Heyne Group

May 04, 2020

The Heyne group welcomes our three summer undergraduate students: Giselle Lin, Ethan Pezoulas and Emily-Claire Docking. With the UofC "working from home" guidelines, they are going to experience a whole new type of summer internship by doing remote work and a lot of Zoom meetings. 

April 06, 2020

Sophia Roth gave her final M.Sc. seminar on April 1st - the first Heyne group Zoom final talk! You did an amazing job. Thank you to everyone who attended remotely! Then, she successfully defended her thesis on April 6th. Congratulations, Master Sophia!

February 22, 2020

Belinda gave a highly engaging keynote lecture on the wonders of nanotechnologies at the Let's Talk Science event organized by Cyrus and Olga, graduate students in our lab and executive members of the UofC nanoGroup, that was held on the UofC campus (EEEL Building) on Saturday, February 22nd. This event gathered dozens of high school students from Calgary who participated in several workshops facilitated by Shauna on an array of nano-topics, such as the fascinating aggregation behaviour of gold nanoparticles. 

February 12, 2020

Scientists from around the world were invited to participate in the IUPAC 2020 Global Women’s Breakfast (GWB2020).  This global event was held on a single day, February 12, 2020, one day after the United Nations Day of Women and Girls in Science. The overall purpose of GWB2020 is to establish an on-going virtual network where women in the chemical and related sciences can connect with each other in a meaningful way to support their professional aspirations and to develop leadership skills. The theme for GWB2020 was “Building bonds to create future leaders”.
Women and men from all types of educational and scientific organizations from high schools to universities, to scientific societies, government and industry organizations were welcome to join our breakfast in Calgary - we even played with Legos!

January 20, 2020

Nicolas' last paper in the group on the plasmon-enhancement of singlet oxygen production was just accepted in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. This paper showcase one of the rare examples of a meta-analysis performed on a series of nanoparticles to gain insights on their plasmonic mechanism. Congratulations!

January 12, 2020

Vladimir received a NSERC Michael-Smith foreign study supplement to spend a semester in Catherine Murphy's laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Good luck on making some cool gold nanorods, Vlad!

December 16, 2019

Nicolas successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis! Thank you to the committee members, Dr. Max Anikovskiy, Dr. Simon Trudel, Dr. Raymond Turner and Dr. Denis Boudreau (external, Université Laval). To celebrate, the group gathered in one of Nicolas' favourite place in downtown Calgary: Cucina Market Bistro. Congratulations, Dr. Macia!

October 20, 2019

Our international collaboration with the Lovell's group (University at Buffalo) resulted in a thorough investigation on the partitioning of singlet oxygen's lifetime when produced by photosensitizers located inside liposomes. 

January 01, 2020

Plasmonics has the potential to boost the efficiency of several technologies, from catalysis to solar cells. To this day, most plasmonic materials are made based on a trial and error approach. In this article published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, PhD students Nicolas Macia and Vladimir Kabanov, and RISE intern Mélanie Côté-Cyr working in Dr. Belinda Heyne's group established a set of guidelines in the design of hybrid metal nanoparticles used as plasmonic platforms for enhancing the singlet oxygen production of common photosensitizer molecules that are promising candidates as more efficient antimicrobial agents. (Roles of Near- and Far-Fields in Plasmon-Enhanced Singlet Oxygen Production, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2019, 10, 3654). 

June 07, 2019

Nicolas won the Springer Nature Student Presentation Award at the 102nd CCCE (Québec City) for his presentation "Plasmon-Enhanced Singlet Oxygen Production Using Hybrid Silver, Gold and Alloy Nanoparticles" in the symposium Photocatalysis: Spectroscopy and Applications. 

February 12, 2019

From the CIC Bulletin Article: "Belinda Heyne, who organized the University of Calgary event, demonstrated just such passion by taking advantage of her qualifications not just as an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry but also as a certified facilitator in LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®methods. After giving each of the breakfast attendees a bag of LEGO® she asked them to build a duck. The result was a room full of ducks that looked very different from one another, something that Heyne offered as a testament to the importance of diversity in science and society."

