February 21, 2024
Once again, we participated in the “Let’s Talk Science-Lab Extravaganza” event at Memorial University and hosted several grade 12 students from various High schools (e.g., Crescent Collegiate in Blaketown, Holy Spirit High in Conception Bay South and St. Bonaventure’s in
St. John’s).
We hope our guests return to us as MUN students next year.
February 4, 2024
We welcome Luckman Qasim, who recently joined us as a Research Assistant in our computer science projects.
August 5, 2023
Congratulations to Karina Barcelos, Jivesh Garg, and our colleagues at Memorial University, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, and Universidade Federal de Itajubá in Brazil on the acceptance of our collaborative manuscript for publication in the Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology.
May 23, 2023
Glad to have a collaborative paper published with our colleagues in Brazil on the Preclinical evaluation of PEG-Multiwalled carbon nanotubes: Radiolabeling, biodistribution, and toxicity in mice.
Congratulations to everyone involved!
May 4, 2023
Today we held two sessions during the “Let’s Talk Science-Lab Extravaganza” event at Memorial University and hosted several grade 12 students from High Schools in St. John’s.
We hope our guests enjoyed the sessions as much as we did.
“May the 4th be with you!”
April 27, 2023
Congratulations to Elaine Dong on being selected for an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award at Memorial University!
January 9, 2023
Nisarge Dave Started his Honours Research Project; good LUCK with your Thesis, Nisarg!
September 19, 2022
We welcome AMy White, Nisarge Dave, and Thomas O’Brien To our group.
July 18, 2022
Our recent Cover ArtIcle, published in the RSC Molecular Systems Design & Engineering (MSDE), has been selected by the MSDE Editors as a “HOT MSDE article”. We are grateful to the Editors for this Selection and thank the Editorial Staff for sharing the news with us! https://twitter.com/RSC_MolEng/status/1549106732269391872
May 24, 2022
We welcome Jivesh Garg, a new grad student who recently joined us. Happy Researching, Jivesh!
April 4, 2022
Our paper has been selected for the Front cover of the April issue of the RSC‘s molecular systems design & engineering.
Dr. Laleh ALisaraie’s ARTWORK on the Journal Cover can be seen here.
March 29, 2022
Sayi’Mone Tati’s manuscript is accepted for publication in the FASEB Journal. Congratulations, Sayi’Mone!
Recruitment of Dynein and Kinesin to Viral Particles
Sayi’Mone Tati, Laleh Alisaraie
February 3, 2022
Karina bachelos’ manuscript is Accepted for Publication in molecular systems design & engineering of The Royal Society of Chemistry. congratulations, Karina!
September 9, 2021
Sayi’Mone Tati presented her work on dynein inhibitors as a poster in the Dynein-2021. Good job, Sayi’Mone!
July 14, 2021
Sayi’Mone Tati’s research paper Is accepted for publication in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences – Biochemistry Section. Congratulations, Sayi’Mone!
analysis of the structural mechanism of atp inhibition at the aaa1 subunit of cytoplasmic dynein-1 using a chemical "toolkit"
Sayi’MOne Tati, Laleh ALisaraie
April 28, 2021
Sayi’Mone Tati and Karina Barcelos presented posters at the 2021 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) annual conference. The job, well done!
March 23, 2021
Rachel Boyce is to receive a Summer Research Scholarship (USRA) from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC) this year.
Congratulations, Rachel! We wish you a productive and full of fun summer research!
November 19, 2020
Zahed Khatooni defended his Ph.D. thesis today; we wish him all the best in his life and future endeavors.
September 1, 2020
Dr. Laleh Alisaraie is on sabbatical leave until August 31, 2021.
June 1, 2020
We are glad that Rachel Boyce, one of our former WISE students, has returned to our group, now as an undergrad with the Faculty of Science. Welcome back, Rachel!
May 18, 2020
A Victoria Day paper!
Kali Heale’s research article was accepted for publication in Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics. Congratulations, Kali!
