Welcome to the Cairo Lab!
We are a Chemistry & Chemical Biology research group at the University of Alberta Department of Chemistry. Our primary research interests are in the function of cell surface receptors involved in lymphocyte activation and cellular adhesion. We use chemical synthesis and bioconjugate chemistry to study these systems with fluorescence microscopy and biophysical methods.| 2013/5/13 | The Faculty of Science has highlighted our most recent paper on neuraminidase inhibitors. |
| 2013/5/07 | Contratulations to Amgad Albohy and Yi Zhang on the publication of our paper in ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters! |
| 2013/4/17 | You can now follow our lab updates and other science-y news on twitter! https://twitter.com/Cairo_Lab |
| 2013/3/26 | Congratulations to Yi Zhang, Amgad Albohy, and our collaborators on the publication of our paper in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry! |
| 2013/3/18 | Congratulations to our collaborators and Dr. Cairo on the acceptance of our paper in Diabetes! |
| 2012/10/26 | The UofA has launched a new program to support Undergraduate researchers. Interested students should check out our updated page on Research Opportunities. |
| 2012/10/13 | Congratulations to Jessie and our crystallography collaborators Mike Ferguson and Bob Macdonald on the publication of a series of benzoxadiazole structures. |
| 2012/10/2 | Congratulations to Mike Downey on the succesful defense of his MSc thesis! |
| 2012/08/24 | Congratulations to Carson, Feng and our collaborators in the Klassen group on the acceptance of their paper in Analytical Chemistry! |
| 2012/08/08 | Daniel Hernandez Armada has joined the group as a graduate student. |
| 2012/01/30 | Congratulations to Jessie and Caishun on the acceptance of their paper in Bioconjugate Chemistry! |
| 2012/01/20 | The Alberta Ingenuity Centre for Carbohydrate Science (AICCS) has changed its name to the Alberta Glycomics Centre. [Press release here] |
| 2011/12/02 | Congratulations to Jessie and our co-authors in the Brown group on the acceptance of their paper in the Journal of Physcial Chemistry A! |
| 2011/11/23 | Arpan Dandapat and Neha Khanna have joined the group as graduate students. |
| 2011/08/31 | Congratulations to Yao Zou on the successful defense of her M.Sc. Thesis! |
| 2011/08/10 | Congratulations to Ravi Loka on the successful defense of his Ph.D. Thesis! |
| 2011/08/04 | Congratulations to Jessie Key on the successful defense of his Ph.D.Thesis! |
| 2011/06/15 | Congratulations to Mahendra, Amgad, Blake and our collaborators in the Klassen and Bundle groups on the acceptance of our paper in Biochemistry! |
| 2011/03/18 | Congratulations to Amgad, Blake, and our collaborators at Simon-Fraser University: Sankar Mohan and Dr. Mario Pinto on the acceptance of our paper in Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry! |
| 2011/01/28 | Our paper on the analysis of single particle tracking data using first-passage time (FPT) has been accepted in the Biophysical Journal! Congratulations to all the co-authors: Vishaal Rajani, Dr. Gustavo Carrero, Dr. David Golan, Dr. Gerda de Vries, and Dr. Cairo! |
| 2011/01/13 | Dr. Cairo received an Award from the Interdepartmental Science Student's Society (ISSS) at their Professor Appreciation Night! |
| 2010/12/22 | Congratulations to Amgad on receiving an AHFMR Studentship Award! |
| 2010/12/02 | Congratulations to Naresh on a successful defense of his Master's thesis! |
| 2010/11/22 | Feng Jia has joined the group as a graduate student! |
| 2010/09/22 | Congratulations to Yao, Amgad, and Mahendra on the acceptance of their paper in Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters! (Zou, Albohy, Sandbhor, and Cairo) |
| 2010/09/21 | Dr. Lowary and Dr. Cairo were highlighted by Alberta Innovates for their work with on blood group tolerance. See the story here. |
| 2010/09/15 | Congratulations to Naresh and Mike on the acceptance of their paper in Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry! (Tulsi, Downey, and Cairo) |
| 2010/09/15 | Congratulations to Ravi on the acceptance of his paper in Carbohydrate Research! (Loka and Cairo) |
| 2010/08/30 | Congratulations to Ravi, Chris and Nikolas on the acceptance of their paper in Bioconjugate chemistry! (Loka, Sadek, Romaniuk and Cairo) |