December 09, 2018

Nicolas' fifth article was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. As part of Nicolas' Ph.D. work, this article aimes to investigate metal nanoparticles' morphology dependence on the plasmon-enhanced singlet oxygen production phenomenon. You can access the paper here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.8b12206. 

November 22, 2018

On November 22nd, Dr. Heyne was recipient of a GREAT Supervisor Award. The Faculty of Graduate Studies (FGS) bestowes GREAT Supervisor awards on individuals who have demonstrated excellent mentorship, dedication, and support for the graduate education. During a reception organized by FGS, the winners of the awards receive a GREAT Supervisor mug and a certificate. Dr. Heyne is now proudly drinking her coffee in her new mug!

November 13, 2018

Dr. Heyne was nominee by the President of the University of Calgary, Dr. Elizabeth Cannon, and the Vice-President Research, Dr. Ed McCauley, PEAK SCHOLAR 2018. This nomination acknowledge Dr. Heyne excellence in Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Knowledge Engagement for her work on Light Activated Materials.

October 31, 2018

This year again, we excelled with our inconspicuous Halloween costumes ! Can you guess what we all are?

September 04, 2018

Cyrus is joining the group as a MSc student. He will be working on a collaborative project with Dr. Vanina Zaremberg from the Biological Sciences Department.

August 24, 2018

Today was the annual RISE conference, held this year at the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM). Melanie our summer RISE scholar gave a wonderful presentation at the conference where she presented her work on plasmonic enhancement of singlet oxygen.

August 22, 2018

Dr. Heyne obtained a facilitator certification in the use of Lego® Serious Play® Methods and Materials from Strategic Play® Group Ltd. She will be using the methodology in her lectures, building Lego® models in Quantum Chemistry!!! That will be fun.

July 29, 2018

The Department of Chemistry in conjunction with the Kensington Fantasy Fair hosted the School of Magic on Sunday July 29th, 9am-6pm. This event involed 7+ hands-on magical science activities for the public to interact with and about 100 volunteers!! Shauna did an outstanding job in creating magical stories about the different activities and all the school crests. Good Job Shauna! Dr. Heyne, also known as the science fairy, give a fantastic lecture on the endangered species from the Rockies , the uniguine, a cross species between a unicorn and a penguin. 

July 13, 2018

Vladimir gave a talk on his work published in Chem Comm at the Photo IUPAC in Dublin, where he had a chance to meet with two photochemistry superstars: Dr. Cornelia Bohne (UVic) and Dr. Gonzalo Cosa (McGill).

June 06, 2018

Dr. Heyne participated to Inventures 2018 a conference on innovation.

May 27, 2018

Nicolas has won the “best oral presentation award” for the whole Physical, Theoretical and Computational Division -in competition with hundreds of graduate students!- at the 101st CSC meeting in Edmonton for his talk entitled “Giving a Boost to Singlet Oxygen Production Using Metal Nanoparticles”. His achievement was highlighted on the UofC website (click here to check it). Good job, Nicolas!

May 16, 2018

Congratulations guys on getting the project wrapped up and published in Chemical Communications.

May 13, 2018

Dr. Heyne gave an invited talk on singlet oxygen at the nanoscale at the bi-annual American Society for Photobiology Conference in Tampa, Florida.

May 03, 2018

Nicolas chaired the 5th Alberta Nano Research Symposium which was held at the Westerner Park Convention Centre in Red Deer. Vladimir, on his side, was one of the co-organizers and official photographer of the event. With more than 100 attendees, this 5th edition of the symposium was this year again quite a success. The event was even highlighted by the Royal Society of Chemistry!  (check the link)

May 03, 2018

Dr. Heyne gave an invited talk at the Nanolytica conference held in SFU. Such a great conference, even if there was some trouble with the screen. (check the link). 

April 18, 2018

Vladimir has successfully passed his qualifying exam to enter the PhD program and continue his work in the Heyne lab. Nice work!

May 01, 2018

Following Nicolas’ footsteps, Vladimir is this year’s recipient of the best graduate student seminar award.

May 01, 2018

Congratulations to Vladimir on receiving one of Canada’s most prestigious scholarships for his PhD work Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada – Alexander Graham Bell Doctoral Scholarship.

