Name

Daniel Durocher, Ph.D.

Primus inter pares

Born and raised

Varennes, Quebec

Education

B.Sc. Université de Montréal
Ph.D. McGill University
Postdoc University of Cambridge, UK

Scientific Interest

Genome stability

Tidbit

I tend to miss my plane coming back from meetings.
I love Occam's razor….

Name

Rebecca Gladdy

OICR Clinician-Scientist

see also this link

http://www.oicr.on.ca/
research/gladdy.htm

Born and raised

Sarnia, Ontario

Education

BSc and MD Queen's University

PhD and General Surgery Training - University of Toronto

Surgical Oncology Fellowship - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Scientific Interest

DNA Damage/Repair and Cancer.

Mouse Models of Sarcoma and Human Genetics.

Outside Interests

The 4 F's: Family, fitness, film (photography and indie pics) and fantasitic food...the latter being one of the Durocher lab virtues!

Name

Leah Kabaroff

Rebecca’s Research Associate

Born and raised

Burlington...Sudbury (ewwww)

Education

MSc. Animal Science & Toxicology

Scientific Interest

Transgenic/knockout mice.

Tidbit

I ride horses...and am good at it (sometimes!)

Name

Marella Canny

Research Associate

Born and raised

Johnson, Kansas, USA

Education

B.Sc. Arkansas State University

Scientific Interest

High throughput screening.

Outside interests

Backpacking and mountaineering; I hope to add canoeing soon!

Name

Lara O’Donnell

Post-doctoral Fellow

Born

St. Julians, Malta

Raised

Stoney Creek, Ontario

Education

BSc. McMaster University
Ph.D. McGill University

Scientific Interest

Fanconi anaemia, Cell cycle, Cytoskeleton, DNA damage and repair.

Tidbit

I love playing with my cat, running, eating and drinking Blanche de Chambly.....but not all at the same time!

Name

Abdallah Al-Hakim

Post-doctoral Fellow

Born and raised

Cairo, Egypt and Hamilton, Ontario

Education

PhD Biochemistry, University of Dundee, Scotalnd, UK (2007)
M.Sc. Pharmacology, University of Toronto (2003)
B.Sc. Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Toronto (2000)

Scientific Interest

Role of ubiquitination in the detection and response to DNA damage.

Tidbit

Mountain biking, hiking, eating out in different restaurants, sample different cheeses, enjoy single malt scotch whisky

Name

Yosuke Ichjima

Post-doctoral Fellow

Born and raised

Tokyo, Japan

Education

Ph.D. Tokyo Medical and Dental University

Scientific Interest

DNA damage response and tumorigenesis.

Tidbit

I love dogs and sports (both watching and playing)!

Name

Nadine Katherina Kolas, Ph.D.

Post-doctoral fellow

Born and raised

Schomberg, Ontario

Education

B.Sc. York University
Ph.D. Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Scientific Interest

The role of DNA double-strand breaks in mammalian fertility.

Outside Interests / Tidbit

Tennis; I had my own pony while I was growing up.

Name

Megan Mendez

Research Associate

Born and raised

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Education

M.Sc (University of Calgary)

Scientific Interest

High throughput RNAi in mammalian cells.

Outside interests / Tidbit

Walking my dog and anything outdoors!

Name

Meagan Munro

Research Technician

Born and raised

Peterborough

Education

B.Sc. (Trent University)

Scientific Interest

How cells become cancerous.

Outside interests / Tidbit

Concerts, reading, my cat Oreo

Name

Hossein Akbari-Salkdeh

Undergraduate

Born

Tehran, Iran

Raised

Toronto, Canada

Education

B. Sc. University of Toronto (2nd year)

Scientific Interest

Mutagenesis

Other interests

Watching soccer fans go wild! PS. Badminton owns

Name

Stephanie (Steffi) Panier

Graduate student

Born and raised

Erfurt, Germany

Education

Diploma in Heidelberg, Germany

Scientific Interest

ubiquitin-dependent DNA damage signaling.

Outside interests

Books, books, books. And food.

Name

Rachel Szilard, Ph.D.

Research Associate

Born and raised

London, Ontario

Education

B.Sc. McMaster University
Ph.D. University of Alberta
Postdoc Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto

Scientific Interest

Investigating factors that regulate stability of the yeast genome.

Outside Interests

I spend my spare time playing soccer and learning American Sign Language.

