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Current Members

Post-Doctoral Fellow

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

Honours Student (HBSc)

Siyona Kassel

Joined 2023

Honours Student (HBSc)

Ved Shah

Joined 2023

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

2017 – 2022 Yidai Yang
2011 – 2016 | Elisa Bergamin
2009 – 2012 | Alain Doucet
2017 – 2021 | Nidhi Chaudhry

Graduate Students

2020 – 2021 | Abigail Poma Aning
2020 – 2022 | Gapisha Karanukaran, Kimmy Yang (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

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

Summer Students

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

* NSERC Undergraduate Research Scholarship Students.

Rotation Students

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

Photos

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2022 September

Ottawa, ON | Having dinner at Lonestar Texas Grill and saying goodbye to Yidai after 5 years of being in the lab.

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2022 May

Montebello, QC | Lunch after the BMI Symposium before heading back to Ottawa

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2022 April

Ottawa, ON | Celebrating a bunch of publications at The Keg Steakhouse

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2021 October

The evil professor plots his next frankenstien chromatin complex during Halloween

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2021 October

Halloween time at the Couture lab

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2021 October

Ms. Smartie Pants, investigator of methyltransferase.

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2021 October

The Plague Doctor at work during a COVID Halloween. Winner of best costume.

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2018 May

The lab at the BMI Symposium held at Fairmont Le Chateau Montebello

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2019 September

Montreal, QC | Hossein dreaming about a Science paper as he stands next to the Titan Krios electron microscope at FEMR McGill

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BMI Symposium
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Montebello

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The Lab | Halloween time

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May 2015

Montebello, QC | BMI Symposium at the Fairmont Le Chateau Montebello

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2019 October

Halloween in the BMI Department