Eihab Abdel-Rahman

Research Interests:
- Dynamics and control of MEMS
- Design of MEMS devices
- Micro-power generation
- Multi-body dynamics and control
- Biomechanics
Bill Anderson

Research Interests:
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Pathogen detection, disinfection and sterilization using UV light
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Photochemistry, photocatalytic applications to water and air treatment
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Environmental engineering
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Biotechnology, biofiltration
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Metal nanoparticle synthesis and applications
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Process modelling and simulation
Marc Aucoin

Research Interests:
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Viral vector drug delivery
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Biological nano-particles (Virus-Like Particles or VLPs)
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Vaccines, gene therapy, gene expression, genetic diseases
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Baculovirus Bioprocessing
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Process dynamics of virus-based systems for the production of complex biologics such as viral vectors and vaccines
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Development of strategies using multiple viruses to obtain recombinant products in cell culture
[YouTube Lecture] September 30, 2014 "Tools and strategies for complex biologics production in animal cells: applications to insect and mammalian cell culture"
[YouTube] January 26, 2011 "Research Profile: Marc Aucoin"
Hassan Baaj

Research Interests:
- Characterization And Modelling Of The Behaviour Of Construction Materials
- Smart Pavement Materials And Structures
- Mechanistic Pavement Design Methods
- Optimization Of The Use Of Recycled Materials In Sustainable Infrastructure System
- Sustainable Development
- Life Cycle Analysis
Niels Bols

Research Interests:
- Research, in vitro toxicology, and biotechnology of animal cell cultures
- Roles of nutrition, hormones and polypeptide growth factors on the growth and differentiation of fish tissues and organs.
Hector Budman

Research Interests:
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Chemical process control - Robust control, Nonlinear control, Model Predictive Control (MPC)
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Systems biology - modeling, control and optimization of biological processes, metabolic flux analysis, dynamic metabolic flux models, run-to-run (batch to batch) optimization of pharmaceutical process
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Monitoring/Fault Detection of chemical and biological/biotechnological processes - Multivariate statistical methods for monitoring and fault detection, Inferential (soft) sensors
Pu Chen

Research Interests:
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Nano-Biomedical engineering, biochemistry, molecular cell biology
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Colloid and Surface Science (surface chemistry, absorption kinetics, thermodynamics)
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Polymer materials, CO2
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Energy storage and conversion, battery systems and alternative energy
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Drug and gene delivery, genomics
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Lipid bilayer and cell membrane actions
University Research Chair
Perry Chou

Research Interests:
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Biochemical engineering
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Microbial biotechnology
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Synthetic and molecular biology
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Genetic, metabolic and protein engineering
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Biopharmaceuticals (to treat autoimmune diseases and prevent rejection of organ transplants)
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Biomanufacturing, bioprocessing technologies (biological strain construction, bioreaction cultivation, biofuels, bioproduct recovery and purification)
[Waterloo Stories] May 3, 2013 "Can bacteria help create a cheaper fuel for our cars?"
[UW Eng-e-news] August 14, 2013 "Engineering Life-enhancing research"
Eric Croiset

Research Interests:
- CO2 capture from large point sources
- Large scale optimization of energy systems
- Solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC)
- Syngas/Hydrogen production, Reaction Engineering
George Dixon

Research Interests:
- Effects of toxic chemicals, including metals and oilsands process water, on aquatic organisms, principally fish.
- Biotic modifying factors of toxicity.
- Development of methods for environmental effects monitoring.
- Physiologically based pharmacokinetic modelling of contaminant levels in fish.
[Waterloo Stories] March 21, 2013 "A river runs through it: Keeping an eye on the Alberta oil sands"
John Honek

