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Grant W. Brown, Ph.D. Grant
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S. Ray's lab studying DNA replication in the trypanosomatid C. fasciculata.
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| Raabez Ahmad, B.Sc. Raabez received his B.Sc. in Biochemistry from the University of Toronto. He is studying the function of the APOBEC3C cytidine deaminase in therapeutic resistance in pancreatic cancer. |
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| Shamitha Aravind, B.Sc. shamitha.aravind@mail.utoronto.ca Shamitha received her B.Sc. in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology from the University of Northern BC. Shamitha is defining high-resolution structure-function maps of cytidine deaminases. |
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| Peter Bartlett, B.Sc. p.bartlett@mail.utoronto.ca Peter received his B.Sc. in Biochemistry and Cell Biology from UWO, where he worked with David Edgell. Peter is studying the role of biological noise in the DNA damage response. |
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Mike Ferguson, B.Sc. mikew.ferguson@mail.utoronto.ca Mike received his B.Sc. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from UBC, where he worked with Michel Roberge. Mike is studying the role of arginine methyl transferases in regulating DNA replication. |
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Jennifer Ho, B.Sc. Jennifer is a graduate of the Biochemistry Department at McGill University. She is identifying and characterizing new components of the Bloom-TopoIIIalpha-Rmi1 complex. |
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Kate Jiang, B.Sc. kate.jiang@mail.utoronto.ca Kate is a graduate of the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UBC, where she worked with Peter Stirling. Kate is studying the function of translesion synthesis DNA polymerases during DNA replication stress. |
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Raphael Loll-Krippleber, Ph.D. raphael.loll.krippleber@utoronto.ca Raphael received his PhD in Microbiology from the Institut Pasteur, in the group of Christophe d’Enfert. Raphael is developing a yeast platform for recycling and remediation of PET plastic. |
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| Umayeer Milky, B.Sc. umayeer.milky@mail.utoronto.ca Umayeer received his B.Sc.from Quest University. He is studying functions of cytidine deaminases in DNA replication and DNA replication stress. |
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Tajinder Ubhi, Ph.D. t.ubhi@mail.utoronto.ca Tajinder received her B.Sc. in Biochemistry from the University of Toronto. She defended her PhD in 2023, having identified APOBEC3 cytidine deaminases as therapeutic vulnerabilities in pancreatic cancers. Tajinder is now a postdoc in David Pellman's group at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
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Brandon Ho, Ph.D. brandon.ho@mail.utoronto.ca Brandon received his B.Sc. in Biochemistry from the University of Toronto. He received his PhD in 2022, defining a unified protein abundance dataset for the yeast proteasome, and revealing a new checkpoint activation pathway by quantifying protein localization dynamics. Brandon is now a Research Associate at the University of Waterloo Centre for Ocular Research & Education .
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Dave Gallo, Ph.D. david.gallo@mail.utoronto.ca Dave received his B.Sc. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from UBC, and did his M.Sc. in Alain Nepveu's lab at McGill. He defended his PhD in 2018. Dave defined a role for TLS polymerases in repairing undamaged ssDNA gaps that accumulate during replication stress. He is now a postdoc at Repare Therapeutics. |
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jesse.marshall.sheppard@mail.utoronto.ca Jesse received her B.Sc. from the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto. She went on to complete her MD at McMaster University. |
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Tina Sing, Ph.D. tina.sing@mail.utoronto.ca Tina graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a B.Sc. in
Biochemistry. Tina defended her PhD in Biochemistry in 2016. Tina defined the role of the RSC complex in the maintenance of ploidy. She is now a postdoc in Elçin Ünal's lab at UC Berkeley. |
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Xanita Saayman, B.Sc. xanita.saayman@mail.utoronto.ca Xanita graduated from the University of Toronto Biochemistry Specialist program in 2017. She studied the function of the Slx4 nuclease and developed a pipeline for detecting DNA replication by copy number variation using deep sequencing. Xanita completed her PhD at Oxford University, in Fumiko Esashi's lab. She is now a postdoc with Gianni Liti at the Université Côte d’Azur. |
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Cristina Ramos Pérez, Ph.D. cristina.ramosperez@mail.utoronto.ca Cristina's PhD is from the Universidad de la Laguna, where she studied topoisomerase function with Félix Machín. She explored the action of gemcitabine in pancreatic cancer cells and in a yeast model. Cristina is went on to a Scientific Analyst position at BenchSci. |
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Nikko Torres, Ph.D.
nikko.torres@utoronto.ca
Nikko received his B.Sc. in Biochemistry from the University of Toronto.
