News and Annoucements

Iron Ring Party Tomorrow! All Profs Invited!

On Saturday, March 5 from 4-6:30pm at the Supermarket (268 Augusta Ave in Kensington Market), fourth-year undergrads will be celebrating their Iron Ring achievements. Professors are welcome to join in the festivities.

Milica Radisic to Appear on InnerSpace

On Tuesday, March 8 at 6pm and 11pm, Professor Milica Radisic (ChemE, IBBME) will appear on InnerSpace on the Space Channel. Last week Professor Radisic's lab was featured in CHEM ENG NEWS for engineering heart cells that pulse together in a petri dish allowing drug companies to test their products for dangerous side effects outside of the human body. Congratulations to Professor Radisic and her team for all their great work!

Elodie Passeport Receives NSERC Strategic Partnership Grant

On Tuesday, March 1, NSERC announced six Strategic Partnership Grants to help U of T engineers address some of the greatest challenges facing Canada and the world. In total, the program invested more than $3.2 million in U of T Engineering and more than $5.3 million across the entire University. Professor Elodie Passeport (ChemE, CivE) received one of the six grants for her Smarter Stormwater Management project. Read more.

March 4, 2016

In this issue:

Grad Office
Research Publications
Events

Grad Office

Research Publications

Improving Sugar Yields and Reducing Enzyme Loadings in the Deacetylation and Mechanical Refining (DMR) Process through Multistage Disk and Szego Refining and Corresponding Techno-Economic Analysis 
Chen, X., Wang, W., Ciesielski, P., Trass, O., Park, S., Tao, L., Tucker, M.P.
ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering 2016, 4 ( 1 ) pp. 324 - 333.

A glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor delivery system enhances nerve regeneration across acellular nerve allografts
Tajdaran, K., Gordon, T., Wood, M.D., Shoichet, M.S., Borschel, G.H.
Acta Biomaterialia 2016, 29 pp. 62 - 70.

Experimental validation of in silico model-predicted isocitrate dehydrogenase and phosphomannose isomerase from Dehalococcoides mccartyi
Islam, M.A., Tchigvintsev, A., Yim, V., Savchenko, A., Yakunin, A.F., Mahadevan, R., Edwards, E.A.
Microbial Biotechnology 2016, 9 ( 1 ) pp. 47 - 60 .

Computational modeling of intraocular gas dynamics 
Noohi, P., Abdekhodaie, M.J., Cheng, Y.L.
Physical Biology 2015, 12 ( 6 ) , art. no. 066019

Environmental and financial implications of ethanol as a bioethylene feedstock versus as a transportation fuel 
McKechnie, J., Pourbafrani, M., Saville, B.A., MacLean, H.L.
Environmental Research Letters 2015, 10 ( 12 ) , art. no. 124018

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