People
Principal Investigator
Sachdev Sidhu
Associate Professor
Post-doctoral Fellowship Genentech
Inc., South San Francisco, CA, USA
Ph.D. Biochemistry Simon Fraser University,
Burnaby, BC
B.Sc. Biochemistry Simon Fraser University,
Burnaby, BC
Appointed Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Co-investigator Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Contact sachdev.sidhu@utoronto.ca
Hometown Mission City, BC
Research Associates
Bryce Nelson
Research Associate
Post-doctoral Fellowship Fly innate
immunity Obihiro University, Japan
Ph.D. Yeast Signal Transduction Queen’s University,
Kingston, ON
B.Sc. Biological Sciences Simon Fraser University,
Burnaby, BC
Research Interests To generate thousands of antibodies to play with.
Current Research Therapeutic antibodies and
diagnostics.
Long Term Research Goals Playing with thousands of antibodies.
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Hometown Vancouver, BC
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Sarah Barker
Research Associate
Post-doctoral Fellowship Yeast Genomics
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Ph.D. Yeast Genetics, Cell and Molecular Biology
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
B.Sc. (Honours) Biochemistry Queen’s University,
Kingston, ON
Current Research Synthetic antibodies targeting ligand-receptor signalling pathways.
Other Interests Running, camping, wine appreciation.
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Hometown London, ON
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Nish Patel
Research Associate
Post-doctoral Fellowship Cancer Cell
Biology-Drug Resistance Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA (Dr. Bruce Zetter's laboratory)
Ph.D. Cell Biology-Insulin signalling University of
Toronto, Toronto, ON (Dr. Amira Klip's laboratory)
Research Interests Antibody generation and validation using high-content screening.
Current Research The aim of the project is to utilize phage-display antibody libraries to generate antibodies against receptor tyrosine kinases such as the ErbB family of proteins as well as the insulin receptor and IGF1R. We have designed high content screens to validate specificty of the antibodies to the target antigen as well as elucidating their biological function and/or modulating activities.
Other Interests GOLF. Period.
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Hometown Toronto, ON
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Melissa Landon
Research Associate
Post-doctoral Fellowship Structural
Biology Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA
Ph.D. Bioinformatics Boston University, Boston, MA,
USA
B.Sc. Chemistry and Applied Mathematics Virginia
Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
Research Interests I’m primarily interested in the application of interdisciplinary approaches toward drug discovery.
Current Research My current research projects include the development of antibody-drug conjugates and antibody-based diagnostics.
Other Interests Cycling, snowboarding, metalsmithing, playing trombone, cooking, and wine-tasting.
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Hometown Virginia Beach, VA, USA
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Haiming Huang
Research Associate
Post-doctoral Fellowship Protein
Engineering University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Post-doctoral Fellowship Biochemistry
University of Western Ontario, London, ON
Ph.D. Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College
Research Interests Protein-protein interaction, cell signaling pathway, synthetic biology.
Current Project 1: Domain-based interactome.
Protein-protein interactions play a crucial role in cell
signaling, proliferation, cytoskeleton organization, etc.
Many protein-protein interactions are mediated through
independently folding modular domains. These domains, also
known as peptide recognition modules, generally recognize
and bind to short, linear peptide motifs in their ligands.
For example, SH2 and PTB domains associate with
phosphotyrosine containing peptides, while SH3 and WW
domains bind to proline-rich motifs. Hence, it is possible
to utilize random peptide libraries to study the binding
profiles of protein-protein interaction domains. Using the
well established phage display system in our lab, I am
trying to define the binding motifs of all the human SH3
and WW domains by a high-throughput screening method, with
the aim of generating human SH3 and WW interactome maps
through searching protein databases with the defined
motifs.
Current Project 2: Synthetic protein study.
We use the human Fyn tyrosine kinase SH3 domain as a model
to study the influence of mutations in the SH3 domain core
on protein folding, binding specificity, thermodynamic
stability, etc.
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Hometown Jiangxi, China
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Shane Miersch
Research Associate
Post-doctoral Fellowship Autoimmune
diabetes/Proteomics Harvard Harvard Institute of
Proteomics Cambridge, MA, USA
Ph.D. Vascular Biology University of Windsor,
Windsor, ON
B.Sc. Biochemistry (major), Math (minor) University
of Windsor, Windsor, ON
Diploma Chemical Engineering Technology St Clair
College of Applied Arts and Technology, Windsor, ON
Research Interests I am interested in using proteomics techniques to illuminate the fundamentals of disease and to develop tools based upon acquired insights for the treatment of major diseases affecting modern society.
Current Research Using phage display of antibody fragments to select for and engineer antibodies for use in research applications, diagnostics and therapeutics.
Long Term Research Goal To develop a vital and productive research program that integrates the development of novel molecular tools with characterization of the molecular basis of disease to ultimately move forward treatment prospects.
Other Interests Running, reading, culture, languages, music.
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Hometown Niagara Falls / Windsor, ON
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Amandeep K. Gakhal
Research Associate
Post-doctoral Fellowship Antibody
Engineering The University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Ph.D. Molecular Immunology &Virology The
Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
Studied neutralizing antibody responses to HIV-1.
Current Research
The considerable heterogeneity of cell surfaces makes
selection of phage-displayed antibody libraries against
cell-surface antigens quite challenging. However, many
proteins require the membrane environment for proper
folding and stability, and as such, the ability to select
phage-displayed antibody libraries against cell-surface
epitopes remains crucial. We are developing a novel
method for rapidly isolating phage-displayed antibody
fragments (Fabs) to cell-surface targets. My
research interests are focused on using this technology to
isolate synthetic antibodies fragments to multi-domain
membrane proteins implicated in cancer progression and
disease, such as the Frizzled receptor family and the
epithelial anion channel that is mutated in Cystic
Fibrosis patients (CFTR). In addition to exploring
their therapeutic potential, the isolated antibody
fragments are being used as tools to better understand the
biology and structure of these proteins.
Other Interests Vegan baking.
Hometown Vernon, BC
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Gang Chen
Post-doctoral Fellow
Ph.D. University of Toronto,
Toronto, ON
M.Sc. East China University of Science and
Technology, China
B.Sc. East China University of Science and
Technology, China
Research Interests Antibody engineering; High-throughput screening.
Current Research My current projects involve generating synthetic antibodies targeting bacterial toxins, pathways critical for viral entry and posttranslational modifications in cell signaling pathway. These antibodies could be used as diagnostic tools and/or potential therapeutics.
Other Interests Travelling, running, swimming, badminton.
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Hometown Jiangsu, China
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Andreas Ernst
Post-doctoral Fellow
Ph.D. Biochemistry University of
Zürich, Switzerland
M.Sc. Chemistry (Dipl.-Ing.) Technical University
of Darmstadt, Germany
Research Interests Protein engineering.
Current Research Design of synthetic PDZ variants;
selection and design of ubiquitin variants; development of
high-throughput methods for phage display, protein
expression and purification.
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Other Interests Sports, sailing, reading.
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Maruti Uppalapati
Post-doctoral Fellow
Ph.D. Bioengineering Pennsylvania
State University, State College, PA, USA
M.Sc. Materials Science and Engineering
Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA
B.Sc. Metallurgical engineering Indian Institute of
Technology, Madras, Chennai, India
Research Interests Protein/Antibody Engineering, Therapeutic Proteins.
Current Research
i) Developing mirror-image protein therapeutics as alternatives to antibodies. These are small proteins which are completely made of D-amino acids and are engineered to have high affinities to target proteins. These proteins are resistant to proteolysis (longer half life), are non/low-immunogenic and can be manufactured at a fraction of cost of antibody production. We successfully engineered a small scaffold and developed D-amino acid binders to VEGF-A.
ii) Developing and engineering antibodies to the SIRP family of macrophage receptors. Binding of CD47 to SIRPα downregulates macrophage activity. Acute Myeloid Leukemia cells overexpress CD47 and thereby escape phagocytosis. We are developing antibodies that bind to SIRPα and prevent the binding of CD47 thereby resensitizing macrophages to kill AML cells.
Other Interests Playing and watching sports: Squash, Cricket, Volleyball and Badminton.
