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January 27
A paper entitled “A specific antibody based assay shows potential for detecting tuberculosis in resource constrained laboratory settings” has been accepted in PLOSOne. Congratulations Susmita!
January 16
Congratulations to Hassan for successfully defending his PhD thesis! Good luck in your PDF in the Bundle group at the UofA.
January 6
The group says goodbye to Patrice. Good luck in your new position in the Kumar group at the Cross Cancer Institute.
January 4
Welcome back Yi, who will work in the group this semester as a 401 student.
December 9
The group says goodbye to Chuenwei and Leah. Good luck finishing up your degrees!
November 21
Welcome to new graduate students Ryan Snitynsky and Lei Wang.
November 17
Welcome to Ke Shen, a postdoc from Xiaoming Feng’s group at Sichuan University.
November 12
Congratulations to Mickey for winning second place in the oral presentation competiton at the Fourth Banff Symposium on Organic Chemistry.
October 30
The group says goodbye to Ritu. Good luck finishing up your degree at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata.
October 13
A manuscript entitled “Reconstruction of the Chain Termination Reaction in Biosynthesis of the Escherichia coli O9a O-polysaccharide; the Chain-length Regulator, WbdD, Catalyzes the Addition of Methyl Phosphate to the Non-reducing Terminus of the Growing Glycan” has been accepted in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Congratulations Dianjie and Mickey!
October 3
Welcome to Lu as she takes on a new role in the group, as a technician.
September 30
The group says goodbye to Jian. Good luck finishing up your degree at Zhejiang University.
September 28
Congratulations to Parnian for passing her 502 seminar.
September 27
Congratulations to Lu for successfully defending her M.Sc. thesis. She starts in the lab as a technician on October 3.
September 7
Welcome to Leah Gaskin and Yu-Hsuan (Jeff) Liu, who will work in the lab this semester as 401/403 students.
August 30
The group welcomes Ritu Raj, an integrated BSc/MSc student from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, who will spend two months in the lab as a visiting student.
August 25
A paper entitled “Synthesis of the 6-O-methyl-D-glycero-a-L-gluco-heptopyranose moiety present in the capsular polysaccharide from Campylobacter jejuni NCTC 11168” has been accepted in the Organic Letters. Congratulations Wenjie, Anushka and Aki!
August 23
The group says goodbye to Peter. Good luck in the UofA MBA Program.
August 19,20
Some of the group goes camping in Jasper.
August 8
Congratulations to Todd for being elected a Fellow of the Fellow of the American Chemical Society.
August 3
A paper entitled “Conformation analysis of oligoarabinofuranosides: overcoming torsional barriers with umbrella sampling” has been accepted in the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. Congratulations Simon, Hashem, Mickey!
July 23
Congratulations to Todd Lowary's Ball Busters who won third place in the Department of Chemistry's 2011 Erlenmeyer Cup. See some pictures here.
July 3
Welcome to Jian Guo, an undergraduate student from Zhejiang University, who will spend three months in the group.
June 22
Congratulations to Lily for winning a poster prize at the 94th Canadian Society for Chemistry Meeting in Montreal.
June 21
Congratulations to Myles for winning the award for the best Chemical Biology 502 Seminar for 2009-2011 academic years.
June 20
A paper entitled “The Overall Architecture and Receptor Binding of Pneumococcal Carbohydrate Antigen Hydrolyzing Enzymes” has been accepted by the Journal of Molecular Biology. Congratulations Peter!
June 2
Congratulations to Bing for successfully completing his Candidacy Exam.
June 1
Congratulations to Anushka for successfully completing his 502 seminar and for being awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Scholarship.
May 19
Congratulations to Amira for successfully completing her Candidacy Exam.
May 15
Congratulations to Myles for winning the 2011 Boehringer-Ingelheim Award in the Department of Chemistry.
May 9
Welcome to Chuenwei Leong and Yi Zhai, two undergraduates who will work in the group for the summer.
