2024 Cohort

2023 Cohort

• Eully Ao- M.Sc. program
• Jonathan Chiang- M.Sc. program
• Emre Demirsoy – M.Sc. program
• Bernadette Draayers – M.Sc. program
• Ipek Egilmez – M.Sc. program
• Nicole Howes – M.Sc. program
• JJ Hum – M.Sc. program
• Alma Garcia – M.Sc. program
• Ruby Liao – Ph.D. program
• Samuel Munn – M.Sc. program
• Aditi Srinivasan – M.Sc. program
• Maria Stephenson – Ph.D. program
• Sydney Wong – M.Sc. program
• Herbert Yao – Ph.D. program

 2021 Cohort

• Credo Casmil – Ph.D. program
• Kalen Dofher – Ph.D. program
• Nick Mateyko – Ph.D. program
• Juliana Sobral de Barros – Ph.D. program
• Cathy Yan- Ph.D. program

2020 Cohort

• Jiyoung Han- Ph.D. program
• Mikado Kishida -Ph.D. program
• Tian Liu- M.Sc. program
• Syed Asfar Lathif  – Ph.D. program
• Andrew Sherrard – Ph.D. program
• Yifan Ying – Ph.D. program
• MingMing Zhang – M.Sc. program

2019 Cohort

• Naila Adam – Ph.D. program
• Yan Chen – Ph.D. program
• Ruth-Hannah Engelbrecht -Ph.D. program
• Iciar Fernadez-Boyano – Ph.D.  program
• Axel Hauduc – Ph.D. program
• Ronald Marr – Ph.D. program
• Jackson Moore – Ph.D. program
• Megan Wolf – Ph.D. program

2018 Cohort

•  Tonya Severson – Ph.D. program

2017 Cohort

• Julia Anstett – Ph.D. program 
• Maggie Fu – Ph.D. program

2016 Cohort

• Rawnak Hoque – Ph.D. program
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• Program Graduates

