Recent News:

• September 23, 2011
  Prof. Rheinstadter is invited to give the colloquium in the Department of Physics at McGill University
   
• September 20, 2011
  Prof. Rheinstadter is invited to give a colloquium in the Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences
   
• August 25, 2011
  Prof. Rheinstadter is invited to give a lecture at the 8th European Biophysics Congress (EBSA2011) in Budapest. This was a very stimulating meeting at a fantastic location!
  
   
• August 2011
  Laura Toppozini is joining the team as PhD student. Great to have you, Laura!
   
• August 15, 2011
  Martin Kaye has very successfully defended his Master's thesis. Congratulations, Master Martin!!!
   
• August 1-12, 2011
  We are conducting an experiment at the CNBC Chalk River to see nanodomains in lipid membranes. Experiment was a success! Stay tuned...
   
• June 29-30, 2011
  Prof. Rheinstadter is invited to give a talk at the XDL2011 Workshop 6-
  Frontier Science with X-ray Correlation Spectroscopies using Continuous Sources at Cornell University, Ithaca NY. Great meeting; thanks for organizing, Arthur!
   
• May 9-13, 2011
  We (Clare, Martin, Matt, Songbo and Maikel) are attending the 11th Canadian Neutron Scattering Summer School of the Canadian Institute for Neutron Scattering at Chalk River. Thank you so much for organizing, Zahra! This is a great school!
  
  
  
   
• May 2011
  Clare Armstrong and Matthew Barrett have both been awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) for their work with proteins in our lab! Congratulations!!!
   
• March 2011
  Clare Armstrong, Martin Kaye and Matt Barrett have presented their work in talks at the 2011 APS March Meeting in Dallas.
   
• March, 2011
  Clare Armstrong is the recipient of one (of only 6!) of the 2011 March Meeting Travel Awards of the Division of Biological Physics. Enjoy Dallas!
   
• March, 2011
  Clare Armstrong has been awarded  an  "Ann Poucher Windsor Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology". Congratulations! Well deserved, Clare!
   
• February, 2011
  Songbo Zheng has been awarded an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards Program to conduct summer research in our lab. Congratulations, Songbo! Well done!
   
• January 13, 2011
  Prof. Rheinstadter is invited to present at BILL2011. This is a very exciting and stimulating meeting which brings together the experts in our field. (http://www.ill.eu/news-events/events/bill2011/programme/) Thanks for organizing, Giovanna! Excellent meeting!
   
• January, 2011
  We welcome Songbo Zheng in our team! Songbo will study structure of Alzheimer's membranes in our lab.
   
• December 2010/January 2011
  We wish everybody Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year 2011!
   
• December 9, 2010
  Prof. Rheinstadter was serving on a thesis committee in Grenoble, France. Congratulations, Dr. Marcus Trapp! Well done!
   
• November 23, 2010
  The installation of our brand new Rigaku SmartLab is currently taking  place. Today we were very happy to see for the first time:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
   
• October/November 2010:
  We are currently running an experiment at the Cold Neutron Chopper Spectrometer at the SNS. Experimental team Clare, Martin, Maikel, Dr. Karin Schmalzl from the ILL in Grenoble, and Dr. Thomas Hauss from the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin. Stay tuned for exciting data!
   
  There was also time for a hike in the Smokey Mountains
  
   
• October 2010
  We are getting ready for an experiment at the Spallation Neutron Source in Oak Ridge. In this cutting edge experiment we will study protein-protein interactions in a biological membrane under physiological conditions in-situ
  
  Clare, Dr. Thomas Hauss from HZB and Matt preparing samples
   
• October 15th, 2010
  2010 General Meeting of the Canadian Institute for Neutron Scattering in Saskatoon: The Future of Neutron Scattering in Canada
   
• September 2010
  We conducted the first neutron scattering experiment at the Canadian Neutron Beam Centre at Chalk River after NRU's long shutdown. In a very exciting experiment we were able to observe nanodomains in lipid membranes. We are very happy that the neutrons are back to Canada!
   
• September 2010
  Nick Jago and Michael Moore joined the lab to conduct their senior thesis. Great to have you! They will develop protocols to make model brain membranes and conduct and analyze the first x-ray experiments on iX, our brand new membrane diffractometer.
   
• September 2010
  Construction of our lab, the CFI funded Laboratory for Membrane and Protein Dynamics is almost completed. Check out the lab pages and stay tuned!
   
• July 2010
  Matthew Barrett has joined our group. Welcome! He will first work a magnetic fluids before going bio and preparing model brain membranes and model Alzheimer's plaques.
  
  June 15th, 2010
  Prof. Rheinstadter is teaching at the CIFAR Summer Forum on Interdisciplinary Nano Science, June 13-17, 2010, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
   
• June 11th, 2010:
  Clare Armstrong received the award for The Best Student Oral Presentation at the 2010 CAP Congress. Congratulations!!!
  Clare's presentation "Protein-Protein Interactions in Membranes" has been selected as best presentation in the Division of Medical and Biological Physics before entering the final competition.
  
   
• June 2010:
  Clare Armstrong and Martin Kaye have presentations at the American Conference on Neutron Scattering (ACNS) 2010 in Ottawa.
   
• June 2010:
  Clare Armstrong, Martin Kaye and Maikel Rheinstädter have presentations at the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) Congress 2010 in Toronto.
   
• April 2010:
  Clare Armstrong's beam time proposal "Concerted protein dynamics of bacteriorhopdopsin in purple membrane" has been awarded 6 days of beam time on the Cold Neutron Chopper Spectrometer (CNCS) at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS). Congratulations!
   
• April 2010:
  Prof. Rheinstadter was interviewed by The Hamilton Spectator about the isotope and neutron beam crisis in Canada. (Read the article: PDF, HTML)
   
• April 2010:
  Prof. Rheinstadter has been appointed Member of the Science Review Committee for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) neutron scattering facilities.
   
• December 16, 2009:
  Our Laboratory has been awarded a grant by the Canada Foundation for Innovation's (CFI) Leaders Opportunity Fund. Read the Daily News article.
   
• December 8, 2009:
  Our neutron beam time proposal "Proteins at work: light-induced protein dynamics of bacteriorhopdopsin in purple membrane" has been awarded 14 days of beam time on the triple-axis spectrometer V2/FLEX at the Berlin Neutron Scattering Center. Allocation of beam time is a very competitive process and we are very happy. Congratulations!
   
• November 27/28, 2009:
  The Soft-Matter and Biophysics group at McMaster organized its first SoftmatterBio@MAC Retreat, November 27-28, 2009.