Dr. Maikel Rheinstadter
PI

Curriculum Vitae

Contact:
Department of Physics & Astronomy
McMaster University
ABB241
Hamilton ON, L8S 4M1
CANADA
email: rheinstadter@mcmaster.ca
 

Hannah Krivic
PhD Student
 

"A red blood cell based drug delivery system"

Youyue (Nancy) He
BHSc Project
 

"Red blood cell based proto-cells "

Jasmine Wang
Integrated Biomedical Engineering and Health Sciences Thesis
 

"Laser imaging of cells in acoustically levitated droplets"

Sukhvershjit Aulakh
Master's student
 

"Erythro-BBBs as platform to brain-deliver drugs"

Contact:
Department of Physics & Astronomy
McMaster University
ABB245
Hamilton ON, L8S 4M1
CANADA
email: gabood@mcmaster.ca
 

Group April 2022 (hybrid style)

Group April 2021 (covid style)
 

Group April 2020 (covid style)


Summer Students 2019

Group April 2019

April 2018

April 2017

April 2016

April 2015

April 2014

April 2013


April 2012

April 2011

 2011
April 2010

Taren Ginter
iSci Thesis
 

"Formation of proto-cells for the origins of life"

Contact:
Department of Physics & Astronomy
McMaster University
ABB336
Hamilton ON, L8S 4M1
CANADA
email: gintert@mcmaster.ca
 

Michal Feigis
Biochemistry Thesis
 

"Membrane-based sensor for sensing pathogenic bacteria"

Contact:
Department of Physics & Astronomy
McMaster University
ABB336
Hamilton ON, L8S 4M1
CANADA
email: feigism@mcmaster.ca
 

Contact:
Department of Physics & Astronomy
McMaster University
ABB336
Hamilton ON, L8S 4M1
CANADA
email: dujardia@mcmaster.ca

Zoe Tsai
Health Science 3H06 - Inquiry Project

"Aerosol delivery of red blood cell based antibiotics"

Contact:
Department of Physics & Astronomy
McMaster University
ABB336
Hamilton ON, L8S 4M1
CANADA
email: tsaih7@mcmaster.ca
 

Dia Martinez Gracey
Medical and Biological Physics Senior Thesis 2021/2022
 

"Prebiotic membranes made of fatty acids"

Cassidy Tomlinson
Life Science Senior Thesis 2021/2022
 

"Antibody conjugated hybrid red blood cell liposomes as drug carriers"

Isabella Passos-Gastaldo
Biochemistry Senior Thesis 2019/2020
Research Summer Student
Communications Credential
 

"Nutrition and Alzheimer's Disease"

Udbhav Ram
Undergraduate Research Assistant
 

"The quantitative analysis of gel electrophoresis images on a smart phone"

Ruthie Sun
Health Science Senior Thesis Student
 

"Red blood cell based antibiotics"

Breanna Crompvoets
NSERC USRA Student
 

"The formation of first RNA in warm little ponds"

Joyce Lui
Life Science Senior Thesis Student

"MD simulations of amyloid aggregation in brain membrane mimics"

Armaan Somani
Undergraduate Research Student
 

"Formation of RNA under prebiotic conditions"

Matthew Blacker
Undergraduate Research Student
 

"Preparation of Red Blood Cell Membranes"

Marcel Jansen
Undergraduate Summer Research Student
 

"Role of UV in the Formation of RNA"

Adree Khondker
Undergraduate Research Student

"Mechanism of Polymyxin B Nephrotoxicity"

Quinn Pauli
4th Year Thesis Student
 

"Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Red Blood Cell Membranes

Jeffrey Zabel
4th Year Thesis Student
 

"Proto-Cell Formation in Clay/Lipid Mixtures"

Jeanette Choi
4th Year Thesis Student
 

"Radiation Damage in Human Red Blood Cell Membranes"

Alex Kihm
PhD Student, visiting from Saarland University

"Human Red Blood Hybrid Membranes"

"Diffusion of nicotine through th eblood-brain-barrier"

Richard Alsop, B.Sc.
PhD candidate

"Interaction of Lipid Membranes with Common Drugs"

• 1^st Place Falling Walls competition 2015 at McMaster University to represent McMaster in Berlin in November 2015
   
• NSERC PGSD 2015-2018
   
• 1^st prize for his poster "The Interaction of Common Drugs with Lipid Membranes" presented at the Fourth Annual Niels Bohr International Academy Workshop-School on ESS Science, November 10-14 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
   
• 1^st Place for best Student Oral Presentation at the 2014 CAP Congress in the Division of Medical and Biological Physics
   
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship 2014/2015
   
• Shirley Chan Student Travel Award from the Division of Biological Physics (DBIO) of the American Physical Society 2014

Alexander Dhaliwal
iSci Thesis Student

"The interaction of sugars with lipid membranes"

Mindy Chapman
iSci Thesis Studen

"The interaction of birth control hormones with lipid membranes"

Asfia Soomro
Life Science Senior Thesis Student

"The Structure of People’s Hair: Potential for a Diagnostic Tool"

Natalie Gervasi
Biophysics Senior Thesis Student

"Structural changes in membranes caused by ion channels"

"The Structure of Cholesterol in Lipid Rafts"

• 1^st Place at Neutrons in Biology and Biotechnology NIBB2014
   

• NSERC CGS 2013-2015
   

• NSERC PGS 2013-2015
   

• Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology 2012/2013
   

• NIST Center for Neutron Research Summer School Scholarship 2012

Haley McRae
Undergraduate Research Project

"Zinc and Lipid Membranes"