April 26
Congratulations to Myles for being one of 40 graduate students nationwide to be supported by CIHR to attend the 2011 Canadian Student Health Research Forum and CIHR National Poster competition.
April 7
Congratulations to Todd for winning the Faculty of Science Award for Excellent Teaching.
April 1
The group moves in the new space in the Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science. Click here for some pictures of the move.
Congratulations to Khalid and Chuenwei for securing NSERC USRA’s for the summer.
March 25
A paper entitled: "Biocompatible Carbohydrate-Functionalized Stainless Steel Surfaces: A New Method for Passivating Biomedical Implants" has been accepted by ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. Congratulations Peter!
March 3
A paper entitled: "Synthesis and NMR Studies on the ABO Histo-Blood Group Antigens: Synthesis of Type III and IV Structures and NMR Characterization of Type-I-VI Antigens" has been accepted by Carbohydrate Research. Congratulations Peter!
February 16
Congratulations to Amira for successfully completing her 502 seminar.
February 14
A paper entitled: "Effect of carbohydrate amino group modifications on the cytotoxicity of glycosylated 2-phenyl-benzo-β-thiophenes and 2-phenyl-benzo-β-furans" has been accepted by Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters. Congratulations Wei!
January 28
The group says goodbye to Aki. Good luck in your new position as an Assistant Professor at Gifu University!
January 8
A paper entitled: "Structure-activity relationships in glycosylated 2-phenyl-indoles, 2-phenyl-benzo-β-thiophenes and 2-phenyl-benzo-β-furans as DNA binding and potential anti-tumor agents" has been accepted by Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry. Congratulations Wei!
January 5
Congratulations to BJ for successfully defending his MSc degree.
December 14
Congratulations to Todd for being elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
December 13
A paper entitled: “Theoretical Investigations on the Conformation of the β-Arabinofuranoside Ring” has been accepted in the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. Congratulations Hashem!
December 6
Congratulations to Bing for passing his 502 seminar.
November 15
Welcome to new graduate students Roger Ashmus, Santu Mandal and Junfeng Zhang.
October 29
The group says goodbye to Mohamed. Good luck in your new position in the Back group at the University of Calgary.
October 27
A paper entitled “Synthetic UDP-furanoses as potent inhibitors of mycobacterial galactan biogenesis” has been accepted in Chemistry & Biology. Congratulations Ruokun, Jean, Maju and Blake!
October 25
A paper entitled “Cytotoxcity and Topoisomerase I/II Inhibition of Glycosylated DNA-Binding Agents Designed as Functional Anthracycline Mimetics” has been accepted in Bioorg. Med. Chem. Congratulations Wei!
October 18
Congratulations to Lily for winning the best Organic Division 502 for the 2009-2010 academic year.
October 4
Congratulations to Lily for Passing her Candidacy Exam.
October 1
Welcome (back) to Yu Bai a new technician in the group.
The "tolerogen" project is highlighted by Alberta Innovates.
September 8
August 17
A paper entitled "Synthesis of ABO Histo-blood Group Type I and II Antigens” has been accepted in Carbohydrate Research." Congratulations Peter!
August 6
Members of the group return from the 25th International Carbohydrate Symposium in
July 28
Congratulations to Anushka for receiving a Provost Doctoral Entrance Award.
July 13
A
paper entitled
"β-Selective Arabinofuranosylation Using a 2,3-O-Xylylene-protected
Donor” has been accepted in the Organic Letters. Congratulations Aki!
July 4
A paper
entitled “Probing the Effect of Acylation on Arabinofuranose Ring
Conformation in Di- and Trisaccharide Fragments of Mycobacterial
Arabinogalactan” has been accepted in the Journal of Organic Chemistry.
Congratulations Chunjuan and Mickey!
June 29
A paper
entitled "Characterization of recombinant UDP-galactopyranose
mutase from Aspergillus fumigatus" has been accepted in the
Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. Congratulations Myles!
June 28
A review
entitled "Methods to Study the Biosynthesis of Bacterial Furanosides"
has been accepted in Methods in Enzymology. Congratulations Myles!
