Jan 2023
- Ish Abu-Baker presents a poster at the GRC on Physical Virology
- Shoronia Cross's paper Preparation and characterization of ultra-small, monodisperse CoxFe3-xO4 nanoparticles published in the Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. Congratulations!
Sep 2022
- Kristian El-Chami joins the group - welcome!
Aug 2022
- Dr. Shoronia N. Cross defends his PhD - congratulations!
Jul 2022
- Dan Petrescu and Ish Abu-Baker's paper "Biomolecular Self-Assembly of Nanorings on a Viral Protein Template" published at Biomacromolecules - congratulations!
Jun 2022
- Prof. Blum presents a talk "Viral templated 2-D plasmonic lattices: A new metasurface?" at the CSC in Calgary
- Prof. Blum presents a talk "Electrum on the nanoscale: controlling the composition of gold-silver alloy" at the CSC in Calgary
- Ish Abu-Baker presents a talk "Highly ordered arrays of gold nanorings assembled on a Tobacco mosaic virus coat protein" at the Canadian Materials Science Conference in Toronto
May 2022
- Congratulations to Xingming Situ upon completing his MSc!
Apr 2022
- Ish Abu-Baker's paper "Alcohol-Perturbed Self-Assembly of Tobacco Mosaic Virus Coat Protein" published at the Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology - congratulations!
- Ish Abu-Baker presents a talk "Highly ordered arrays of gold nanorings assembled on a Tobacco mosaic virus coat protein" at FNANO2022
Jan 2022
- Elliot Zohlfagar joins the group as an undergraduate researcher - welcome!
Dec 2021
- Prof. Blum presents a talk "Plasmonics with viruses" at Pacifichem 2021
Oct 2021
- We mourn the untimely passing of Dan Petrescu, our friend and colleague
Sep 2021
- Guido Merino joins the group as an MSc student -- welcome!
Aug 2021
- Prof. Blum presents a talk at "Engineering Tobacco mosaic virus coat protein as a template for organizing nanosized components" at the joint IUPAC/CCCE 2021 meeting
- Ish Abu-Baker presents a talk "Ethanol-Perturbed Assembly of Tobacco Mosaic Virus Coat Protein " at the joint IUPAC/CCCE 2021 meeting
- Dan Petrescu presents a poster "3D Assembly of Meta-Atoms via Polyelectrolyte Multilayering: A Bottom-Up Approach Toward a Negative Index Metamaterial with Resonances in the Visible Regime" at the joint IUPAC/CCCE 2021 meeting
- Xingming Situ presents a poster "Seeded growth synthesis of gold-silver alloy nanoparticles" at the joint IUPAC/CCCE 2021 meeting
Jun 2021
- Prof Blum presents a talk "Self-Assembly of Metamaterials from Solution" at IEEE Photonics North
May 2021
- S. Balasurya joins the group for a virtual internship sponsored by MITACS -- welcome!
Apr 2021
- Ish Abu-Baker presents a poster "Ethanol-Mediated Assembly of Tobacco Mosaic Virus Coat Protein" at FNANO 2021
- Prof Blum receives a FQRNT equipe grant with Prof Matt Harrington
Dec 2020
- Prof Blum publishes a paper "Recent Advances in Bio-Templated Metallic Nanomaterial Synthesis and Electrocatalytic Applications" in ChemSusChem.
Jun 2020
- Prof Blum publishes a paper "Plasmonic enhancement of two-photon excitation fluorescence by colloidal assemblies of very small AuNPs templated on M13 phage" in Biomacromolecules.
Apr 2020
- Prof Blum receives an NSERC Discovery Grant!
- Prof Blum receives a New Frontier in Research Fund Exploration grant with Prof Anthony Mittermaier.
Jan 2020
- Congratulations to Serene Bayram on the publication of her book chapter "Directing the Self-Assembly of Nanoparticles for Advanced Materials" in Advanced Materials, published by De Gruyter.
Dec 2019
- Prof Blum gives a talk "Metamaterials: Going Beyond What Nature Gives Us" as part of the Cutting Edge Lectures in Science at the Redpath Museum.
