Chemical Biology research group at #OntarioTech (@ontariotech_u), with a focus on Nucleic Acid Chemistry.

Joined December 2018
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Seven @ontariotech_u members presented at the 6th Kyutech-OTU symposium, held at @kyutech in Japan. Big thanks to @ssp_kouhou for supporting this wonderful scientific exchange.
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Extremely proud of our master student Makenzie Mateus’ accomplishments and his drive for establishing new methods to successfully investigate Azos-siRNA in vivo. Sharing beautiful highlights of Mak’s poster presentation at @OTSociety conference 2023 #OTS2023
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Congrats to Daisee Lubrin on completing her BSc degree with distinction and honours at @ontariotech_u!! Daisee conducted undergrad thesis work on a joint project with @theresastotes’ lab. Here she is show casing the DNA synthesizer to her family! 🧬 #dnafamily #oligosforlife
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Check out Kevin’s colourful click reactions!! 🧪 #Chemistry #clickreaction #colourful
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Professor @JP_Desaulniers represented @ontariotech_u at the @TIDESInforma international conference & had a great experience sharing our latest research findings on controlling siRNA activity using coloured lights. 🚥 #tidesusa
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Big congratulations to Dr. @LidyaVSalim on this beautiful design & publication! 🎉🎉🎉
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📢Our latest issue is now online! Check out the work behind the front cover by Lidya Salima & Jean-Paul Desaulniers @JP_Desaulniers @OntarioTechChem on the synthesis of folate-labeled siRNAs from a folate derivative phosphoramidite Read in full below pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…
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Desaulniers Lab retweeted
REVIEW: Delivery of #Oligonucleotides to the Liver With GalNAc: From Research to Registered Therapeutic Drug @AlexandreDebac1 @Blakey2David @robertshabib @Alnylam #oligodelivery @AON_Delivery @RNAVarley @DesaulniersLab pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3259…
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Great presentation 🎉 by our undergraduate thesis student Daisee Lubrin at #SOUSCC51 chemistry conference 2023! 🧪 Daisee’s research is interdisciplinary project combining chemical biology & forensic science knowledge to create biosensors for forensic applications 🕵🏽
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Congratulations to @VanessaAffe for successfully completing her Undergraduate Student Research Award term by #NSERC at our lab. And for giving a great oral presentation today at #SOUSCC51 chemistry conference! Scoring top 5 in the chemical biology session! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Don’t miss our last professor speaker series! Find out about research opportunities at OntarioTech university & The University of Manitoba! This will include topics about electrochemistry, organic & inorganic chemistry, chemical biology 🧪 #research #opportunity #academia
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Alex Pontarelli successfully completed his exchange term at our lab. It has been a great exchange experience, Alex is a fast learner, quick to adapt to new lab environment & research. His innovative ideas&approach to organic & oligo synthesis are exceptional!
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Check out some of his corrole synthesis work and the coincidental crystallization into the letter “A” 😲
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📢Our latest issue is now online! Check out the work behind this week's front cover by Jean-Paul Desaulniers & co @JP_Desaulniers @DesaulniersLab on the gene silencing activity of sphingosine-modified siRNAs Read the full article on our website here🔽 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…
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2023 Nucleic Acid Chemical Biology Group Photo. 🧬🧪
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Our masters student Makenzie Mateus demonstrating to our PhD exchange student Alex Pontarelli how siRNA injection into fish eggs are done to achieve in-vivo gene silencing. #NSERC CREATE @WildsLab @ontariotech_u
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We would like to welcome our exchange student Alexander Pontarelli, a 3rd year PhD student from @WildsLab at Concordia University.🧪
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Alex is part of an NSERC CREATE "Programmed Molecules for Therapeutics, Sensing and Diagnostics"(PROMOTE) program. He selected our lab @ontariotech_u for his research exchange to gain experience conducting in-vitro siRNA studies & learn to synthesis photodynamic agents. 🧬
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Congratulations @virginia_choo 🎉👏🏻🎉
We would like to announce our creative inclusivity sticker design contest winner 🥇 @virginia_choo a masters student at @DesaulniersLab @ontariotech_u Virginia ensured that her sticker designs truly represent everyone in STEM with her creative design “ALL for STEM for ALL”
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Happy International Day of Girls and Women in STEM 🥳 from Desaulniers lab 🧪🧬🧫
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Check out our first publication for this new year 🎊 🗞️“Effective Carrier-Free Gene-Silencing Activity of Sphingosine-Modified siRNAs” - now published in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti… @JP_Desaulniers @C__FeRNAndez @IfrodetGiorgees @OrgBiomolChem
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