April 30, 2018

Congratulations Cyrus!

April 17, 2018

Nicolas chaired and organized Calgary’s biggest annual nanotechnology networking event, the nanoNexus, and Vladimir was the event official photographer. Industry and government representatives gathered together with undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and professors working in the field of nanosciences. (check the link)

April 13, 2018

Cyrus gave the Chemistry 502 final presentation on his research project in the Heyne Group: "Distance Dependent Enhancement of Cyclodextrin- Gold-Nanoparticle Drug Delivery System" 

February 20, 2018

Nicolas gave a talk at the 2018 GSA Peer-Beyond Graduate Research Symposium (co-organized by Vladimir!) for an audience made of graduate students across all disciplines, from history to engineering and chemistry to philosophy and was recognized with the Best Oral Presentation Award. Congratulations on a job well done, Nicolas!

February 20, 2018

Vladimir’s effort as part of the Academic Standing Committee for the Graduate Student’s Association landed him a conference session chair role at the new UCalgary Graduate Research Symposium. Well done!

January 31, 2018

Today is a sad day, Dr. Suma Thomas has finished her postdoctoral fellowship in our group. She is leaving for a position at the University of Victoria. Good luck Suma in you new life. You will be missed.

January 02, 2018

Dr. Heyne and Dr. Rosenthal (University of Delaware) organized the 27th Inter-American Photochemistry Society conference from January 2-5, 2018 in Sarasota, Florida. This four day conference brought together the diverse photochemistry community, to spur new research directions and to foster new collaborations. Great Job to Joel and Belinda!

November 27, 2017

Nicolas visited for a week our long-time collaborator, Santi Nonell’s laboratory at the IQS in Barcelona, Spain, to learn more about singlet oxygen detection (between two tapas).

September 18, 2017

Good luck in med school! 

June 07, 2017

Nicolas gave a talk “The Fault in their Shape: Engineering Plasmonic Activation of Singlet Oxygen Using Silver Nanospheres and Nanocubes” at the 2017 Photonics North Conference held at the Shaw Conference Centre in Ottawa, Ontario.

May 28, 2017

Nicolas, Vladimir and Joanne all travelled to the “ville reine”, Toronto, Ontario, to attend the 100th Canadian Chemistry and Exhibition Conference. Nicolas and Vladimir got the chance to meet “The Professor”, Sir Martyn Poliakoff (Periodic Table of Videos).

May 04, 2017

An excellent start of the conference season with a great presentation from Vladimir on his work relating to silica nanoparticle encapsulated photosensitizers, at the 4th Alberta NanoSymposium meeting.

May 01, 2017

Vladimir’s MSc project gained interest from the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada resulting in the allocation of funding for Vlad to continue his hard work. Congratulations!

April 12, 2017

Nicolas was recognized with the first CHEM601-603 Award for Best Presentation in the Physical/Theoretical Division given at the Department of Chemistry at the UofC. Congratulations, Nicolas!

February 01, 2017

Welcome Suma to very cold Calgary ;-)

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September 01, 2016

His research will focus on the development of new nanostructures to increase our understanding of the metal enhanced singlet oxygen production phenomenon. Welcome, Vlad! 

August 12, 2016

Nicolas gave an oral presentation “Core-Shell Nanoparticles for Plasmon-Enhanced Photodynamic Inactivation of Bacteria” at the 13th International Conference on Nanostructured Materials in Québec.

December 17, 2015

Nicolas won one of the 54 Best Poster Presentation Award from over 3500 poster presentations given at the 2015 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (Pacifichem), held in December in Honolulu, Hawaii. Nicolas received his award from Peter Stang, editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society during a banquet held at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel.

June 17, 2015

Nicolas won the 'Best Oral Presentation Award' at the CSC 2015 Conference in Ottawa, Ontario. His talk 'Unveiling the Distance Dependency of Metal Enhanced Singlet Oxygen Generation by Silver Nanostructures' was presented in the Symposium 'Application of Physical Organic Chemical Principles across the Disciplines: A Symposium in Honour of Tito Scaiano's 70th Birthday'. Congratulations, Nicolas!

May 29, 2015

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