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Hometown Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
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Jarrett Adams
Post-doctoral Fellow
Post-doctoral Fellowship T cell
Recognition Stanford University, CA, USA (laboratory
of Dr. K. C. Garcia) 2007-2011
Ph.D. Cellulosome Assembly Queen's University, ON
(laboratory of Dr. S. P. Smith) 2002-2007
Research Interests Receptor-Mediated Pharmacology.
Current Research Eph/Ephrins.
Long Term Research Goals Targeted Tumor Therapeutics.
Other Interests Structural Biology, Immunology, Combinatorial Biology.
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Hometown Toronto, ON
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Rachel Hanna
Post-doctoral Fellow
Ph.D. Protein structure/function
Queen's University, Kingston, ON
B.Sc. Biochemistry Queen's University, Kingston, ON
Research Interests Protein structure/function.
Other Interests Baking and my dog.
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Sarav Rajan
Post-doctoral Fellow
Post-doctoral Fellowship Human Genetics
McGill University, Montreal, QC
Ph.D. Biochemistry McGill University, Montreal, QC
B.Sc. Microbiology and Immunology McGill
University, Montreal, QC
Research Interests Generating phage display libraries to pan for binders to cell-surface receptors, particularly for the development of biomarkers or therapeutics against cancer stem cells.
Current Research
- Construction of a highly-diverse scFv phage display library and its application to isolating antibodies against RNA-binding proteins;
- Cell-based selections against cells over-expressing receptor tyrosine kinases and genes upregulated during hypoxia;
- Cell-based selections against cancer stem cell lines in colon and brain.
Long Term Research Goals Producing and validating antibodies that target tumour and cancer stem cells for use as biomarkers and therapeutics.
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Hometown Montreal, QC
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Dewald van Dyk
Post-doctoral Fellow
Postdoctoral Fellowship Molecular
Biology, Genomics University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Ph.D. Microbiology Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
M.Sc. Microbiology Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
B.Sc. Biochemistry, Microbiology Stellenbosch
University Stellenbosch, South Africa
Research Interests Cell cycle regulation, signal transduction, cellular differentiation and biochemistry.
Current Research My current project focuses on the development of antibodies against cancer associated antigens. We make use of phage display technology to select antigen specific binders (Fab- and scFv-based molecules). These binders will be used to produce reagents for detecting and/or neutralizing antigens that are prevalent in cancer cells.
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Hometown Cape Town, South Africa
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Zhijian Li
Post-doctoral Fellow
Ph.D. Molecular Genetics University
of Toronto, Toronto, ON
M.Sc. Clinical Chemistry San Francisco State
University, San Francisco, CA, USA
M.Med. Pathogenic Biology, Parasitological Immunology
Hunan Medical University, Changsha, Hunan, China
B.Sc. Pathogenic Biology Hunan Medical University,
Changsha, Hunan, China
Research Interests Research and product development in biotechnological/pharmaceutical fields.
Current Research Antibody phage display.
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Hometown Changsha, Hunan, China
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Joan Teyra
Post-doctoral Fellow
Ph.D. Structural Bioinformatics
Biotechnology Centre, Dresden, Germany
M.Sc. Bioinformatics Universidad Complutense de
Madrid, Madrid, Spain
B.Sc. Biology Universitat de Girona, Girona, Spain
Research Interests Protein engineering and ligand design.
Current Research Systematic inhibition of protein-protein interactions using phage-derived peptides.
Other Interests Family, sports & travelling.
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Hometown Girona, Catalonia
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Yuko Arita
Post-doctoral Fellow
Ph.D. Chemical Genomics
RIKEN/Saitama University, Saitama, Japan
M.Sc. Chemical Genetics RIKEN/St. Paul's
University, Saitama/Tokyo, Japan
B.Sc. Inorganic Chemistry St. Paul's University,
Saitama/Tokyo, Japan
Research Interests Understanding pharmacokinetic alteration, utilizing antibodies for therapeutics and for understanding protein function.
Current Research Cell-based selections against hepatic uptake transporter using phage display of antibody fragments.
Other Interests Try something new, Sports, Outdoors, Wine-tasting.