Sep 2019
- Congratulations to Serene Bayram and Yani Pan on the publication of their paper "Biosynthesized silver nanorings as a highly efficient and selective electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction" in Nanoscale!
- Welcome to new PhD student Alex Al-Feghali
- Eloi Grignon joins the group to do his Honours Project on incoroporating TMV-based nanostructures in polymer films -- welcome!
Aug 2019
- Prof Blum gives a talk "Plasmonics with Viruses" at the 2019 ESP-IUPB World Congress in Barcelona
- Prof Blum gives a talk "Plasmonics with Viruses" at the NanoLSI Annual Meeting in Vancouver
Jun 2019
- Prof Blum gives a talk "How do ligand properties influence the magnetic properties of iron oxide nanoparticles?" at the Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition in Quebec City.
- Ish Abu-Baker gives a poster presentation "Self-assembly properties of hexahistidine-tagged tobacco mosaic virus coat protein" at the Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition in Quebec City.
- Xingming Situ gives a poster presentation "Seeded Growth Synthesis of Uniform Gold-Silver Alloy Nanoparticle and its Etching Study" at the Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition in Quebec City.
- Shoronia Cross gives a poster presentation "Clickable Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for the Assembly of Magnetic Nanoring Structures on Viral Templates" at the IEEE Magnetics Society Summer School in Richmond, VA.
- Shoronia Cross gives a poster presentation "The Influence of Ligand Electronics on the Physical Properties of Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles: A Study Using Dihydroxybenzoic Acid Ligands" at the Gordon Research Conference on Clusters and Nanostructures, Les Diablerets, Switerland.
- Shoronia Cross gives a Hot Topics presentation "The Influence of Ligand Electronics on the Physical Properties of Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles: A Study Using Dihydroxybenzoic Acid Ligands" at the Gordon Research Conference on Clusters and Nanostructures, Les Diablerets, Switerland.
May 2019
- Morgan Thinel rejoins the group with an NSERC USRA fellowship to work on incorporating nanoring structures into films--welcome!
- Hannah Szeptycki joins the group with an NSERC USRA fellowship to work on electrocatalysis with nanoparticles--welcome!
Apr 2019
- Congratulations to Shoronia Cross, who received a CSC-Montreal 2001 Travel Award!
- Congratulations to Dan Petrescu, who received a GREAT Travel Award!
- Congratulations to Xingming Situ, who received a GREAT Travel Award!
- Congratulations to Ish Abu-Baker, who received a GREAT Travel Award!
Feb 2019
- Prof. Blum gives a talk "Metamaterials: Going Beyond What Nature Gives Us" at the McGill University Medical Physics Unit.
Jan 2019
- Morgan Thinel rejoins the group to work on a a research project on polymer film formation--welcome!
- Yu Han Mao joins the group to work on superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles--welcome!
- Shoronia Cross gives a talk "Clickable Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for the Assembly of Magnetic Nanoring Structures on Viral Templates" at the Joint MMM-Intermag Conference in Washington, DC.
Oct 2018
- Congratulations to Dr. Serene Bayram, whose paper "Efficient One-step PEG-silane Passivation of Glass Surfaces for Single-molecule Fluorescence Studies" was published in ACS Applied Surfaces and Interfaces
Jul 2018
- Prof. Blum gives a talk "Making Viruses Work for Us: Self-Assembled Nanostructured Materials" at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel
Jun 2018
- Congratulations to Dan Petrescu, who received the David Simkin prize in Physical Chemistry
- Congratulations to Dr. Serene Bayram, Dr. Julia del Re, and Dr. Omar Zahr, whose invited chapter "TMV Disk Scaffolds for Making sub-30 nm Silver Nanorings" was published in Udit A. (ed) Protein Scaffolds. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1798. Humana Press, New York, NY
- Prof. Blum gives a talk "Tunable Longitudinal Modes in Self-Assembled Silver Nanoparticles" at the Photonics North meeting in Montreal, QC
May 2018
- Prof. Blum gives a talk "Using IR spectroscopy to understand the surface chemistry of iron oxide nanoparticles" at the Canada Society for Chemistry meeting in Edmonton, AB.