Rafaëla Schober
Summer Research Student
in exchange from Université Fourier-Grenoble

"The Interaction Between Metal Ions and Lipid Membranes"

Lily Zhang
Health Science Senior Thesis Student

"The Structure of People's Hair: The Effect of Hair Care Products"

Fei-Chi Yang, B.Sc.
Master's student

"Protein structure formation in reconstituted Hagfish fibres"

Contact:
Department of Physics & Astronomy
McMaster University
ABB336
Hamilton ON, L8S 4M1
CANADA
email: yangf37@mcmaster.ca
 

Hannah Dies
Senior Thesis Project

"Peptide-peptide interactions in Alzheimer's disease"

• Rhodes Scholar Nominee 2014
   

• University Prize for Special Achievement 2014

• 1st Place for her Oral Presentation in the Area of Biological/Soft Condensed Matter Physics at the 2013 Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference (CUPC)

• Gladys A. Young Scholarship 2013

• NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards (NSERC USRA) 2013

• Herbert A. Ricker Scholarship 2012

• A.B. McLay Scholarship 2012

• NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards (NSERC USRA) 2012

Clare Armstrong, M.Sc., Ph.D.

"Domains and Diffusion"

• Canadian Institute for Neutron Scattering (CINS) Poster Award 2012
   

• Ontario Graduate Scholarship 2012/2013
   
• A. Boyd McLay Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2011/2012)
   
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship 2011/2012
   

• Ann Poucher Windsor Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology 2010/2011
   

• 2011 March Meeting Travel Award of the Division of Biological Physics
   

• Best Student Oral Presentation at the 2010 CAP Congress & best oral presentation in the Division of Medical and Biological Physics
   

• Desmond G. Burns Graduate Scholarship 2009/2010

Contact:
Department of Physics & Astronomy
McMaster University
ABB336
Hamilton ON, L8S 4M1
CANADA
email: armstc5@mcmaster.ca
 

Richard Parg
Senior Thesis Project 4P06

"Partitioning of Aspiring in brain-like, liver-like and kidney-like tissue as seen by x-ray beams"

• 1st place for talk in Condensed Matter Physics at the CUPC 2012 in Vancouver

Amna Maqbool
Life Science 3RP3 laboratory course

"Interaction of Ibuprofen with Lipid Membranes"

Contact:
Department of Physics & Astronomy
McMaster University
ABB336
Hamilton ON, L8S 4M1
CANADA
email: maqbooa@mcmaster.ca
 

Saskia D'Sa
Life Science 3RP3 laboratory course

"Lipid-assisted Synthesis of Short RNA Strands from Mononucleotides"

Contact:
Department of Physics & Astronomy
McMaster University
ABB336
Hamilton ON, L8S 4M1
CANADA
email: dsas2@mcmaster.ca
 

Matthew Barrett, B.Sc.
Master's student

"Protein aggregation in Alzheimer's senile plaques"

• Ontario Graduate Scholarship 2012/2013 (declined)

• Ontario Graduate Scholarship 2011/2012

• NSERC - CGS-M 2010/2011

Contact:
Department of Physics & Astronomy
McMaster University
ABB336
Hamilton ON, L8S 4M1
CANADA
email: barretma@mcmaster.ca
 

Richard Alsop
4P06 Senior Thesis student

"The low-dose Aspirin Therapy"

Songbo Zheng
Undergraduate Researcher

"Protein interactions and Alzheimer's disease"

• NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards (NSERC USRA) 2011

Lindy Luo
Undergraduate Researcher

"Effect of Alcohols on Membrane Structure"

Randy Beranger
Summer student 2011

"Interaction of Aspirin and Ibuprofen with Lipid Membranes"

Chris Huynh
Summer student 2011

"Interaction of Aspirin and Ibuprofen with Lipid Membranes"

Golnaz Roshankar
Summer Student 2011

"Interaction of Aspirin with Lipid Membranes

Megha Lama
High School Summer Coop Student 2011

Contact:
Department of Physics & Astronomy
McMaster University
ABB246
Hamilton ON, L8S 4M1
CANADA
 

Martin Kaye, M.Sc. (2011), B.Sc.
Master's student

"Tuning microscopic and mesoscopic properties of lipid membranes"

Nick Jago
Undergraduate Researcher, Senior thesis project

"Preparation and Characterization of Model Brain Membranes and Model Senile Plaques

Michael Moore
Undergraduate Researcher, Senior thesis project

"Molecular structure of Model Brain Membranes and Model Senile Plaques from X-Ray scattering"

Amit Patel
Undergraduate Researcher, Senior thesis project, 2009-2010

"Preparation and Characterization of Single Support Membranes Incorporating Cholesterol"

Erik Sandqvist
Undergraduate Researcher, Senior thesis project, 2009-2010

"Protein-protein interactions in membranes"

Kevin Ray Johnson
Master's student

"Neutron and x-ray scattering in artificial and biological membranes"

Dr. Leide Cavalcanti
Post-Doc

"A new humidity chamber for neutron and x-ray scattering experiments"

Beate Brüning
PhD student, Diplom-Physikerin

"Collective dynamics of biomimetic and biological membranes studied by inelastic neutron scattering"

André Beerlink

"Collective dynamics of biomimetic and biological membranes studied by dynamic light scattering"

Contact:
Institut für Röntgenphysik
Georg-August Universität Göttingen
Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1
37077 Göttingen
Germany
email: