Graduate Students

Sanaz Hemmatibardehshahi
Program: MSc
Supervisor: Dr. Jason Acker

Wenhui Li
Program: PhD
Supervisor: Dr. Jason Acker

Mahsa Yazdanbakhsh
Program: PhD
Supervisor: Dr. Jason Acker

Alexa Thompson
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

Taryn Stokowski
Program: MSc
Supervisor: Dr. Linda Chui
Research area: Refining culture-independent diagnostics to better define "real" cases of bacterial gastroenteritis

Delaram Dara
Program: MSc
Supervisor: Dr. Andrei Drabovich, Dr. X Chris Le

Yasmine Rais
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

Wei (Claire) Feng
Program: PhD
Supervisor: Dr. X Chris Le
Research area: CRISPR-based diagnostics

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

Serena Li
Program: MSc
Supervisor: Dr. Elaine Leslie

Janet Zhou
Program: PhD
Supervisor: Dr. Elaine Leslie
Research area: The influence of selenium on arsenic hepatobiliary transport and polymorphisms of Multidrug Resistance Proteins 1 and 2

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

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

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

Thomas Corsiatto
Program: MSc
Supervisor: Dr. Gregorgy Tyrrell
Research area: Effects and interactions of surface proteins in regulating group B streptococcal virulence