Ryan receives the Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award

Congrats to Ryan Hili for receiving the Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award. The award will help advance his programme on developing modified nucleic acid polymers as high-affinity tools for biomedical research.

Welcome Dickson and Matina!

Introducing the newest Hili Group members, Dickson Chen (undergraduate) and Matina Movahedi (graduate). Welcome to the team!

Matina (L) and Dickson (R)

Hili Group goes to Wonderland!

The Hili group enjoyed a fun day out at Canada's Wonderland! Other labs from York, including the Baumgartner lab and the Caputo lab also made the trip.

The group at the main entrance of Wonderland (L-R: Molly, Matina, Yasaman, Prakriti, Morgan, Ryan)

The group right after getting soaked on the Timberwolf Falls ride

Congrats to Delaney Hook for her successful Ph.D. defence!

Congratulations to Delaney Hook for defending her doctoral thesis! Dr. Hook is the first Hili group graduate student to earn her doctorate. She will be off to do a postdoc in Dr. Pursell's lab at Tulane. Best of luck Delaney!

Dr. Hook is caped in UGA red & black after her successful defence

Posing with the group one last time