LAB MEMBERS
DR. OLIVIA WILKINS
Principle Investigator
Dr. Olivia Wilkins leads the Plant Systems Biology research group at the University of Manitoba. She received her PhD from the University of Toronto in 2010. From 2011 to 2015, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Genomics and Systems Biology at New York University. In 2015, she was a Visiting Scientist at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. In 2013, she was awarded a Basic Research to Enable Agricultural Development Award from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In 2016, she joined the Faculty at McGill University, and in 2019 she joined the Faculty at the University of Manitoba. She serves on the editorial boards of multiple scientific journals and is an active participant in the Graduate Women in Science Fellowship Committee.
MINJEONG KANG
Undergraduate Researcher
BSc Student Plant Biotechnology
RUITE CHEN
Graduate Researcher (McGill)
MSc Student (2017-present)
Visiting Scholar (summer 2016)
ALUMNAE
JÉROME GÉLINAS-BÉLANGER
NSERC and FRQNT MSc Student (2017-2019), NSERC USRA (2017)
Current position: NSERC PhD student at IRBV, Université de Montréal
VINCENT MCCARTY
Honours Project (2018-2019)
NSERC USRA (2018)
Current Position: FRQNT MSc Student, Human Genetics, McGill University
PHILLIP ROSENBAUM
NSERC USRA (2017, 2018)
Current position: NSERC MSc Student, Human Genetics, McGill University
JONATHAN SANGIOVANNI
Intern (2018), Project Student (2019)
Current position: Senior Undergraduate, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Science, McGill University
AZRIEL ABRAHAM LOPEZ JAUREGUI
MITACS Globalink Scholar, Tecnológico de Monterey (2018)
Current position: MSc Student Anatomy and Cell Biology, McGill University
RAÚL ERNESTO FLORES GONZÁLEZ
MITACS Globalink Scholar, Tecnológico de Monterey (2018)
Current position: MSc Student, Experimental Medicine, McGill University
CESARÉE MORIER-GXOYIYA
Project Student
Project Student (2018)
MD BULBUL AHMED
Postdoctoral Scientist (2017-2018)
Current Position:
FRQNT Postdoctoral Fellow, IRBV, Université de Montreal
OLIVIA HALEY
MSc Student (2016-2017)
Current Position:
Laboratory Director, IEH Laboratories and Consulting Group
JACK LAMONT
PhD candidate (2016-2017)
Co-supervised with D. Smith
Current Position:
Lead Cultivator at Aurora Cannabis
KRISTEN LEE
Undergraduate Researcher
NSERC USRA (2016)
Current Position:
MSc Student, Institute of Parasitology, McGill University
