Gonzalo Cosa
Professor`
Chemistry
McGill University
Canada
Biography
B.Sc. (Univ. Nacional de Río Cuarto, Argentina, 1996) Ph.D. (University of Ottawa, 2002) Postdoctoral Fellow (University of Texas at Austin, 2002-2004) 2009 - Present Associate Editor for the journal “Photochemistry and Photobiology” (American Society for Photobiology). 2012 - 2015 Editorial Advisory Board Member for the journal "Langmuir" (American Chemical Society) 2015 Canadian Society of Chemistry Keith Laidler Award 2014 NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement, 2014 competition 2012 Visiting Scholar, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium 2012 American Society for Photobiology New Investigator Award 2009 European Society for Photobiology Young Investigator Award 2009 Inter-American Photochemical Society Young Investigator Award 2009 Tomlinson Science Award, Faculty of Science, McGill University 2008 CNC-IUPAC (Canadian National Committee for the IUPAC) Travel Award 2003 IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists awarded to the most outstanding Ph.D. Thesis in the general area of the Chemical Sciences 2003 39th IUPAC Congress Travel Grant for Young Chemists 2002 Governor General's Gold Medal to the best Ph.D. Thesis in Sciences and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada 1997 Asociación Química Argentina Award Member, NSERC CREATE Bionanomachines Member, Centre for Self-Assembled Chemical Structures (CSACS) Member, Centre en chimie verte et catalyse (CCVC) Member, CIHR Drug Design Training Program (DDTP) Member, Groupe de Recherche Axé sur la Structure des Protéines (GRASP)
Research Interest
Chemical Biology Materials Chemistry Synthesis/Catalysis
Publications
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Glembockyte, V.; Cosa, G.; Redox–Based Photostabilizing Agents in Fluorescence Imaging; the Hidden Role of Intersystem Crossing in Geminate Radical Ion Pairs. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 139, 2017, 13227-13233.
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Lincoln, R.; Greene, L. E.; Zhang, W.; Louisia, S.; Cosa, G.; Mitochondria Alkylation and Cellular Trafficking Mapped with a Lipophilic BODIPY-acrolein Fluorogenic Probe. J. Am. Chem. Soc., In Press.
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Cigarette smoke activates CFTR through ROS-stimulated cAMP signaling in human bronchial epithelial cells Francis H. Wong, Asmahan AbuArish, Elizabeth Matthes, Mark J Turner, Lana E. Greene, Alexandre Cloutier, Renaud Robert, David Y. Thomas, Gonzalo Cosa, Andre M. Cantin, John W. Hanrahan American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology Oct 2017, ajpcell.00099.2017; DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00099.2017