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Hometown Tochigi, Japan
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Zhun Yan
Post-doctoral Fellow
Postdoctoral Fellowship Chemical
Genomics University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Ph.D. Microbial Genetics McMaster University,
Hamilton, ON
M.Sc. Plant Genetics Huazhong Agricultural
University, Wuhan, China
Research Interests Synthetic Biology, Mitochondrial Genetics.
Current Research
1. Synthetic antibodies targeting protein tyrosine
phosphatase receptor
2. Making bispecific antibodies.
Long Term Research Goals Screen drugs and antibodies targeting medically important proteins.
Other Interests Table Tennis.
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Hometown Hunan, China
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Megan McLaughlin
Graduate Student
B.Sc. Honours Genetics University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Current Research My project is based on PDZ domains, which are protein-protein interaction domains that bind the C-terminus of other proteins. There are over 250 PDZ domains in the human genome, located in more than 100 proteins, and these domains interact with specific ligands to assemble a variety of defined protein complexes.
One of the goals of my project is to improve our understanding of specificity in protein-protein interactions using PDZ domains as a model system. We use combinatorial libraries to generate comprehensive data sets that can also be used to improve computational methods of predicting specificity.
The second goal of my project is to exploit the peptide-binding function of PDZ domains by converting them into affinity reagents that can be used inside living cells. Beyond the usual uses of affinity reagents (eg. immunoprecipitation, Western blots and immunofluorescence), PDZ-based affinity reagents could be used to change the localization of a ligand, to outcompete an interaction with a natural PDZ domain or to create scaffolding proteins that assemble novel protein complexes. We anticipate that these PDZ-based affinity reagents will be particularly useful tools for studying signal transduction, but they could be used to study nearly any facet of cell biology.
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Isabel Leung
Graduate Student
B.Sc. Microbiology and Immunology University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Research Interests Rewiring cellular networks.
Current Research Exploring Cancer Biology with Intracellular inhibitors of Transcription Factors.
Long Term Research Goals Graduate.
Other Interests Cooking, Music, Meeting new people, traveling.
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Hometown Hong Kong, China
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Max London
Graduate Student
B.Sc. Bipoharmaceutical Science University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON
Research Interests Combining display technologies for antibody discovery and development.
Current Research My research focuses on exploring combinations of phage display, yeast display, and mammalian overexpression technologies to develop new antibodies to the human receptor tyrosine kinase family, an important disease-related family of surface receptors.
Long Term Research Goals My goal is to produce high-affinity antibodies to the entire receptor tyrosine kinase family, with the purpose of both research and clinical applications. The majority of these critically important proteins do not yet have corresponding antibodies, and so the possible downstream research applications of my work are vast.
Other Interests Hockey, music, beer, and good food.
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Hometown Ottawa, ON
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Yogesh Hooda
Graduate Student
M.Sc. Biological Science
BITS-Pilani, India
B.Sc. Computer Science BITS-Pilani, India
Research Interests Protein-protein interactions, Protein engineering, Computational Biology.
Current Research Generate peptide inhibitors against novel targets in cancer: The central aim of my project is to identify novel protein families that are critical for proliferation of cancerous cells and generate peptide probes targeting these proteins using phage display. These peptide probes can help us understand the role of target proteins in oncogenesis and act as lead candidates for drug development.
Other Interests Playing soccer, squash and badminton, watching movies.
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Hometown New Delhi, India
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Rashida Williams
Graduate Student
B.Sc. Honours Biology University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, ON
Research Interests Cancer biology.
Current Research Biopanning for novel antibody binders to Cancer stem cell marker CD133 and development of a system to target specific cells with lentiviral vectors.
Other Interests I love working with kids, watching tennis (and trying to play!) and doing the sudokus in the Metro newspaper!
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Hometown Mississauga, ON
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Pankaj Garg
Graduate Student
B.Sc. Honours Biotechnology
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Diploma of Technology Honours Biotechnology British
Columbia Institute of Technology, Burnaby, BC
Research Interests Phage Display and Protein Engineering.
Current Research I am using the phage displayed peptide libraries to map the specificity profile of natural SH3 domains. Protein expression and purification.
Long Term Goals PhD in Molecular Genetics.
