March

  • Ameer was a finalist out of 50+ students and placed 2nd at the 2024 Association québécoise de la production d’énergie renouvelable student competition. Congratulations!

  • Congratulations to Morgan and Mehdi for participating in Concordia three minute thesis competition (3MT). Watch the full competition here!

2023

October

  • Congratulations to Nazli and Mehdi for giving contributed talks in the Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference (CSChE) 2023, Calgary.

September

  • Congratulations to Sina for his successful Ph.D. defense. We wish you the best Dr. Sina Pourebrahimi!

August

  • Congratulations to Guru and Satya for their contributions to the field of Immunoinformatics during the International Conference on Latest Research on Corona Virus and its Vaccine (ICRCVV) that was held in Puducherry, India.

July

  • Welcome to our new Mitacs interns Kazuhiro, Catherine, and Conor. We hope that they will enjoy their stay!

June

  • Our group had a productive conference at CSC 2023. Ameer, Mehdi, Ridwan and Sina gave contributed talks, while Eden, Morgan and Nazli each gave a poster presentation. Many thanks to Morgan for organizing a fantastic dinner!

April

  • Congratulations to Guru on his new position in our group as a research associate in computational biology and chemistry.

March

  • Congratulations to Eden, Sina (Chemical and Materials Engineering) and Mehdi (Physics) for successfully passing their comprehensive exam, and advancing to candidacy in the Ph.D. program.

January

  • Best wishes on the book chapter by Kaliamurthi, S., Selvaraj, G., Cho, W., Peslherbe, GH., and Wei on “The implication of miRNA in targeting characteristics of lung cancer, Volume 20, Lung Cancers: Bench to Bedside Approach, Handbook of Cancer and Immunology” Springer, 2023.

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December

  • Congratulations on the Editorial report by Wei, DQ.; Peslherbe, GH., Selvaraj, G.,  Wang, Y about “Advances in Drug Design and Development for Human Therapeutics Using Artificial Intelligence” in Biomolecules, 12(12), 1846, 2022.

     

November

  • Ameer, Nazli and Ridwan presented their research as posters in Chemistry and Biochemistry Graduate Research Conference (CBGRC) while Mehdi gave an oral presentation.
    Mehdi’s presentation was selected as the best oral presentation in Computational Chemistry. Ameer and Ridwan won the best poster award in their category.

October

  • Many congratulations to Dr. Hang Hu for his successful thesis defense. Hang started his job at NRC.  
  • Congratulations to Hanzhang for the successful completion of his internship. 

September

  • Welcome to Morgan (MSc), Niki (MSc) and Ameer (PhD)! Morgan will work on biomolecule encapsulation in carbohydrate solutions and Niki will focus on the design of durable aerospace materials with co-supervision of Dr. Stoyanov. Ameer will be co-supervised with Dr. Li working on new generation of batteries.
  • Congratulations to Justus and Yash for successful completion of their internship. 

  • Satyavani and  Gurudeeban presented a poster on a hot topic “Identifying Allele-Specific CD8+ Epitopes from Variants of Concern (VOC) of SARS-CoV-2 to Design Peptide-Based Therapeutics Targeting COVID-19” at the International Society for Vaccines 2022 ISV Annual Congress (September 18-20).

  • Gurudeeban and Satyavani presented a poster on emerging Monkeypox virus “Deep Learning and Computational Modeling for Epitope-Focused Immunogen Design Targeting Monkeypox” at International Society for Vaccines 2022 ISV Annual Congress (September 18-20).