Former Lab Members

Graduate Students and Postdocs

  • Dr. Alexandra Gates, 2024-2026, Postdoctoral Fellow. Current Position: Research Specialist 2, HHMI Science Education Alliance
  • Dr. Melissa Chen, 2022-2025, Postdoctoral Fellow. Current Position: Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University
  • Dr. Corri Hamilton, 2022-2024, Postdoctoral Fellow. Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Missouri
  • Dr. Zayda Morales Moreira, 2021-2024, Research Associate. Current Position: Regulatory Portfolio Manager, ADAMA Agricultural Solutions Canada Ltd.
  • Dr. Siyu Song, 2018-2024, PhD Student. Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, The Sainsbury Laboratory
  • Dr. Yang Liu, 2019-2023, CSC PhD Student
  • Dr. Christina Weismann, 2017-2023, NSERC C-GSD PhD Student. Current Position: Research Grants Facilitator, University of British Columbia
  • Dr. David Thoms, 2019-2022, National Sciences Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow. Current Position: Assistant Professor, Florida State University
  • Dr. Quentin Geissmann 2018-2022, Human Frontiers Postdoctoral Fellow. Current Position: Assistant Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark
  • Nicole Wang, 2019-2021, MSc Student. Current Position: Research Scientist, Nyoka Design Labs
  • Dr. Yi Song, 2017-2021, Chinese Scholarship Council Postdoctoral Fellow. Current Position: Assistant Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). Shenzhen, China
  • Yue (Jessie) Zhang, 2018-2021, MSc Student. Current Position: Microbiology Quality Control Analyst, Stem Cell Technologies
  • Zhexian (Frank) Liu, 2016-2020, MSc Student, Undergraduate student, Microbiology & Immunology. Current Position: PhD student, Johns Hopkins University
  • Dr. Kishore Vishwanathan, 2016-2019, PhD student (co-supervised with Andrea Polle at U of Göttingen). Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow, Swedish University for Agricultural Sciences
  • Dr. Ryan Melnyk, 2016-2019, Life Sciences Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow. Current Position: Project Scientist at Berkley Lab

Undergraduates and others

  • Ren Gates, 2024-2026, Lab Manager
  • Manisha Dosanjh, 2022-2025, Lab Manager and Research Technician. Current Position: Lab Manager, King Lab, UBC
  • Keegan McDonald, Undergraduate Academic Assistant
  • Kareena Kak, Undergraduate Academic Assistant
  • Ziniu Chen, Undergraduate Academic Assistant
  • Annika Briggs, 2021-2023, Lab Manager and Research Technician. Current Position: MSc student, UC Davis
  • Ivie Huang, 2023, Co-op Student, UBC
  • Jayni Chang, 2021-2023, Undergraduate Academic Assistant
  • Youqing Luo, 2022-2023, Directed Studies Student. Current Position: PhD, Yang Liang lab, UBC
  • Apsara Snrivas, 2022-2023, Undergraduate Academic Assistant. Current Position: PhD student, Carolina Tropini’s Lab, UBC
  • Kitty Martens, 2021-2023, Undergraduate Academic Assistant
  • Eileen Lehman, 2022, Co-op/Undergraduate Academic Assistant
  • Maya Tselios, 2022, Undergraduate Academic Assistant
  • Alison Gacad, 2021-2022, Undergraduate Academic Assistant
  • Lauren Walgren 2019-2021, Co-op/Undergraduate Academic Assistant. Current Position: MD student at UBC
  • Flipos Kilflai, 2021, Undergraduate Academic Assistant
  • Andrew Wilson, 2019-2020, Co-op/Honours student, Microbiology & Immunology
  • Hector Romero, 2020, NSURP student, University of Puerto Rico
  • Polina Beskrovnaya, 2016-2018, Co-op/Honours student. Current Position: PhD student at UBC Tocheva Lab
  • Derrick Chong, 2018, Undergraduate BCIT/Co-op. Current Position: MD/PhD student at University of Toronto
  • Sarzana Hossain, 2017-2018, Undergraduate, Biology/Co-op.  Current Position: PhD student at UBC
  • Joël Richard,  2016-2017, Lab Manager
  • Jiatong (Gloria) Han, Microbiology/Directed Study/UAA, 2016-2017