June 21
Congratulations to Hashem for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis. Good luck in your postdoc at Ohio State in the Hadad group.
May 26
A
paper entitled "Determination of the Absolute Configuration of
Bicyclo[3.1.0]hexane Derivatives via Electronic Circular Dichroism,
Optical Rotation Dispersion and Vibrational Circular Dichroism
Spectroscopy and Density Functional Theory Calculations" has been
accepted in Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry. Congratulations
Jing!
May 25
A paper
entitled "STD-NMR Studies of Two Acceptor Substrates of GlfT2, a
Galactofuranosyltransferase from M. tuberculosis: Epitope Mapping
Studies" has been accepted in Biooranic and Medicinal Chemistry
Letters. Congratualtions Blake and Gladys!
May 11
Welcome to Joey Sheff and Khalid Aman, undergraduates who will spend the summer working in the group.
May 10
Congratulations to Sean, who won the Best Overall Oral Presentation Award at the 2010 Western Canadian Undergraduate Chemistry Conference in Lethbridge.
May 4
Congratulations
to Mickey for being selected as 1 of only 15 students to give an oral
presentation at the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Graduate Research Symposium, at Boston College in July, 2010.
April 27
Congratulations to Hashem, who has been awarded a travel award to attend the International Carbohydrate Symposium in Tokyo in August, 2010.
February 10
Congratulations to Lily for passing her 502 seminar.
February 1
Congratulations to Myles for passing his candidacy examination.
January 29
Goodbye to Yu, a technician and former M.Sc. student in the group, who starts a new position at Gilead Alberta.
January 15
Goodbye
to Wenjie, a postdoc in the group, who starts a new position as a
research associate in the Paulson lab at Scripps.
2009
November 27
Congratulations to Jing for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis. Good luck in your postdoc at the University of Leiden.
November 25
A paper entitled “Determination of the Absolute Configurations of
Synthetic Daunorubicin Analogues Using Vibrational Circular Dichroism
Spectroscopy and Density Functional Theory” has been accepted in
Chirality. Congratulations Wei and Eric!
November 16
Welcome to new graduate students Faiaz Ahmed, Anushka Jayasuriya and Parnian Lak.
November 12
A paper entitled
“Characterization of a Bifunctional Pyranose–Furanose Mutase from
Campylobacter jenuni 11168” has been accepted in the Journal of
Biological Chemistry. Congratulations Myles!
November 2
A paper entitled “Conformational analysis of arabinofuranosides: Prediction of 3JH,H
using MD Simulations with DFT-derived Spin–Spin Coupling Profiles” has
been accepted in the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation.
Congratulations Hashem and Castillo!
October 24
Congratulations to Myles for passing his 502 seminar.
October 13
A paper entitled "Synthesis and Antibacterial Activity of
Aminosugar-Functionalized Intercalating Agents" has been accepted in
Carbohydrate Research. Congratulations Wei!
October 8
A paper entitled “Epimeric and amino disaccharide analogs as probes of
an alpha-(1,6)-mannosyltransferase involved in mycobacterial
lipoarabinomannan biosynthesis” has been accepted in Organic and
Biomolecular Chemistry. Congratulations Tony!
September 25
Congratulations to Chunjuan for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis. Good luck at Oxford in Ben Davis' group.
September 21
Congratulations to Mickey for winning the best Organic Division 502 for the 2007-2008 academic year.
September 11
Congratulations to Tony for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis.
September 3
Welcome to Sean Liew, an undergraduate working on a Chemistry 401 project.
August 25
Welcome to Patrice Plaza-Alexander, a postdoc from Gurdial Singh's group at the University of the West Indies.
August 18
Welcome to Mohamed Changalov, a postdoc from Paul Berti's group at McMaster University.
August 3
A paper entitled "2,3-Anhydrosugars in Glycoside Bond Synthesis.
