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PictureMicrostats Lab v4.2 (Summer 2023)
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Abdul-Rahman Adamu Bukari, MSc. - Ph.D. student, Microbiology (email)
Abdul got his Honours degree in Biological Sciences at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. He then joined the University of Bath as a Commonwealth Scholar to pursue a Masters in Molecular Microbiology where he focused on cholera genomics with Jaime Matinez-Urtaza. He is passionate about building bioinformatics capacity in Africa and is a member of the H3ABioNet project. He is interested in employing 'omics approaches to understanding the factors that drive genotypic and phenotypic diversities in microbes with a specific interest in antimicrobial drug resistance. He is honored to be the pioneer Ph.D. student of the lab!
                                       Funding: NSERC CREATE in Evolutionary Fungal Pathogenesis

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Javier San Juan Galán, MSc. - PhD. student, Microbiology
Javier got his Bachelor degree in Microbiology at the Faculty of Biology in University of   Havana.   During   his   time   working   as   a   Research   Assistant   at   the   National Laboratory for Fungal Infections in the Institute of Tropical Medicine Pedro Kourí, he got his Master Degree in Clinical Microbiology.  His current research project   is   focused   on   the   evolution and virulence of Candida in women with recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis.
Funding: NSERC CREATE
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     Aleeza Gerstein, MSc., Ph.D. - Assistant Professor (email)
     Aleeza did her undergraduate in Ecology & Evolution at the University of Western Ontario (now   
     inexplicably Western University) where she studied things like Desert Ecology and Meadow Sparrows. She
     then moved to the University of British Columbia for her MSc and PhD, where she became enamoured with
     coding in R and evolving Saccharomyces cerevisiae in test tubes and the ability to pinpoint specific   
     mutations in many replicate lines through whole genome sequencing. She conducted her postdoctoral
     work in the human fungal pathogens Candida albicans and Cryptococcus neoformans at Tel Aviv
     University and The University of Minnesota before migrating back home to start her faculty position in
     2018 in her hometown at The University of Manitoba.
                                            Links: google scholar,  github, CV

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Yana Syvolos - Lab technician
Yana is our lab technician/manager extra-ordinaire. In addition to managing THRIVE-yeast isolate and sample colletion, Yana has also been working on (non) resistance evolution to boric acid.
Yana was previously a URA (summer 2021) and MBIO4032 (winter 2022) student.
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Aruni Sumanarathne - MSc. student,  Microbiology
Aruni completed her Bachelor of Science (Honours), Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Peradeniya. She is currently working on characterizing the distribution of neutral mutations in the presence and absence of drug in Candida albicans.
Funding: NSERC CREATE, Research Manitoba
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         Kelsey Wog - MSc., joint with Dr. Matthew Bakker, Microbiology
         Kelsey completed her undergraduate degree in Plant Biotechnology at the University of Manitoba. She is working on                  an experimental evolution in Fusarium graminearum with the goal of understanding the propensity to develop resistance,           tolerance and cross-resistance and cross-tolerance in drug used in agriculture and the clinic.

GRADUATE ALUMNI
Margot Henry - MSc student, Statistics, 2020-2022
                           Currently working for the Public Health Agency of Canada
Ola Salama - MSc student, Microbiology, 2019-2021
                        Currently a research technician and computational analyst 

Parul Sethi,  - MSc student, Microbiology, 2021-2024

UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI
Kenzie Bremner - NSERC Indigenous Award, Summer 2023
Jayden Case - Honours project student, Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, 2022-23
Madison Chapel - Honours project student, Microbiology, September 2019- April 2020, Currently an MSc student in Bioinformatics at the
                University of British Columbia

Caitlin Kostna - Undergraduate capstone project student, Data Science, 2023-24
Alexia De Graaf - FoS USRA Student, Summer 2022, Currently a medical student at the University of Ottawa
Devin Habon​  - University of Manitoba Undergraduate Research Award, Summer 2021. Currently a medical student at the University of Manitoba
Rebekah Kukurudz - FoS USRA Student & research technician, Fall 2018-Summer 2022. Currently an MSc student in Genetic Counselling  
Obaid Maqsood - FoS USRA, Summer 2023. MBIO4032, student fall 2023.
Daniel Peter-Salawu - Science Undergraduate Summer Research Award, Summer 2019
Erica Pouteau - Undergraduate project student, Microbiology, 2023-24
Brooke Sidney - Honours project student, Microbiology, Science Undergraduate Research Award, Summer 2020-2021. Currently an MSc student in
                Epidemiology at the University of Alberta

Inderpreet Singh - Science Undergraduate Summer Research Award, Summer 2021
Riley Sierhuis - NSERC Undergraduate Research Award), Summer 2020. Currently a medical student at the University of Manitoba
Tri Le - Science Undergraduate Summer Research Award, Research Assistant, May 2019 - April 2020
Quinn Wonitowy - Co-op student, NSERC Undergraduate Research Award, Summer 2019. Currently in the Master of Physician Assistant Studies                 program at the University of Manitoba
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Updated January  2022
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