Laboratory for Bioanalytics and Electrochemical Sensing

Today the Kuss group is celebrating PhD student Nikita Thomas, who was awarded a Postgraduate Scholarship-Doctoral (PGS-D) by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). This is a wonderful recognition of Nikita's hard work and achievements and we are proud to have her as a member in our team.

Our most recent publication in Angewandte Chemie International Edition reports the quantitative monitoring of pharma-molecule transport in bacteria to investigate the relationship between membrane transport and antibiotic resistance.

Congratulations to Alon Golubchik (NSERC Undergrad Researcher), Luma Lopes (PhD student) and postdodctoral fellow Dr Vikram Singh on this review paper and their hard work.

Pharma‐molecule transport across bacterial membranes; detection and quantification approaches by electrochemistry and bioanalytical methods Antibiotic resistance is a significant challenge encountered by healthcare systems on a global scale. Knowledge about membrane transport of antibiotics and other Antibiotic resistance is a significan...

Dr Sabine Kuss is proud to present a keynote lecture on "Bioelectrochemical Approaches towards the Detection and Quantification of Drug Resistance in Bacteria and Cancer" at the 71st Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry. This meeting was originally planned in Belgrade, but due to the pandemic, will now take place ONLINE from Aug 31st to Sep 4th.

Please be invited to share and discuss recent advances in electrochemistry. This is an excellent opportunity to engage with state-of-the-art research, even under the imposed travel restrictions. Registration closes August 10th.

Program link: https://lnkd.in/dyWsagE
Registration link: https://lnkd.in/d44hTPm

International Society of Electrochemistr As you already know, the ISE Executive Committee had to decide that the 71st Annual Meeting in Belgrade cannot go ahead as originally planned. Instead, part of the meeting program will be transformed into an online event. Those parts of the program that cannot go online will be cancelled. The online...

We would like to invite you to the MGPSF Seminar on Wednesday, February 26th. Sabine will be speaking about drug resistance in cancer and bacteria, and how electrochemistry can aid to detect and understand this phenomenon.

Congrats to Rafiqul and Huy, who just published their first review paper!

This paper is about an increasingly important approach to study and detect drug resistance.

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Two-for-One: Come to the Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition in Winnipeg this year and stay for the ECS Canada Section Meeting.

This is the last chance to submit an abstract. The submission site closes on midday, Wednesday Feb. 12.

We are organizing symposia on "Analytical and Physical Electrochemistry" and "Bioelectrochemistry".
Hope to welcome you here to Winnipeg!

http://www.ccce2020.ca/
https://www.xcdsystem.com/cic/abstract/index.cfm?ID=nbz3vSB

103rd Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition

Funding Success! We are excited to strengthen our collaboration with the faculty of medicine with this new funding, which will support our research on drug resistance in ovarian cancer.

Congratulations to Dr. Sabine Kuss who has been awarded a University Collaborative Research Program grant to fund research in collaboration with Dr. Mark Nachtigal (Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics) on the detection and quantification of drug resistance in ovarian cancer.

Photo credit: Horace Luong

Conference Success - Huy and Rafiqul visited the Gordon Research Conference for Electrochemistry in January to present and discuss their research with leaders in our field. Well done, both!

YAY! Our Scanning Electrochemical Microscope (SECM) has been installed this week and is now up and running. Mariam, Rafiqul, Huy and Sabine spent three intense days of training this week, learning how to operate the instrument and how to collect data. We are now able to conduct SECM, SICM and SECCM measurements in our lab. A big thank you goes to Frank Wang, lead engineer at HEKA Electronics Incorporated for his time and patience to train and work with us during the last days.

Huy and Dr Sabine Kuss conducted research at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) this week. Huy received training in the research group of Dr Lior Sepunaru at UCSB in the technique of impact chemistry, a quantitative electrochemical method soon to be used in the Kuss group at UofM. Many thanks to Lior and his team for the excellent training and welcome.