Mechanism of 2-Deoxy-2-Thioaryl Glycoside Formation" has been accepted
in The Journal of the American Chemical Society. Congratulations
Dianjie and Hashem!
July 29
A review entitled "Recent Advances in the Synthesis of
2-Deoxy-glycosides" has been accepted in Carbohydrate Research.
Congratulations Dianjie!
July 6
A review entitled "Natural Occurring and Synthetic Polyyne Glycosides"
has been accepted in The Canadian Journal of Chemistry. Congratulations
Yanqing!
June 29
A paper entitled "Structural insights into host recognition of
mycobacterial polysaccharides" has been accepted by the Journal of
Molecular Biology. Congratulations Blake, Maju and Yu
June 18
Congratulations to Hashem, whose poster entitled "MD-Determined
Coupling Constants: Derivation of Karplus Relationships for
Arabinofuranosides" won one of three poster prizes (out of a total of
92 posters) at the Carbohydrates Gordon Research Conference.
June 12
A paper entitled "Synthesis and DNA-Binding Affinity Studies of
Glycosylated Intercalators Designed as Functional Mimics of the
Anthracycline Antibiotics" has been accepted in Organic and
Biomolecular Chemistry. Congratulations Wei!
June 3
A paper entitled "2,3-Anhydrosugars in Glycoside Bond Synthesis.
Application to Furanosyl Azides and C-glycosides" has been accepted in
Tetrahedron. Congratulations Dianjie!
May 20
A paper entitled "STD-NMR Studies Suggest that Two Acceptor Substrates
for GlfT2, a Bifunctional Galactofuranosyltransferase Required for the
Biosynthesis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Arabinogalactan, Compete for
the Same Binding Site" has been accepted in ChemBioChem.
Congratulations Gladys and Blake!
May 12
A review entitled "Chemistry and biology of galactofuranose-containing
polysaccharides" has been accepted in ChemBioChem. Congratulations
Mickey!
May 6
Welcome to Rahul Deo, an undergraduate from IIT-Kharagpur, who will spend two months in the lab this summer.
May 1
Welcome to new graduate student Amira Khalil
April 30
Welcome to new undergraduate student Anushka Jayasuriya
April 29
Congratulations to Peter who, as a member of a four-person team, won first-place at the 2009 Alberta Ingenuity Entrepreneur Camp
April 20
Congratulations to Alan for successfully defending his M.Sc. thesis. Have fun traveling around Europe this summer!
April 16
Congratulations to Hassan for passing his candidacy examination.
April 6
Congratulations to Yanqing for successfully defending her M.Sc. thesis. Good luck at Gilead!
March 10
A paper entitled “Synthesis of ABO Histo-blood Group Type V and VI
Antigens” has been accepted in the Australian Journal of Chemistry
special issue dedicated to Bob Stick. Congratulations Peter!
March 6
A paper entitled “Molecular basis of Arabinobio-Hydrolase Activity in
Phytopathogenic Fungi. Crystal Structure and Catalytic Mechanism of
Fusarium Graminearum GH93 α-L-Arabinofuranosidase” has been accepted in
the Journal of Biological Chemistry special issue dedicated to Bob
Stick. Congratulations Simon and Tony!
February 23
A review entitled “Glycosyl Iodides. History and Recent Advances” has
been accepted in Carbohydrate Research. Congratulations Peter and Alan!
February 17
A paper entitled “2,3-Anhydrosugars in Glycoside Bond Synthesis.
Application to 2,6-Dideoxy-pyranosides”has been accepted as a Feature
Article in the Journal of Organic CHemistry. Congratulations Dianjie!
February 16
Welcome to Akihiro Imamura, a postdoc from Makoto Kiso's group at Gifu University.
February 2
Congratulations to Dianjie for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis. Good luck at Johns Hopkins in the Greenberg group!
December 2
Congratulations to Mickey for passing her candidacy examination.
November 28
Welcome to new graduate students Lu Zou and Bai Bing.
November 24
A paper entitled "Conformational Studies of Methyl
beta-D-Arabinofuranoside using the AMBER/GLYCAM Approach" has been
accepted by the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation.
Congratulations Hashem and Castillo!
November 20
Congratulations to Wei for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis. Good luck at Johns Hopkins in the Liu group!
November 19
Congratulations to Hassan for passing his 502 seminar.
October 17
Congratulations to Tony for securing a post-doctoral position in the laboratory of Karl Scheidt at Northwestern University.
September 28
Welcome to Cunsheng Zhu, a postdoc from Biao Yu's group at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry
September 23
Congratulations to Ruokun for successfully defending his M.Sc. thesis. Good luck in the Li group!
August 13
A paper entitled “Sugar-substituted poly(para-phenyleneethynylenes) and
their interaction with concanavalin A and bacteria” has been accepted
by Macromolecules. Congratulations Yu and Bjorn!
June 17
A paper entitled “Biosynthesis of mycobacterial arabinogalactan:
identification of a novel alpha-(1,3) arabinofuranosyltransferase” has
been accepted by Molecular Microbiology. Congratulations Yu!
May 28
A paper entitled "Transfer of the first arabinofuranose residue to
galactan is essential for mycobacterial viability" has been accepted by
the Journal of Bacteriology. Congratulations Ruokun!
May 28
Congratulation to Simon for winning first prize in the Organic Undergraduate Poster Competition at the CSC meeting.
May 22
Congratulations to Gladys for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis.
May 20
Congratulations to Dianjie for securing a post-doctoral position in the laboratory of Marc Greenberg at Johns Hopkins University.
May 12
Congratulations to Mickey for passing her 502 seminar
May 5
Welcome to Hanna Pena, an undergraduate who will work in the group for the summer.
May 5
Welcome to Virginie Liautard, an graduate student in the group of
Olivier Martin at Universite de Orleans, who will spend two weeks in
the group.
May 1
Congratulations to Hashem for being awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Scholarship
May 1
Congratulations to Jing for being awarded a Dissertation Fellowship
April 10
A paper entitled “Synthesis of Galactofuranose Containing Acceptor
Substrates for Mycobacterial Galactofuranosyltransferases” has been
accepted in The Journal of Organic Chemistry. Congratulations Gladys!
April 3
Congratulations to Hashem for passing his candidacy examination
March 17
A paper entitled “Development of a coupled spectrophotometric assay for
GlfT2, a bifunctional mycobacterial galactofuranosyltransferase” has
been accepted for publication in Carbohydrate Research. Congratulations
Tish, Jean, Blake, Ruokun and Gladys!
March 15
Congratulations to Myles for being awarded a studentship from Alberta Ingenuity
March 3
Congrats to Tony for winning the 2008 Boehringer-Ingelheim Award in the Department of Chemistry.
February 26
A paper entitled “Synthesis of 8-azidooctyl glycoside derivatives of
the O-chain repeating unit of Escherichia coli O9a lipopolysaccharide
and a methylated analogue” has been accepted for publication in
Carbohydrate Research. Congratulations Dianjie and Fredrik!
January 26
Congratulations to Maju on the birth of his son Alvin
January 21
Congratulations to Hashem for passing his 502 seminar
January 14
A paper entitled “Synthesis of Bicyclo[3.1.0]hexane Derivatives as
Conformationally-Restricted Analogues of beta-Arabinofuranosyl and
alpha-Galactofuranosyl Rings” has been accepted for publication in
Organic Letters. Congratulations Jing!
January 11
A paper entitled “ABO(H) blood group A and B glycosyltransferases
recognize substrate via specific conformational changes” has been
accepted in the Journal of Biological Chemsitry. Congratulations Yu!
January 10
Congratulations to Alan for being awarded an Alberta Learning Scholarship
January 5
Congratulations to Hassan on the birth of his daughter Hana
December 10
Congratulations to Dianjie for being awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Scholarship
December 5
Congratulations to Ruokun for passing his 502 seminar
December 1
Congratulations to Wei for being awarded the Marie Arnold Cancer Research Graduate Scholarship.