Kali A. Heale, Laleh Alisaraie
C-terminal Tail of β-Tubulin and its Role in the Alterations of Dynein Binding Mode
March 23, 2020
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic situation, we work from home and teach online effective today.
Nov. 1, 2019
Our recent paper has been featured on the cover of the November issue of Chemical Biology & Drug Design.
Oct. 28, 2019
We welcome Yong Ko, another new member to our group. Yong is a 4th-year Pharmacy student at Memorial University.
Sept. 5, 2019
We welcome Karina de Almeida Barcelos to our group. She has joined us with a B.Eng. degree in Materials Engineering from Universidade Federal de Itajub, Brazil.
Sept. 3, 2019
Sayi’mone Tati-Padou started her graduate program in our group. Sayi’mone has earned her B.Sc. degree in Biochemistry from Memorial University in May 2019.
July 15, 2019
Congratulations to Tiffany Tozer, Kali Heale and Caroline Manto Chagas on the acceptance of our recent manuscript, for publication in Chemical Biology & Drug Design!
Tiffany Tozer, Kali Heale, Caroline Manto Chagas, Andre de Barros, Laleh Alisaraie
Interdomain Twists of Human Thymidine Phosphorylase and its Active-Inactive Conformations: Binding of 5-FU and its Analogues to hTP vs. DPD.
July 8, 2019
Rachel Boyce joined us today. She is going to receive research training during a summer research program supported by Women in Science and Engineering (WISE), NL. Welcome to our lab, Rachel!
June 13, 2019
Congratulations to the NBA Champion, Toronto Raptors, on their historic success! #WeTheNorth
June 10, 2019
We welcome Manca Bukovac to our lab. Manca is an exchange student from University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
June 3, 2019
Kali Heale presented her research results at the 62nd Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences (CSMB), held in Montreal. Excellent work, Kali!
May 23, 2019
We welcome our new Research Assistant Sayi’mone Padou. She joins us with a BSc. degree in Biochemistry. Bienvenue Sayi’mone!
May 22, 2019
Congratulations to Caroline Manto Chagas on the acceptance of her manuscript for publication in the ACS Omega.
Carloine Manto Chagas, Laleh Alisaraie
Metabolites of Vinca Alkaloid Vinblastine: Tubulin Binding and Activation of Nausea Associated Receptors, ACS Omega, Accepted.
April 15, 2019
Kali Heale has successfully defended her Honors thesis, congratulation Kali!
April 9, 2019
Congratulations to Kali Heale on her NSERC undergraduate research award!
March 8, 2019
Caroline Manto Chagas is the winner of the graduate students’ research poster competition held on "Pharmacy Research Day".
Congratulations Caroline!
Feb. 11, 2019
Today is the "International Day of Women in Science", and Caroline Manto Chagas a recent MSc. graduate from our lab has been featured in the Gazzett.
We thank Mrs. Heidi Wicks for the interview and featuring our School’s Graduate Program. Excellent job, ladies!
Feb. 7, 2019
Welcome to Luke Steven Kennedy! Luke has a BSc. degree in Biochemistry from Memorial University.
Jan. 3, 2019
We have a new member in our group, Sergio Munoz Castano. He has joined us with a B.Pharm degree from Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia. Welcome to the group, Sergio!
Dec. 21, 2018
Congratulations to Caroline Manto Chagas on successfully completing her MSc program in our group. We wish you all the best, Caroline!
Sept. 27, 2018
Welcome to Satpyul Kim (School of Pharmacy), Melisa Tiang (Department of Chemistry) and Heidi Dean (Department of Biology). We hope you enjoy your projects.
Aug. 19, 2018
Caroline Manto Chagas presented her results at the 256th American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting in Boston, MA.
July 20, 2018
Congratulations to Caroline Manto Chagas and Sara Moss on the acceptance of their manuscript for publication in the “International Journal of Pharmaceutics”!
Caroline Manto Chagas, Sara Moss, Laleh Alisaraie
Drug Metabolites and their Effects on the Development of Adverse Reactions: Revisiting Lipinski's Rule of Five
July 4, 2018
Welcome to our guest, Brigid Smith! She is a WISE (Women In Science and Engineering) summer research student.
