Graduate Students


Acker Lab

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Sanaz Hemmatibardehshahi  shemmati@ualberta.ca 
Program: MSc
Supervisor: Dr. Jason Acker
Research area: Assessing donor-related factors associated with different distribution of red blood cell subpopulations in RCCs

Wenhui Li  wli6@ualberta.ca 
Program: PhD
Supervisor: Dr. Jason Acker

Rafay Osmani  osmani@ualberta.ca
Program: MSc
Supervisor: Dr. Jason Acker

Nishaka William  nishaka@ualberta.ca
Program: PhD
Supervisor: Dr. Jason Acker

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Mahsa Yazdanbakhsh  
myazdanb@ualberta.ca 
Program: PhD
Supervisor: Dr. Jason Acker
Research area: Evaluating the Role of Donor characteristics And blood Component manufacturing On the Quality of Red cell concentrates

Charlton Lab

Joelle Kasongo

Joëlle Kasongo   jkasongo@ualberta.ca
Program: MSc
Supervisors: Dr. Carmen Charlton, Dr. Gregory Tyrrell
Research area: Improving Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) diagnostics and linkage to treatment for patients in the province of Alberta
Tamara Semeria Maitret  semeriam@ualberta.ca 
Program: MSc
Supervisors: Dr. Carmen Charlton, Dr. Gregory Tyrrell

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Alexa Thompson  lathomps@ualberta.ca 
Program: PhD
Supervisors: Dr. Carmen Charlton, Dr. Gregory Tyrrell
Research area: Improving the diagnosis and linkage to care for pregnant and marginalized patients infected with Hepatitis C virus (HCV) in Alberta

Taylor Walsh  tmwalsh@ualberta.ca
Program: MSc
Supervisors: Dr. Carmen Charlton, Dr. Gregory Tyrrell

Chui Lab
Drabovich Lab

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Yasmine Rais  rais@ualberta.ca 
Program: PhD
Supervisor: Dr. Andrei Drabovich, Dr. X Chris Le
Research area: The discovery and identification of a new biomarker for diagnosis of prostate cancer

Elliott Lab
Julia Grenke  jgrenke@ualberta.ca
Program: MSc
Supervisor: Dr. Janet A.W. Elliott
MingHan (Harry) Yu  minghan3@ualberta.ca
Program: PhD
Supervisor: Dr. Janet A.W. Elliott
Lai Lab
Chuquan (Cecilia) Shang  chuquan@ualberta.ca 
Program: PhD
Supervisor: Dr. Raymond Lai
Yi-Ling (Claire) Yang  yiling18@ualberta.ca
Program: PhD
Supervisor: Dr. Raymond Lai
Le Lab

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Jeffrey Tao  jjtao@ualberta.ca 
Program: PhD
Supervisors: Dr. X Chris Le, Dr. Hongquan Zhang
Research area: Development of DNA-based Bioanalytical Tools

Leng Lab


Leslie Lab

Serena Li  serena4@ualberta.ca 
Program: MSc
Supervisor: Dr. Elaine Leslie

Li Lab

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Kristin Carroll  kcarroll@ualberta.ca 
Program: MSc
Supervisor: Dr. Xing-Fang Li
Research area: Development of Analytical Techniques for Identification of Disinfection Byproducts and their Precursors 

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Teresa Kumblathan  tkumblat@ualberta.ca  
Program: MSc
Supervisor: Dr. Xing-Fang Li
Research area: Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in biological and environmental samples

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Nicholas Wawryk  wawryk@ualberta.ca 
Program: PhD
Supervisor: Dr. Xing-Fang Li
Research area: Development of Analytical Methods for Identification and Quantitation of Novel Disinfection Byproducts

Tyrrell Lab

Megan Diep  mwdiep@ualberta.ca 
Program: MSc
Supervisor: Dr. Gregory Tyrrell

Zhang Lab
Huidong Wang  huidong3@ualberta.ca
Program: MSc
Supervisor: Dr. Hongquan Zhang
Huyan Xiao  huyan@ualberta.ca 
Program: PhD
Supervisor: Dr. Hongquan Zhang, Dr. X Chris Le
Jing Yang (Peter) Xu  jx9@ualberta.ca 
Program: PhD
Supervisors: Dr. Hongquan Zhang, Dr. X Chris Le
Pathologists' Assistant Program (MSc)
Gabrielle Mendler  gmendler@ualberta.ca 
Vanessa Valsan  valsan@ualberta.ca