November 21
Welcome to new graduate students Sanyo Mathew, Myles Poulin and Li (Lily) Xia
November 19
A paper entitled “Galactosyltransferases in mycobacterial cell wall
synthesis” has been accepted in the Journal of Bacteriology.
Congratulations Gladys and Tish!
November 12
Congratulations to Mickey for winning the best oral presentation prize at the Third Banff Symposium on Organic Chemistry.
October 30
A paper entitled “An approach for the simulation and modeling of
flexible rings. Application to the alpha-D-arabinofuranoside ring, a
key constituent of polysaccharides from Mycobacterium tuberculosis” has
been accepted in the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Congratulations Castillo and Robert!
October 15
Congratulations to Jing for passing her candidacy exam.
October 9
A paper entitled “Exploring the substrate specificity of a
mycobacterial polyprenol monophosphomannose-dependent
alpha-(1,6)-mannosyltransferase” has been accepted for publication in
ChemBioChem. Congratulations Tony!
October 1
A paper entitled “Stereoselective synthesis of 2-Deoxy-furanosides from
2,3-Anhydro-furanosyl Thioglycosides” has been accepted for publication
in Organic Letters. Congratulations Dianjie!
September 15
Congratulations to Wei for securing a post-doctoral position in the laboratory of Jun O. Liu at Johns Hopkins University.
August 28
A paper entitled “Synthesis of the ‘primer-adaptor’ trisaccharide
moiety of Escherichia coli O8, O9 and O9a lipopolysaccharide” has been
accepted for publication in Carbohydrate Research. Congratulations
Chunjuan and Fredrik!
August 28
Welcome back to Simon Byrns who will work as a technician in the group.
August 28
Welcome to Andrew Stewart, an undergraduate who will work in the group in Fall Semester on a 401 Project.
August 6
Our paper entitled “Synthesis of the Docosanasaccharide Arabinan Domain
of Mycobacterial Arabinogalactan and a Proposed Octadecasaccharide
Biosynthetic Precursor”, which appeared in The Journal of the American
Chemical Society, was featured in Chemical and Engineering News.
July 4
Welcome to Holly Severin, a high school student who will work in the group for the next six weeks as part of the WISEST program.
June 28
A paper entitled “Ligand specificity of CS-35, a monoclonal antibody
that recognizes mycobacterial lipoarabinomannan. A model system for
oligofuranoside-protein recognition” has been accepted in The Journal
of the American Chemical Society. Congratulations Christoph, Glen,
Hy0-Sun, Blake, Chunjuan, Hashem and Ruel!
June 12
A paper entitled “Synthesis of the Docosanasaccharide Arabinan Domain
of Mycobacterial Arabinogalactan and a Proposed Octadecasaccharide
Biosynthetic Precursor” has been accepted in The Journal of the
American Chemical Society. Congratulations Maju, Yu and Ruel!
May 18
Congratulations to Jing for being awarded a studentship from the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research.
May 14
Welcome to Valery Bazira-Girishaka, an undergraduate who will work in the group for the summer.
May 7
Welcome to Karmen Ko, an undergraduate who will work in the group for the summer.
May 7
Welcome to the new graduate students, Mickey, Alan and Hassan, who will get research started after finishing classes.
May 1
Welcome to Peter Meloncelli, a postdoc from Bob Stick's group at the University of Western Australia
May 1
A paper entitled “Synthesis of a Panel of Deoxy and Methoxy Analogs of
the alpha-Manp-(1,6)-a-Manp-O(CH2)7CH3 Acceptor Substrate for a
Polyprenolphosphomannose-Dependent Mycobacterial Mannosyltransferase”
has been accepted in Carbohydrate Research. Congratulations Tony!
April 25
Congratulations to Hassan for being awarded a studentship from the Alberta Ingenuity.
April 2
Congratulations to Tony for passing his candidacy exam
March 20
Congratulations to Alissa and Michelle for securing NSERC USRA awards for the summer.
