Ahmed I. Abdelrahman

ahmed.abdelrahman@utoronto.ca

Ahmed I. Abdelrahman was born in January 1977 to Ibrahim Abdelrahman and Y. M. Abdelkhalek, in Cairo, Egypt. In the fall of 1994, he began his undergraduate studies at Cairo University. Directly after graduation from the Chemistry department, in the summer of 1998, he worked for Coatech (Electrostatic Powder Coatings Company). In 1999, he moved to Salem, Ohio, USA to join American Standard Acrylic plant and move back to their plant in Egypt to be their Analytical Equipment and Training Coordinator, especially for GC and HPLC (GPC) analysis. Later he was promoted to be Lab. Deputy Supervisor with special interest in crosslinked-polymer formulations and colorant perpetrations. After spending one year as a lab supervisor in American University in Cairo AUC, he decided to move to Japan, in the fall of 2004, to join The Depa2tment of Elecdronic Chemistry at TmkYo Institute of Technolggy as a mactdr degree student in the field od gold nanoparticles’ electrocatalyqis ender the sUpervision of Professor Takeo hsaka.

In January 2007, Ahmed has jo)ned WinjIk group to deshgn Lanthanide-containing p/,ymer (by mini-emUlsioj polymerization) for bhologhcal taggang applications like non-specific endocy4osis afd ce,l adhesion emplkying ICP-MS tO detect the Met`l-tagged biological cells like cancer cells.

Angela Brown

abrown@chem.utoronto.ca

Education and Training: Has worked with the Winnik group for over 3 years.

Personal Interests/Hobbies: Professional Actor in both film and theatre, also loves aviation and music.

Anselina Chia

anselina.chia@utoronto.ca

Anselina is an undergraduate student majoring in Chemistry and Mathematics. Her current project involves investigating factors affecting the self-seeding behaviour of PFS-PI block copolymer micelles under Jieshu's supervision.

Chun Feng

cfeng@chem.utoronto.ca

Chun Feng was born in Wuhan, Hubei, China in 1983. He received his PhD degree in Polymer Chemistry & Physics from Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2010. In October, 2010, He joined Prof. Winnik’s group as a postdoctoral fellow. His current research involves in the self-assembly of poly (phenylene vinylene)-based copolymers and the applications of Lanthanide-encoded polystyrene microparticles in bioassays. In his spare time, Chun enjoys reading, cooking, football and travelling.

Daniel Majonis

dmajonis@chem.utoronto.ca

Daniel Majonis was born in North York (Toronto) Canada in the fall of 1983. He graduated in 2006 from York University with an H.B.Sc. in chemistry, and proceeded to join the Winnik research group as a Ph. D. student. His current work is related to the early cancer detection project, and focuses on star polymers for the complexation of lanthanide nanoparticles.

In his time not spent in the lab or asleep on the subway, Daniel enjoys chilling with friends, watching movies, reading scifi novels and literary classics, computer gaming, playing sports and exercising, and playing with his sister's guinea pig(s).

Gerald Guerin

gguerin@chem.utoronto.ca

Gerald Guerin graduated in 2002 from Laval University with a Ph. D. In 2004, He joined the Winnik research as a Post-Doc. His current research involves Light Scattering investigation of the micelle formation of organometallic block copolymers in solution.

Graeme Cambridge

gcambrid@chem.utoronto.ca

Graeme is from the island of Trinidad in the Caribbean. He got his B.Sc in Applied Chemistry and Biology at Ryerson University, Toronto in 2006. He joined the Winnik group as a Masters student in Septmeber 2006 and is currently working on the Poly Ferrocene Silane block copoylmer system, with emphasis on light scattering.

In his spare time he indulges in cooking, tennis, golf, and reading.

Guangyao Zhao

gzhao@chem.utoronto.ca

Guangyao is from Tianjin, China. He received his B.Sc. at Peking University studying Chemistry and his M.Sc. at York University studying Organic Chemistry. He joined the Winnik group in the spring of 2010. His current project focusses on the preparation and modification of lanthanide nanoparticle as biomarkers for mass cytometry. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, swimming, playing badminton, curing sick computers (for free) and learning linguistics.

