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Important Reminders

Do you know a great TA?

Teaching Assistants' Training Program (TATP) Teaching Excellence Award is accepting nominations starting Monday, January 27. If you have a great TA that you'd like to put forward for the award, please click here for details on how to apply.

Poster Session for GRW and Industry Open House

There's still time to register a poster for GRW and Industry Open House on Friday, January 31 from 10am to 12pm in the Music Room of Great Hall. To register, click here.

January 17, 2014

Volume 31, Issue 2

In this issue:

Departmental Offices
Announcements
Chem Eng Events

Departmental Office

Grad Office

M.A.Sc. DEPARTMENTAL ORAL - R. Kronfli
Date of Meeting: Tuesday, January 21 in WB115 at 10 am
Thesis Title: A NOVEL DESIGN FOR FULLY PRINTED FLEXIBLE AC-DRIVEN POWDER ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICES ON PAPER
Committee: Chair: Prof. T. Bender; Supervisor(s): Prof. R. R. Farnood; Other Member(s): Prof. A. Wheeler (Chemistry/IBBME)

M.A.Sc. DEPARTMENTAL ORAL - J. A. Obnamia
Date of Meeting: Tuesday, January 21 in WB115 at 2 pm
Thesis Title: MODELING THE REACTION KINETICS OF THE ENZYMATIC HYDROLYSIS OF LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOMASS
Committee: Chair: Prof. E. Master; Supervisor(s): Prof. B. A. Saville; Other Member(s): Prof. A. Yakunin

Ph.D. Qualifying Examination – A. Pahnke
Date of Meeting: Tuesday, January 21 in WB134 at 1 pm
Research Topic: HIGH FIDELITY CARDIAC TISSUE ENGINEERING: RECREATING MODEL TISSUES
Committee: Chair: Prof. C. Chaffey; Supervisor: Prof. M. Radisic; Other Member(s): Prof. G. Keller (UHN), Prof. K Nanthakumar (P. Munk Cardiac Ctre), Prof. P. Zandstra

Ph.D. DEPARTMENTAL ORAL – N. Anesiadis
Date of Meeting: Wednesday, January 22 in WB115 at 9 am
Thesis Title: A SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY APPLICATION IN METABOLIC ENGINEERING
Committee: Chair: Prof. A. Yakunin; Supervisor(s): Prof. W. R. Cluett, Prof. R. Mahadevan; Other Member(s): Prof. E. A. Edwards, Prof. E. Master

Important Dates for January 2014
Sunday, January 19: Final date to add Winter session courses
Friday, January 24: Final date for receipt of degree recommendations and submission of any required theses for March or June graduation for master's students without fees being charged for the Winter session

Graduate Awards
2014-2015 Mackenzie King Scholarships (Open and Travelling)
Open to students at all levels of graduate study
Application Deadline: 4pm on Monday, February 3
Submit complete applications to: SGS Graduate Awards Office
(SGS Building, 63 St. George Street, 3rd floor)

2014-2015 W. Garfield Weston Doctoral Fellowship
Open to 3rd and 4th year doctoral students who are Canadian Citizens
Application Deadline: Monday, February 3
Submit Complete Application to: Chem Eng Grad Office, WB212
Award Details

2014 Pursuit Award
Open to PhD students who will defend by September 2014, or Post-Doctoral trainees/recent University of Toronto alumni (within a year of defending their PhD)
Application Deadline: 5pm on Saturday, February 1
Submit complete applications by email (one pdf document) to brievents@hollandbloorview.ca

Ontario Trillium Scholarships (OTS) Program
International scholars who have a complete admission application for the Chem Eng PhD program by January 17 will automatically be considered for this award.

Connaught International Scholarships for Doctoral Students (Connaught)
International scholars who have a complete admission application for the Chem Eng PhD program by January 17 will automatically be considered for this award.

Research Office

Structure-guided optimization of protein kinase inhibitors reverses aminoglycoside antibiotic resistance
Stogios, P.J., Spanogiannopoulos, P., Evdokimova, E., Egorova, O., Shakya, T., Todorovic, N., Capretta, A., Wright, G.D., Savchenko, A.
Biochemical Journal 2013, 454(2) pp.191-200

The Legionella pneumophila kai operon is implicated in stress response and confers fitness in competitive environments
Loza-Correa, M., Sahr, T., Rolando, M., Daniels, C., Petit, P., Skarina, T., Gomez Valero, L., Dervins-Ravault, D., Honoré, N., Savchenko, A., Buchrieser, C.
Environmental Microbiology 2013. Articles not published yet, but available online. Article in Press

Biowire: A platform for maturation of human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes
Nunes, S.S., Miklas, J.W., Liu, J., Aschar-Sobbi, R., Xiao, Y., Zhang, B., Jiang, J., Massé, S., Gagliardi, M., Hsieh, A., Thavandiran, N., Laflamme, M.A., Nanthakumar, K., Gross, G.J., Backx, P.H., Keller, G., Radisic, M.
Nature Methods 2013, 10(8) pp. 781-787

Global divergence in critical income for adult and childhood survival: Analyses of mortality using Michaelis-Menten
Hum, R.J., Jha, P., McGahan, A.M., Cheng, Y.-L.
eLife 2012, (1), art. No. e00051

Announcements

Faculty Seminar

Professor Lutgarde Raskin from the University of Michigan will be giving a talk on Leveraging Microbes in Drinking Water Systems to Benefit Consumers on Monday, January 20 from 9-10am in SF1101.

Engineering Entrepreneurship Series

The first talk for ECE's Engineering Entrepreneurship Series will be taking place on Tuesday, January 21 from 5-6pm in SF1105. Larry Tricinci (CIV 8T8) will be giving a talk entitled Establishing an Electrical Utility Company in the GTA. The talk is followed by a free, informal dinner with the speaker. To rsvp, email gillian.philipupillai@utoronto.ca

What is Graditude

Graditude is a way for students to leave their mark at Skule. It is a gift to the future generations of Skule students who will benefit from your contributions. Graditude is also a demonstration of thankfulness.

As part of the ChemE Graditude campaign this year, our students will be hosting a faculty/staff talent night and are requesting submissions from you to perform your hidden talents. Please consider participating in their event to be scheduled for mid-February. Please send questions to larissa.rodo@mail.utoronto.ca

Chem Eng Events

Click here for the Chem Eng Calendar

January 22, 2014 - Emerging Leaders: Suljo Linic, Conversion of Solar into Chemical Energy on Plasmonic Metal Nanostructures, 12:30–2pm, WB116.

January 31, 2014 - ChemE Industry Open House: Faculty registration available online.

January 31 - February 2, 2014 - GRW: Faculty registration available online.

February 5, 2014 - Emerging Leaders: Eduardo Asselin, University of British Columbia, title of talk pending, 12:30–2pm, WB116.

March 19, 2014 - Emerging Leaders: Todd Squires, University of California, title of talk pending, 12:30–2pm, WB116.

March 26, 2014 - LLE: Norman J. Wagner, University of Delaware, Shear Thickening Fluids and their Applications as Field-responsive Protective Materials, 12:30-2pm, WB116.

March 28, 2014 - 29th Annual Chemical Engineering Dinner: Full details will be provided closer to the date, 6-9:30pm, 89 Chestnut Street Residence.

April 2, 2014 - LLE: Pamela Silver, Harvard Medical School, Building with Biology for Health and Sustainability, 12:30-2pm, WB116.

April 9, 2014 - Emerging Leaders: Chris Cappa, University of California, Berkeley, The Influence of Chemical Mixing and Morphology on the Heterogeneous Oxidation of Organic Particles, 12:30–2pm, WB116.

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