Chemistry and Biochemistry
514-848-2424 ext. 3366
Faculty members
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry has over 23 full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty members, as well as several associated faculty members from other departments at Concordia University and from industry.
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Nanomaterials, upconversion, lanthanides, bioimaging, drug delivery, photodynamic therapy, physical inorganic, optical spectroscopy, persistent luminescence. -
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Inorganic solid state chemistry Crystallography Mossbauer spectroscopy Tin-containing materials -
biophysical chemistry, model membranes, Langmuir monolayers, liposomes, environmental pollutants, nanopatterning, lipid-protein interactions -
Drug discovery, natural products, directed evolution, biochemistry. -
Organic Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Catalysis, Drug Discovery -
Yves Gélinas
Professor, Graduate Program Director and Concordia University Research Chair in Environmental Chemistry
Analytical Biogeochemistry, Global Cycle of Organic Carbon, Climate Change, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Forensics, Molecular and Isotopic Biomarkers. -
Inorganic Materials Chemistry, Metal–Organic Frameworks, Porous Materials, Materials Design, Adsorbents for Wastewater Treatment, Green Chemistry, Sensing. -
Biochemistry, Genomics, Proteomics, Molecular/Cell Biology. -
Atmospheric and Environmental Chemistry -
Inorganic chemistry, solar energy conversion, artificial photosynthesis, photochemistry, photocatalysis, optical spectroscopy -
Physical organic and computational chemistry, electronic and molecular structures -
Nanoparticle synthesis, materials characterization, carbogenic quantum dots, metallic nanoparticles, plasmonics, sensors, imaging, nanothermometry, drug delivery -
Organic and polymer chemistry, Polymer synthesis and characterization, Materials science, biomedical applications, drug delivery -
Inorganic chemistry, oxidation chemistry, catalysis, aerobic reactions, coordination complexes, organic transformations -
Bacterial iron uptake, molecular mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis, protein-protein interactions, membrane proteins, biophysical chemistry, protein chemistry, phage display, X-ray crystallography. -
Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Molecular and Reaction Dynamics, Quantum Chemistry, Nanomaterials and Materials Science, Chemical Biology, Photochemistry and Ultrasfast Spectroscopy, Chemical Physics -
Enzymology; Genomics and proteomics; Microbial metabolism of aromatic comounds; Fungal degradation of biomass; Industrial enzymology -
Not research active. Formerly involved in inorganic chemistry research (transition metal based molecular sensors). -
History of chemistry -
Conjugated organic molecules and polymers employed as organic (semi-)conductors; their structural, electronic and optical properties; applications in organic electronics -
Analytical chemistry with particular focus on electrophoretic separations, bioanalysis, biomarker discovery and forensics -
analytical chemistry, metabolomics, lipidomics, proteomics, mass spectrometry, sample preparation, separation science, bioanalysis, biomarker discovery and validation -
Synthesis of chemically modified nucleic acids, DNA / RNA nanoscience, DNA repair.
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Former research area: inorganic/organometallic synthesis and X-ray crystallography. -
Ann English
Distinguished Professor Emerita and Honorary Concordia University Research Chair in Bioinorganic Chemistry
Bioinorganic, analytical and biophysical chemistry, oxidative stress, nitric oxide biochemistry, proteomics, mass spectrometry. -
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Biochemistry, Biophysical Chemistry, Protein Chemistry.
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Regulation of the cell cycle, development and virulence in fungi -
Genomic analysis of environmental stress-tolerance in plants. -
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Laszlo Kalman
Associate Professor, Undergraduate and Co-Op Program Director, Physics
Fellow, Science College
- 514-848-2424, ext. 5051
- L-SP 365-10
- Laszlo.Kalman@concordia.ca
molecular biophysics; bioenergetics; photosynthesis -
David H Kwan
Associate Professor, Biology
- 514-848-2424, ext. 7329
- L-GE 230-13
- david.kwan@concordia.ca
Synthetic biology, chemical biology, enzyme engineering, directed evolution, antimicrobial drug screening -
Vincent Martin
Professor and Concordia University Research Chair in Microbial Engineering and Synthetic Biology, Biology
- 514-848-2424, ext. 5182
- L-GE 120-21
- vincent.martin@concordia.ca
Metabolic engineering and synthetic biology of natural products. Microbial evolutionary engineering -
Gene regulation, functional genomics, and industrial biotechnology -
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Malcolm Whiteway
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Microbial Genomics, Biology
- 514-848-2424, ext. 3751
- L-GE 230-11
- malcolm.whiteway@concordia.ca
Genetics and genomics of the fungal pathogen Candida albicans -
Valter Zazubovits
Associate Professor, Physics
Graduate Program Director, Physics
- 514-848-2424, ext. 5050
- L-SP 365-8
- valter.zazubovits@concordia.ca
Photosynthesis research using optical methods. Energy and charge transfer. Protein dynamics. Tunneling in biological systems. Explosives detection. Novel microscopy and single-molecule imaging techniques. -
Molecular mechanisms underlying the biogenesis of the thylakoid membrane compartment in the eukaryotic alga Chlamydomonas reinhardti
(Other university and industry-based affiliate professors)
Antonella Badia
Université de Montréal
Alexandre Ouellet
Centre d'expertise en analyse environnementale du Quebec
Pascal Mireault
Laboratoire de sciences judiclaires et de médecine légale
Karine Lalonde
Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
Tomislav Friščić
McGill University
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