• Laura Mai – M. Sc. – July 9, 2011: Application of SCODA to forensic exhibits (Dr. David Sweet)
• Xuesong Li – M.Sc. – May 18, 2012: Synthetic lethality and synthetic cytotoxicity strategies for selective killing of ATM deficient cells (Dr. Phil Hieter)
• Mani Hamidi – M.Sc. – August 2, 2012: Study of non-genetic variability and heritability of pheromone signaling in Saccharomyces cerevisiae on a microfluidic device (Dr. Carl Hansen)
• Yuan Fang – M.Sc. – August 30, 2012: A novel pathway to sequester ASC at mitochondria-associated membranes dampens inflammasome activation during early Salmonella infection (Dr. Leonard Foster) 
• Sarah Natrasany – M.Sc. – August 29, 2013: Analysis of the host-pathogen proteomics of Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus in the honey bee using mass spectrometry (Dr. Leonard Foster)
• Tejomayee Singh – M.Sc. – October 24, 2013: Functionalization of cancer-associated mutant alleles of human CDC4 (FBXW7) (Dr. Phil Hieter)
• Lyda Mimi Brown – M.Sc. – December 17, 2013: Proteomic analysis of a dynamic Salmonella-host interactome (Dr. Leonard Foster)
• Geoffrey Woollard – M.Sc. – April 10, 2014: Towards high-throughput  protein sequencing: re-design of the N-end rule protein Clps (Dr. Joerg Gsponer)
• Jake Yeung – M.Sc. – April 22, 2014: Identification of binding proteins associated with differential splicing in neuroendocrine prostate cancer (Dr. Colin Collins)
• Baillie Redfern – M.Sc. – May 16, 2014: Characterization and heterologous expression of cis-abienol synthase from balsam fir (Abies balsamea) towards high-end fragrance components (Dr. Joerg Bohlmann)
• Rachel Edgar – M.Sc. –  August 8, 2014: Meta-analysis of human methylomes reveals stably methylated sequences surrounding CpG islands associated with high gene expression (Dr. Paul Pavlidis)
• Marlo Firme – M.Sc. – December 3, 2014: The regulatory landscape of the glioma-associated transcription factor capicua (Dr. Marco Marra)
• Chia Wei Kuan – M.Sc. – February 23, 2015: Investigation of the effect of genetic polymorphism on the selection of antigenic peptides in major histocompatability complexes. (Dr. Leonard Foster)
• Gerard Chan – M.Sc.-  April 2, 2015: Feature analysis of lower solubility proteins in three eukaryotic model systems and assessment of in silico predictors.  (Dr. Thibault Mayor)
• Alex Cumberworth – M.Sc. April 9, 2015: Implicit solvent models and free energies of solvation in the context of protein folding. (Dr. Joerg Gsponer)
• Julia Pon – Ph.D. (MD/PhD program) – June 1, 2015: The MEF2B regulatory network. (Dr. Marco Marra)
• Kateryna Ievdokymenko – M.Sc. – August 7, 2015: A metagenomic approach to study flavin mediated public good dynamics in hydrocarbon resource environments. (Dr. Steven Hallam)
• Georgia Mewis – M.Sc.-  October 9, 2015: High-throughput pairing of antigen receptor chains. (Dr. Carl Hansen)
• Adam White – Ph.D. – December 1, 2015: Development and application of microfluidic polymerase chain reaction. (Dr. Carl Hansen)
• Louise Lund – Ph.D. – February 4, 2016: A novel platform for creating digital PCR assays to detect genetic translocations and its application to the initial diagnosis of cancer. (Drs. Charles Haynes & Leonard Foster)
• Roy Nassar – M.Sc. – April 13, 2016: The nanomechanical properties of amyloid fibrils using molecular dynamics simulations. (Dr. Joerg Gsponer)
• Shreyas Rangan – M.Sc. – April 14, 2016: Cell death analysis by Raman spectroscophy enables detection of apoptosis earlier than Annexin V analysis. (Dr. James Piret)
• Kevin Mehr – Ph.D. – December 5, 2016:  Discovery and engineering of carbohydrate-modifying enzymes using targeted high-throughput approaches. (Dr. Stephen Withers)
• Erica Acton – M.Sc. – December 7, 2016:  Genotype-specific behavior of auxotrophic and prototrophic yeast gene deletion collections. (Dr. Corey Nislow)
• Sophie Comyn – Ph.D. – December 15, 2016: Characterization of degenerative protein quality control mechanisms using model substrates derived from temperature sensitive allelles. (Dr. Thibault Mayer)
• Keith Mewis – Ph.D. – December 16, 2016: Functional metagenomic screening for glyoside hydrolases. (Dr. Steven Hallam)
• Carolina Novoa – M.Sc. – March 16, 2017: Recq-like helicase SGS1 counteracts DNA:RNA hybrid induced genome stability. (Dr. Peter Stirling)
• Florian Baier – Ph.D. March 29, 2017: The evolution of enzyme functions in the metallo-beta-lactamase superfamily. (Dr. Nobuhiko Tokuriki)
• Madeline Couse – M.Sc.- April 18, 2017: A bioinformatic workflow for analyzing whole genomes in rare mendelian disease. (Dr. Jan Friedman)
• Daniel Woodsworth – M.D./Ph.D. -May 29, 2017: Characterizing the granzyme-perforin pathway and its utility as a cell-to-cell delivery system for cellular therapeutics. (Dr. Rob Holt)
• Christopher Roach -Ph.D.-September 8, 2017: Elucidation and characterization of genes associated with Montbretin A biosynthesis with Crocosmina x crocosmiiflora and White Pine weevil defense in Picea sitchensis (Dr. Joerg Bohlmann)
• Matthew Bundala – M.Sc. – November 3, 2017: Serological immune profiling using mass spectrometry (Drs. Carl Hansen and Leonard Foster)
• Ben Callaghan – M.Sc. – November 20, 2017: An analysis of genetic variants associated with autism spectrum disorder (Dr. Paul Pavlidis)
• Tony Hui – M.Sc. – January 29, 2018: Epigenetically distinct subpopulations of hematopoietic stem cells revealed through single-cell DNA methylation sequencing (Dr. Martin Hirst)
• Christina Tysoe – Ph.D. – February 26, 2018: Exploring novel human pancreatic alpha-amylase inhibitors: a departure from carbohydrate-based therapeutics. (Dr. Stephen Withers)
