May 2013: Congratulations to Frederique Deiss, Maribel Funes, Katrina Tjhung who won the 1st prize ($3000) at the SENTINEL pre-commercialization competition.

May 2013: Congratulations to Reza Jafari for winning the AITF Fellowship!!

March 2013: Congratulations to Katrina Tjhung and Jasmin Bal for winning NSERC summer scholarship and AIHS Summer fellowships (2x fellowship each!!)

Mar 2013: Post-doctoral fellow Shailesh Ambre (Complex Carbohydrate Research Centre) joins the lab.

Year 2013: Ratmir is giving invited talks at Stanford Bio-X, PEGS in Boston, 2013 Protein Society Symposium, Canadian Chemistry Society, iGEM @ McMaster University.

Dec, 2012: Derda Lab is part of new Canada-India Research Centre of Excellence

Dec, 2012: Maribel's paper in Lab on a Chip is "Lab on A Chip Top 10%" article

Dec, 2012: Paper Petri Dishes showcase at the Microfluidics 2.0 in Boston

Nov, 2012: Graduate student Andriy Rebryk joins the lab.

Oct 2012: Post-doctoral fellow Frederique Deiss (Harvard University) joins the lab

Sep, 2012: Simon's paper in ACS Chemical Biology is a September cover story

July, 2012: Wadim's back-to-back papers, "Illumina sequencing" and "Emulsion Amplification" are available in "Phage Display" Issue of Methods Journal.

July, 2012: Congratulations to Simon Ng for wining prestigeous AITF fellowhship.

June, 2012: Derda Lab organized the first International Diagnostic Workshop at the Institute of Primate Research in Kenya, Nairobi, June 24-30, 2012. Katrina Tjhung presented poster and demonstrated production of our portable cell culture devices in Nairobi.

April, 2012: Congratulations to Katrina Tjhung for wining AIHS summer scholarship and Grace Xu for winning NSERC summer scholarship!!

February 2012: Simon and Wadim present at the Volcano Conference in Chemical Biology

January, 2012: Maribel Funes Huacca accepts post-doc position in the lab

October 2011: Simon's and Reza's Review "Bacteriophages and Viruses as a Support for Organic Synthesis and Combinatorial Chemistry" is published in ACS Chem. Biol.

Sept 1, 2011: Minister Rona Ambrose and Minister Tim Uppal visited Derda Lab. See press release in Edmonton Journal and U of A News

Sept 1, 2011: Maribel Funes Huacca, visiting researcher from Universidade de São Paulo, joined the lab. Maribel will be developing portable platform for cell-based assays.

Aug 19: Our Editorial in ACS Chem. Biol.: "YouTube or You Lose: Grand Challenges Canada Explores Whether Scientists Are Ready for Web-Based Grant Competitions":
                       

Aug 15, 2011: Congraturations to Simon Ng for winning a departmental RA support!!

August 2, 2011: Gary Freschauf accepts position of lab administrator

July 11, 2011: C&E News highlight of PNAS article about spatially-controlled TGFb signalling

June 29, 2011: Our video-proposal won the nomination of Rising Star in Global Health from Grand Challenges Canada. See the highlights in Toronto Star, NAKFI, and AITF

May 9, 2011: Congratulations to Simon Ng for winning Margaret Thomson Memorial Prize!! (Awarded to first year graduate student in Chemistry with the highest GPA)

May, 2011: Highlight of PLoS One paper in BioTehcniques: Will paper cell cultures catch fire?

Mar 2011: The lab received NSERC Discovery and CFI New leaders opportunity grants.

Mar, 2011: The lab will be presenting at the 7th National Carbohydrate Symposium in Banff

Feb, 2011: Ratmir was invited to talk at the CHI Bioprocessing Summit, (Boston, Aug 22, 2011)

Jan, 2011: The lab welcomes Katrina Tjhung, Nazia Shaikh and Julia Bingjie

Nov, 2010: Grad. students Wadim Matochko, Simon Ng, and Reza Jafari join the lab