Faculty profile
Zoya Leonenko
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Research
Latest papers
Dynamic instability in nanoscale lipid domains revealed by contact mode high speed AFM: effect of amyloid-β and cholesterol content.
Nanoscale advances · 2026 · senior author
Effects of natural Lithium and Lithium isotopes on voltage gated sodium channel activity in SH-SY5Y and IPSC derived cortical neurons.
Scientific reports · 2025 · senior author
Amyloid β 1-42 Can Form Ion Channels as Small as Gramicidin in Model Lipid Membranes.
Membranes · 2025 · senior author
Latest funding
- $92,000
Biomimetic lipid membranes: nanoscale structure and function
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $102,854
Langmuir Blodgett Micro Trough for membrane biophysics and nanotechnology research
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $118,004
State-of-the-art multi-electrode array recording system for a core facility serving twelve plus faculty members from eight departments at the University of Waterloo
NSERC · 2019 · Co-investigator
46 publications.
Dynamic instability in nanoscale lipid domains revealed by contact mode high speed AFM: effect of amyloid-β and cholesterol content.
Robinson M, Picco L, Payton OD, Zelem N, Baur C, Beazely MA, Miles MJ, Leonenko Z
Effects of natural Lithium and Lithium isotopes on voltage gated sodium channel activity in SH-SY5Y and IPSC derived cortical neurons.
Bukhteeva I, Livingstone JD, Singh K, Pavlov EV, Beazely MA, Gingras MJP, Leonenko Z
Amyloid β 1-42 Can Form Ion Channels as Small as Gramicidin in Model Lipid Membranes.
Xu Y, Bukhteeva I, Potsiluienko Y, Leonenko Z
Quantitative Analysis of the Influence of Trehalose on Amyloid-β Binding to Membranes by Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Spectroscopy.
Xu Y, McRae DM, Leonenko Z
Localized surface plasmon resonance and atomic force microscopy study of model lipid membranes and their interactions with amyloid and melatonin.
Mei N, Liang J, McRae DM, Leonenko Z
Protective effect of trehalose sugar on amyloid-membrane interactions using BLM electrophysiology.
Xu Y, Filice CT, Leonenko Z
Effects of lithium isotopes on sodium/lithium co-transport and calcium efflux through the sodium/calcium/lithium exchanger in mitochondria.
Bukhteeva I, Rahman FA, Kendall B, Duncan RE, Quadrilatero J, Pavlov EV, Gingras MJP, Leonenko Z
Nanoscale Structure of Lipid-Gemini Surfactant Mixed Monolayers Resolved with AFM and KPFM Microscopy.
Henderson RDE, Mei N, Xu Y, Gaikwad R, Wettig S, Leonenko Z
Lithium isotopes differentially modify mitochondrial amorphous calcium phosphate cluster size distribution and calcium capacity.
Deline ML, Straub J, Patel M, Subba P, Grashei M, van Heijster FHA, Pirkwieser P, Somoza V, Livingstone JD, Beazely M, Kendall B, Gingras MJP, Leonenko Z, Höschen C, Harrington G, Kuellmer K, Bian W, Schilling F, Fisher MPA, Helgeson ME, Fromme T
Search for lithium isotope effects in neuronal HT22 cells.
Livingstone JD, Gingras MJP, Leonenko Z, Beazely MA
Biomimetic lipid membranes: nanoscale structure and function
Principal investigators: Leonenko, Zoya
Keywords: nanoscale and single molecule biophysics; lipid membrane; amyloid peptide; atomic force microscopy (afm); kelvin probe force microscopy (kpfm); black lipid membrane (blm); langmuir blodgett monolayer (lb); surface plasmon resonance (spr); biosensing; nanotechnology
Langmuir Blodgett Micro Trough for membrane biophysics and nanotechnology research
Principal investigators: Leonenko, Zoya
State-of-the-art multi-electrode array recording system for a core facility serving twelve plus faculty members from eight departments at the University of Waterloo
Principal investigators: Spafford, JDavid
Search for quantum effects in neuroscience
Principal investigators: Leonenko, Zoya
Development of breathalyzer biosensor for cannabis detection**
Principal investigators: Leonenko, Zoya
Black Lipid Membrane system to study biophysics of ion transport across lipid membranes
Principal investigators: Leonenko, Zoya
Nanoscale structure of lipid membrane and its role in membrane-mediated interactions
Principal investigators: Leonenko, Zoya
Characterization of Antigen-Adjuvant interactions by Atomic Force Microscopy
Principal investigators: Leonenko, Zoya
Nanoscale structure of lipid membrane and its role in membrane-mediated interactions
Principal investigators: Leonenko, Zoya
Development of novel membrane-based SPR biosensing technology
Principal investigators: Leonenko, Zoya
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Lyndon Jones and William Ngo: 22 shared papers
- Dayan Ban and Eihab Abdel-Rahman: 4 shared papers
- Lyndon Jones and Zoya Leonenko: 3 shared papers
- Norman Zhou and Boxin Zhao: 3 shared papers
- Norman Zhou and Michael Mayer: 3 shared papers
- Dayan Ban and Ning Yan: 3 shared papers
- Dayan Ban and Zoya Leonenko: 3 shared papers
- Eihab Abdel-Rahman and Zoya Leonenko: 3 shared papers
- Michael Beazely and Zoya Leonenko: 2 shared papers
- Zoya Leonenko and Brian Kendall: 2 shared papers
- Zoya Leonenko and Shawn Wettig: 2 shared papers
- Norman Zhou and Dayan Ban: 1 shared paper
- Norman Zhou and Zoya Leonenko: 1 shared paper
- Boxin Zhao and Dayan Ban: 1 shared paper
- Boxin Zhao and Ning Yan: 1 shared paper
- Boxin Zhao and Zoya Leonenko: 1 shared paper
- Michael Mayer and Zoya Leonenko: 1 shared paper
- Dayan Ban and Songrui Zhao: 1 shared paper
- Dayan Ban and Joe Quadrilatero: 1 shared paper
- Ning Yan and Eihab Abdel-Rahman: 1 shared paper
- Ning Yan and Zoya Leonenko: 1 shared paper
- Eihab Abdel-Rahman and Songrui Zhao: 1 shared paper
- Songrui Zhao and Zoya Leonenko: 1 shared paper
- Joe Quadrilatero and Zoya Leonenko: 1 shared paper
- Joe Quadrilatero and Brian Kendall: 1 shared paper
- Michael Beazely and Brian Kendall: 1 shared paper
- Zoya Leonenko and John Mielke: 1 shared paper
- Zoya Leonenko and William Ngo: 1 shared paper
- Physics and Astronomy / Biology
- ECE
- Systems Design Engineering
- Chemical Engineering
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
- School of Pharmacy
- Pharmacy
- Other
Co-authors at University of Waterloo, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Dayan Ban
ECE
3 shared papers, latest 2022
Lyndon Jones
Chemical Engineering
3 shared papers, latest 2020
Eihab Abdel-Rahman
Systems Design Engineering
3 shared papers, latest 2022
Brian Kendall
Earth and Environmental Sciences
2 shared papers, latest 2024
Shawn Wettig
Pharmacy
2 shared papers, latest 2024
Michael Beazely
School of Pharmacy
2 shared papers, latest 2023
William Ngo
School of Optometry & Vision Science
1 shared papers, latest 2020
John Mielke
Public Health and Health Systems, School of
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Michael Mayer
Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Ning Yan
Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Boxin Zhao
Department of Chemical Engineering
1 shared papers, latest 2013
Songrui Zhao
Electrical and Computer Engineering
1 shared papers, latest 2016
Joe Quadrilatero
Department of Kinesiology and Health Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Norman Zhou
Materials Science and Engineering
1 shared papers, latest 2022
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