Glad to have you with us, Brigid!
June 29, 2018
Congratulations to Kali Heale on being named to the 2017-2018 Dean’s List of the Faculty of Science!
March 6, 2018
Congratulations to Angus Gibson on his success, being the nominee of Memorial University to compete on the national level for Pharmacy Student Research poster award to be held by the Association of Faculties of Pharmacy of Canada (AFPC).
Angus has been working on a lab science project, studying the Effective Factors on the Mechanism and Function of Microtubules.
Excellent job, Angus!
Sept. 21, 2017
Congratulations to Tiffany Tozer on receiving Dr. Christina Tulk Scholarship!
June 1, 2017
Congratulations to Maria Flynn and Kali Heale on the acceptance of their manuscript for publication in the “ACS Chemical Research in Toxicology”!
Maria Flynn, Kali Heale, Laleh Aliaraie
Mechanism of Off-Target Interactions and Toxicity of Tamoxifen and Its Metabolites
May 5, 2017
Kali Heale, Tiffany Tozer and Maria Flynn presented posters at the Science Atlantic Chemistry Conference, 2017. Well done!
April 17, 2017
We welcome the new member of our group, Angus Gibson.
March 16, 2017
Caroline Manto, Kali Heale, Tiffany Tozer and Sara Moss Presented their research results on the School of Pharmacy Research Day poster event. Congratulations on your achievements!
March 9, 2017
Congratulations to Zixian Li, Sara Moss and, our collaborators in Brazil on the acceptance of our recent submission for publication in the “International Journal of Pharmaceutics”!
Zixian Li, Andre Luis Branco de Barros, Daniel Cristian Ferreira Soares, Sara Moss, Laleh Alisaraie*
Functionalized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: Cellular Uptake, Biodistribution and Applications in Drug Delivery
Dec. 30, 2016
The most recent edition of Memorial University’s Research Report including one of our projects, is available here.
Oct. 17, 2016
Welcome to our visiting student, Clara Vila Gallego!
Clara is our guest member from University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Glad to have you with us, Clara!
Sept. 2, 2016
Caroline Manto Chagas has joined our group as a graduate student from Pontifical University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Caroline has a BPharm degree through a "Sandwich Program" between MUN and Pontifical University offered by the "Science without Borders" program. Welcome to our group, Caroline!
Aug. 23, 2016
Check out the article "a fighting chance" about our study on Cystic Fibrosis, published in the Gazette today!
July 26, 2016
Congratulations to Blake Power, Nathan Smith and Brandon Downer (our present and former team members), on the acceptance of their manuscript for publication in the "Chemical Biology & Drug Design"!
Blake Hollett Power, Nathan Smith, Brandon Downer and Laleh Alisaraie
Insight into the Mechanism of Chemical Modification of Anti-bacterial Agents by Antibiotic Resistance Enzyme O-phosphotransferase IIIA
July 7, 2016
Maria Flynn and Blake Power presented their research projects at the Biomedicine 2016 Research Symposium. Good research work and professional presentations! Our team is proud of you both!
June 29, 2016
Sara Moss, one of our 2014 WISE students, has returned to our lab. Welcome back, Sara!
June 4, 2016
Blake Power won the prize for the best undergraduate poster in Biological and Medicinal Chemistry at the Science Atlantic - CIC Chemistry Conference (ChemCon) Halifax, 2016. Well-deserved, Congrats, Blake!
May 1, 2016
Congratulations to all of my Pharmacy students in Class of 2018 on successfully passing their Medicinal Chemistry I and II courses in 2015-2016 academic year!
March 20, 2016
Zixian Li presented at the 18th Aldrich Conference. Nice job, Li!
March 17, 2016
Zixian Li presented his data at the School of Pharmacy’s Research Day. Li, we all enjoyed your presentation!
March 11, 2016
Congratulations to Zixian Li on successfully completing his MSc program in our group. We wish you all the best, Li!
Feb. 11, 2016
Today is the International Day of "Women in Science", and to celebrate, the Gazette has pulled together a collection of personal profiles of some faculty and students about who and what inspired them.
