Current Lab members:

Graduate Students:

Kauna Usman – PhD Student (2020- present)

Thesis Title: Investigation of the role of miR-146a in the regulation of fibrosis in chronic obstruction pulmonary disease

Undergraduate Students:

Keith Wu – 4th yr Co-op student (2021-present)

Supporting Staff:

May Fouadi– Lab Technician/Manager (2016-present)

Darren Sutherland– Lung Registry Manager (2016-present)

Yolanda Yang– Statistician (2017-present)

 

Former Lab members:

 

 

Emmanuel  Osei, PhD, Post doctoral fellow

Thesis Title: The role of epithelial-fibroblast communication in asthma and COPD

 

 

 

Steve Booth, PhD, Post doctoral fellow

Thesis Title: Investigating the Nature of Small Airways Disease and Emphysema in Mild & Moderate Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

 

 

 

Leila Mostaco-Guidolin, PhD, Post doctoral fellow

 

 

 

 

Aileen Hsieh, Summer student

 

 

 

 

Mary Wang, BSc, Summer student

 

 

 

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Naomi, BSc, BSc, Exchange student

                                 

 

 

Hyun-Kyoung Koo, MSc

Thesis Title: MICRO-CT ANALYSIS OF PARAFFIN EMBEDDED LUNG TISSUE:

IS SMALL AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION AN EARLY FEATURE OF COPD?

 

 

 

 

Gouhai Zhou – PhD, Statistician

 

 


 

Nick Fishbane – Statistician

 

 

 

 

Dorota Stefanowicz, PhD

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sijranke Post, PhD

 

 

 

 

 

Stephanie Mary Beth Warner, PhD

 

 

 

 

Robin Elderman, MD, MSc

 

 

 

 

Tracee Wee, MSc

Thesis Title: Aberrant Transforming Growth Factor β1-Angiotensin II Crosstalk in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Parenchymal Fibroblasts

 

 

 

Soheil Hajimohammadi, M.Eng Co-op student

 

 

 

 

 

Jari Ullah, Co-op student

Thesis Title: Functions of Lung Parenchymal Versus Bronchial Derived Fibroblasts in Collagen Matrix Remodelling and Contraction

 

 

 

Jayoung-Janet Lee, 

Thesis Title: Epigenetic regulation of lung epithelium in asthma

 

 

 

Wei-Xian Li , 4th year honors student

Thesis Title: Ultrastructure analysis of subepithelial collagen rearrangement in asthma

 

 

 

Kevin Lee,4th year honors student

Thesis Title: Influence of inflammatory cytokines and asthma medication so TGFb1-induced airway and alveolar epithelial plasticity

 

 

 

Ekiomoado Olumese, Summer student

Thesis Title: Histone acetylation and phosphrylation in the airway epithelium in asthma

 

 

 

Anthony Spearman, Summer student

Thesis Title: The Effect of Galactosialidosis on Collagen Remodelling and Emphysema Development

 

 

 

Christopher Johnson, Summer student

Thesis Title: The Effect of Galactosialidosis on Collagen Remodelling

 

 

 

David Ahumada

Thesis Title: Ultrastructure Analysis of Subepithelial Collagen Rearrangement in Asthma

 

 

 

Furquan Shaheen – Lab technician/manager