Sydlik Groupsgiving

This Sunday, in preparation for Thanksgiving, the Sydlik group gathered at Prof Sydlik's house to celebrate our first annual Sydlik Groupsgiving. We had a great time celebrating all we were thankful for: interesting science, good labmates, and great food!

#SydlikGroupSelfie

Biscuit was pretty upset that he didn't get his own plate.

QOMSBOC 2016

This past weekend, the Sydlik Group took to the roads again (no car selfies this time, sorry!) to present at the QOMSBOC, that is the Quebec-Ontario Mini-Symposium for Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry, in Canada. The conference ran 11/11- 11/13 and was held at the University of Waterloo, where Stefanie's former Swager labmate Derek Schipper, is a professor. Annie, Dan, Caoxin, and Jenny all gave posters, and Zoe gave a talk entitled "Sutureless Would Closure and Covalent Controlled Local Drug Delivery: Therapeutic Methacrylate Adhesives". This was the first time we had undergraduate researchers present at a conference, and Zoe's first conference talk. I was very excited to send these students, and thrilled with how well they represented the Sydlik Group!

Sydlik Group, all cleaned up & looking great! Dan (GS2), Zoe (GS3), Annie (GS3), Jenny (junior), and Caoxin (junior)

Annie presented a very colorful poster on her biomimetic graphene!

Dan captivates audiences with his triptycene #blindedbyscience

Lots of good scientific discussion going on at the poster session. The real question is: did they have good coffee?!

In it for the Long Haul!

Today, Brian, Annie, and Prof. Sydlik's paper "In It for the Long Haul: The Cytocompatibility of Aged Graphene Oxide and Its Degradation Products" first appeared online in Advanced Healthcare Materials! The paper follows the cytocompatibility of graphene oxide as it degrades over time in an aqueous environment, mimicking the toxicity that would be experienced with implantation of graphene oxide device for tissue regeneration. We found graphene oxide to be degradable and biocompatible over almost a year, making it a promising candidate for next-generation biomaterials. You can read more about it here! http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adhm.201600745/full

This cool image  by Brian was almost cool enough to be cover art. They accepted us for an inside
cover, but we are holding out for the real deal!

Hello World

Welcome to the Sydlik Group's new home on the internet! As a millennial, I've decided that it makes more sense to keep a group blog than a more traditional group website. Research moves quickly, especially in an assistant professor's group and it's easier to keep you up to date through social media. We'll be adding posts with more details about research projects and team members in the coming weeks and months. For now though, you can follow @StefSydlik on Twitter or @ProfBiscuitSydlik on Instagram to get up to the minute updates as we bring our website up to speed. Thanks for stopping by!