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Current Members

Research Associate

Hossein Davarinejad

Joined 2018

hossein.davarinejad@uottawa.ca

MSc | Molecular Biology - York University
BSc - Specialized Honours | Biology - York University

I currently work with histone methyltransferase ATXR6 with interest in solving structures of this enzyme in complex with its interacting proteins using X-ray crystallography and cryo-EM. During my MSc, I worked in the field of ubiquitin biology (supervisors: Dr. Vivian Saridakis and Dr. Yi Sheng) and worked on circadian clock mechanism during my BSc honours studies (supervisor: Dr. Patricia Lakin-Thomas).

PhD Candidate

Ashley Janna

Joined 2019

BSc - Honours | Translational & Molecular Medicine - University of Ottawa
PhD Candidate

Sabrina Grégoire

Joined 2022

PhD Student

Kainat Zahra

Joined 2025

MSc Student

Rosalie Picard

Joined 2026

MSc Student (CIHR)

Sara Chow

Joined 2024

Honours Thesis Student

Ghazal Farahmand

Joined 2026

Past Members

Associates

2016 – 2023 | Monika Joshi (Research Associate)
2018 – 2022 | Sabina Sarvan (Research Associate)
2012 – 2014 | Myriam Cramet (Lab Technician)
2007 – 2007 | Nadine Therrien (Lab Technician)

Post-Doctoral Fellows

2024 – 2026 | Hossein Davarinejad^ (Co-Supervised)
2017 – 2022 | Yidai Yang
2011 – 2016 | Elisa Bergamin
2009 – 2012 | Alain Doucet
2017 – 2021 | Nidhi Chaudhry

Graduate Students

2018 – 2023 | Hossein Davarinejad
2020 – 2022 | Gapisha Karanukaran
2020 – 2022 | Kimmy Yang (MSc)
2020 – 2021 | Abigail Poma Aning (MSc)
2014 – 2017 | John Faissal Haddad (MSc)
2012 – 2014 | Vanessa Mongeon (MSc)
2010 – 2015 | Pamela Zhang (PhD)
2010 – 2017 | Sabina Sarvan (PhD)
2009 – 2015 | Sylvain Lanouette (PhD)
2009 – 2011 | Vanja Avdic (MSc)

Honours Thesis Students

2025 – 2026 | Sydney Lunde-Ingrey, Sara Chow
2023 – 2024 | Siyona Kassel
2023 – 2024 | Ved Shah
2022 – 2023 | Ibrahim Alayche
2022 – 2023 | Sabrina Capitani
2021 – 2022 | Alexis Arvanitis-Vigneault
2020 – 2021 | Gapisha Karunakaran, Kimmy Yang
2019 – 2020 | Tamjeed Elahee
2019 | Jade Martin
2018 – 2019 | Narimane Ait-Hamou
2017 – 2018 | Evan Christopher Nanni,  Sue Hyun Xhou
2016 – 2017 | Sylvain SH Yeung, Tyler White
2015 – 2016 | Allison Huynh
2014 – 2015 | Francois Charih, Josée Malette
2013 – 2014 | Ali Dergham, William Lam
2012 – 2013 | Rosy Fournier
2011 – 2012 | Hwabin Lee, Vanessa Mongeon
2010 – 2011 | Jeffery Butson
2009 – 2010 | John-Paul Muggeridge, Pamela Zhang, Ehsan Hakimi
2008 – 2009 | Sabina Sarvan
2007 – 2008 | Vanja Avdic

 

 

* : NSERC Undergraduate Research Scholarship Students.
^ : NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellowship
# : CIHR Canada Graduate Research Scholarship

Summer Students

2025 | Sydney Lunde-Ingrey
2024 | Sara Chow
2019 | Tamjeed Elahee
2018 | Sandrine Pageau*
2017 | Evan Christopher Nanni, Sandrine Pageau*, Jenny Xhou
2016 | Sylvain SH Yeung, Pamela Bejjani
2015 | Allison Huynh, Akel Sereen Hatem
2014 | Karim Charih
2013 | William Lam, Alexander Sanghwam
2012 | Rosy Fournier, Amanda Huynh
2011 | Simon Laplante, Amanda Huynh*, Hwabin Lee, Jeffery Butson
2010 | Adam Groulx, Yan Mo Yang
2009 | Pamela Zhang, Laura Gauthier
2008 | Sabina Sarvan
2007 | Vanja Avdic

Rotation Students

2026 | Rosalie Picard
2023 | Siyona Kassel, Ved Shah
2022 | Ibrahim Alayche, Muhammad Shah, Janelle Grégoire, Sabrina Grégoire
2019 | Therese Chan, Kadheeja Tariq, Dylan Singh, Mikael Ladouceur
2018 | Natasha Jeraj, Narimane Ait-Hamou
2017 | Ryan Sandarage

Volunteer Students

2008 | Philippe Riberdi

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