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 -
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 -
Molecular Modeling, Computational Chemistry, Structural Bioinformatics -
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
Professor Emeritus 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 -
Patrick Gulick
Department Chair and Professor, Biology
- 514-848-2424, ext. 3407
- L-SP 501-07
- patrick.gulick@concordia.ca
Genomic analysis of environmental stress-tolerance in plants. -
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Laszlo Kalman
Associate Professor, Physics
Fellow, Science College
Academic Adviser and Undergraduate Program Director (2017-18), Physics
- 514-848-2424, ext. 5051
- L-SP 365-10
- Laszlo.Kalman@concordia.ca
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David H Kwan
Assistant 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 -
James G. Pfaus
Professor, Psychology
Concordia University Research Fellow
Cross-appointment (Graduate Program), Biology
Cross-appointment (Graduate Program), Chemistry and Biochemistry
Cross-appointment (Graduate Program), Exercise Science
- 514-848-2424, ext. 2189
- L-SP 247-3
- Jim.Pfaus@concordia.ca
Neurochemical and molecular events that subserve sexual behavior and neuroendocrine functions -
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
On sabbatical July 2017- June 2018, Physics
- 514-848-2424, ext. 5050
- L-SP 365-8
- valter.zazubovits@concordia.ca
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Molecular mechanisms underlying the biogenesis of the thylakoid membrane compartment in the eukaryotic alga Chlamydomonas reinhardti