Lab News
2024
May 2024: Welcome summer research students! So excited to have Leon, Katinka, Arvin, Sophia, and Syrus with us this summer!
May 2024: End of year dinner! Time for summer!
April 2024: Congrats to our undergraduate research thesis students Shriya and Diego! We’re excited to cheer them on as Shriya continues to graduate school and Diego starts work as an analyst.
April 2024: Wrapped up a fantastic Chemical Biophysics Symposium! Jared and Melissa got to share some of single-molecule and materials work! Alana presented at the final session on bioinspired materials and diagnostics. We will be back next year!
April 2024: Diego Estrada presented at the Southern Ontario Undergraduate Student Chemistry Conference on April 6, 2024, along with Rachel Mander from the Korzynski lab! Deigo presented his research on single-molecule studies of enzyme inhibition. Go Diego!
March 2024: The Ogata lab had the pleasure of hosting two high school students through the UTM STEM fellowship program. They shadowed Justin and Melissa for two days and it was fun to show them a day in the life at university and as a graduate student, their enthusiasm was contagious!
March 2024: Alana, Melissa, and Kezia host 4 undergraduate students for the WiSC chemistry lab day. Had fun looking at single enzyme molecules using a fluorescence microscope and our own hair using the scanning electron microscope!
2023
December 2023: Jared King designed and lead a module as part of the INSPIRE program at UTM for summer 2023. We are excited to participate in 2024 again! Link to full article.
December 2023: Ogata and Korzynski lab holiday party. Some fun and games to celebrate the end of the year.
December 2023: Skating!
November 2023: Congrats Advikaa on completing your master’s degree!
November 2023: Congrats to Shriya, Sophia, and Anthony on receiving awards tonight at UTM! Shriya for the CSC silver medal, Sophia and Anthony for research fellowships!
November 2023: Fun times at CRAFT Microfluidics!
October 2023: Ogata Lab pumpkin painting!
October 2023: Ogata Lab Potluck!
August 2023: Ogata Lab social event. Escape room & Vietnamese food!
August 2023: Congrats to Diego, Sophie, Anthony, and Shriya for wrapping up their undergraduate summer research projects and presenting at the UTM SURF Symposium!
June & July 2023: Summer fun! Ogata Lab’s first baseball game and a volleyball meetup with The Korzyński Research Laboratory.
June 2023: Single molecule array assays up and running in the Ogata Lab! Excited to start this branch of our research developing ultrasensitive protein assays for gynecological disease diagnostics.
June 2023: CSC2023! Great work from our students on their poster presentations. Congrats to Ruben, won first place for the undergraduate poster at his very first conference!
May 2023: Welcome Sophie, Anthony, Shriya, and Diego to the lab as undergraduate summer research students! We are excited to have them work on single-molecule protein detection and biosensor development!
May 2023: Paper plate awards to celebrate the graduation of Ruben, Hannah, Shirley, Ian, and Gurjap!
April 2023: Congratulations to our thesis students, Ruben, Hannah, Shirley, Ian, and Gurjap, for presenting their work.
March 2023: Congratulations Advikaa for winning the Chemistry Art Contest from the Chemistry Department for “MOF Candy”.
February 2023: Ogata Lab has moved to a new lab space! Cheers!
January 2023: Holiday lab party with the Korzynski lab! Celebrating the Lunar New Year with good company, fun games, and yummy food!
December 2022: Analytical Instructors Unite! So fun to meet up in person with Darius Rackus and Kris Kim to talk about our Analytical Chemistry courses!
2022
December 2022: Congratulations Advikaa, Justin, Ian, and Shriya for receiving awards and recognitions at the UTM awards ceremony!
October 2022: Happy Halloween! Turns Ogata lab members are talented pumpkin carvers!
September 2022: Welcome Ruben, Shirley, Ian, and Gurjap! We are excited to have four undergraduate thesis students join the Ogata lab for 2022-2023. Their research will focus on protein-metal interactions, biosensor development, nanozyme MOFs, and single particle fluorescence.
August 2022: Our undergraduate students Shriya and Christine designed and presented their own poster at SURF. Congratulations on all the summer research! Thanks to their work in collaboration with Ruben, they developed a more efficient process for fabricating highly reproducible gold leaf electrodes.
July 2022: Congratulations to Advikaa for being awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Fellowship!
July 2022: Alana receives the Connaught Early Researcher Award!
July 2022: Alana attends the Bioanalytical Sensors Gordan Research Conference. Had a fantastic time connecting with other faculty and graduate students, and being discussion leader for the Pathogens session. Inspiring cutting-edge research the whole week!