Isaac Herrera

iherrera@chem.utoronto.ca

Since September 2005, Isaac Herrera has been pursuing a Ph. D. in Polymers and Materials Chemistry at this University under the supervision of Prof. M. A. Winnik. He is currently working in an exciting multi-disciplinary project that involves the development of metal-containing polymer labels for antibodies as means to improve the detection of cancer cells by ICP-MS.

In 2005, Isaac graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) with an M. Sc. degree in Chemistry. During his time at UTEP, he worked under the guidance of Prof. Jorge Gardea-Torresdey in a project that employs biomaterials to recover precious metals from aqueous solutions in an environmentally friendly and cost effective way.

When not in the lab, Isaac enjoys spending time with his friends, cooking (...and eating), dancing, and cycling. He also likes to wander around to catch some of the events that this multicultural city has to offer.

Jae Kang

jkang@chem.utoronto.ca

Education and Training: 3rd year undergraduate student at University of Calgary

Current Research: Metal-chelating polymers for preparation of radioimmunoconjugates

Personal Interests/Hobbies: cooking, gardening, travelling, organic chemistry, cancer biology.

Jieshu Qian

jqian@chem.utoronto.ca

Jieshu was born on January 1985 in Lianyungang, China. He received his Bachelor and Masters degree from Nanjing University, China. In September 2008 Jeishu joined the Winnik group as a PhD student, and will be working on understanding the self-assembly of poly(ferrocenylsilane) block copolymer, primarily by the method of light scattering. Outside of his studies, Jeishu enjoys novels, music, movies and meeting new people.

John Spiro

jspiro@chem.utoronto.ca

Name: John (János) G. Spiro

Title: Consultant

Education: Dipl. (Chem.) Eng.; Ph.D. (Chem., McGill) 1963; M.Sc. (Math., Carnegie Inst. of Technology) 1965; B.Sc. (Comp. Sci., U. of T.) 1996.

In 1991 he joined the Winnik Research Group as an undergraduate student.

His current research involves the thermodynamics and morphology of block copolymers, and fluorescence decay modeling and simulations.

Lemuel Tong

ltong@chem.utoronto.ca

Lemuel was born in Hong Kong, China. He studied at the University of Toronto in Engineering Science specializing in Nanoengineering and graduated in 2010. In his last year of undergrad, he wrote his thesis on the synthesis and characterization of polylactide carbon nanotube fiber composites with Prof. Hani Naguib. He joined the Winnik group in the summer of 2010 as a PhD student and began his research on the synthesis and characterization of lanthanide nanoparticles for high sensitivity mass cytometry immunoassays. Some of his hobbies include learning languages, working out, swimming, playing piano and reading.

Meng Zhang

mezhang@chem.utoronto.ca

Meng was born in Jinan, China in 1986. He enrolled in an undergraduate program of chemistry and biology at Tsinghua University, China in 2004. In 2006 he participated in research involving molecular imprinting of surfaces and controllable self-assembly under the supervision of Professor Xi Zhang.

In 2008, he received Bachelor of Science degree from Tsinghua University. In September of the same year he joined the Winnik group as a Ph. D. student. His current research involves surface modification of quantum dots with functional polymers. During his spare time, he loves photography, skiing, swimming, cooking and everything that could be shared with friends.

Mohsen Soleimani

Mohsen.Soleimanikheibari@utoronto.ca

Mohsen Soleimani got his B. A. Sc form Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 2003 in polymer engineering. He earned his Master in the same department in 2006 and joined Professor Mitch Winnik group in January 2007.