Research Interests:
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Methionine chemistry and biochemestry (amino acid methionine and its roles in proteins, cellular pathways and its functions)
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Bionanomaterials, bionanotechnology (for novel drug carriers, molecular foundations for nanodevices)
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Medicinal chemistry
- Enzymology
- Bioorganic chemistry
- Protein structure and function
[Daily Bulletin] June 1, 2018, 11 CBB Members Named Outstanding Performance Award Winners
Vassili Karanassios

Raymond Legge

Research Interests:
- Biochemical engineering
- Protein and biomimetic engineering
- Biosensor development
- Bioprocess monitoring and soft sensor development
- Protein thermodynamics stability and analysis
- Environmental bioremediation and green bioprocesses
- Biological water treatment and membrane-based processes
- Spectroscopic techniques combined with chemometric methods for process optimization and the development of on-line sensor technology
Peter Levine

Research Interests:
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Integrated microsystems for clinical and environmental monitoring
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Combining complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) integrated circuits with novel materials, structures, or devices to enable non-traditional life science and bio-diagnostic applications
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CMOS-integrated biochemical assays
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Semiconductor integrated circuits and sensors, design and test of 3D integrated circuits
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Micro/nano fabrication, lab-on-a-chip devices
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Electrochemical biosensors
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Electrophysiology
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DNA sequencing
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Image sensors
Ming Li

Research Interests:
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Bioinformatics tools (protein structures, genome mapping, conducting homology searches)
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Protein structure prediction, and automated NMR protein structure determination
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Stem cell image recognition
- Deep learning, natural language processing and automated conversation, AI
Canada Research Chair in Bioinformatics [Canada Research Chair Profile]
The Royal Society of Canada Fellow
[Waterloo Stories] April 5, 2013 "RSVP: Responding to a need"
[Waterloo Stories] July 6, 2012 "Solving life's big issues, one question at a time"
Chandra Madhuranthakam

Research Interests:
- Static mixer and microreactor technology
- Polymer reaction engineering and polymer processing
- Waste minimization and green engineering
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Micro Process Systems Engineering - Design and Operation of Microfluidic reactors for efficient synthesis of biodiesel and complex copolymers.
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Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming and Global Optimization Algorithms.
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Modeling and Optimal Control for Complex Biochemical Reaction Systems.
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Applied Statistics- Modeling, Design of Experiments, Parameter Estimation
Elizabeth Meiering

Research Interests:
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Proteins: energetics, kinetics, mechanisms, structure, dynamics, folding, function, evolution, engineering and design, thermodynamics, kinetics (ALS, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, prions, cancer)
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High resolution nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (fluorescence, CD, NMR, FTIR, DLS)
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Optical spectroscopies
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Bioinformatics and computational modelling
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Biocomputing and protein engineering
- Biophysical chemistry and biochemistry
- Bionanotechnology and biomaterials
[Waterloo News] November 24, 2015 "New insights into protein structure could change the future of biomedicine"
[Chemistry News] August 20, 2014 "Chemist Elizabeth Meiering takes on the ALS ice bucket challenge"
Tizazu Mekonnen

Research Interests:
- Polymer Science and Engineering
- Renewable polymers: Processing and Chemical Modifications
- Polymer blends, composites and nanocomposites
Christine Moresoli

Research Interests:
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Membrane filtration process (microfiltration; ultrafiltration; nanofiltration; reverse osmosis)
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Food proteins, processes, sustainability (concentration; separation; fractionation, water and waste minimization)
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Protein recovery and purification
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Enzyme reaction engineering
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Health food product development and processing
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Thermal food processes (baking; drying; ultra-high temperature; pasteurization; sterilization)
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Diffusion transport in biomaterials and polymeric films
Carolyn Ren

