Portrait of Professor Darrell Desveaux

Professor Darrell Desveaux, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator

Department of Cell & Systems Biology / Centre for Analysis of Genome Evolution & Function

darrell.desveaux@utoronto.ca

Portrait of Dr. Yan Lai

Dr. Yan Lai, Ph.D.

Research Fellow

(co-supervised with Prof. David Guttman)

yan.lai@utoronto.ca

Portrait of Dr. Jane Chepsergon

Dr. Jane Chepsergon, Ph.D.

Research Fellow

(co-supervised with Prof. David Guttman)

jane.chepsergon@utoronto.ca


Portrait of Clare Breit-McNally

Clare Breit-McNally

Ph.D. Candidate

(co-supervised with Prof. David Guttman)

clare.breit.mcnally@mail.utoronto.ca

Portrait of Tamar Av-Shalom

Tamar Av-Shalom

Ph.D. Candidate

(co-supervised with Prof. David Guttman)

tamar.avshalom@mail.utoronto.ca

Portrait of Racquel Singh

Racquel Singh

Ph.D. Candidate

(co-supervised with Prof. David Guttman)

racquel.singh@mail.utoronto.ca

Portrait of Janis Cheng

Janis Cheng

Ph.D. Candidate

(co-supervised with Prof. David Guttman)

janis.cheng@utoronto.ca

Portrait of Dylan Bradizza

Dylan Bradizza

M.Sc. Student

(co-supervised with Prof. David Guttman)

dylan.bradizza@mail.utoronto.ca

Portrait of Jeongrae Kim

Jeongrae Kim

Ph.D. Student

(co-supervised with Prof. David Guttman)

jeongrae.kim@mail.utoronto.ca

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Daniel Haghi

M.Sc. Student

(co-supervised with Prof. David Guttman)

daniel.haghi@mail.utoronto.ca

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Wen Tong

M.Sc. Student

(co-supervised with Prof. David Guttman)

wen.tong@mail.utoronto.ca

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