Mokit Chau

mchau@chem.utoronto.ca

Mokit is a Ph.D. graduate student in the Winnik group since May of 2011. During her undergrad at UBC, she worked in the Wolf research group to develop hemilabile ligand-metal complexes for chemical sensing applications. Her research in the Winnik group focused primarily on the synthesis of polymeric radioimmunoconjugates for targeted breast cancer therapy. When she has spare time, Mokit enjoys going on long bike tours, practicing piano, and drinking malt beverages.

Morteza Soleymannezhad

morteza.soleymannezhad@utoronto.ca

Nicolas Illy

nilly@chem.toronto.ca

Nicolas was born in February 1983, in Metz, France. In 2006, he earned an Engineer’s Degree in chemistry from École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier (France) and a M. Sc. in chemistry from Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena (Germany), followed by a Ph.D in the area of Polymer Science from Université Paris Est (France). He joined the Winnik group in January 2010 as Postdoctoral Fellow.

His current research involves copolymer synthesis by anionic polymerization and the study of the morphology in bulk of these polymers.

Outside of work he enjoys reading, travelling and watching movies.

Peng Liu

ishaq.liu@utoronto.ca

Peng(Isaac) Liu was born in 1987 in Tianjin, China. In 2009, He got his Bachelor of Science degree form Nankai University. He joined Winnik's group as a PhD student in September of 2009. He is now working in the project of making metal-chelating polymers for preparing Radioimmunoconjugates.

In his spare time, he likes playing soccer, basketball or learning some Arabic from Ahmed.

Wanjuan Lin (Betty)

wlin@chem.utoronto.ca

Wanjuan (Betty) Lin was born in Fujian, China, on December 1983. She received her B. Sc. Degree from Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China in June 2005. She joined the research group of Professor Mitch Winnik at the University of Toronto in September 2005. She is currently a master student focusing on surface modification of quantum dots by polymers.

Yi Liang (Sally)

yliang@chem.utoronto.ca

Yi (Sally) Liang was born in Shanghai, China, in 1987. She got her B.Sc. degree from Department of Chemistry of University of Science and Technology of China in June, 2009. She joined the Winnik group as a Ph. D. student. Her current work is synthesizing Lanthanide-containing polystyrene particles by dispersion polymerization for multiplexed bioassays. In her spare time, she enjoys travelling, watching movies, playing cards, cooking and sleeping

Yijie Lu

ylu@chem.utoronto.ca

Yijie Lu received his B.Sc. in 2006 from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He joined Professor Chi Wu’s group in USTC as a Ph. D. student. In September 2009, he awarded a scholarship from Chinese Scholarship Council and started his research in the Winnik group as a visiting PhD student. His topic of research is about radioimmunoconjugates.

Sepehr Mastour Tehrani

s.mastourtehrani@mail.utoronto.ca

Sepehr was born in 1986 in Tehran, Iran. He entered the Amirkabir University of Technology ( Tehran Polytechnic) in 2004 and received his B.Sc. from Polymer Engineering & Color Technology Department in 2008. He then finished his M.Sc. at the same department in 2010. His main area of research in polymer engineering was emulsion polymerization and particles self-assembly. In 2011, he joined the Winnik research group and his current researh is mainly focussed on the synthesis of Lanthanide-containing particles for multiplexed bio-assays.

Greg Molev

gmolev@chem.utoronto.ca

Gregory Molev was born in Russia (Nizhny Novgorod) in 1977 and moved to Israel (Haifa) in 1990 with his parents. He completed his B.A. degree (Molecular Biochemistry, 2002) and Ph.D. (supervisor – Prof. Yitzhak Apeloig, Organosilicon Chemistry, 2009) at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. After two one-year post-docs – one in the Technion (Dr. Mark Gandelman, Homegeneous Catalysis) and one in the University of Utah (Prof. Peter J. Stang, Supramolecular Chemistry) - he joined Prof. Winnik’s group in 2011. His project deals with the synthesis of Poly-Ferrocenyl Silane block copolymers by new methods and the study of their self assembly. His hobbies include reading popular science books (especially about evolution and brain research), travelling and spending time with his wife and daughter.