People
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Dr. Guy Tanentzapf
Education: B.Sc. (Molecular Genetics & Molecular Biology); PhD. University of Toronto (Zoology)
I grew up in: Toronto, Ontario
Special Skills: Telling stories, Asking difficult questions.
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Dr. Darius CampResearch AssociateLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut
Education: B.Sc. (Cell Biology and Genetics) PhD.(Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology) McGill
I grew up in: Paris, France
Special Skills: Genetics, Molecular biology, Genetic Engineering (CRISPR-Cas9), killer Margaritas.
Project: Structure/Function analysis of integrin mediated adhesion and muscle development.
Education: B.Sc. (Cell Biology and Genetics) PhD.(Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology) McGill
I grew up in: Paris, France
Special Skills: Genetics, Molecular biology, Genetic Engineering (CRISPR-Cas9), killer Margaritas.
Project: Structure/Function analysis of integrin mediated adhesion and muscle development.
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Dr. Yanina PeschPost-Doctoral Fellow
Education: M.Sc. (Life and Medical Sciences), University of Bonn, Germany; PhD (Molecular Biomedicine), Universities of Bonn and Leipzig, Germany
I grew up in: Siegburg, Germany
Special Skills: Confocal imaging and cat cuddling
Project: Analysis of soma-germline communication in Drosophila spermatogenesis
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Kevin HoPh.D Student -
Priya KaurM.Sc. Student
Education: B.Sc. (Developmental Biology, Fundamental Genetics) University of Toronto
I grew up in: Istanbul, Turkey; Mumbai, India
Special Skills: Adult and Larval Dissections, Confocal Imaging, (Unsuccessful) PCRs, Sharing pointless anecdotes
Project: Studying mechanisms that act in somatic cells of testis to support the germline during spermatogenesis
Education: B.Sc (Life Sciences) National Cheng Kung University
I grew up in: Taichung, Taiwan
Special Skills: Larval dissection, Tissue live imaging, Sashimi tasting
Project: Understanding the role of gap junction in Drosophila hematopoiesis
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Wenjun (Sarah) DengM.Sc. Student -
Bhavya VenkateshPhD. Student
Education: B.Sc. (Cell and Molecular Biology) University of Toronto
I grew up in: Nanjing, China
Special Skills: Cell culture, making travel plans and skating
Project: Understanding how talin-mediated links to actin cytoskeleton regulate mammalian development
Education: M.Sc.(Life Sciences) UM DAE CEBS, Mumbai, India
I grew up in: Bangalore, India
Special Skills: Dissection, cooking and taking pictures of anything other than people
Project: Understanding the role of integrin activation in mammalian development
Lab Alumni
Dr. Amanda Haage
Amanda was a Post Doc in our lab from 2014-2019.
She was the first person in our lab to work on mice!
Dr. Rohan Khadilkar
Rohan was a Post Doc in our lab from 2015-2020.
Rohan is currently a group leader at the Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research, and Education in Cancer in Mumbai.
Dr. Michael Fairchild
Mike was the first person to work in our lab and was our lab tech from 2008-2012. He was then a PhD student from 2012-2018.
Mike is currently a post doc in Len Zon's lab in Boston's Children hospital and the department of stem cell and regernerative biology at Harvard University.
Dr. Stephanie Ellis
Stephanie did her PhD in our lab from 2009-2015. She worked on the regulation of integrins during morphogenesis.
Stephanie is currently is post doctoral fellow in the lab of Elaine Fuchs in the rockefeller university in NYC. You can find her on twitter at
@s__ellis
Katie Goodwin
Katie did her MSc in our lab from 2013-2016. She worked on the role of integrin regulation in changing the biophysical parameters that control morphogenesis.
Emily Lostchuck
Emily did her MSc in our lab from 2013-2016. She worked on the role of Talin in Morphogenesis.
Emily is currently completing medical school at the University of British Columbia
Pablo Lopez-Ceballos
Pablo was an MSc student in the lab 2013-2016. He worked on the regulation of integrin turnover.
Pablo went on to obtain another masters degree in education and is pursuing his passion for teaching working as a teacher back in spain.
Katrín Hákonardóttir
Katrin was a MSc student in the lab 2012-2015. She worked on the regulation of integrin turnover.
Katrin is currently back in iceland working as a research scientist at the University of Iceland.
Fayeza Islam
Fayeza was an MSc student in the lab from 2012-2015 and then worked briefly as our lab tech.
Fayeza is curently a research associate at STEM CELL Technologies
Chris Smendziuk
Chris was a PhD student in the lab 2010-2015 working on the role of gap junctions in mediating soma germline communication.
Chris is currently a Scientific and Applications Specialist at abm (Applied Biological Materials)
Alexander (Addi) Perkins
Addi was an MSc student in the lab 2011-2013. He worked on the role of integrins in maintaining muscle function.
Stefan Czerniecki
Stefan was an MSc student in our lab from 2010-2013 working on integrin turnover in muscles.
After completing his Msc stefan worked as research assistant at the Universtiy of Washington in Beno Freedman's lab. He is currently attending medical school.
Lin Yuan
Lin was the first MSc student in the lab (2009-2011) and set up our work on integrin turnover.
After completing her MSc in our lab Lin worked briefly as a tech in David Bilder's lab at UC Berkeley and then completed a PhD in Randy Schekman's lab also at UC Berkeley. She is currently a post doctoral fellow in David Julius's lab at UCSF.
Alexander Morin
Alex was a long time undergraduate student in the lab (2011-2012) working as a co-op and as a project student. He made important contributions to our work on integrin turnover in muscles.
Alex then went on to work in the Kobor lab at the CMMT in UBC and is currently working on his PhD in bioinformatics in Paul Pavlidis's group at UBC.