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  • Crystal Su

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    BS, Biology, University of Utah, USA 2016
    PhD, Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology, University of Utah, USA 2022







    Publications:

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  • Xiaoyi Hu

    Xiaoyi Hu
    Graduate Student
    BSc, Ecology, Sichuan University, China, 2016
    BSc, Biology, Indiana University Bloomington, US, 2016

  • Donny Chan

    Donny Chan
    Bioinformatics

    M.Sc. University of Toronto
    B.Sc. Hons. McMaster University, Biochemistry





    Publications:

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  • Aisha Freeman

    Lab Technician

    B.Sc.F.S. Hon. Trent University, Forensic Science
    Ph.D. University of Western Ontario, Biochemistry





    Publications:

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  • Calvin Mok

    Calvin Mok Ph.D.
    Education outreach and Bioinformatician

    B. Math University of Waterloo, Faculty of Mathematics, 2005
    Ph.D. University of Toronto, Institute of Medical Science, 2012





    Publications:

    High-throughput phenotyping of infection by diverse microsporidia species reveals a wild C. elegans strain with opposing resistance and susceptibility traits.
    Mok, C, Xiao, MA, Wan, YC, Zhao, W, Ahmed, SM, Luallen, RJ, Reinke, AW.
    PLoS Pathog.19,2023. PubMed PMID:36893187

    An intestinally secreted host factor promotes microsporidia invasion of C. elegans.
    Tamim El Jarkass, H, Mok, C, Schertzberg, MR, Fraser, AG, Troemel, ER, Reinke, AW.
    Elife.11,2022. PubMed PMID:34994689

    PhenoMIP: High-Throughput Phenotyping of Diverse Caenorhabditis elegans Populations via Molecular Inversion Probes.
    Mok, C, Belmarez, G, Edgley, ML, Moerman, DG, Waterston, RH.
    G3 (Bethesda).10,2020. PubMed PMID:32868407

    Challenges and Approaches to Genotyping Repetitive DNA.
    Morton, EA, Hall, AN, Kwan, E, Mok, C, Queitsch, K, Nandakumar, V, Stamatoyannopoulos, J, Brewer, BJ, Waterston, R, Queitsch, C.
    G3 (Bethesda).10,2020. PubMed PMID:31757929

    MIP-MAP: High-Throughput Mapping of Caenorhabditis elegans Temperature-Sensitive Mutants via Molecular Inversion Probes.
    Mok, CA, Au, V, Thompson, OA, Edgley, ML, Gevirtzman, L, Yochem, J, Lowry, J, Memar, N, Wallenfang, MR, Rasoloson, D, Bowerman, B, Schnabel, R, Seydoux, G, Moerman, DG, Waterston, RH.
    Genetics.207,2017. PubMed PMID:28827289

    Caenorhabditis elegans as a model organism for ciliopathies and related forms of photoreceptor degeneration.
    Mok, CA, Héon, E.
    Adv Exp Med Biol.723,2012. PubMed PMID:22183374

    Mutations in a guanylate cyclase GCY-35/GCY-36 modify Bardet-Biedl syndrome-associated phenotypes in Caenorhabditis elegans.
    Mok, CA, Healey, MP, Shekhar, T, Leroux, MR, Héon, E, Zhen, M.
    PLoS Genet.7,2011. PubMed PMID:22022287

    Ciliary dysfunction and obesity.
    Mok, CA, Héon, E, Zhen, M.
    Clin Genet.77,2010. PubMed PMID:19968672

    BBS7 and TTC8 (BBS8) mutations play a minor role in the mutational load of Bardet-Biedl syndrome in a multiethnic population.
    Bin, J, Madhavan, J, Ferrini, W, Mok, CA, Billingsley, G, Héon, E.
    Hum Mutat.30,2009. PubMed PMID:19402160

    An essential role for DYF-11/MIP-T3 in assembling functional intraflagellar transport complexes.
    Li, C, Inglis, PN, Leitch, CC, Efimenko, E, Zaghloul, NA, Mok, CA, Davis, EE, Bialas, NJ, Healey, MP, Héon, E, Zhen, M, Swoboda, P, Katsanis, N, Leroux, MR.
    PLoS Genet.4,2008. PubMed PMID:18369462

    CRYBB1 mutation associated with congenital cataract and microcornea.
    Willoughby, CE, Shafiq, A, Ferrini, W, Chan, LL, Billingsley, G, Priston, M, Mok, C, Chandna, A, Kaye, S, Héon, E.
    Mol Vis.11,2005. PubMed PMID:16110300

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  • Samantha Levin

    Samantha Levin

    Samantha Levin

    Graduate Student

    Co-supervised with Dr. Darrell Desveaux

    B.Sc.Hon. McMaster University, Molecular Biology and Genetics, 2021







  • Janis Cheng

    Janis Cheng

    Janis Cheng

    Graduate Student

    Co-supervised with Dr. Darrell Desveaux

    BScH Biotechnology Queen’s University, 2021
    Diploma in Advanced Biotechnology St. Lawrence College, 2021





    Publications:

    1. DNA Methylation in Ensifer Species during Free-Living Growth and during Nitrogen-Fixing Symbiosis with Medicago spp.
      diCenzo, GC, Cangioli, L, Nicoud, Q, Cheng, JHT, Blow, MJ, Shapiro, N, Woyke, T, Biondi, EG, Alunni, B, Mengoni, A, Mergaert, P.
      mSystems.7,2022. PubMed PMID:35089065
    2. Proteobacteria Contain Diverse flg22 Epitopes That Elicit Varying Immune Responses in Arabidopsis thaliana.
      Cheng, JHT, Bredow, M, Monaghan, J, diCenzo, GC.
      Mol Plant Microbe Interact.34,2021. PubMed PMID:33560865

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  • Theresa Casselman

    Theresa Casselman

    Theresa Casselman
    Graduate Student

    B.Sc. University of Toronto 2019

  • Racquel Singh

    Racquel Singh
    Graduate Student

    Co-supervised with Dr. Darrell Desveaux

    B.Sc. University of British Columbia 2016
    B.C.S University of British Columbia 2019





    1. ZAR1: Guardian of plant kinases.
      Breit-McNally, C, Laflamme, B, Singh, RA, Desveaux, D, Guttman, DS.
      Front Plant Sci.13,2022. PubMed PMID:36212348
    2. Characterization of new cristamonad species from kalotermitid termites including a novel genus, Runanympha.
      Singh, RA, Boscaro, V, James, ER, Karnkowska, A, Kolisko, M, Gavelis, GS, Okamoto, N, Del Campo, J, Fiorito, R, Hehenberger, E, Irwin, NAT, Mathur, V, Scheffrahn, RH, Keeling, PJ.
      Sci Rep.11,2021. PubMed PMID:33790354

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  • Tamar Av-Shalom

    Tamar Av-Shalom

    Graduate Student