Zoya Leonenko
Physics and Astronomy
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Groups
Aging, Application Areas, Diabetes, Disease Modelling, Environmental Biotechnology, Industrial Biotechnology, Infectious Diseases, Inflammatory Diseases, Mental Health, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Pathogen Detection, Personalized Medicine, Targeted Drug Delivery, Toxicology, Biomaterials, Technology Areas, Drug Development, Imaging, Medical Devices, Sensors, Surface Coating, Therapeutics, Vaccines, Biochemistry, Discipline Areas, Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Biomedicine, Bionanotechnology, Biophysics, Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Nanotechnology, Pharmacology, Physics, Polymer Chemistry, Science, Faculty
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Zoya Leonenko
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https://uwaterloo.ca/leonenko-research-group/
Additional Information
Research Interests:
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Biophysics of lipids and lipid-protein interactions
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The role of structural changes and physical properties of lipid template in controlling biological processes and diseases
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Biomedical nanotechnology (lipid films, molecular mechanism of Alzheimer's disease)
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Drug development and delivery systems, antimicrobial peptides in lung disorders
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Fluorescence and atomic force microscopy
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Kelvin probe force microscopy and single molecule force spectroscopy
[Global Impact] May 2018, studying Alzheimer's at a molecular level to find a cure
[YouTube Lecture] October 1, 2014 "Scanning probe microscopy in biomedical research"