Lab News
May 3
The group welcomes Sidick Basha as a Postdoc.
March 13
Congratulations to Mikel, Vitor and Anwar for winning poster prizes at the 2022 Chemical Society Located in Taipei, National Meeting.
October 15
The group says good-bye to Tzu-Ting. Good luck in your job at NHRI!
October 15
The group welcomes Hung-Yu Chen as a Research Assistant.
September 20
The group welcomes Yu-Jen Wang as a Research Assistant.
September 15
The group welcomes Prashant Gole as Ph.D. student in the Sustainable Chemical Science and Technology Program of the Taiwan International Graduate Program.
August 31
The group says good-bye to Yan-Ting. Good luck in your Ph.D. students in Germany.
July 27
Congratulations to Chih-Lan for passing her Candidacy defence!
July 23
The group says goodbye to our high school students Bo-Yang Huang and Hsin-Li Chang. Good luck in your undergraduate degrees at UC Berkeley at U Toronto, respectively!
July 27
The group says goodbye to Pei-Jhen. Good luck in your new position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at National Chung-Cheng University.
July 15
After being the longest intern in history due to the pandemic J, Lourriel transitions to a position as a Research Assistant.
July 12
The group welcomes Min-Yu Chiang as M.Sc. student from the Institute of Biochemical Sciences at National Taiwan University.
July 6
Congrats to Vitor for being recognized with the 2021 MacCormack Prize from the Department of Chemistry!
July 1
Congrats to Mikel for being recognized with the 2021 Gilead Prize from the Department of Chemistry!
June 15
The group says goodbye to Sicheng. Good luck in your new position as a Research Scientist
Alberta Research Chemicals, Inc.
June 10
Congrats to Po-Cheng for winning an Undergraduate Research Award from the MOST!
June 1
The group welcomes Larry Lico as Postdoc from The University of the Philippines
May 11
The group welcomes Sheng Yang as Ph.D. student in the Chemical Biology and Molecular Biophysics Program of the Taiwan International Graduate Program.
May 11
Congrats to Mikel and Vitor for securing first and third place in the Organic Reactions Symposium presentation competition.
April 1
The group says goodbye to Manas. Good luck in your new position as a PDF in the Cairo Lab at the University of Alberta.
March 30
Congratulations to Brock for passing his M.Sc. defence! Good luck in your new job as a technician in the Bennet lab at the Simon Fraser University.
March 22
The group welcomes Li-An Tsai as M.Sc. student from the Institute of Biochemical Sciences at National Taiwan University
March 15
The group welcomes Yan-Ting Kuo, who will work as a Research Assistant from National Tsing-Hua University
December 14
The group has its annual holiday party. Lots of food and beer.
December 12
Congratulations to Po-Sen for passing his M.Sc. defence! Good luck in your Ph.D. in the Crich lab at the University of Georgia
November 4
The group welcomes (back) Ha Nam Duong, who will work as a Research Assistant.
October 28
The group says goodbye to Chun-Ju. Good luck in your Ph.D. in the Pomerantz lab at the University of Minnesota
October 5
A paper entitled “Protein A064R from chlorovirus PBCV-1 harbors three of the transferase activities necessary to sythesize its major capsid protein N-linked glycans” has been accept in Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. Congrats Sicheng!
September 17
A paper entitled “Neoglycolipids as Glycosphingolipid Surrogates for Protein Binding Studies Using Nanodiscs and Native Mass Spectrometry” has been accepted in Anal. Chem. Congrats Xiaochao!
September 10
A paper entitled “Synthesis of a Highly Branched Nonasaccharide Chlorella Virus N-Glycan using a “Counter-Clockwise” Assembly Approach” has been accepted in Org Lett. Congrats Sicheng!
August 28
The group says goodbye to Po-Cheng Liu, Chien-Te and Bo-Shun with pizza at Deer Pizza. Po-Cheng and Chien-Te: good luck in you studies; Boshun: good luck in the Hsieh-Wilson Lab at CalTech as a postdoc.
August 6
The group welcomes Joemark Narsico as postdoctoral fellow from Hokkaido University. Like Mikel and Vitor, we know you are also glad that you are no longer locked in a quarantine hotel.
August 3
Welcome to Taipei, Vitor and Mikel. We all know you are both happy to be out of the quarantine hotel.
July 20
The group welcomes Yi-Chia (Celia) Su as Research Assistant from National Chung Cheng University
July 1
The group welcomes Chien-Te Chiang from National Chung Cheng University and Po-Cheng Liu from National Taiwan Normal University, as summer interns.
June 19
The group in Taipei has a great time shrimp fishing (pics below) to say goodbye to Nam. Good luck back Vietnam and we hope to see you back in Taipei soon.
June 18
A paper entitled “Cryo-EM Structure of Arabinosyltransferase EmbB from Mycobacterium smegmatis” has been accepted in Nat. Comm. Congrats Richard and Blake!
June 17
Welcome to Taipei, Bo-Shun after fleeing the coronavirus in Canada.
June 4
A paper entitled. “A Siloxane-Bridged Glycosyl Donor Enables Highly Stereoselective b–Xylulofuranosylation” has been accepted in J. Org. Chem. 2020, Congrats Bo-Shun!
June 3
Congratulations to Sicheng for passing his Ph.D. defence! Good luck staying in the Lowary lab in Edmonton as postdoc
May 18
After two months of COVID shut-down, the group in Edmonton is back to work, at least on a part-time basis.
May 1
Welcome to Taipei, Pei-Jhen and Po-Sen, fleeing the coronavirus in Canada.
April 13
A paper entitled “Cryo-EM Structures and Regulation of Arabinofuranosyltransferase AftD from Mycobacteria” was accepted in Mol. Cell. Congrats Richard and Blake!
March 25
Congratulations to Chun-Jui for passing his Ph.D. defence! Good luck staying in the Lowary lab in in Taipei as a postdoc!
February 27
A paper entitled “β-Selective Xylulofuranosylation Via a Conformationally-Restricted Glycosyl Donors” has been accepted in the Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry. Congrats Bo-Shun!
February 17
The group welcomes Lourriel Macale, a visiting intern from The University of the Philippines Los Baños.
February 12
A paper entitled “GlfH1, an endogenous remodeling galactofuranosidase that hydrolyzes mycobacterial arabinogalactan” has been accepted in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Congrats Maju
February 5
A paper entitled “A bifunctional O-antigen polymerase structure reveals a new family of galactofuranosyltransferases” has been accepted in Nature Chemical Biology. Congrats Ryan!
February 3
The group welcomes Nam Duong a visiting intern from Vietnam National University in Hanoi
February 3
Congratulations to Chih-Lan for passing her 502 Seminar!
February 1
The group welcomes a new Research Assistant, Wei-Ting Zhang.
January 25
Congratulations to Bo-shun for passing his Ph.D. defence! Good luck at Cal-Tech.
January 14
A paper entitled “Capsular glycan recognition provides antibody-mediated immunity against tuberculosis” has been accepted in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. Congrats Maju!
January 13
Congratulations to Fazheng for passing his M.Sc. defence! Good luck at Paraza Pharma.
December 1 The group welcomes a new postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Teddy Ehianeta, and a new Research Assistant, Cheng-Ruei Han.
November 1 The group welcomes a new postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Tarique Anwar, and a new Research Assistant, Chun-Ju Tsou.
October 25 Congratulations to Simha for passing his Ph.D. defence!
October 21 Congratulations to Mikel for passing his candidacy exam!
October 1 The group welcomes Ha Phan, a visiting student from Vietnam, to the lab.
August 22 Congratulations to Winston for passing his Ph.D. defence!
May 23 The group welcomes a new postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Manas Jana.
May 6 The group welcomes a new postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Pei-Jhen Li.
February 5 Congratulations to Vitor for passing his candidacy exam!
September 1 The group welcomes two new grad students, Chih-Lan Lin and Brock Byers!
June 19 The group welcomes a new visiting student, Ko Sato, from Tokyo Institute of Technology!
June 7 Congratulations to Michael and Rebecca for getting their B.Sc. degree! All the best in your future endeavors.
May 1 Congratulations to Ryan for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis! Good luck as a PDF at UBC in the Withers group!
April 12 Congratulations to Rebecca for completed her Chem 403 presentation!
April 10 Congratulations to Richard for passing his candidacy exam!
April 6 The group welcomes a new postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Rashmi Roy, from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.
September 1 The group welcomes two new graduate students, Po-Sen Tseng and Mikel Jason Allas.
May 15 The group welcomes a new postdoctoral fellow, Tzu-ting Kao, from NHRI in Taiwan.
May 1 The group welcomes a new undergraduate student, Youky Shen
April 7 Congratulations to Lei for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis! Good luck as a PDF at CalTech in the Hsieh-Wilson group!
March 13 Congratulations to Richard for passing his 502 Seminar!
November 29 Congratulations to Claude for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis! Best of luck in your position at TC Scientific!
November 21 Congratulations to Boshun for passing his candidacy exam!
November 14 Congratulations to Sicheng for passing his candidacy exam!
October 1 The group welcomes a new undergraduate student, Jeremy Nothof
September 27 Congratulations to Winston for passing his candidacy exam!
September 26 Congratulations to Boshun for passing his 502 Seminar!
September 12 Congratulations to Sicheng for passing his 502 Seminar!
September 2 The group welcomes two new graduate students Vitor Cunha and Fazheng Han.
July 27 Congratulations to Li for successfully defending her M.Sc. thesis! Best of luck in your position at Gilead!
May 26 Congratulations to Roger for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis! Best of luck in your PDF at Simon Fraser in the Vocadlo Lab!
February 19 Congratulations to Junfeng for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis! Good luck as a PDF in the group!
January 1 The group welcomes a new graduate student Roy Arav.
December 22 Congratulations to Anushka for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis! All the best in your future endeavors. November 23 Welcome to new graduate student Richard Brunton.
November 13 The group says goodbye to Kamar. Good luck with the upcoming birth of your son!
November 9 Congratulations to Sihma for passing his candidacy exam!
November 7 A paper entitled: “ABH-glycan microarray characterizes ABO subtype antibodies: fine specificity of immune tolerance after ABO-incompatible transplantation” has been accepted in theAmerican Journal of Transplanatation. Congratulations Peter and Lu!
November 2 Congratulations to Chun-jui for passing his candidacy exam!
October 28 A paper entitled: “Development of an Orthagonal Protection Stategy for the Synthesis of Mycobacterial Arabinomannan Fragments” has been accepted in the Journal of Organic Chemistry.Congratulations Kamar!
October 1 Welcome to Dr. Xiaochao Xue, a post-doctoral fellow from Zhongjun Li’s group in Beijing.
September 11 A paper entitled: “High resolution structures of the human ABO(H) blood group enzymes in complex with donor analogs reveal that the enzymes utilize multiple donor conformations to bind substrates in a step-wise manner” has been accepted in theJournal of Biological Chemistry. Congratulations Peter and Blake!
August 17 The group says goodbye to Akihiko. Good luck in your future endeavors!
July 24 The group says goodbye to Reymart. Good luck in your M.Sc. work at De La Salle University.
April 23 Congratulations to Ryan Sweeney for passing his candidacy exam!
April 6 A manuscript entitled “DC-SIGN+ Macrophages Control the Induction of Transplantation Tolerance” has been accepted byImmunity. Congratulations Junfeng!
April 1 Congratulations to Ying Jie for passing his 502 seminar!
March 25 A manuscript entitled “Effects of phenolic glycolipids from Mycobacterium kansasii on proinflammatory cytokine release. A structure-activity relationship study” has been accepted byChemical Science. Congratulations Hassan!
March 20 A manuscript entitled “Chemical Basis for Qualitative and Quantitative Differences between ABO Blood Groups and Subgroups: Implications for Organ Transplantation” has been accepted by the American Journal of Transplanatation. Congratulations Peter and Lu!
March 9 Congratulations to Simha for passing his 502 seminar!