- Morgan Thinel joins the group with an NSERC USRA fellowship to work on self-assembly of TMV templated nanorings--welcome!
- Parker Fogler joins the group with a McGill SURA fellowship to work on a joint project with the Lennox group on plasmonic enhancement of photocatalysis--welcome!
- Sinan Abi Faraj gives a poster "Effect of DHBA Binding Modes on the Oxidation of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles" at the QCAM/CQMF Annual Meeting in Montreal.
- Shoronia Cross gives a poster "Tobacco Mosaic Virus-Templated Self-Assembly of Aqueous-Stable Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles into Ring Structures Using Click Chemistry" at the QCAM/CQMF Annual Meeting in Montreal.
Apr 2018
- Congratulations to Shoronia Cross, who received an FRQNT Doctoral Fellowship!
- Congratulations to Dan Petrescu, who received a CSC-Montreal 2001 Travel Award!
- Congratulations to Shoronia Cross, who received a GREAT Travel Award!
Mar 2018
- Congratulations to Dr. Serene Bayram and Philippe Green, whose paper was profiled on Elsevier's Chemistry page
Feb 2018
- Congratulations to Dan Petrescu, whose review article was featured on Advanced Science News
- Congratulations to Dr. Serene Bayram and Philippe Green, whose paper Sensing of heavy metal ions by intrinsic TMV coat protein fluorescence was published by Spectrochimica Acta A
- Congratulations to Dan Petrescu, whose review article Viral-based nanomaterials for plasmonic and photonic materials and devices was published by WIREs Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology
Jan 2018
- Ish Abu-Baker joins the group as a PhD student to work on TMV self-assembly--welcome!
- Zephren Charbonneau joins the group for a research internship through John Abbott college--welcome!
- Sinan Abi Farraj joins the group as a Materials Science and Engineering COOP student--welcome!
- Erwin Shie joins the group as an undergraduate researcher--welcome!
- Prof. Blum gives a talk "Making Viruses Work for Us: Self-assembled Nanostructured Materials" at the University of Windsor
Nov 2017
- Dan Petrescu gives a talk "Fabrication of a Metamaterial Unit Cell—Plasmonic Nanorings on a Tobacco Mosaic Virus Protein Mutant" at the MRS Fall Meeting in Boston.
- Shoronia Cross gives a poster "Tobacco Mosaic Virus-Templated Self-Assembly of Aqueous-Stable Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles into Ring Structures Using Click Chemistry" at the MRS Fall Meeting in Boston.
Oct 2017
- Congratulations to Xingming Situ, who received a Graduate Excellence Fund Travel Award!
- Congratulations to Shoronia Cross who received a Graduate Excellence Fund Travel Award!
- Prof. Blum gives a talk "Metamaterials: Going Beyond What Nature GIves Us" for Physics Matters at McGill.
Sept 2017
- Xingming Situ joins the group as a PhD student to work on nanostructured materials--welcome!
July 2017
- Congratulations to Dr. Serene Bayram, who successfully defended her PhD!
- Congratulations to Dan Petrescu, who received a Graduate Excellence Fellowship!
June 2017
- Congratulations to Shoronia Cross, who won the 2017 David J. Simkin Award in Physical Chemistry!
- Congratulations to Serene Bayram, who won an FRQNT Postdoctoral Fellowship!
May 2017
- Romane Thiboutot-Martin joins the group to work on TMV templated gold nanorings for the summer--welcome!
- Hannah Sragivicz joins the group to work on iron oxide nanoparticles for May and June--welcome!
- Alice Kahan joins the group to work on gold nanorod synthesis for the summer with a Summer Undergraduate Research Award--congratulations and welcome!
- Janet Tang joins the group to work on self-assembly of gold nanorods for the summer with a Summer Undergraduate Research Award--congratulations and welcome!
- Yifan Ling joins the group to work on iron oxide nanoparticles for the summer--welcome!
