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April 2013: Lars is winner of this
year's Ken
Standing Award.
March 2013: Pittcon in Philadelphia.

Dinner
at the historic City Tavern: Evan Williams, Brandon Ruotolo, Lars,
Michael Gross, and David Clemmer.
January 2013: Congratulations to Jenna Liu, for successfully
defending her Ph.D. thesis. External examiner was Prof. Sarah Trimpin
from Wayne State University.
May 2012: Impressions
from the 2012
ASMS Conference in Vancouver:
LK Lab group dinner.

Speakers at the ASMS "HDX
and Covalent Labeling" Interest Group Workshop. The Workshop was
co-organized by Lars and David Schriemer (University of Calgary). From
left to right: Derek Wilson, Christoph Borchers, Lars, Joshua Sharp,
Michael Chalmers, David Schriemer, Keith Fadgen, Kasper Rand.
May 2012: Our
recent JMB paper is
highlighted in Chemical
and Engineering News.

Brad's Ph.D.
celebration at the Grad Club.
April 2012: Congratulations to Dr. Brad Stocks.
Brad passed his Ph.D. examination today. The external examiner was Prof.
Gerold Schmitt-Ulms from the University of Toronto.
March 2012: Amanda Comeau places first
in the Analytical/Bioanalytical Division at the 40th Southern Ontario
Undergraduate Student Chemistry Conference (SOUSCC).
Congratulations!!!
February 2012: Congratulations to JiangJiang (Jenna) Liu,
on winning one of this year's Graduate Thesis Research Awards.

Lucy Pan (on the
left), holding the "Goblet of Knowledge" at the Grad Club.
October 2011: Congratulations to Yan (Lucy) Pan,
who
defended her PhD thesis after less then four years in our lab, and with
more than ten papers published. External examiner was Prof. Michael Siu from
York University, Toronto.
September 2011: Congratulations to Elias Ahadi, who
successfully defended his PhD thesis on Sept. 6. External examiner was Prof. Igor
Kaltashov from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst.
September 2011: Our new Synapt Mass Spectrometer
is up and
running!

June 2011: Group dinner at the 59th ASMS Conference in
Denver. This year we presented a record 7 posters, two orals,
and one contribution at the HDX/Covalent Labeling Interest Group
meeting. Shown in this picture: Elias,
Lars, Brad, Stephen, Jingxi, and Lucy (missing: Jenna and Siavash).
May 2011: For the second time in a
row, Brad
Stocks is
selected as the recipient of the Nellie Farthing
Fellowship, one of the most important awards that the Schulich School
of Medicine and Dentistry presents to especially deserving graduate
students. Congratulations!!!
May 2011: Congratulations to Dr.
Jingxi Pan, on winning the 2011 Canadian Life Sciences
Travel Award of the Canadian Society for Mass Spectrometry, in support
of his presentation at this year's ASMS meeting in Denver.
March 2011: Lars
Konermann is the winner of this year's Florence
Bucke
Science Prize (UWO, Faculty of Science).
March 2011: Congratulations to Stephen
Sciuto, who just
found out that he received an NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship (M).
Feb. 2011: Yan
(Lucy) Pan and Brad Stocks both
receive Graduate
Thesis Research Awards. Congratulations !
Yalda
Liaghati-Mobarhan celebrates
her successful M.Sc. defense
by taking a sip from the "Goblet of Knowledge" at the UWO Grad Club (Dec. 2010).
Oct. 2010: Congratulations to Brad
Stocks on
receiving an NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS D).
Sept. 2010: Congratulations to Brad
Stocks on
receiving a 2010 CSMS Travel Award, sponsored by Waters Canada.
June 2010: Congratulations to Brad
Stocks for
being selected as the recipient of this year's Nellie Farthing
Fellowship, one of the most important awards that the Schulich School
of Medicine and Dentistry presents to especially deserving graduate
students.

May 2010: Group dinner at the 58th ASMS Conference in
Salt Lake City, where we presented two talks and four posters: Jenna, Yalda, Derek (now at York
University), Doug (now at
SCIEX), Lars, Mahasilu, Jingxi,
Brad, Lucy (missing: Elias).
March 2010: Congratulations to Yan
(Lucy) Pan for
receiving an NSERC CGS D Scholarship!
March 2010: Congratulations to Brad
Stocks for
receiving an NSERC PGS D Scholarship!
March 2010: Congratulations to Tomasz
Czarny for placing
first at the 38th
Southern Ontario Undergraduate Student Chemistry Conference (Analytical
Division).
July 2009: We are happy to announce that Brad Stocks is
the recipient of an OGSST stipend for 2009 / 2010. Congratulations!!
June 2009: Congratulations to Dr. Yuhong Liu
on her successful Ph.D. defense.
After Yuhong's defense - we celebrate at the Grad Club.
On the far left is Prof. Otis Vacratsis (University of Windsor),
Yuhong's external examiner.
June 2009: Everyone had a great time
at the 57th ASMS
Conference in Philadelphia, where we presented seven posters and
two talks.
Group dinner: Lars, Brian, Jingxi, Yuhong,
Lucy, Brad, Elias, Cam.
April 2009: Congratulations to Lucy (Yan) Pan,
on being awarded a Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS M).
April 2009: Congratulations to Brian Boys, on
his successful M.Sc. defense.

