I’m not sure when I’ll be back in China, but it’s nice to connect with these very bright Shanghai Jiao Tong University chemistry students, even if it’s on Zoom.

This is true…many of our lab’s organic chemistry graduates started as non-chemists….don’t be afraid to do something completely outside your comfort zone and area!

Feeling lucky! Today I got to visit both the Blue Room in the City Hall where the Nobel Prize Banquet is held, and the Nobel Prize Museum!

We miss you Masad J. Damha!

Boat ride and dinner at Alfred Nobel’s dynamite lab. What an evening!

Very excited about our recent publication with 九州工業大学 collaborators. In this paper, we can reversibly control the activity of an siRNA with green and blue light!

It was such an honour to speak at this morning’s chemistry session! #OTS2022.

This #OTS meeting has been a great opportunity to meet the MiNA Therapeutics team in person after one year of collaboration and many more to come! It’s always great to get to know your team on a personal level face to face! #saRNA #RNAtherapy #ots22 #Chemistry

Had a great time presenting my poster today at #OTS2022 conference! So many great ideas for the future and suggestions! Thank you for stopping by and inspiring me to try new ideas 💡

The 5th Ontario Tech University-九州工業大学 mini-symposium in chemistry has officially begun. Very excited to finally have this research event in person again! #research

So proud of our wastewater team today, who gave a team presentation in the KIT-OTU symposium organized by the Desaulniers Lab today.

Gave a talk about our photoswitchable siRNA system to the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry today at มหาวิทยาลัยขอนแก่น. Thanks for the kind invitation and I look forward to collaborations!

These are my favorite kinds of talks, when you get to talk to an enthusiastic and engaging group of undergrads.

2023 Nucleic Acid Chemical Biology Group Photo. 🧬🧪

Finished visiting the national labs INTI of Argentina, and the Department of Organic Chemistry at Buenos Aires University (Universidad de Buenos Aires). I especially enjoyed the process chemistry lab and the hardcover journal library. 🧪 📚

Congrats to Ifrodet and Charlene for this publication, and to Ifrodet for designing the front cover art. Check out our work on sphingosine-modified siRNAs!

Congrats to Dr. Lidya Salim, PhD for designing this great cover art for her folic acid siRNA synthesis work! Check it out 👇

Ran into Desaulniers Lab alumnus Tim Efthymiou in San Diego!

Congrats Daisee!!

Amazing to see new connections and collaborations from Ontario Tech University researchers with 九州工業大学 in Japan!