Research Interests:
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Protein and DNA separation analysis towards disease diagnosis and drug discovery
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Biosensing and Devices (bacterial, proteins, fluorescence)
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Living cell analysis and water toxicity testing
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Lab-on-a-Chip technology (point-of-care biomedical diagnosis , chemical detection, protein separation and identification, environmental testing)
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Micro-scale fluid mechanics, droplet microfluidics and nanofluidics
- High Throughput Screening For Drug Screening
- Manufacturing Nanomaterials and Carbon Management
Canada Research Chair in Lab-on-a-Chip Technology [Canada Research Chair Profile]
[Waterloo Stories] June 14, 2012 "Creating the tiny future of science"
Parsin Haji Reza

Research Interests
- Early Cancer Detection
- Eliminating Positive Surgical Margins
- Non-contact Biopsies for Endoscopy
- Functional Brain Imaging
- Early Detection and Understanding the Age-related Vision Loss Problems
- Wound Care
- Cardiovascular
- Machine learning/AI
[Linkedin]
Matthew Scott

Research Interests:
- Experimental biological physics
- Stochastic processes in physics and biology
- Pysiological constraints on bioproduct synthesis
Lab Equipment: Imagestream MkII with 488nm, 642nm and 785nm lasers; 60x magnification
[YouTube Lectures] Winter School on Quantitative Systems Biology 2015
David Simakov

Research Interests:
- Microalgae
- Microfluidics
- Biophotoreactors
- Biomass conversion
- Heterogeneous catalysis
[Engineering News] March 9, 2018 "Finds manure can yield energy and ease global warming"
Michael Tam

Research Interests:
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Enhanced drug delivery systems, gene therapy
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Associative polymers for environmentally friendly coatings
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Sustainable nanomaterials (cellulose nanocrystals)
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Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP) and stimuli responsive polymeric systems
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Polymer-surfactant interactions
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Magnetic nanoparticles for novel separation processes
University Research Chair
John Thompson

Research Interests:
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Biochemistry and molecular biology of programmed cell death
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Functional genomics of senescence (biological aging) and apoptosis
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Comparative aspects of senescence and stress including the role of hormones and the involvement of free radicals
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Applicable therapies for cancers, inflammatory diseases (arthritis and sepsis), and in the agricultural sector (enhance yield, develop tolerance to environmental stress and plant diseases, and increase the shelf-life of perishable produce)
The Royal Society of Canada Fellow
Valerie Ward

Research interests:
- Environmental biology, industrial biotechnology, and therapeutics
- Production of sustainable chemicals
- Novel bioprocesses for applications in bioresource engineering and biorefining
- Microalgae, metabolic engineering, and ionic liquid based separations in biological systems
Murray Young

Research Interests:
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Biopharmaceuticals (therapeutics, treatment of autoimmune diseases, prevent rejection of organ transplants)
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Industrial biomanufacturing and biotechnology (fermentation, food ingredients, enzymes, biofuels)
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Environmental management (bioremediation of carcinogenic environmental pollutants, filtration, chromatography)
The Royal Society of Canada Fellow
[YouTube Lecture] September 29, 2014 "Biofuels and Waste Treatment"
[YouTube Lecture] September 19, 2013 "Industrial Biotechnology: Current developments and trends"
[UW Eng-e-news] August 14, 2013 "Engineering Life-enhancing research"
[Waterloo Stories] May 3, 2013 "Can bacteria help create a cheaper fuel for our cars?"
[CBB researcher story] December 6, 2012 "Bringing Bioengineering and Biotechnology to its Fullest Potential"
Boxin Zhao

Research Interests:
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Bionanomaterials and “soft” interfaces
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Biomimetic adhesion, bio-integrated devices
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Nanoparticles synthesis, functionalization and dispersion, nanocomposites
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Polymers, interfacial phenomena and surface chemistry
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Advanced coating and adhesive bonding technology
[Waterloo Stories] December 16, 2016 "New Gecko Gripper can be used in manufacturing and medicine"
[YouTube Video] June 11, 2015 "Zebra Mussel-inspired Electrically Conductive Polymer Nanofiber"
[Waterloo Stories] September 16, 2013 "Waterloo researcher is developing nano-glue for electronics"
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