Laleh Alisaraie is featured... and here is the collection.
Jan. 28, 2016
Welcome to our newest group member, Kali Heale. She was one of MUN's WISE students and has received training in computer programming. Glad to have you with us, Kali.
Jan. 26, 2016
Congratulations to my team members Zixian Li and Tiffany Tozer on the acceptance of their paper for publication in " ACS Physical Chemistry C"!
Zixian Li, Tiffany Tozer, and Laleh Alisaraie
Molecular Dynamics Studies for Optimization of Non-covalent Loading of Vinblastine on Single-walled Carbon Nanotube
Nov. 18, 2015
A manuscript of Laleh Alisaraie and her collaborator at McGill University has been accepted for publication in the "Journal of Molecular Modeling".
Laleh Alisaraie*, Isabelle Rouiller
Molecular Assembly of Lethal Factor Enzyme and Pre-pore Heptameric Protective Antigen in Early Stage of Translocation
Sept. 2, 2015
“Making a Difference”, See the published interview with Laleh Alisaraie in MUN Gazette about training WISE high school female students in our group.
Aug. 27, 2015
See this published article about one of the training programs in our lab: Women in drug discovery research - a WISE choice.
July 22, 2015
Congratulations to Blake Power for being named to the 2014-2015 Dean’s List for the Faculty of Science!
July 14, 2015
Blake Power in CBC news! Outstanding student and a very good human.
July 3, 2015
We have a new member in the group, Kailey Gillingham. She is a WISE summer student with us. Welcome to our group, Kailey!
June 18, 2015
Zixian Li presented a poster at the international High Performance Computing Symposium (HPCS) in Montreal. Nice poster!
May 29, 2015
Blake Power has been awarded the Dorothy Earle Prize for Excellence in Chemistry.
Congratulations, Blake!
May 22, 2015
Today Blake Power had a poster presentation at the Science Atlantic-CIC Chemistry Conference (ChemCon) 2015 at UNB, Fredericton. Excellent research work!
May 4, 2015
Tiffany Tozer has started her research work with us today. She is a Pharmacy student and has earned her B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from Memorial University. Welcome to our group, Tiffany!
April 8, 2015
Congratulations to Blake Power on his 2015 USSIP Award!
April 7, 2015
See this article. It's about our lab members and research:
ACEnet award; first time for a pharmacy student
March 27, 2015
Congratulations to Blake Power on receiving Dr. Hugh Anderson Scholarship!
March 11, 2015
Congratulations to Maria Flynn on receiving the ACEnet Undergraduate Research Award!
Feb. 24, 2015
Congratulations to Zixian Li, on the acceptance of his paper for publication in "PROTEINS: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics"!
Zixian Li and Laleh Alisaraie*
Microtubules Dual Chemo and Thermo-responsive Depolymerisation
Aug. 21, 2014
Today Sarah Wilkins and Sara Moss presented their work at Bruneau Lecture Theatre and finished their summer program with us successfully. Congrats!
July 15, 2014
Today we have a new group member, Blake Power.
Blake is an undergraduate student from Department of Chemistry and is going to work on a Computational Medicinal Chemistry Project. Welcome Blake!
July 3, 2014
Two young and active researchers have joined us as summer students this week.
Sara Moss and Sarah Wilkins, Welcome to the group!
June 16, 2014
Brandon Downer has started his research work today. He is an undergraduate student from Department of Biochemistry. Welcome Brandon!
June 2, 2014
Lab renovation is complete and my computer lab is finally functional.
Exciting!!!
March 2, 2014
After several months of delay, the lab renovation has started today.
Jan. 1, 2014
Zixian Li has officially started his graduate program.
Welcome and Good luck, Li!
July 29, 2013
Nathan Smith has joined us today. Welcome, Nathan!
July 3, 2013
Anush Nouziri is the first summer student in my lab and started his project today. Welcome, Anush!
July 2, 2013
A temporary research space for placing two desks has become available to start working on my projects. Too small, but somewhere to start from …