Elias, Brian, Brad, and
Jingxi
June 2008: Congratulations to Xin
Tong, on the successful completion of her M.Sc. degree.
Xin
actually defended
back in January, but she came back to attend Convocation this month.
Lars
and Xin.
May 2008: In addition to the
successful renewal of our Discovery Grant,
we were awarded equipment
funds (RTI 1), and a Discovery Accelerator
Grant from the Natural
Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). We also received an equipment
grant from the UWO Academic Development Fund (ADF).
May 2008: Congratulations to Yuhong
Liu, on winning an OGSST Award for 2008-09.
March 2008: The Chemistry
Department is pleased to announce four new promotions, which will
become effective on July 1. Profs. James
Wisner (left), Oleg Semenikhin (middle left), and Zhifeng Ding (right)
have been promoted to Associate Professor, with tenure. Prof. Lars
Konermann (middle right) has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor.
December 2007: Congratulations to
Brian Boys, on winning a Travel Award
from the Canadian Society for
Mass Spectrometry (CSMS), which allowed him to attend this year's 20th
Workshop on Tandem Mass Spectrometry in Lake Louise, AB.

Brian between sessions.
Mt. Victoria in the background.
July 2007: Congratulations to Mark Kuprowski,
on the successful completion of his Master's thesis.
June 2007: Impressions from the 2007 ASMS Conference
in
Indianapolis:
March 2007: After living "in exile"
for about one year, the group has moved back to our former lab location
in the (now newly
renovated) B&G building. It's great to be back home!!
January 2007: Congratulations to Yuhong Liu,
on winning
one of this year's Graduate Thesis Fund (GTRF) Awards.
September 2006: Congratulations to Belal
Hossain,
on his successful M.Sc. defense.

June 2006: Group dinner at the ASMS Conference in Seattle, WA.
Mark, Belal,
Brian, Xin, Lesley, Yuhong, Peter, Lars.
May 2006: Congratulations to Lesley Rutledge,
on winning an NSERC Canada Graduate
Scholarship. Lesley
is currently working in our lab as a research assistant, in September
she will officially start as a Ph.D. student.
April 2006: Congratulations
to Derek Wilson, who accepted a tenure-track faculty position
at
the Department of Chemistry, York University
(Toronto). Derek will take up his new job in 2007.
April 2006: Congratulations to
Yuhong
Liu, on winning an Ontario
Graduate Scholarship (OGS) for
2006/2007.
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March 2006: We
are delighted to announce that Brian Boys
is the winner of this year's CSC
Silver Medal, the 2006 McNabb
Scholarship, the Varian Canada
Prize for Analytical Chemistry, and an NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS M).
In
addition, Brian's presentation placed third at the Southern Ontario
Undergraduate Student Chemistry Conference (SOUSCC, Biochemistry
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October 2005: Congratulations
to Derek Wilson, on an excellent Ph.D.
defense. Derek's external examiner was John
Klassen from the University of Alberta. Derek will soon take up an
NSERC post-doctoral fellowship in the group of Chris Dobson at the
University of Cambridge (UK). |
September 2005: Lars gives a
keynote lecture at the Annual
Conference of the British Society for Mass Spectrometry in York, UK.
June 2005: Congratulations to Yuhong
Liu, on winning an Ontario
Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (OGSST).
June 2005: Lars is recipient of this year's Faculty of Science
Award of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
June
2005: Our
group presented five posters and a talk at this
year's ASMS
Conference
in San Antonio, Texas.

Lars, Doug (now in
Cambridge, UK), Derek, Mark, and Yuhong enjoying Texas-style ribs.
May 2005: Congratulations to Derek
Wilson, on winning a best
poster award for his
presentation "Ultra-rapid Microfluidic Desalting of Protein Solutions
for Electrospray Mass Spectrometry" at this year's
Western Institute for Nanoscience (WINS) Conference.
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March 2005: Congratulations
to Derek Wilson, on winning an NSERC
post-doctoral fellowship. Last year, Derek was awarded a Canada
Graduate Scholarship, NSERC's top award for graduate
students. Way to go, Derek !!! |
March 2005: Our new CFI/OIT-funded Micromass
Q-TOF Ultima is now up and running (resolution =
20,000!!).

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September 2004: Congratulations
to Doug Simmons on an excellent
Ph.D. defense (external examiner: Dan Fabris).
During his tenure in our lab, Doug held several stipends (NSERC
PGS and OGS). He received an NSERC
post-doctoral fellowship that he will spend at Cambridge
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April 2004: After
a superb Ph.D. defense (external examiner: Max Deinzer), Sonya
Clark has won the 2004 Collip medal for the
most outstanding Ph.D. student from one of the Basic Science Programs.
In addition, she was awarded the 2004 William Zaharia
Award for the best Biochemistry Ph.D. student.
Sonya will now spend her NSERC post-doctoral fellowship
with Ben
Berks at Oxford University in the UK. While she was in our lab,
Sonya was supported by several stipends (NSERC PGS A,
PGS B, and OGSST). |
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