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Oral Presentations: PhD 1st Place - Yujin Suk (Singh Lab) PhD 2nd Place - Amal Mathai (Li & Brennan Labs) MSc 1st Place - Paige Johnson (Bhatia Lab) MSc 2nd Place - Melissa Speagle (Coombes Lab) PDF Award - Dr. Han Fang (Schertzer Lab)

Poster Presentations: PhD 1st Place - Colin Bruce (McArthur Lab) PhD 2nd Place - Nathan Roberge (Burrows Lab) MSc 1st Place - Katie Iacobucci (Coombes Lab) & Jeremie Alexander (Stokes Lab) UG 1st place - Isabelle Chan (Burrows Lab) UG 2nd place - Molly Heath (Bowdish Lab)

Congratulations Amal Mathai and all other awardees!

High-Precision Viral Detection Using Electrochemical Kinetic Profiling of Aptamer-Antigen Recognition in Clinical Samples and #MachineLearning (Leyla Soleymani and co-workers) Leyla Soleymani Yingfu Li #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Another paper from fruitful collaboration with Leyla Soleymani Deb Yamamura Miller Lab and many others at McMaster University. Thanks to Zentek Ltd. and Mitacs and NSERC / CRSNG for the support.

Welcome Undergraduates (Cohort 5)! Looking forward to you joining the PROMOTE team this May 2024. NSERC / CRSNG Hanadi Sleiman Masad J. Damha Maureen McKeague Yingfu Li Chris Wilds Lab Molly Shoichet Nicolas Moitessier The Cosa Group

Commercialization is tough! Our down to business article in Nature Reviews Bioengineering on our efforts to commercialize smart food packaging material. Its time we all come together to tackle food-insecurity and waste. Yingfu Li Zeinab Hosseinidoust 🇨🇦 nature.com/articles/s4422… McMaster University McMaster Engineering

Smart food packaging allows real-time food quality monitoring, increasing food safety and decreasing food waste. Read about the challenges of commercializing smart food packaging in the new Down to Business article by Tohid Didar Yingfu Li Zeinab Hosseinidoust 🇨🇦 et al go.nature.com/3y1OZrK

Exciting developments in the ongoing aptamer research led by Yingfu Li and Miller Lab! 👇 This work is leading toward novel prophylaxis and therapeutic options for highly pathogenic avian influenza, including #H5N1.

"Bird flu poses a massive threat, and the potential for a catastrophic new pandemic is imminent." For The Conversation Canada, Miller Lab writes about the grim realities of the ongoing #H5N1 outbreak. theconversation.com/an-ounce-of-pr…

Excited to share our latest preprint describing an exciting new technology to add to our pandemic preparedness arsenal. Great collaboration with Yingfu Li and Zentek Ltd. ! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Very proud of this collaborative work.

Making target sites in large structured RNAs accessible to RNA-cleaving DNAzymes through hybridization with synthetic DNA oligonucleotides doi.org/10.1093/nar/gk…

Higher Affinity Enables More Accurate Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Human Saliva Using Aptamer-Based Litmus Test (Yingfu Li and co-workers) Yingfu Li McMaster University #openaccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Fighting Mutations with Mutations: Evolutionarily Adapting a DNA Aptamer for High-Affinity Recognition of Mutated Spike Proteins of SARS-CoV-2 (Yingfu Li and co-workers) Yingfu Li McMaster University #openaccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Two McMaster University research teams have received federal funding from CIHR to study the emergent bird flu threat, after Canada recently confirmed its first domestically-acquired case of H5N1. McMaster IIDR McMaster Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences Global Nexus McMaster Engineering ow.ly/KrHY50UbfbN

I’m sooooo proud of these two young scientists. Lin Li (she/her) is my daughter and Shadman was my collaborator in @TohidDidarlab (we published 7 papers together). Huge congratulations to both.

Our latest review on colorimetric biosensors with aptamers and DNAzymes.

Our newest paper looks at machine learning algorithms for analyzing real time data from biosensors. Congratuations sadman and co-authors on this great work. A collaboration with Yingfu Li with support from Zentek Ltd. and Mitacs pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Together with Yingfu Li and Todd Hoare, we use DNAzymes and microfluidics for rapid detection of Legionella pneumophila in water. Congratulations to Enas Osman for leading this. We are open to partnership opportunities! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…