March 1 Welcome to new graduate student Ying Jie (Winston) Lim.
February 23 Congratulations to Chun-jui for passing his 502 seminar!
February 15 Welcome to Reymart Sangalang, a visiting student from the Phillipines who will spend five months in the group.
February 2 A manuscript entitled “Synthesis of Unusual N-Acylated Aminosugar Fragments of Mycobacterium marinum Lipooligosaccharide IV” has been accepted by the Journal of Organic Chemistry. Congratulations Lei and Mengyao!
January 28 An invited manuscript entitled “Lipooligosaccharides from Mycobacteria. Structure, Function, and Synthesis” has been accepted by the Israeli Journal of Chemistry for a special issue in honour of Professor Chi-Huey Wong. Congratulations Bing and Chun-jui!
December 8 The group says goodbye to Jihao. Good luck in your future endeavours!
December 1 A paper entitled “Absolute Configurations and Conformation of Two Frater-Seebach Alkylation Reaction Products by Film VCD and ECD Spectroscopic Analyses” has been accepted in the Journal of Organic Chemistry. Congratulations Ke and Lei!
November 24 A paper entitled “Domain interactions control complex formation and polymerase specificity in the biosynthesis of the Escherichia coli O9a antigen” has been accepted in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Congratulations Mickey!
November 17 Congratulations to Amira for passing her PhD Defense. Good luck in your future endeavours!
November 8 A paper entitled “Tulane virus recognizes the A-type III and B histo-blood group antigens” has been accepted in the Journal of Virology. Congratulations Lu!
November 1 Welcome to new graduate students Boshun Huang and Sicheng Li.
October 27 A paper entitled “Specificity of Furanoside-Protein Recognition throcugh Antibody Engineering and Molecular Modeling” has been accepted in the Chemistry A European Journal. Congratulations Parnian!
October 15 A paper entitled “Water-Soluble Photoluminescent D-Mannose and L-Alanine Functionalized Silicon Nanocrystals and Their Application to Cancer Cell Imaging” has been accepted in the Journal of Materials Chemistry B. Congratulations Ryan Snitynsky!September 22 Congratulations to Bing for passing his PhD Defense. Good luck in your future endeavours!
August 28 A paper entitled “Application of mycobacteriophage cell binding proteins for the detection of mycobacteria” has been accepted inBacteriophage. Congratulations Maju and Yu!
July 31 Congratulations to Parnian for passing her PhD Defense. Good luck in your future endeavours!
July 14 A paper entitled “The Three Mycobaceterium Tuberculosis Antigen 85 Isoforms have Unique Substrates and Activities Determined by Non-active Site Regions” has been accepted inJournal of Biological Chemistry. Congratulations Maju!
June 27 Alberta Innovates Health Solutions Studentship results are out! Congratulations to Roger for receiving a studentship award.
May 20 Congratulations to Lei for passing his candidacy exam!
April 15 A paper entitled “Synthesis of Carbohydrate Methyl Phosphoramidates” has been accepted in Organic Letters.Congratulations Roger!
April 14 Congratulations to Ryan Sweeney for passing his 502 seminar!
April 1 Congratulations to Ryan Snitynsky for successfully defending his M.Sc. thesis. Good luck in your future endeavours!
March 26 Congratulations to Santu for successfully defending his M.Sc. thesis. Good luck at ChemRoutes!
March 11 A paper entitled “Inhibitors of Cytokine Release by Mycobacterium tuberculosis Phenolic Glycolipid Analogs” has been accepted in ChemBioChem. Congratulations Hassan!
March 10 A paper entitled “Sulfonium Ions as Inhibitors of the Mycobacterial Galactofuarnosyltransferase GlfT2” has been accepted in Medicinal Chemistry. Congratulations Jing!
February 27 The group says goodbye to Tatsuto. Good luck in your Ph.D. work at Osaka University.
December 13 A paper entitled “Biological roles of the O-methyl phosphoramidate capsule modification in Campylobacter jejuni” has been accepted in PLOS ONE. Congratulations Roger!
December 10 A paper entitled “Synthesis of Nitrogen-Containing Furanose Sugar Nucleotides for Use as Enzymatic Probes” has been accepted in Org. Lett. Congratulations Ryan Snitynsky!
November 26 Congratulations to Claude for passing her candidacy exam!
November 1 Welcome to new graduate students Narasimharao Thota, Li Zhang, and Chun-Jui (Anthony) Chu.
October 14 A paper entitled “Specificity of a UDP-GalNAc Pyranose-Furanose Mutase. A Potential Therapeutic Target for Campylobacter jejuni Infections” has been accepted in ChemBioChem.Congratulations Myles!
September 3 Welcome to Tatsuto Kiuchi, a visiting student from Japan who will spend six months in the group.
August 5 A paper entitled “Mycobacterial Phenolic Glycolipids with a Simplified Lipid Aglycone Modulate Cytokine Levels via Toll-Like Receptor 2” has been accepted in ChemBioChem. Congratulations Hassan!
July 26 The group says goodbye to Vitor. Best of luck in your last year of school in Brazil!
July 1 The group says goodbye to Shuting. Good luck finishing up your degree in Singapore!
June 24 A paper entitled “Synthesis of the tolerance inducing oligosaccharide lacto-N-fucopentaose III bearing an activated linker” has been accepted in ChemistryOpen. Congratulations Junfeng and Lu!
May 28 Welcome to Dr. Akihiko Koizumi, a post-doctoral fellow from Yukishige Ito’s group in Japan.
May 15 A paper entitled “Amphiphilic cytosolic glycans from mycobacteria. Occurrence, lipid-binding properties, biosynthesis and synthesis” has been accepted in Biopolymers.Congratulations Lily!
May 7 Congratulations to Lei for passing his 502 seminar!
May 2 Welcome to Vitor Cunha, a visiting student from Brazil who will spend three months in the group.
April 24 Alberta Innovates Technology Future results are out! Congratulations to Claude and Roger for receiving studentship awards.
April 1 A paper entitled “Conserved glycolipid termini in capsular polysaccharides synthesized by ABC transporter-dependent pathways in Gram-negative pathogens” has been accepted in Proceedings of the National Academy, U.S.A. Congratulations Mickey!
March 31 The group says goodbye to Yu and Cunsheng. Good luck in your future endeavors!
March 28 A paper entitled “Comparison between DFT- and NMR-based conformational analysis of methyl galactofuranosides” has been accepted in Carbohydrate Research. Congratulations Mickey and Yu!
March 19 A paper entitled “Glycosylations with 2,3-Aziridinofuranose Derivatives” has been accepted in Tetrahedron. Congratulations Faiaz!
March 18 Welcome to new post-doctoral fellow Dr. Kamar Sahloul!
March 13 A paper entitled “Regioselective Polymethylation of α(1-4)-linked Mannopyranose Oligosaccharides” has been accepted in the Journal of Organic Chemistry as a Feature Article. Congratulations Lily!
February 11 Congratulations to Claude for passing her 502 seminar!
January 21 Congratulations to Lily for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis!
January 16 Congratulations to Roger for passing his Candidacy exam!
January 9 Congratulations to Faiaz for successfully defending his M.Sc. thesis!
January 2 Welcome to Shuting Cai, a graduate student from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, who will spend six months in the group.
November 7 Congratulations to Junfeng for passing his 502 seminar!
October 9 Congratulations to Parnian for successfully defending her Candidacy exam!
October 8 A paper entitled “The galactosamine residue in mycobacterial arabinogalactan is α-linked” has been accepted in the Journal of Organic Chemistry. Congratulations Wejie and Lu!
October 1 A review entitled “Conformational Analysis of Furanoside-Containing Mono- and Oligosaccharides” has been accepted in Chemical Reviews. Congratulations Hashem and Mickey!
September 20 Welcome to new graduate student Ryan Sweeney.
September 16 A paper entitled “Domain Organization of the Polymerizing Mannosyltransferases Involved in Synthesis of Escherichia coli O8 and O9a Lippolysaccharide O Antigens” has been accepted in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Congratulations Mickey!
September 15 Congratulations to Myles for successfully defending his PhD thesis! Good luck in Schramm lab at Albert Einstein in your postdoc.
August 30 Welcome to new undergraduate student Mengyao (Aaron) Dong.
August 8 A paper entitled “Biosynthesis of the PolymannoseLipopolysaccharide O Antigens from Escherichia coli Serotypes O8 and O9a Requires a Unique Combination of Mannosyltransferase Modules in Single- and Multi-Active Site Enzymes” has been accepted in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.Congratulations Mickey!
July 12 A paper entitled “Synthesis of trisaccharides incorporating the α-Gal antigen functionalized for neoglycoconjugate preparation” has been accepted in the ARKIVOC as part of a special issue in trubute to Professor Richard R. Schmidt.
June 29 A paper entitled “Studies on the substrate specificity of a GDP-mannose pyrophosphorylase from Salmonella enterica” has been accepted in the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry as part of a thematic issue “Synthesis in the Glycosciences”. Congratulations Lu and Blake!
June 20 Congratulations to Mickey for winning a presentation award at the most recent Canadian Society for Chemistry meeting, which was held in Calgary.
June 19 Alberta Innovates-Technology Futures results are out! Congratulations to Junfeng and Lei for receiving studentship awards and to Ryan, who received a top-up to his NSERC CGSM award.
June 15 A paper entitled “Tetrameric structure of GlfT2 reveals a scaffold for the assembly of mycobacterial arabinogalactan” has been accepted in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Congratulations Blake and Mickey!
June 5 A paper entitled “Carbohydrate-Lipid Interactions. Affinities of Methylmannose Polysaccharides for Lipids in Aqueous Solution” has been accepted in Chemistry, A European Journal. Congratulations Yu and Lily!
May 29 Congratulations to Todd for winning a 2012 Rutherford Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the 2012 Bernard Belleau Award of the Canadian Society for Chemistry.
May 17 Congratulations to Mickey for sucessfully defending her Ph.D. thesis! Good luck in the Szymanski lab in your postdoc.
May 3 Congratulations to Roger for passing his 502 seminar.
April 30 The group’s recent paper in Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry was selected as a “HOT article” by the journal and highlighted in Chemical & Engineering News (April 30, 2012 issue).
April 3 Congratulations to Ryan for receiving an NSERC CGSM Award.
March 15 Congratulations to Lisa Shulman, an undergraduate who will work in the laboratory this summer for receiving an NSERC USRA award.
March 12 A paper entitled “Revisiting the specificity of an α-(1à4)-mannosyltransferase involved in mycobacterial methylmannose polysaccharide biosynthesis” has been accepted in ChemBioChem. Congratulations Lily and Blake!
March 5 Congratulations to Anushka for successfully passing his candidacy examination.
March 2 A paper entitled “Synthetic UDP-galactofuranose analogs reveal critical enzyme–substrate interactions in GlfT2-catalyzed mycobacterial galactan assembly” has been accepted in Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry. Congratulations Myles and Ruokun!
March 1 Welcome to Jöern Saupe, a new postdoctoral fellow in the group from the Jörg Rademann’s group at the Free University Berlin and Huu-Anh Tran, a new research associate from Dave Bundle’s group at the University of Alberta.
February 27 The group’s collaborative research with the groups of David Bundle, Glen Armstrong, John Klassen and Kenneth Ng, is recognized with the Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering from NSERC.
February 9 The group receives a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to identify new biomarkers for tuberculosis. The grant is being matched 1:1 by CIHR.
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-IV Antigens” has been accepted by Carbohydrate Research. Congratulations Peter!
February 16 Congratuations 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.
September 21 The “tolerogen” project is highlighted by Alberta Innovates.
September 8 A paper entiteld “Synthesis and NMR Spectroscopic Analysis of Acylated Pentasaccharide Fragments of Mycobacterial Arabinogalactan” has been accepted in Org. Biomol. Chem. Congratulations Chunjuan and Mickey!
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 Tokyo. See some pictures here.
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.
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