| 2010/05/16 | Congratulations to Amgad, Matthew, Blake and Cecilia for having their paper accepted in Glycobiology! (Albohy, Li, Zheng, Zou, and Cairo) |
| 2010/05/13 | Jessie's paper on fluorogenic NBD-derivatives has been accepted at Dyes & Pigments! (Key and Cairo) |
| 2010/05/04 | Congratulations to Jessie and Matthew on the acceptance of their paper in J Chem Ed! (Key, Li, and Cairo) |
| 2010/04/28 | Our JBC paper (Cairo et al., 2010) has been highlighted on EurekAlert! |
| 2010/4 | Our Curr. Op. Chem. Biol. Review was one of the top 25 hottest articles in Jan - Mar 2010! |
| 2010/02/17 | Dr. Cairo & Amgad's paper on CD45 lateral mobility has been accepted in JBC! This work was a collaboration with several groups in addition to our own - Dr. Coombs (UBC), Dr. Morrow (Yale Medical School), and Dr. Golan (Harvard Medical School). (Cairo, Das, Albohy, Baca, Pradhan, Morrow, Coombs, and Golan) |
| 2009/11/18 | Michael Downey has joined the group as a graduate student! |
| 2009/10/04 | Congratualtions to Mahendra, Jessie, and Ileana for having their paper accepted in J. Org. Chem.! (Sandbhor, Key, Strelkov, and Cairo) |
| 2009/09/30 | Our review in Current Opinion in Chemical Biology has been accepted! (Cairo, Key, and Sadek) |
| 2009/09/25 | Our collaborators, the Coombs group at UBC, have had their paper on SPT analysis accepted at PLoS Comp. Biol.! (Das, Cairo, and Coombs) |
| 2009/05/31 | Congratulations to Matthew Li for receiving an NSERC URSA award. Matthew will be working in the lab this summer on neuraminidase enzymes. |
| 2009/03/31 | Amgad Albohy has joined the group as a graduate student! |
| 2009/01/05 | Jessie's coumarin paper (Key, Koh, Timerghazin, Brown, and Cairo) is in press at Dyes & Pigments. [accepted manuscript] |
| 2008/11/26 | Yao Zou has joined the group as a graduate student! |
| 2008/11/20 | Dr. Cairo is now a member of the Consortium for Functional Glycomics (CFG)! |
| 2008/09/15 | Jessie's structure paper (Key, Cairo, and Ferguson) has appeared in Acta Cryst. Section E. |
| 2008/06/02 | Vicki Lee has started working in the lab as a summer undergraduate student. |
| 2008/05/02 | The AICCS Outreach program which Dr. Cairo & Dr. Lowary collaborate on was highlighted in the Edmonton Journal. |
| 2008/04/30 | Congratulations to Nikolas Romaniuk for receiving a QEII graduate scholarship! |
| 2008/03/26 | Dr. Cairo was awarded a Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) grant from the Leaders Opportunity Fund (LOF)! These funds will be used in conjunction with a grant from the province of Alberta to purchase single-molecule instrumentation for the group! You can see the announcements here and here. |
| 2008/03/19 | Njuacha (George) Ebesoh has joined the group as a graduate student! |
| 2008/03/13 | Congratulations to Jessie Key for being awarded a GSA Graduate Student teaching award! |
| 2008/03/13 | Congratulations to Chris Sadek for being awarded a UTS Graduate Student teaching award! |
| 2007/11/26 | Naresh Tulsi and Nikolas Romaniuk have joined the group as graduate students! |
| 2007/11/23 | Dr. Mahendra Sandbhor has joined the group as our first Postdoctoral Fellow! |
| 2007/11/15 | Dr. Cairo's review with Dr. Golan has been accepted and is available online here. [Update: Article is now in press for the May issue.] |
| 2007/10/19 | Dr. Cairo's POV article in ACS-Chemical Biology was published. |
| 2007/05/03 | The group attended the annual meeting of the AICCS at Lake Louise in Banff, Alberta. |
| 2007/04 | Our group was awarded a Discovery Grant from NSERC for 2007-2010! |
| 2007/03 | Congratulations to Jessie Key, he has been awarded a PGS-M Scholarship from NSERC! |
| 2007/02/27 | Congratulations to Mitch Huot & Amanda Leong - both were awarded summer research funding from NSERC! |
| 2007/02/21 | Dr. Cairo was awarded a matching grant from the Alberta Small Equipment Grants program (part of ASRA)! |
| 2007/01/08 | Mitch Huot and Naresh Tulsi have begun work in the lab on their Chem 401 projects. |
| 2006/11/22 | Jessie Key and Chris Sadek have joined the group as graduate students! |
| 2006/09/01 | Ravi Loka has joined the group as our first graduate student! |
| 2006/07/01 | Dr. Cairo has arrived in Alberta! |
