Faculty
| Luc Berthiaume | Role of protein fatty acylation in metabolic regulation, apoptosis and cancer |
| Gary Eitzen |
Project I. Rac signal transduction and control of inflammatory cells exocytosis |
| Sandeep Gupta |
Human stem cell modeling of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders |
| Project I. RNA virus host interactions Project II. Regulation of RNA interference pathways and breast cancer |
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Our group is focused on understanding how and why people develop diabetes, by investigating mechanisms leading to loss of insulin release from the pancreatic β cell. In particular, we study the microenvironment or “neighbourhood” in which the β cells live and how changes in this microenvironment contribute to diabetes development. |
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| Paul LaPointe | Molecular mechanism of action of the Hsp90 chaperone |
| Richard Rachubinski | Molecular Mechanisms of Peroxisome Biogenesis |
| Thomas Simmen | Function of Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER)-Mitochondria Contact Sites in Cancer and Neuroinflammation |
| Andrew Simmonds |
I. Regulation and trafficking of mRNA molecules; II. The role of VGLL proteins in cell differentiation; III. Tissue-specific requirements/regulation of peroxisomes |
| Qiumin Tan | Brain Development and Neurodevelopmental Disorders |
| Deniz Top | Molecular mechanisms that regulate changes in behaviour; behavioural disorders |
| Richard Wozniak | Molecular dynamics of transport through the nuclear pore complex |
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Academic Teaching Staff |
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| Rineke Steenbergen | Classroom innovation: improving learning outcomes in the Cell Biology Undergraduate Program Research interest: Development of organoids for the study of progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC) and intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) |
Adjunct |
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| John Aitchison | Systems Cell Biology |
| Brittany Carr | Cell and molecular biology of inherited and age-related retinal disease. |
| Troy Harkness | Our research interests are focused on using the brewing yeast as a model to characterize molecular and genetic mechanisms that regulate longevity. |
| Michael Hendzel | Structure, Dynamics, and Function in the Cell Nucleus |
| Jennifer Hocking | The development and maintenance of photoreceptor morphology |
| Sarah Hughes | Regulation and dysregulation of polarity, proliferation and differentiation in epithelial and neural stem cells |
| Maria Ioannou | Regulation of lipid homeostasis in the brain in health and disease |
| Richard Lehner | Regulation of cellular triacylglycerol and cholesterol metabolism |
| Ben Montpetit | Investigating mRNA export and its role in the eukaryotic gene expression program |
| Anastassia Voronova | Understanding pathways that control neural stem cell function and developing therapeutics aimed at engaging neural stem cells for brain regeneration |
Emeriti |
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| Robert Campenot | |
| Teresa Krukoff | |
| Paul Melançon | |
| Richard Smith |