Other Interests Table Tennis, Badminton, Gym, Running, Traveling.
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Hometown Ferozepur, Punjab, India
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Sylvia Wong
Graduate Student
B.Sc. Microbiology University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB
Research Interests Understanding the development of tumours and infectious disease.
Current Research Developing synthetic antibodies that target the toxins produced by Clostridium difficile.
Long Term Goals Using synthetic antibodies to develop therapeutic drugs.
Other Interests Play badminton, travel around the world, discovering new things.
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Hometown Winnipeg, Manitoba
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Linda Beatty
Lab Manager
B.Sc. HonoursYork University, Toronto, ON
Research Interests Phage display and antibody generation.
Current Research I am participating in a number of
projects that involve using phage display to screen for
binding to proteins involved in ubiquitylation and
deubiquitylation pathways or to find antibody fragments to
signaling pathway components. I also manage the Sidhulab’s
purchasing and supplies.
After graduating from York University, I began my scientific career in Paul Sadowski’s lab in the Dept. of Medical Genetics here at U of T, back in the days when we made our own restriction enzymes, mouth pipetted everything and smoking in the lab was commonplace. I worked first on bacteriophage T7, then on the FLP recombinase from yeast 2 micron circle and finally on aspects of human genomic imprinting.
Decades later in the Sidhu Lab I have come full circle and again work with bacteriophage, but as a tool instead of an organism of study. I still have to resist the urge to mouth pipette and the only smoke in the lab lately has been from when I tried to set fire to the microwave.
Long Term Reserach Goals Figuring out how to use a Mac computer.
Other Interests Boats, Beaches, Bars and Ballads. (This is the name of singer Jimmy Buffett's box set but happens to describe many of my interests quite well.)
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Hometown Toronto, ON
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Nick Jarvik
Technician
B.A. History and Philosophy of Science (major) Biology, Political Science (minor) University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Research Interests SPR, growing cells, protein purifications, medicine, knowledge.
Current Research Affinity measurement by SPR, expression and purification of affinity reagents.
Other Interests Music, fine beverages, general lounging.
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Hometown Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Alevtina Pavlenco
Technician
M.Sc. Biology Institute of Ecological Genetics, Academy of Sciences, Moldova
Research Interests New applications of antibody in research and medicine. Affinity reagents development.
Current Research Antibody phage display against various targets.
Other Interests Reading, travelling, dancing.
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Hometown Chisinau, Moldova
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Wei Ye
Technician
B.Sc. Genetics Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Current Research We are engineering protein domains based on natural proteins such as Clps and UBR to recognize the N-terminal residues of polypeptides. We selected domain libraries on polypeptides with different N-terminal residues and found a variant that highly selectively recognizes N-terminal Tryptophan polypeptides.
Using our phage display system, we are trying to find antibodies for hundreds of RNA-binding proteins (RBPs). These antibodies can be used to determine the RNA-binding specificities of RBPs, their locations and analysis of mechanisms involved in transcriptional regulation.
Other Interests I like the scientific environment and the international culture in the Sidhu Lab.
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Hometown Shanghai, China
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Danielle Carranza
Technician
M.Sc. Molecular and Cellular Biology
University of Guelph, Guelph, ON
B.Sc. Molecular Biology and Genetics University of
Guelph, Guelph, ON
Research Interests Antibody development for a variety of proteins.
Current Research Developing antibodies against Staphylococcus Enterotoxin B (SEB) through the use of various phage display technologies.
Long Term Research Goals Find a high-affinity antibody that neutralizes SEB and to learn new techniques to aid in this goal.
Other Interests I am a bibliophile and consider reading to be an excellent downtime. I also enjoy DIY home renovation with my husband and trying new recipes.
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Hometown Barbados, West Indies
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Andrew Vorobyov
Technician
Research Interests I find all areas of research fascinating, including the everyday challenges and the rewards of discovery.
Current Research Developing inhibitors for ubiquitin specific proteases
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Hua (Kyle) Long
Technician
Ph.D. Genetics Wuhan University,
China
M.Sc. Biomedical Engineering The Science &
Technology University of Huazhong, China
B.Sc. Biochemistry Zhongshan University, China
Research Interests Antibody engineering; High-throughput screening.