Name

Enrico Tenaglia

Graduate Student

Born

Imperia, Italy

Raised

Diano Marina

Education

University of Torino (BSc. - MSc.)

Scientific Interest

the inner secrets of the cell nucleus (at least now)

Other interests

music, concerts, movies, traveling!

Name

ManTek Yeung

Graduate Student

Born and raised

Kamloops, British Columbia

Education

B.Sc. University of British Columbia
Ph.D. (in progress) University of Toronto

Scientific Interest

Genome stability and checkpoint recovery.

Tidbit

I tell dirty jokes after 6 o'clock.

Name

Wei Zhang

Graduate Student

Born and raised

China

Education

Beijing Normal University, China
M.Sc. York University
Ph.D. (in progress) University of Toronto

Scientific Interest

Telomeres and telomerase.

Outside interests

Basketball, swimming

Name

Sarah Galicia

Lab manager 2003-2008

Where she is now

Project Manager at UHN

Name

Shinichiro Nakada

Post-doctoral fellow 2006-2009

Where she is now

Assistant Professor Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

Name

Julia Li

Undergraduate student 2007-2009

Where she is now

Graduate student

Name

Devin Trudeau

Undergraduate student 2008-2009

Where she is now

Graduate student CalTech

Name

Marta Guerra-Rebollo

Visiting Ph.D. Student 2008

Where she is now

Back at work in Tim Thomson’s lab in sunny Barcelona!

Name

Scott Dixon

Short-term post-doc Fellow 2008

Where he is now

Doing a real post-doc in the lab of Brent Stockwell in NYC.

Name

Signe Olivarius

Visiting Student 2007

Where she is now

Back in Denmark doing her Ph.D.

Name

Mike Downey

Ph.D. Student 2003-2008

Where she is now

Doing a post-doc in Dave Toczyski’s lab at UCSF.

Name

Sherene Chin-Fatt

Undergraduate student 2007-2008

Where she is now

Sherene is pursuing her undergrad studies.

Name

Pamela Kanellis

Ph.D. Student 2001-2007

Where she is now

She is working as a consultant for SHI Consulting.

Name

Frédéric D. Sweeney

Ph.D. Student 2003-2008

Where he is now

Analyst at VenGrowth.

Name

Jarkko Ylanko

M.Sc. student 2004-2008

Where he is now

Working at McMaster University.

Name

Mark Gagliardi, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow (2003-2007)

Where he is now

Works as a Research Associate in the lab of Gordon Keller.

Name

Lisa D'Ambrosio

4th Year Project student (2006-2007)

Where she is now

Graduate student in the lab of Anne-Claude Gingras.

Name

Jennifer Yen

4th Year Project student (2006-2007)

Where she is now

Jenn is joining Tony Hyman’s lab at the MPI-CBG in Dresden as a research assistant to gain valuable experience before her graduate studies.

Name

Benjamin Cheng, Ph.D.

Research Associate (2005-2006)

Where he is now

Being a stay-at-home dad to little Jacob.

Name

Robert Rose

Undergraduate Student (2006)

Where he is now

Applying for graduate schools.

Name

Rob Woolstencroft

Ph.D. Student (2001-2006)

Where he is now

Scientific Director, Virology at Schering-Plough Canada.

Name

Rob Gryfe

Post-doctoral Fellow (2002-2005)

Where he is now

Rob is a physician-scientist and has his own group at the SLRI

Name

Eris Duro

Summer Student (2005)

Where he is now

Ph.D. Student in John Rouse’s laboratory in Dundee, UK.

Name

Martin Burkhalter

Visiting Post-doctoral Fellow (2005)

Where he is now

Doing a “real” post-doc in Dale Ramsden’s lab at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

Name

Adrienne Rollie

Summer Student (2003 and 2004)

Where she is now

Graduate Student in Brent Derry’s lab at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto.

Name

Ethan Kaufman

Summer Student (2003 and 2004)

Where he is now

Ph.D. student in the lab of Eric Miska at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Name

Anne Koch

Post-doctoral Fellow (2002-2004)

Where she is now

Anne now heads her own group at the Ontario Cancer Institute in Toronto.

Name

Larissa Liontos

Summer Student (2002)

Where she is now

Lariss is now a MD/Ph.D. student doing her Ph.D. in Jane McGlade’s laboratory at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto.