Environmental Chemical Biology
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Hui received the Ontario Early Researcher Award_April 2022 |
Hui received the Ontario Early Researcher Award (https://www.ontario.ca/page/early-researcher-awards). With this funding support, we are planning to expand our environmental Chemical-Protein Interaction Network (eCPIN). Thanks to everybody in the Peng group! |
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May-2022-Victor and Haiying kick off an exciting NSERC Mitacs project |
In collaboration with AUG Signals (https://augsignals.com/), we will develop an online sensor to forecast cyanotoxins in Lake Ontario! |
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March-2022- Holly is Featured as a Speaker on the SCIEX Podcast 'PFAS Fireside Chats' |
Holly Barrett was invited to speak about her research on the SCIEX podcast "PFAS Fireside Chats" hosted by Craig Butt! The episode, titled "How Mass Spectrometry Found New PFAS in Beluga Whales", is available to listen here: https://bit.ly/PFASfireside |
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December-2021 Congrats to Rachel : 1st Place SETAC Best Platform Award |
Rachel Yang's presentation at the SETAC North America 42 Annual Meeting placed 1st in the Best Student Platform Award! Big congrats and great work!https://awards.setac.org/current-north-america-award-winners/ |
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December-2021 Our OH-BDE Study was Published in ES&T! |
The ecological role of the natural product 6OH-BDE47 was a long-standing puzzle, and we figured it out in this study! This project took us 4 years, but it was worth the time! Big thanks to group members and collaborators Dr. Wu and Dr. Wang. |
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August-2021- Congrats to Holly and Kirsten on their PhD Candidacy! |
This month, both Holly and Kirsten passed their oral comprehensive exams and became PhD Candidates. We celebrated them (as well as Jeremy, PhD Candidate from the Mabury lab) at an outdoor celebration with a cake! |
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Jun-2021-Congratulations and Farewell to Jiajun! |
We say a heartfelt goodbye to Jiajun. Jiajun was the first PDF of the group and has made numerous contributions to our group research in the past three years. Jiajun will start his position at the China Agricultural University, as a tenured professor! Besh wishes for Jiajun! |
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June-2021,Jiajun and Jesse's paper is now published in ES&T! |
We developed a QITSA chemical proteomics method (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c00509) for contaminant-protein interactions across species. We are expanding this method to more species and contaminants! Big thanks to our collaborators Dr. Houck, Dr. Doering, Dr. Ng and Dr. Lalone! |
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May-2021: Congratulations to Our Scholarship Recipients, Holly and Dave! |
Holly Barrett (3rd year PhD student) is a recent recipient of a prestigious NSERC Doctoral award to support her graduate research. Additionally, David Ross Hall (4th year PhD candidate) has received the Arthur and Sonia Labatt Fellowship from the School of the Environment. Congratulations to both Holly and Dave on their accomplishments! |
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Apr-2021 Congrats on Jiajun's paper accepted by the Environmental Health Perspectives |
In this large screening study, we discovered several interesting metabolism pathways of PFASs by employing non-targeted analysis. Many thanks to our collaborators Wen Gu, Song Tang, Henry Krause and Keith Houck! |
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