Current Research Generating synthetic antibodies targeting bacterial toxins, pathways critical for viral entry and posttranslational modifications in cell signaling pathway.
Long Term Research Goals Human diseases.
Other Interests Photography, philosophy, psychology.
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Hometown Jingzhou, China
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Kevin O'Reilly
Technician
College Diploma Biotechnology Canadore College, North Bay, ON
Research Interests Makin' Antibodies.
Current Research Makin' Antibodies.
Long Term Research Goals Nothing big, just curing cancer.
Other Interests Guitar, building tube amplifiers and other electronic gizmos.
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Hometown North Bay, Ontario
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Xunyi Luo
Technician
M.Sc. Biochemistry Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China
Research Interests Drug discovery.
Current Research Antibody validation.
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Hometown Beijing, China
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Debbie Dong
Technician
College Diploma Science Laboratory Technology
Fanshawe College, London, ON
B.Sc. Beijing University of Aeronautics and
Astronaustics, Beijing, China
Research Interests I am interested in proteomics techniques and synthetic antibody libraries.
Current Research Phage display and antibody generation.
Other Interests I like the research and culture environment in the lab. I also like music, swimming and traveling.
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Hometown Beijing, China
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Helen Zhao
Technician
M.Sc. Biochemistry and Genetics University of
Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
B.Sc. Medicine China Medical University, Shenyang,
China
Research Interests Cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Current Research Investigation of therapeutic antibodies.
Long Term Research Goal Finding curing solutions.
Other Interests Camping, Hiking, Sudoku.
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Hometown Shenyang, China
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Cathy Horvatin
Technician
B.Sc. Physiology and Biochemistry York University, Toronto, ON
Current Research Using high-throughput methods to generate a tonne of constructs for people to play with.
Other Interests Simply put…Go HABS Go
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Hometown Toronto, ON
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Bo Gu
Lab assistant, undergraduate student
B.Sc. (in progress, 2nd year) Biochemistry University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Research Interests Antibody development.
Current Research Yeast surface display.
I am currently working on displaying ErbB2 on yeast
surface with others. We aim to perform ELISA and antibody
screening directly on yeast surface.
Long Term Goals Development of gene therapy vectors.
Other Interests Travelling.
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Hometown China
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Minghua Wang
Bioinformatician
Ph.D. Biochemistry Chinese Academy of Science, China
Research Interests Drug discovery.
Current Research Therapeutic antibodies.
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Hometown Hubei, China
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Isabelle Pot
Grant Writer
Post-doctoral Fellowship Signal
Transduction and Cancer Biology Southern Alberta
Cancer Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary,
AB
Post-doctoral Fellowship Yeast Molecular Genetics
Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Ph.D. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University
of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
B.Sc. Honours Biological Sciences and Co-op Diploma
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
Research Interests Cell and Molecular Biology.
Current Research Grant writing and project design. This involves all aspects of grants, including the project proposal and administrative parts of the grant (such as budgeting, CVs and funding information, etc). Also participating in some of the lab projects (wet bench work, project management) as well as other aspects of science writing, science communication and lab management including research reporting (papers), conference organization, etc.
Long Term Research Goals Continue doing cell and biological research that combines wet bench work, science writing and project management, while keeping the right family/work balance.
Other Interests Hiking, Skiing, Reading, Movies, Music, Sudoku.
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Hometown Geneva, Switzerland
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Gavneet Sandhu
Laboratory Assistant, Undergraduate Student Currently in Medical School
Lap Hong Wister Ng
Undergraduate Student
Nicolas Economopoulos
Graduate Student Currently at the University of Toronto Dental School
Helena Persson
Post-doctoral Fellow Currently at Lund University, Sweden
Nishant Chakravorty
Visiting Graduate Student Currently at the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Javier Murciano-Calles
Visiting Graduate Student Currently at University of Granada, Spain
Raffi Tonikian
Post-doctoral Fellow Currently at Biogen-IDEC, Inc.
Amit Singh Kainth
Summer student Currently at Saba University School of Medicine
Irina Sochirca
Summer student Currently at the Michener Institute, Toronto, ON (ultrasound program)
