Ice cream lab outing, Summer 2024
Aaron reinke, PHD
Associate Professor/Principal Investigator
I received my Ph.D. in 2012 from MIT, where I worked on protein-protein interactions in Amy Keating's lab. I then began studies on microsporidia and C. elegans in the group of Emily Troemel at UCSD. I am excited to be in Toronto where I started the lab in September of 2017!
aaron.reinke@utoronto.ca
Winnie Zhao
Lab technician
Winnie keeps the lab from falling apart. She is also dissecting genetic pathways that induce an inherited immune response.
Angcy Xiao
Molecular Genetics graduate student
Angcy is applying genomic approaches to investigate the natural variation in how C. elegans interacts with different microsporidia species.
Yin Chen Wan
Molecular Genetics graduate student
Yin is investigating genetic variants that contribute to disease susceptibility caused by bacterial pathogens.
Ed James, PhD
Postdoctoral fellow
Ed previously studied symbiosis between bacteria and aphids in the Wilson lab. He is currently exploring the reliance of microsporidia on host metabolism.
Jonathan Tersigni
Molecular Genetics graduate student
Jonathan is investigating mechanisms of microsporidia invasion and host specificity.
Qingyuan Huang
Southwest University graduate student
Qingyuan is identifying and characterizing small molecule inhibitors of microsporidia.
Xianzhi Meng
Southwest University visiting scholar
Xianzhi is looking at the diversity of nematode-infecting microsporidia using experimental and comparative genomic approaches.
Undergrads!:
Carolyn Chen- Undergraduate researcher
Cindy Yu- Undergraduate researcher
Amel Al-Assal- Undergraduate researcher
Alex Leong- Undergraduate researcher
Karen Zhu- lab assistant
Ayesha Rivera- lab assistant
Previous lab members:
Alex Willis, PhD
Dr. Calvin Mok, CAGEF Bioinformatics
Hala Tamim el jarkass, PHD
Robert Luallen- Visiting scholar and assistant professor as San Diego State University
Lina Wadi, msc
JiHae Jeon, Msc student
Eashwar Mohan - Msc student
Claire Turke - Msc student
Paul Lifotra- lab assistant
Jacquelyn Wang- Undergraduate researcher
Jason Jiang- Undergraduate researcher Stefanie Castelblanco- Undergraduate researcher
Larry Nguyen- Undergraduate researcher
Ronesh Sukhdeo- Undergraduate researcher
Brandon Murareanu- Undergraduate researcher Joseph Al Haddad - Undergraduate researcher Syed Ahmed- Undergraduate lab assistant
Kha Nguyen- Undergraduate lab assistant Urbowshe Mahmood- Undergraduate researcher
Nizar Islah- Undergraduate researcher
Shanzeh Ahmed- Undergraduate researcher
Rui Qu- Undergraduate researcher
Maria Grigorescu- Undergraduate researcher
Jessie Liu- Undergraduate researcher
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