• Adi Steif – Ph.D. – March 19, 2018: Tumour Evolution at single-cell resolution. (Drs. Sohrab Shah and Sam Aparicio)
• Cecilia Perez-Borrajero – Ph.D. – March 28, 2018: Biophysical insights into the regulatory and DNA-binding mechanisms of the eukaryotic transcription factors Pax5 and Ets1. (Dr. Lawrence McIntosh)
• Hans Zahn – Ph.D. – March 28, 2018: Development and application of microscale technology for single-cell sequencing. (Dr. Carl Hansen)
• Michael VanInsberghe – Ph.D. – April 13, 2018: The development of single-cell microfluidic technologies for the analysis of microRNA expression. (Dr. Carl Hansen)
• Kevin Jepson- M.Sc. – April 17, 2018: single-cell microRNA sequencing of circulating tumour cells: a new tool for monitoring prostate cancer. (Dr. Carl Hansen)
• Zachary Armstrong – Ph.D. – May 18, 2018: Harnessing natural diversity for the discovery of glycoside hydrolases and the design of new glycosynthases. (Drs. Steve Hallam and Stephen Withers)
• Florian Heinkel – Ph.D. – May 31, 2018: Protein phase separation by the ABC transporter Rv1747 of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis. (Drs. Joerg Gsponer and Lawrence McIntosh)
• Min Feng – M.Sc. – July 3, 2018: Mega-analysis of gene expression patterns across tissues in human and mouse. (Dr. Paul Pavlidis)
• Emma Titmuss – M.Sc. – July 10, 2018: A case study of apparent immune activation following treatment of a colorectal cancer patient with an angiotensin receptor blocker. (Dr. Marco Marra)
• Alison McAfee –  Ph.D. – October 31, 2018: Towards defining the molecular mechanism of hygienic behaviour in Hone Bees (Apis Mellifera). (Dr. Leonard Foster)
• Jessica Lee- M.Sc. – November 6, 2018: Development of human-computer interactive approaches for rare disease genomics. (Drs. Wyeth Wasserman & Clara van Karnebeek)
• Karissa Milbury – M.Sc. – November 30, 2018: Genome instability in multiple myeloma-associated DIS3 exonuclease domain mutants. (Dr. Peter Stirling)
• Scott Brown – Ph.D. – December 5, 2018: Interrogating the TCR-pMHC comples in health and disease using immunogenomics methods (Dr. Robert Holt)
• Govinda Sharma – Ph.D. – December 6, 2018: Novel In Vitro methods for the discovery of funciotnal T-cell receptor epitiopes from large peptide-coding libraries (Dr. Robert Holt)
• Eugene Kuatsjah – Ph.D. – January 16, 2019: Characterization of metalloenzymes involved in the bacterial catabolism of lignin-derived biaryls. (Dr. Lindsay Eltis)
• Karen Chan – Ph.D. –  September 3, 2019: Modulating the adhesive strength of blood clots by coagulation factor IIIa-based technologies (Dr. Christian Kastrup)
• Bin Ye – Ph.D. – December 12, 2019: C. elegans as a platform to characterize genes and therapeutics affecting genome stability (Dr. Phil Hieter)
• Andrew Wong – Ph.D. – December 12, 2019: The TMEM16 tethering protein IST2 directly interacts with the ORP lipid transporters OSH6 and OSH7 to maintain aminophospholipid metabolism. (Dr. Chris Loewen)
• Grant de Jong – M.Sc. – December 18, 2019: Analysis of multiple Brassica transcriptomes reveals subgenome dominance in the response of Brassica napus to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. (Dr. Keith Adams)
• Jasper Wong – M.Sc. – December 20, 2019: TET2 and TET3-dependence of vitamin C-induced epigenomic alterations in acute myeloid leukemia (Dr. Martin Hirst)
• Shauna Crowley- Ph.D. – March 18, 2020: The inflammatory caspases coordinate mucosal restriction of Samonella enterica serovar typhimurium (Dr. Bruce Vallance)
• Stephen Lee- M.Sc. – June 2, 2020: Characterization of the effects of CIC loss and neomorphic IDH1 mutation on the transcriptome and epigenome (Dr. Marco Marra)
• Atenas Sofia Romero Guzman- M.Sc.- August 17, 2020: A Prophylactic Probiotic to Fight Paenibacillus larvae Infection in Honey Bees (Dr. Leonard Foster)
• Judith Booth- Ph.D. – September 8, 2020: Terpene and isoprenoid biosynthesis in Cannabis sativa (Dr. Joerg Bohlmann)
• Phuong Nguyen – Ph.D. – December 14, 2020: Hic1 is a quiescence regulator of messenchymal stromal cells in bone marrow and responsible for controlling the size of himatopoietic stem cell niche (Dr. Fabio Rossi)
• Ryan Bailey- M.Sc. – May 19, 2021: The effects of abiotic stress on isoform composition in polyploid Brassica napus (Dr. Keith Adams)
• Kathryn Lande – M.Sc. – April 29, 2021 – Genomic characterization of divergent haplotypes of large structural variants in the genus Helianthus. (Dr. Loren Rieseberg)
• Mang Zhu – Ph.D. – May 10, 2021: To Aggregate or not to aggregate: A study of  protein macro- assemblies and aggregation-prone polypeptides in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Dr. Thibault Mayor)
• Spence MacDonald- Ph.D. – June 7, 2021: Discovery of new glycoside phosphorylases through rational, genomic and metagenomic exxploration. (Dr. Steve Withers)
• Veronique LeBlanc-Ph.D. – July 23, 2021: Genomic characterization of inter- and intra-tumour heterogeneity in primary adult diffuse gliomas and associated disease models (Dr. Marco Marra)
• Haoning Cen- Ph.D. – August 3, 2021: Modulation of muscle cell insulin receptor signaling, transcription and trafficking by insulin (Dr. James Johnson)
• Carmen Bayly – Ph.D. –  August 23, 2021: Engineering Mycobacterium tuberculosis PK212 towards improved polyketide pathway control. (Dr. Vikram Yadav)
• Amir Kashani – M.Sc. – September 2, 2021: Evaluating E. coli as a chassis for production of capsaicinoids and capsinoids. (Dr. Vikram Yadav)
• Frederick Sunstrum – M.Sc.: November 1, 2021: Engineering montbretin A biosynthesis in Nicotiana bethamiana (Dr. Joerg Bohlmann)