- Dr. Blum gives a talk on Nanoparticles by design: controlling the surface chemistry of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles at Surface Canada in Montreal.
- Dr. Blum gives a talk on Nanoring Formation via In-situ Photoreduction of Silver on a Virus Protein Scaffold at the 100th Canadian Society for Chemistry meeting in Toronto.
- Dr. Blum gives an invited talk on Nanoparticles by Design: The Surface Chemistry of Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles at the 100th Canadian Society for Chemistry meeting in Toronto.
- Serene Bayram gives a talk on Tunable Longitudinal Modes in Extended Silver Nanoparticles Assemblies at the at the 100th Canadian Society for Chemistry meeting in Toronto.
- Shoronia Cross gives a talk on Surface Modification of Aqueous-stable Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles to Produce Clickable Platforms at the 100th Canadian Society for Chemistry meeting in Toronto.
April 2017
- Congratulations to Dr. Julia Del Re on her new position as a research chemist at American Iron and Metal!
February 2017
- Congratulations to Shoronia Cross and Dr. Katalin Korpany on the publication of their paper Iron oxide surface chemistry: effect of chemical structure on binding in benzoic acid and catechol derivatives in Langmuir!
January 2017
- Nicolas Grinberg joins the group to work on plasmonic metal nanoparticles for Winter Semester--welcome!
- Taylor Seo joins the group to work on iron oxide nanoparticles for Winter Semester--welcome!
- Dr. Blum gives a seminar in the Chemistry Department at the Universary of Calgary on Nanoparticles by design: controlling the surface chemistry of iron oxide nanoparticles
November 2016
- Congratulations to Serene Bayram, Omar Zahr, and Julia Del Re on the publication of their paper "Nanoring formation via in-situ photoreduction of silver on a virus scaffold" in Nanotechnology!
- Congratulations to Joshua Lucate on the publication of his paper "The Importance of Calcium Ions in Poly-A RNA Mediated Tobacco Mosaic Virus-Like Rod Formation" in the Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology!
August 2016
- Congratulations to Serene Bayram on the publication of her paper "Tunable longitudinal modes in extended silver nanoparticle assemblies" in the Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology!
July 2016
- Congratulations to Dan Petrescu on winning a Molson & Hilton Hart Fellowship
- Serene Bayram presents a poster on "Scaling Down the Size of Silver Nanorings using a Virus Scaffold" at the GRC on Plasmonics and Nanophotonics
June 2016
- Congratualations to Serene Bayram on receiving a T. Sterry Hunt Teaching Award
- Dr. Blum presents a seminar on "Virus Inspired Metamaterials" at the University of Stuttgart
- Dr. Blum presents a poster at the Gordon Research Conference on Bioinspired Materials in Les Diablerets, Switzerland.
- Dan Petrescu presents a poster on "Solution-phase nanoscale plasmon coupling of gold nanoparticle rings scaffolded on Tobacco Mosaic Virus capsid protein" at the 28th Canadian Materials Science Conference
May 2016
- Congratulations to Shoronia Cross on winning a Richard T. Mohan Travel Scholarship to present at the American Chemical Society meeting in August
- Congratulations to Serene Bayram on winning a GREAT Travel Award to present at the GRC on Plasmonics and Nanophotonics
- Congratulations to Dan Petrescu on winning a Richard T. Mohan Travel Scholarship to present at the Canadian Materials Science Conference
- Congratulations to Dan Petrescu on winning a Toronto Chemical Biophysics Symposium Travel award
- Dan Petrescu presents a poster on "Solution-phase nanoscale plasmon coupling of gold nanoparticle rings scaffolded on Tobacco Mosaic Virus capsid protein" at the Toronto Chemical Biophysics Symposium
- Serene Bayram presents a poster on "Silver Nanoparticles Ensembles: TEM-Dark Field Correlated Study" at the Toronto Chemical Biophysics Symposium
- Dan Petrescu presents a poster on "Solution-phase nanoscale plasmon coupling of gold nanoparticle rings scaffolded on Tobacco Mosaic Virus capsid protein" at the Advanced Materials Annual Meeting
- Serene Bayram presents a poster on "Silver Nanoparticles Ensembles: TEM-Dark Field Correlated Study" at the Advanced Materials Annual Meeting
- Shoronia Cross presents a poster on "Controlling the surface chemistry of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles" at the Advanced Materials Annual Meeting
- Dr. Blum presents a seminar on "Virus Inspired Metamaterials" at the University of Cologne
Apr 2016
- Dr. Blum presents a seminar on "Virus Inspired Metamaterials" at the University of Paris Diderot
- Congratultions to Dan Petrescu on winning the Dr. James E Griffith Award in Chemistry
Jan 2016
- Congratulations to Shoronia Cross and Dr. Katalin Korpany on the publication of their manuscript One-step ligand exchange and switching from hydrophobic to water-stable hydrophilic superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles by mechanochemical milling in ChemComm.