March 15
Todd Lowary has received the 2007 Carbohydrate Research Award for Creativity in Carbohydrate Chemistry.
March 9
Congratulations to Wei for winning the 2007 Boehringer-Ingelheim Award in the Department of Chemistry.
February 27
A paper entitled: “Identification of Intelectin-1 and -2 as Novel
Stat6-dependent Genes Expressed in Lung and Intestine During Helminth
Infection” has been accepted in Experimental Parisitology.
Congratulations Gladys!
February 14
A paper entitled: Synthesis of daunorubicin analogs containing
truncated aromatic cores and unnatural monosaccharide residues” has
been accepted by The Journal of Organic Chemistry. Congratulations Eric
and Wei!
December 16
Congratulations to Mickey for being awarded a studentship from the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research.
December 1
Welcome to Wenjie Peng, a postdoc from Biao Yu's group at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry
November 27
A paper entitled: “Solid State 17O-NMR in Carbohydrates” has been
accepted in Chemical Physics Letters. Congratulations Justin!
August 21
A paper entitled: “Synthesis of 2-deoxy-2-fluoro analogs of polyprenyl
beta-D-arabinofuranosyl phosphates” has been accepted in Carbohydrate
Research. Congratulations Maju!
November 22
Congratulations to Chunjuan for passing her candidacy exam.
October 23
Congratulations to Tony for passing his 502 seminar.
October 5
Papers entitled "2,3-Anhydrosugars in Glycoside Bond Synthesis. Application to alpha-D-Galactofuranosides” and “Synthesis of a Pentasaccharide Fragment of Varianose, a Cell Wall Polysaccharide from Penicllium varians” have been accepted in The Journal of Organic Chemistry. Congratulations Yu!
August 31
Congratulations to Dianjie for passing his candidacy exam.
August 4-6
Group trip to Banff for hiking. See Pictures
August 3
A paper entitled "Synthesis
of L-Daunosamine and L-Ristosamine Glycosides Via Photoinduced
Aziridination. Conversion to Thioglycosides for Use in
Glycosylation Reactions" has been accepted in The Journal
of Organic Chemistry. Congratulations Matt and Peng!
June 15
Congratulations to Tony for being awarded a studentship from Alberta Ingenuity.
May 1-6
Todd Lowary visits Academica
Sinica, National Tsing Hua University and National Chiao Tung
University in Taiwan as a recipient of a Fellowship for Foreign
Distinguished Scholars from the National Science Council of Taiwan.
April 10
Congratulations to
Chunjuan for passing her 502 seminar.
March 26
A paper entitled "Expression, Purification and
Characterization of a Galactofuranosyl-transferase Involved in Mycobacterium
tuberculosis Arabinogalactan Biosynthesis"
has been accepted in The Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Congratulations Tish, Gladys and James.
March 14
A paper entitled "Synthesis of n-octyl
2,6-dideoxy-alpha-L-lyxo-hexopyranosyl-(1,2)-3-amino-3-deoxy-beta-D-galactopyranoside,
an analog of the H-disaccharide antigen" has been accepted in
the Carbohydrate Research. Congratulations Yu, Guizhong and
James.
February 8
A paper entitled "The
5-Deoxy-5-Methylthio-Xylofuranose Residue in Mycobacterial
Lipoarabinomannan. Absolute Stereochemistry, Linkage Position,
Ring Conformation and Immunomodulatory Activity" has been
accepted in The Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Congratulations Maju, Gladys, Hashem and Dan
January 25
Congratulations to Yu for successfully defending his
M.Sc. thesis
December 13
A paper entitled "Chemical and Chemoenzymatic
Synthesis of a Trisaccharide Fragment of Tsukamurella
paurometabola Lipoarabinomannan" has beenaccepted in the Canadian Journal of Chemistry. Congratulations Wei,
Karen and James!
December 6
Congratulations to Dianjie for passing his 502 seminar.
November 30
Congratulations to Wei for passing his candiday exam.
