Alexander Baker (he/him)

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Happy Periodic Table Day! Gave a seminar on the biomaterials and non-canonical amino acids we study at the Department of Chemistry at Saint Mary’s University today. It’s great to meet students and more researchers on the peninsula and to learn about the impacts of their work.

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Wondering what exactly picric acid is and how it caused an evacuation around the Bedford Institute of Oceanography last week? @DalhousieChem's Dr. Alex Speed explains in an interview with Amy Smith of @CBCNS. cbc.ca/player/play/vi…

"... I ended up being reluctant to work with undergraduate researchers at all—until a new student helped me realize what is required to mentor undergraduates, and the rewards it can bring." #NationalMentoringMonth scim.ag/3Cp5C35

@charliekirk11 If you have nothing to hide why not have an inquiry? This proves guilt. Entirely corrupt. They are saying we don’t give a f*ck about the kids just kissing the feet of the Muslims.

Season’s greetings and best wishes to all the faculty, staff, researcher and student in Chemistry department a happy, healthy, and joyful holiday season!

Characterization of new biomaterials. Training day for honours student Ben Moorehead! He prepared his first hydrogel 🥼

The winners!

@LaylaOwens56 A Timelapse by @Soltan_Roozbeh

Happy Holidays from the Baker Research Group! Congratulations to the Charron and Baker groups for winning the department door decorating contest and to @LaylaOwens56 for the best decorated cookie!

Functional groups in organic chemistry @compoundchem

When you go to validate your grant application before submission…

@lcbmann Thank you Laura!

Exciting developments in hydrogel engineering from the Baker lab!

@DrummerBoy2112 @UPEI Thank you Brian, I look forward to seeing more of your colourful fluorescent photography

@BakerSPRG @UPEI Great to have you visit us Alexander. I really enjoyed your excellent talk.

It was a pleasure to visit and present some of our research in a seminar @UPEI yesterday. The meetings with faculty in the Department of Chemistry were really interesting and engaging. I hope to visit the island again soon! 🥔 🌉 🧪

@AChemSynBio Congratulations, very exciting work!

Happy to share Elise and Tarah’s work on building a facile selection system to engineer E. coli leucyl synthetase for site-specific incorporation of many new noncanonical amino acids into proteins in eukaryotes, including ornithine and N-acetyl-methyllysine!

Congratulations to Ben Moorehead for completing the fall presentation for the Honours program in Chemistry this afternoon. Great summary of your progress on oxime chemistry. Fantastic research all around by undergraduate researchers @DalhousieChem!

🥘Cooks used cast-iron pans for centuries before modern nonstick pans turned up on the scene. Here we look at what makes cast-iron pans nonstick and the chemistry behind seasoning pans. cen.acs.org/food/food-scie… #PeriodicGraphics by @compoundchem

Thank you to faculty in the Chemistry Department @stfxuniversity for the opportunity to share our hydrogel and non-canonical amino acid research today. It was nice to connect with students and discuss pathways in Graduate School @DalhousieChem. 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