Nov 2015
- Congratulations to Dr. Julia Del Re on defending her PhD!
Sep 2015
- Congratulations to Shoronia Cross, who won a Vanier Graduate Scholarship!
- Dan Petrescu joins the group as a new PhD student joint with the Andrews group--welcome!
- Serene Bayram presents posters on her work at the CSACS Student Symposium.
Aug 2015
- Congratulations to Josh Lucate who completed his MSc!
Jul 2015
- Serene Bayram wins the Simkin Award--congratulations!
- Aurelien Charpentier joins the group for the summer to work on self-assembly of silver nanoparticles--welcome!
- Dr. Blum receives a DAAD Short Term Research Stay award to spend part of her sabbatical in Germany in 2016.
Jun 2015
- Shoronia Cross presents a poster on his work at the 98th Canadian Chemistry Conference in Ottawa, ON.
- Serene Bayram gives a talk at the 98th Canadian Chemistry Conference in Ottawa, ON.
- Dr. Blum gives two talks at the 98th Canadian Chemistry Conference in Ottawa, ON.
May 2015
- Julia Del Re presents a poster on her work at the Gordon Research Conference on Self-Assembly and Supramolecular Chemistry in Lucca, Italy.
- Patrick Brosseau joins the group for the summer to work on self-assembly of nanoparticles on tobacco mosaic virus--welcome!
- Cindy Tzu-Hsuan Chiu joins the group for the summer to work on controlling the surface chemistry of iron oxide nanoparticles--welcome!
- Philippe Green joins the group for the summer to work on virus-templated metamaterials--welcome!
Apr 2015
- Congratulations to Dr. Katalin Korpany, who successfully defended her PhD!
- Congratulations to Philippe Green, who received a McGill Summer Undergraduate Research Award to work on Metamaterials on a virus template!
Feb 2015
- Congratulations to Dr. Omar Zahr, who successfully defended his PhD!
Jan 2015
- Serene Bayram and Omar Zahr's paper Short ligands offer long-term water stability and plasmon tunability for silver nanoparticles is published in RSC Advances--congratulations!
- CEGEP student Peter Quinn joins the group to work on self-assembly for molecular electronics-based sensors--welcome!
Dec 2014
- Serene Bayram receives an FQRNT International Internship to spend 2 months at the University of Cologne with Prof. Klas Lindfors--congratulations!
- Serene Bayram presents a poster at the Materials Research Society Fall meeting.
Nov 2014
- Serene Bayram gives a talk at the Chemistry and Biochemistry Graduate Research Conference.
Sep 2014
- Serene Bayram gives a talk at the CSACS Student Symposium.
- Shoronia Cross joins the group as a PhD student--welcome!
- Jordan Jung joins the group for his Honours project--welcome!
- Andy Shao joins the group for a one semester project--welcome!
- Olivia Scarfone joins the group for a one semester project--welcome!
- Julia Del Re presents a poster at the International Conference on Scanning Microscopy on Soft and Polymeric Materials (SPM on SPM).
Aug 2014
- Josh Lucate presents a poster at the American Chemical Society meeting in San Francisco.
- Serene Bayram receives Graduate Excellence award--congratulations!
Jul 2014
- Omar Zahr gives a talk at the Gordon Research Seminar on Plasmonics.
- Omar Zahr presents a poster at the Gordon Research Conference on Plasmonics.
Jun 2014
- Dr. Blum gives two talks at the Canadian Chemistry Conference.
May 2014
- Dr. Blum earns tenure and is promoted to Associate Professor.
- Katalin Korpany presents a poster at the Crystal Engineering and Emerging Materials Workshop of Ontario and Quebec.
- Serene Bayram presents a poster at the Green Chemistry Initiative Workshop in Toronto.
- Serene Bayram presents a poster at the CSACS 12th Annual Meeting.
- Dr. Blum and co-inventors were issued US Patent 8,715,923 B2.
Apr 2014
- Julia Del Re receives GREAT travel award to present at the the International Conference on Scanning Microscopy on Soft and Polymeric Materials (SPM on SPM)--congratulations!
- Omar Zahr receives GREAT travel award to attend the Gordon Research Conference in Plasmonics--congratulations!
- Serene Bayram receives GREAT travel award to present at the MRS in Boston--congratulations!
- Serene Bayram receives Green Chemistry Initiative travel award to attend the Green Chemistry workshop--congratulations!
Mar 2014
- Liam Carroll receives CSACS summer fellowship to work with the Blum and Cosa groups this summer--congratulations!
- Dorothy Majewski receives NSERC summer undergraduate research award to work with the Blum group this summer--congratulations!
- Omar Zahr receives Graduate Excellence Award--congratulations!
Jan 2014
- Julia Del Re's paper is accepted by Applied Surface Science--congratulations!
Dec 2013
- Julia Del Re presents a poster at the Materials Research Society Fall meeting.
- Josue Lucate gives a talk at the Materials Research Society Fall meeting.
- Omar Zahr gives a talk at the Materials Research Society Fall meeting.
- Dr. Blum gives a talk at the Materials Research Society Fall meeting.
Nov 2013
- Serene Bayram presents a poster at the Chemistry and Biochemistry Graduate Research Conference.
Oct 2013
- Dr. Blum presents a poster at the Army Research Office Workshop on Surface Plasmons, Metamaterials, and Catalysis.
Sep 2013
- Serene Bayram presents a poster at the CSACS Student Symposium.
Aug 2013
- Julia Del Re receives a Graduate Excellence Award--congratulations!
- Julia Del Re receives a Richard T Mohan Scholarship--congratulations!
- Omar Zahr receives a Richard T Mohan Scholarship--congratulations!
Jun 2013
- Katalin Korpany receives a David Pall Dissertation award--congratulations!
- Omar Zahr receives a David Pall Dissertation award--congratulations!
May 2013
- Julia Del Re presents a poster at the CSACS 11th Annual Meeting.
- Josh Lucate presents a poster at the CSACS 11th Annual Meeting.
- Dr. Blum gives a talk at the Canadian Chemistry Conference.
- Julia Del Re receives a T. Sterry Hunt Award for Excellence in Teaching Assistance--congratulations!
Apr 2013
- Julia Del Re's paper is accepted by Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics--congratulations!
- Katalin Korpany receives GREAT travel award to present at the MRS in Boston--congratulations!
- Omar Zahr receives GREAT travel award to present at the MRS in Boston--congratulations!
- Dr. Blum gives a seminar at the Concordia University Department of Physics.
Feb 2013
- Dr. Blum gives a seminar at the Laval University Department of Chemistry.
Jan 2013
- Katalin Korpany receives Wolfe Fellowship in Science and Technology--congratulations!
- Katalin Korpany receives a Graduate Excellence Award--congratulations!
Oct 2012
- Katalin Korpany's paper is accepted by Materials Chemistry and Physics--congratulations!
Sep 2012
- Katalin Korpany's paper is accepted by the Journal of the American Chemical Society--congratulations!
- Omar Zahr receives an FQRNT scholarship for Doctoral Studies--congratulations!
Aug 2012
- Serene Bayram joins the group as a PhD student--welcome!
- Katalin Korpany receives Coll McFee Memorial Scholarship--congratulations!
- Omar Zahr receives Richard T. Mohan Scholarship--congratulations!
- Dr. Blum gives a talk at the American Chemical Society.
- Omar Zahr gives a talk at the American Chemical Society.
May 2012
- Julia Del Re receives a GREAT Travel award to present at the CSC--congratulations!
- Julia Del Re receives a T. Sterry Hunt Award for Excellence in Teaching Assistance--congratulations!
- Dr. Blum gives a talk at the Canadian Chemistry Conference.
- Katalin Korpany gives a talk at the Canadian Chemistry Conference.
- Julia Del Re gives a talk at the Canadian Chemistry Conference.
- Josh Lucate presents a poster at the CSACS 10th Annual Meeting.
- Julia Del Re presents a poster at the CSACS 10th Annual Meeting.
- Julia Del Re wins 2nd prize in the poster competition at the NSERC-CREATE ISS Summer School--congratulations!
Mar 2012
- Manoj Kumar joins the group for two months visiting from NCL in Pune, India--welcome!
- Dr. Blum gives a seminar at the INRS.
Feb 2013
- Dr. Blum gives a seminar at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research in Pune, India.
- Dr. Blum gives a seminar at the National Chemical Laboratory in Pune, India.
Jan 2012
- Kezia Gravesend joins the group for the semester--welcome!
- Katalin Korpany receives Wolfe Fellowship in Science and Technology--congratulations!
Dec 2011
- Omar Zahr's paper is accepted by Nano Letters--congratulations!
Nov 2011
- Dr. Blum received McGill-India Nano grant
Sep 2011
- Dr. Blum and co-inventors were issued US Patent 8,019,555.
Aug 2011
- Katalin Korpany receives an Alexander McFee Fellowship--congratulations!
Jul 2011
- Julia Del Re earns an NSERC-CREATE ISS fellowship--congratulations!
- Julia Del Re wins the CSC poster competition for the Industrial Chemistry division--congratulations!
Jun 2011
- Julia Del Re transfers to the PhD program--congratulations!
- Omar Zahr gives a talk at the Canadian Society for Chemistry
- Katalin Korpany presents a poster at the Canadian Society for Chemistry
- Julia Del Re presents a poster at the Canadian Society for Chemistry
- Josh Lucate presents a poster at the Canadian Society for Chemistry
- Dr. Blum gives a talk at the Canadian Society for Chemistry.
- Omar Zahr gives a talk at the ACS Symposium on Colloid and Surface Science
- Josh Lucate presents a poster at the ACS Symposium on Colloid and Surface Science
- Katalin Korpany presents a poster at the ACS Symposium on Colloid and Surface Science
- Julia Del Re presents a poster at the ACS Symposium on Colloid and Surface Science
- Dr. Blum gives a keynote talk at the ACS Symposium on Colloid and Surface Science.
May 2011
- Katalin Korpany receives the David J. Simpkin Award in Physical Chemistry--congratulations!
- Katalin Korpany receives a Robert Zamboni Chemistry Prize to present at the ACS Symposium on Colloid and Surface Science--congratulations!
- Omar Zahr receives T. Sterry Hunt teaching award--congratulations!
- Omar Zahr receives a Robert Zamboni Chemistry Prize to present at the ACS Symposium on Colloid and Surface Science--congratulations!
- Julia Del Re receives a Robert Zamboni Chemistry Prize to present at the ACS Symposium on Colloid and Surface Science--congratulations!
- Jessica Taylor joins the group for the summer--welcome!
- Dong Myeong (Jimmy) Kim joins the group for the summer--welcome!
Apr 2011
- Omar Zahr presents a poster at the Centre for Self-Assembled Chemical Structures/Centre de recherche sur les materiaux auto-assembles (CSACS/CRMAA) annual meeting
- Katalin Korpany presents a poster at the Centre for Self-Assembled Chemical Structures/Centre de recherche sur les materiaux auto-assembles (CSACS/CRMAA) annual meeting
- Julia Del Re presents a poster at the Centre for Self-Assembled Chemical Structures/Centre de recherche sur les materiaux auto-assembles (CSACS/CRMAA) annual meeting
- Josh Lucate presents a poster at the Centre for Self-Assembled Chemical Structures/Centre de recherche sur les materiaux auto-assembles (CSACS/CRMAA) annual meeting
- Dr. Blum gives a talk at Foundations of Nanoscience (FNANO) 2011.
Mar 2011
- Dr. Blum presents a poster at Hybrid Materials 2011.
Jan 2011
- Katalin Korpany and Omar Zahr's paper is accepted by ACS Nano--congratulations!
- Dr. Blum gives a seminar at the Universite de Montreal Department of Chemistry.
Dec 2010
- Dr. Blum gives a talk at Pacifichem.
Sep 2010
- Thomas Holden joins the group for his Honors Project--welcome!
Aug 2010
- Katalin Korpany receives a J.W. McConnell Memorial Fellowship--congratulations!
Jul 2010
- Katalin Korpany receives a J.W. McConnell Memorial Fellowship--congratulations!
- Dr. Blum gives a seminar at the CSACS Mini-Symposium.
Jun 2010
- Josh Lucate transfers to the PhD prgoram--congratulations!
- Michael Chan joins the group for the summer--welcome!
- Omar Zahr presents a poster at the Canadian Society for Chemistry in Toronto.
- Katalin Korpany presents a poster at the Canadian Society for Chemistry in Toronto.
May 2010
- Katalin Korpany receives GREAT travel award to present at the CSC in Toronto--congratulations!
- Katalin Korpany receives T. Sterry Hunt teaching award--congratulations!
- Omar Zahr receives GREAT travel award to present at the CSC in Toronto--congratulations!
- Neil Edelman joins the group for the summer--welcome!
- Sarah Wang joins the group for the summer--welcome!
- Katalin Korpany presents a poster at the 6th Annual McGill Biophysical Chemistry Symposium.
- Omar Zahr presents a poster at the 6th Annual McGill Biophysical Chemistry Symposium.
- Katalin Korpany presents a poster at the Canadian Society for Chemistry.
- Omar Zahr presents a poster at the Canadian Society for Chemistry.
- Dr. Blum gives at talk at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Studies (CIfAR) Nanoelectronics Meeting.
- Dr. Blum gives a talk at the Canadian Society for Chemistry.
Apr 2010
- Dr. Blum receives FQRNT grant.
- The Blum group moves into our newly renovated lab space.
- Omar Zahr presents a poster at the Centre for Self-Assembled Chemical Structures/Centre de recherche sur les materiaux auto-assembles (CSACS/CRMAA) annual meeting.
- Katalin Korpany presents a poster at the Centre for Self-Assembled Chemical Structures/Centre de recherche sur les materiaux auto-assembles (CSACS/CRMAA) annual meeting.
Jan 2010
- Dr. Blum gives a seminar at McGill University Department of Microbiology and Immunology.
Sep 2009
- Julia Del Re joins the group as a Master's student--welcome!
- Josh Lucate joins the group as a Master's student--welcome!
Aug 2009
- Katalin Korpany receives a Provost’s Graduate Fellowship--congratulations!
Jul 2009
- Omar Zahr transfers to the PhD program--congratulations!
- Katalin Korpany transfers to the PhD program--congratulations!
May 2009
- Dr. Blum gives a talk at the 5th Annual McGill Biophysical Chemistry Symposium.
Apr 2009
- Dr. Blum receives CFI grant
- Dr. Blum receives NSERC Discovery grant
- Dr. Blum received FQRNT team grant
Mar 2009
- Dr. Blum receives GoMachTECH 2008 Meritorious Paper Award
Dec 2008
- Dr. Blum gives a seminar at McGill University Department of Bioengineering.
Oct 2008
- Dr. Blum gives a seminar at McGill University Department of Physics.
Sep 2008
- Omar Zahr joins the group as a Master's student--welcome!
- Katalin Korpany joins the group as a Master's student--welcome!