• Grace Ho – M.Sc. – November 10, 2021: Investigation of diazeniumdiolate formation by the fragin biosynthesis pathway of Burkholderia cenocepacia h111.  (Dr. Katherine Ryan)
• Sierra Gillis – M.Sc. – December 6, 2021: Differential RNA expression analysis across cancer clonal populations using Bayesian phylogenetic modelling. (Drs. Alexandre Bouchard-Cote and Andrew Roth)
• Nathaniel Lim- Ph.D. – December 13, 2021: Mining of differential expression across thousands of conditions (Dr. Paul Pavlidis)
• Somdeb Paul- M.Sc. – February 10. 2022: A pursuit of self-cleaving RNAse-A mimicking DNAzymes without an imidazole functionality and their further characterization. (Dr. David Perrin)
• Victor Yuan – Ph.D. – February 22, 2022: Major sources of variation in placental DNA methylation. (Dr. Wendy Robinson)
• Anni Zhang- Ph.D. – March 16, 2022: Hyperinsulinemia and Insulin receptor signaling in pancreatic cancer development (Dr. James Johnson)
• Miguel Ramirez – Ph.D. – March 28, 2022: Identification and characterization of enhancer sequences during cerebellar development (Dr. Michael Kobor)
• Yilin Qiu – M.Sc. – June 27, 2022: Shining new light on Cynobacteria genomes. (Dr. Steven Hallam)
• Hannah Liu – M.Sc. – July 27, 2022: Engineering flavanone biosynthesis in yeast towards the production of montbretin A. (Dr. Joerg Bohlmann)
• Zeid Hamadeh: Ph.D. – August 11, 2022: Unravelling RecQ Helicase function in genome stability using Strand-seq. (Dr. Peter Lansdorp)
• Joseph Ogbede – Ph.D.- August 31, 2022: Understanding cellular response to drugs and toxins with yeast genomics tools. (Dr. Corey Nislow)
• Evan Warner – Ph.D. – September 19, 2022: Genomic and clinical features of metastatic prostate cancer. (Dr. Alex Wyatt)
• Tal Shalev – Ph.D. – September 21, 2022: Genomics of Wastern Redcedar (Thuja plicata). (Dr. Joerg Bohlmann)
• Luolan Li – M.Sc. – November 14, 2022: Epigenomic programming in early fetal brain development (Dr. Martin Hirst)
• Elie Ritch – Ph.D. – December 2, 2022: Identification and characterization of DNA repair deficiencies with circulating tumour DNA in prostate cancer (Dr. Alex Wyatt)
• Mitchell Braam- Ph.D. – March 15, 2023: Bioprocess and cell line engineering to improve pancreatic endocrine differentiation outcomes and increase safety of pluripotent stem cells. (Drs. Tim Kieffer and James Piret)
• Sepehr Kamal- M.Sc. – April 11, 2023: Prioritization of ligands and receptors in human islets and stem cell-derived cells. (Dr. James Johnson)
• Skyler Friederline- M.Sc. – September 1, 2023: Charting microbial community assembly patterns on microplastic particles and fibres in British Columbian coastal waters (Drs. Steve Hallam and Ryan Ziels)
• Hadiseh Kamali Dehghan- M.Sc. – October 16, 2023: Exploring TF Glue as a new class of therapeutics using high-throughput screens and computational chemistry (Dr. Carl de Boer)
• Avery Noonan- Ph.D. – November 30, 2023: Novel tools and methods supporting high-throughput screening and metabolic engineering in model and non-model microbial host chassis (Dr. Steve Hallam)
• Jack Bacon-Ph.D. – December 4, 2023: Genomic characterization of urologic malignancies and the relevance of clonal hematoppoiesis in liquid biopsies (Dr. Alex Wyatt)
• Dylan Perrara-M.Sc. – December 11, 2023: Improving heterologous production of the antidiabetic metabolite Montbretin A in Nicotiana benthamiana: investigation of metabolic flux imbalances, undesired product formation and N. benthamiana (Dr. Joerg Bohlmann)
• Glenn Chang- M.Sc. – December 14, 2023: Integrating nanopore long-range genomic variant phasing to improve resolution of allele-specific expression from short read RNA-SEQ (Dr. Steven Jones)
• Zheng Dong- Ph.D.- February 26, 2024: Investigating Evolutionary Conservation and Population Specificity of DNA Methylation (Dr. Michael Kobor)
• Cameron Herberts- Ph.D. – March 8, 2024: Circulating tumor DNA as a comprehensive multi-omic tool for profiling advanced prostate cancer (Dr. Alex Wyatt)
• Yuka Takemon- Ph.D. – March 15, 2024: Mapping in silico genetic networks of tumour suppressor genes to uncover gene functions and predict cancer cell vulnerabilities (Dr. Marco Marra)
• Kashish Doshi- M.Sc. – April 2, 2024: A bioinformatics pipeline for integration of low and high dimensional multiomic datasets (Dr. Andrew Weng)
• Brett Kiyoto -M.Sc. – April 4, 2024: A computational framework for large-scale cell lineage reconstruction (Dr. Nozomu Yachie) 
• Analise Hofmann – Ph.D. – April 8, 2024: Proteome-wide localization analysis of yeast with defects in endoplasmic reticulum-plasma membrane contact sites and undergraduate biology students’ attitudes towards biology and math (Dr. Christopher Loewen)
• Gabriel Dall’Alba – M.Sc. – April 16, 2024: Toward a comprehensive understanding of early Metazoans: reannotation for enhanced completeness of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi genome (Dr. Steve Plotkin)
• Mariah Lumpa – M.Sc. – April 17, 2024: The role of condensin in Ty1 retrotransposon targeting in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Dr. Vivien Measday)
• Rui Wang – M.Sc. – MaY 16, 2024: Exploring the impact of SNCA overexpression on mouse hippocampal DNA methylome and transcriptome during mid-life (Dr. Michael Kobor)
• Ekpereka Amutaigwe- M.Sc.- May 31, 2024: Investigating gene expression dynamics and regulatory networks in fetal liver hematopoietic lineages using single cell transcriptomics (Dr. Pamela Hoodless)
• Daniel Kehila- Ph.D. – June 3, 2024: Social evolution of microbial metabolism in some natural populations and laboratory consortia. (Dr. Nobuhiko Tokuriki) 
  