June 2022: The Ogata lab attends the Canadian Chemistry Conference in Calgary! Justin presented at his first national conference and shared his work on nanozyme MOFs. Advikaa presented a poster and won 2nd place poster prize! Karan from the Krull lab at UTM won first! (go UofT chemistry!)
May 2022: Can’t believe we are already one month into summer research! Can summer last forever? Celebrating our month’s hard work with a lab dinner.
May 2022 : Our article from the Walt lab is now available online! and free for download until July 7, 2022. Read our work on ‘Single-molecule studies reveal method for tuning the heterogeneous activity of alkaline’ phosphatase. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2022.05.005
May 2022: Advikaa is receives the CPS Teaching Fellowship Program award to design new pedagogical tools for Forensic Science and Analytical Chemistry courses at UTM.
May 2022: Justin VanHouten leads a team of undergraduate students for UTM’s first Indicium program. Students worked throughout the semester on a literature review and presented at the UTM Indicium STEM Fellowship Conference. Congrats to Justin’s team who won the competition and will be moving on to the national STEM Fellowship competition!
To learn more about Indicium and the STEM Fellowship program https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/biology/undergraduate-studies/utm-stem-fellowship-student-chapter
Shriya Gulati
Ruben Castillo Barberi
Christine Gaoiran
Gurjap Bhullar
May 2022: Welcome summer undergraduate research students! The Ogata Lab is excited to have Shriya, Ruben, Christine, and Gurjap join the team. Shriya is an NSERC USRA fellow working on the development of impedance bioresistors using peroxidase mimic MOFs for activity-based diagnostics. Ruben (ROP) and Christine (ROP) will support the development of impedance bioresistors using MOF biocomposites for point-of-care detection of proteins. Gurjap (ROP)will support the investigation of peroxidase-mimic MOFs and their structure-functions relationships. See their mini bios on the team page.
May 2022: Advikaa presents at the Graduate Research Conference Poster session at UTM (and even brought a demo of her IBR device).
May 2022: Lab dinner to celebrate the end of the academic year.
April 2022: Justin presents at the University of Toronto Analytical Seminar series!
February 2022: Professor Ogata becomes a mentor for the Girls SySTEM program. She is excited to support this great initiative and connect with high school students interested in pursuing STEM! Learn more about the program here: https://www.girlsystemmentorship.com/
January 2022: Professor Ogata featured in Materials Research Society Bulletin. Thank you Xaimara Santiago-Maldonado for writing this great article! https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1557/s43577-021-00246-6.pdf
January 2022: Ogata lab meeting - excited to have new undergraduate research volunteers and undergraduate student shadows. From left to right: (top) Advikaa, Justin, Professor Ogata (middle) Gurjap, Jared, Ruben (bottom) Christine, Zaheer
January 2022 : Our review article from the Walt lab is now available online! and free for download until March 31, 2022 https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1eSopzw4LQGfs
2021
December 2021: Professor Ogata featured on the ViewtotheU podcast, interviewed by Carla DeMarco from the Office of the Dean at UTM. Listen to the Podcast episode here!
December 2021: Professor Ogata awarded the UTM Research and Scholarly Activity Fund! Our lab is appreciative of the support from UTM Research and excited to use this seed funding to start our diagnostic research!
Ogata lab starting experiments and learning to use the many instruments at UofT!
(left) Advikaa starting fabrication of biosensor electrodes. (middle) Jared setting up our fluorescence microscope. (right) Justin prepping samples for cryoTEM.
November 2021: ChemClub Faculty-student meet and greet! So fun meeting graduate students in the chemistry department.
November 2021: Professor Ogata, Advikaa Dosajh, and Professor Luk present on a panel for the Women’s in Science and Computing Club, and discuss potential career paths in Chemistry.
September 2021: Professor Ogata excited for the first day of class! Looking forward to teaching the Analytical and Physical Chemistry Laboratory I course.
September 2021: Ogata lab celebrates the end of summer with a picnic and very socially distance photo. Krull lab members joined as well!
Justin gets his Master’s degree and officially graduates from the Krull Lab! Congrats!
August 2021: We got our first big equipment! Can’t wait to set up this fluorescence microscope.
July 2021: Welcome the inaugural members of the Ogata lab- Justin, Advikaa, and Jared! Go Ogata team! (standing outside the Davis Science Building at UTM)
July 2021: Alana arrives at University of Toronto and starts setting up her lab!
