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Professor Darrell Desveaux, Ph.D.Principal Investigator Department of Cell & Systems Biology / Centre for Analysis of Genome Evolution & Function |
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Dr. Yan Lai, Ph.D.Research Fellow (co-supervised with Prof. David Guttman) |
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Dr. Jane Chepsergon, Ph.D.Research Fellow (co-supervised with Prof. David Guttman) |
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Clare Breit-McNallyPh.D. Candidate (co-supervised with Prof. David Guttman) |
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Tamar Av-ShalomPh.D. Candidate (co-supervised with Prof. David Guttman) |
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Racquel SinghPh.D. Candidate (co-supervised with Prof. David Guttman) |
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Janis ChengPh.D. Candidate (co-supervised with Prof. David Guttman) |
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Dylan BradizzaM.Sc. Student (co-supervised with Prof. David Guttman) |
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Jeongrae KimPh.D. Student (co-supervised with Prof. David Guttman) |
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Daniel HaghiM.Sc. Student (co-supervised with Prof. David Guttman) |
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Wen TongM.Sc. Student (co-supervised with Prof. David Guttman) |
Former Desveaux Lab Members
Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Yinghua (Crystal) Su
Dr. Fabien Lonjon
Dr. Nadia Morales
Dr. Madiha Khan (Patent Examiner, Canadian Intellectual Property Office)
Dr. Patrick Bastedo (Researcher, Public Health Agency of Canada)
Dr. Marcus Dillon (Principal Investigator, Department of Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga)
Dr. Adam Mott (Principal Investigator, Department of Biology, University of Toronto Scarborough)
Dr. Shelley Lumba (Principal Investigator, Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto)
Dr. Jianfeng Zhang
Dr. Jennifer Lewis (Principal Investigator, Plant Gene Expression Centre / Department of Plant & Microbiology, UC Berkeley)
Dr. Steven Chatfield (Professor/Lecturer, University of Toronto Mississauga)
Dr. Masatoshi Taniguchi (Postdoctoral Fellow, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
Dr. Wenzislava Ckurshumova (Research Associate, University of Toronto)
Dr. Vivian Saridakis (Principal Investigator, Department of Biology, York University, Canada)
Research Associate
Corinna Felsensteiner (Bio-Rad, Germany)
Graduate Students
Kathryn McTavish (Ph.D. 2025)
Keiran Maskell (M.Sc. 2024)
Samantha Levin (M.Sc. 2024)
Tatiana Ruiz-Bedoya (Ph.D. 2023)
Alexandre Martel (Ph.D. 2022)
Derek Seto (Ph.D. 2021)
Bradley Laflamme (Ph.D. 2021)
Sarzana Hossein (M.Sc. 2020)
Armand Mirmiran (M.Sc. 2018)
Nina Kirischian (M.Sc. 2017)
Amy Zhang (M.Sc. 2016)
Brenden Hurley (Ph.D. 2015)
Alex Menna (M.Sc. 2015)
Noushin Koulena (M.Sc. 2015)
Jessica Schembri (M.Sc. 2015)
Matthew Ierullo (M.Sc. 2015)
Christopher Mogg (M.Sc. 2014)
Maria Soledad Nievas (Ph.D. 2013)
Kamran Rizzolo (M.Sc. 2012)
Amy Lee (Ph.D. 2012)
Michael Wilton (Ph.D. 2012)
Karl J. Schreiber (Ph.D. 2011)
Carmen Yea (M.Sc. 2011)
Van Quach (M.Sc. 2009)
Undergraduate Students
2024 — Qiaodi (Jodie) Hu, Jeongrae Kim, Amy Rui, Cherry Lam
2021 — Olivia Mazzurco, Niharikaa Aiyer, Carina Lyons
2020 — Hongju (Claire) Hyun
2019 — Livia Li, Hyunjin (Lillian) Kim, Soomin Lee
2018 — John Alexander Sapp, Trinh Vo, Yeonmo (Justin) Kang
2017 — Natalie Hoffmann, Eleni Giannopoulos, Pilgyu Park
2016 — Caressa Tsai
2015 — Dang Nguyen, Jennifer Duan
2014 — Jennifer Duan, Derek Seto
2013 — Anam Kahn, Shen Cao, Andrew McNaughton
2012 — Hae Won Kim, Maggie Middleton, Virlana Shchuka
2011 — Timothy Lo, Pilgyu Park, Dai Hyun Choi, Angela Arisz
2010 — Shu Kan, Tiffany Tong, Argishti Baghdasarian, Wen Wan (Sarah) Lu
2009 — Wasan Abada, Eric Fich, Rachel Ford, Xiaoyi Han, David He, Shuxian Hiu, Jing Huang, Allen Jian, Yuji (Katherine) Li, Ming Ming Lin, Norrapat Shih, Janet Wan, Yuqing Wang, Ronald Wu
Pre-2008 — Melissa Cheung, Simone Edelmann, Yaqi Hu, Shuyi Jin, Waiyan (Winnie) Leung, Wanda Li, Kevin Luc, Anne Marie Miki, James Peek, Morgan Swanson, Alisa Tishkina