He identified novel DNA damaging agents using chemical genetics in
yeast and human cells, and studied protein re-localization during DNA replication stress. He defended his PhD in Biochemistry in 2017 and went on to a Research Scientest position at Ranomics. |
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Attila Balint, Ph.D.
attila.balint@utoronto.ca Attila received his B.Sc. in Molecular Genetics from the University of
Toronto, and defended his PhD in Biochemistry in 2016. Attila identified a new mode of replication stress signaling complex assembly behind stalled replication forks. He went on to a postdoc in Ian Hickson's group at the University of Copenhagen. |
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Minnie Hung, M.Sc. Minnie is a graduate of the Biochemistry Department at the University of Toronto. She identified genes and pathways that maintain ploidy in budding yeast. Minnie completed her M.Sc. in September 2016 and is now the Lab Manager at Ranomics. |
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Krystal Laframboise, M.Sc.
k.laframboise@mail.utoronto.ca
Krystal received her B.Sc. from the Biochemistry Department at the University of Western Ontario. She identified genes that cause DNA replication stress when overexpressed, and completed her M.Sc. in September 2016. Krystal was the Youth Program Coordinator at Girls Learning Code. |
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Xiaohan Yang, Ph.D.
xiaohanyang@bjmu.edu.cn
Xiaohan received her PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Peking University, where she worked in Yongfeng Shang's lab.
She identified novel DNA replication proteins in human cells. Xiaohan is now an Associate Professor at the Peking University Health Science Center. |
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Askar Yimit, Ph.D.
askaryimit@hotmail.com Askar received his Ph.D. in Biology from Queen's University, where he worked in Paul Young's lab.
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Edith Cheng, Ph.D. Publications Link Edith received her B.Sc. in Molecular Genetics from the University of
Toronto. She examined the contributions of essential genes to maintenance
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Jason Hendry, M.Sc. Jason is a graduate of the Biochemistry Department at the U of T. He studied regulators of RNR3, using high throughput functional genomics approaches. Jason successfully defended his Master's thesis in 2014, and is now a PhD student in Genomic Medicine and Statistics at Oxford University. |
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Jessica Vaisica, Ph.D. Jessica received her B.Sc. in Biochemistry and Biotechnology from the
University of Windsor. She istudied the role of Rtt101/Mms1/Mms22 in
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Jay Yang, Ph.D. Jay received his B.Sc. in Biochemistry from the University of Toronto.
He investigated the function of Rmi1 in the maintenance of genome
integrity, identifying a role for Rmi1 in DNA replication and demonstrating that Rmi1 is a ssDNA decatenase. Jay went on to Singer Instruments. |
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Johnny Tkach, Ph.D. Johnny received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University
of Toronto, in John
Glover's lab. He used DNA combing to characterize DNA replication
defects in genome instability mutants and conducted high-content microscopic
screens to identify novel DNA damage response pathways. He is now a Research Associate in Laurence Pelletier's lab at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute. |
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Marta Davidson, Ph.D. Marty received her B.Sc. in Biochemistry at U of T. She studied
the function of the Elg1 Replication Factor C-like complex in vitro and in vivo. Marty went on to medical school at the University of Calgary. |
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Nick Berbenetz, M.Sc. Nick received his M.Sc. in Molecular Genetics in 2009. He was co-supervised by Corey
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Barry Dion, M.Sc. Barry graduated with his M.Sc. in Biochemistry in 2008. He moved to a technician position
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Lisa Yu, Ph.D. Lisa received her B.Sc. in Biochemistry from the University of Alberta. She screened small molecules in order to identify new cell cycle inhibitors. She did a postdoc in Don Fujita's lab in Calgary and with Christopher Pearson at SickKids.
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Tania Roberts, Ph.D. Tania has a B.Sc. in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology from McMaster and an M.Sc. in Biochemistry from the University of Guelph. Tania dissected the function of Rtt107 in DNA damage resistance. She did a postdoc in Matthias Peter's lab in Zurich, and is now a Senior Scientist and Manager of the Bioprocess Laboratory at B-SSE, ETHZurich.
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Mohammed Bellaoui, Ph.D. Mohammed received his Ph.D. in Genetics and Physiology of Microorganisms from the University of Paris-Sud, France. He was a postdoctoral fellow with George Haughn at UBC and Wilhelm Gruissem at UC Berkeley and ETH, Zurich. Mohammed left the lab in 2005 to join the faculty at the Université Mohamed Premier Oujda in Morocco.
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Michael Chang, Ph.D. Mike received his B.Sc. in Molecular Genetics and Molecular Biology at U of T. He finished his PhD in 2005 and did postdoc's with Joachim Lingner in Lausanne and in Rodney Rothstein's lab in New York. He now has his own group at the European Research Institute on the Biology of Ageing at the University of Groningen.
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Amy Fung, M.Sc. Amy graduated with her M.Sc. in Biochemistry in 2002. She has worked as a research associate at Sunesis Pharmaceuticals in San Francisco and at Roche in Palo Alto and New Jersey. |
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