Gilbert Walker & Isaac Li's work on hydration free energy was highlighted in a Chemical & Engineering News article on the research of Dor Ben-Amotz, who studies the structure of the hydration shell around hydrophobic molecules. Read the full article [...]
Fall convocation was held on Friday, November 16 2012, and the Walker Group's 4 newly minted PhDs were all in attendance! Left to right: Melissa Paulite, Claudia Grozea, Adrienne Tanur, and Isaac Li
Alex Kumachev has completed his MSc with the Walker Group, having submitted his thesis, "Generation of Cell-laden Biopolymer Microgels with Tunable Mechanical Properties for Cancer Cell Studies" and is now attending medical school at the University of Toronto. Congratulations, Alex!
Congratulations to Melissa Paulite, who successfully defended her PhD dissertation, "Nanoscale Chemical Imaging of Synthetic Materials and Biomaterials using Apertureless Near-field Infrared Microscopy," on September 25, 2012! Melissa has accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New [...]
Claudia Grozea successfully defended her PhD dissertation, "Nanopatterned Polymer Coating for Antifouling Applications," on September 18, 2012. Congratulations, Dr. Grozea!
On September 12, 2012, Adrienne Tanur successfully defended her PhD dissertation, "Structure and Properties of Nanomaterials: From Inorganic Nanotubes to the Calcareous Biomeneralized Tubes of H. Dianthus." Congratulations, Dr. Tanur!
Isaac Li successfully defended his PhD dissertation, "Hydrophobic Hydration of a Single Polymer" on August 3. A big congratulations to Dr. Li, who will soon begin a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign!
Li and Walker's recent PNAS paper has been highlighted in a review in Nature. Read the Nature review
A new paper by Li and Walker, Signature of Hydrophobic Hydration in a Single Polymer, has been highlighted in the PNAS Early Edition and ScienceDebate.com Read the PNAS commentary and ScienceDebate.com discussion
Gilbert Walker was featured in the Spring 2011 edition of U of T Magazine, where he highlighted the research in bioplasmonics that is being undertaken by the BiopSys NSERC Strategic Network, of which he is Scientific Director. Read the article
