Aleeza Gerstein, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor)
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 evolving Saccharomyces cerevisiae in test tubes and the ability 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
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 evolving Saccharomyces cerevisiae in test tubes and the ability 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
Rebekah Kukurudz
Rebekah is a Genetics major with an interest in genetic counselling. She has been instrumental to the initiation of the lab. She also helped us with our first experiment, looking at hydrogen cyanide production in white clover collected throughout Winnipeg as part of a global study of parallel adaptation.
Rebekah is a Genetics major with an interest in genetic counselling. She has been instrumental to the initiation of the lab. She also helped us with our first experiment, looking at hydrogen cyanide production in white clover collected throughout Winnipeg as part of a global study of parallel adaptation.
Tri Le
Tri is pursuing an Honors degree in Genetics (with a Minor in Chemistry). He has received the UManitoba
Undergraduate Summer Research Award to work with the lab over the next 4 months. He aims to make great
contributions to mankind and wants to start here in the MicroStats lab!
Tri is pursuing an Honors degree in Genetics (with a Minor in Chemistry). He has received the UManitoba
Undergraduate Summer Research Award to work with the lab over the next 4 months. He aims to make great
contributions to mankind and wants to start here in the MicroStats lab!
Daniel Peter-Salawu
Daniel is an honours genetics student with a minor in chemistry. He received the UManitoba Undergraduate Summer Research Award to work on various stressors in Candida albicans.
Daniel is an honours genetics student with a minor in chemistry. He received the UManitoba Undergraduate Summer Research Award to work on various stressors in Candida albicans.
Ola Salama
Ola did her Honours degree in Biomedical Science at York University in Toronto. She is interested in studying how microorganisms develop drug resistance, which she will do (as the first!) MSc student in the MicroStats lab.
Ola did her Honours degree in Biomedical Science at York University in Toronto. She is interested in studying how microorganisms develop drug resistance, which she will do (as the first!) MSc student in the MicroStats lab.
Quinn Wonitowy
Quinn is an Honours Microbiology undergrad student who received an NSERC Research Award for summer 2019. She will be working on the phenotypic assessment of Candida albicans populations that have adapted to posaconazole during her Co-op term.
Quinn is an Honours Microbiology undergrad student who received an NSERC Research Award for summer 2019. She will be working on the phenotypic assessment of Candida albicans populations that have adapted to posaconazole during her Co-op term.
ALUMNI
Margot Henry (Co-op student, Statistics). Winter 2019
Margot Henry (Co-op student, Statistics). Winter 2019