• Analise Hofmann-Ph.D. – June 8, 2024: Proteome-wide Localization Analysis of Yeast with Defects in Endoplasmic Reticulum-Plasma Membrane Contact Sites & Undergraduate Biology Students’ Attitudes Towards Biology and Math (Dr. Christopher Loewen)
• Nelly Saber-Ph.D. – June 27, 2024: Implantation Site and Sex Influences Endocrine Cell Specification and Function of Pancreatic Progenitor Cells. (Dr. Tim Kieffer)
• Nilou Mousavi – M.Sc. – July 29, 2024: Effects of dexamethasone on glucose homeostasis and tissue proteomes in mice. (Dr. James Johnson)
• Alice Zhu- Ph.D. – September 20, 2024: Epigenetic determinants in T-Cell differentiation and transformation (Dr. Martin Hirst)
• Jorge Rodrigo Vallejos- M.Sc. – November 18, 2024: Fibroblast activation protein and the progression of low-grade serous ovarian cancer (Dr. David Huntsman)
• Rutuja Pattanshetti- M.Sc. – December 2, 2024: Development of a high-throughput genome-wide method to assess Ty1 retrotranspoon insertion upstream of tRNA genes is Saccharomyces cerevisiae. (Drs. Vivien Measday and Corey Nislow).
• Seevasant Indran- Ph.D. – December 10, 2025: Sentinel interaction mapping (SIM) development of a novel complementation-independent variant functionalization platform using yeast-human genetic interaction mapping for TP53. (Dr. Christopher Loewen)
• Ella Beraldo- M.Sc. February 27, 2025: Identifying the epigenetic effects of exposure to prenatal maternal stress in the placenta. (Dr. Wendy P Robinson)