/p>\n

September\u00a02017<\/strong><\/h4>\n

We welcome Mokhtar Rashwan as a new graduate student in our laser lab! Wish you a productive year!<\/p>\n

Congrats to Akemi on her\u00a0J. Phys. Chem. C<\/em>. publication!<\/p>\n

August 2017<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Ben successfully passes his candidacy exam! Awesome!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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June 2017<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

Emma, Sun and Azam’s paper is accepted in\u00a0J. Phys. Chem. Lett.<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0This work was a collaboration with Professors Liu and Zeng in Chemical & Materials Engineering. Great job team!<\/p>\n

Akemi presents at the Clay Minerals Society Annual Meeting in Edmonton.<\/p>\n

Juli and Emma present at International Conference on Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy (ICAVS 9) in Victoria.<\/p>\n

Sun successfully defends her Master’s thesis.\u00a0 Congratulations, Sun!\u00a0 We’ll miss you!<\/p>\n

Juli is a discussion leader at the Nucleosides, Nucleotides & Oligonucleotides GRC in Newport, Rhode Island.<\/p>\n

Prof. Azam returns for a two-month sabbatical in our lab.<\/p>\n

May\u00a02017<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Juli is invited to present at Surface Canada 2017 in Montreal.<\/p>\n

Juli presents at the 100th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition in Toronto<\/p>\n

Eiman begins her three-month stint in the Boekhoven Lab at TU Munich as part of ATUMS<\/p>\n

Tianli Liu joins our lab as an undergraduate researcher.\u00a0 Welcome, Tianli!<\/p>\n

Juli is invited to the 4th Annual Alberta Nanotechnology Research Symposium in Calgary.<\/p>\n

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!<\/p>\n

April 2017<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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!<\/p>\n

March 2017<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Ben passes his 502! Hooray Ben!<\/p>\n

January 2017<\/strong><\/h4>\n

We welcome Hoi Pui\u00a0Chao as an undergraduate researcher.<\/p>\n

November 2016<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Juli, Ben, Eiman and Anyeld attend the ATUMS annual meeting at the Raitenhaslach monastery in Burghausen, Germany. Cool!<\/p>\n

September 2016<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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!<\/p>\n

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!<\/p>\n

We welcome new graduate students Hansol Park and Yuning Liu. We hope the best for their future endeavours!<\/p>\n

August 2016<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Baby Maeyra Mustan joins the lab as the youngest member. Congratulations to Saf and Rid! She’s beautiful!<\/p>\n

July 2016<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Eiman presents at the 22th International Round Table on Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids in Paris, France.<\/p>\n

Juli attends two TSRC Meetings: one on Nucleic Acids and another on Interfacial Molecular and Electronic Structure and Dynamics in Telluride, CO.<\/p>\n

June 2016<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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!<\/p>\n

Ben presents a poster at the CSC Meeting in Halifax, NS.<\/p>\n

Juli attends the Telluride Science and Research Center (TSRC) Workshop on Nonlinear Optics in Telluride, CO.<\/p>\n

May 2016<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Kausar, Eiman and Tendai’s paper is accepted in the Analyst. Great job!<\/p>\n

March 2016<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Juli presents at the ACS National Meeting in San Diego.<\/p>\n

New postdoctoral fellow Dr. Emma Kerian joins the lab. Welcome, Emma!<\/p>\n

January 2016<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Eiman passes her candidacy exam. Great job!<\/p>\n

Juli visits UC San Diego and UCLA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

February 2026 Juli is invited to the 2026 Mesilla Chemistry Workshop on Chemistry in Nanoconfined Aqueous Systems. January 2026 Preeti heads to Japan to work in the Tahara Lab at RIKEN for our collaboration. Paul defends his Master’s thesis.\u00a0 Congratulations,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-51","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gibbs.chem.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gibbs.chem.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gibbs.chem.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gibbs.chem.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gibbs.chem.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":184,"href":"https:\/\/gibbs.chem.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1323,"href":"https:\/\/gibbs.chem.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gibbs.chem.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}