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.
DR. RAJIV TRIPATHI
Postdoctoral Researcher
Rajiv is leading our new single cell gene regulatory network discovery project
Post-Doctoral Researcher (2015 - 2020): McGill University, Canada
Ph.D. Biotechnology (2008 - 2015): CSIR-NBRI and Kumaun University, India
M.Sc. Biochemistry (2006 - 2008): Bundelkhand University, India
B.Sc. Botany, Chemistry, Zoology (2002 - 2005): DDU University, Gorakhpur, India
ARLO REICHERT
Undergraduate Researcher working on the Automated Field Phenomics Project (co-supervised by W. Deconinck and C. Erkinbaev)
Arlo is a Biosystems Engineering student at the University of Manitoba. His summer research is supported in part by funds from ECO Canada.
AARON SHALEV
Undergraduate Researcher working on the Automated Field Phenomics Project (co-supervised by W. Deconinck and C. Erkinbaev)
Aaron is a Physics student at the University of Manitoba. Aaron's summer research term is supported by an NSERC USRA.
AARON NÉDÉLEC
Undergraduate Researcher working on the Automated Field Phenomics Project (co-supervised by W. Deconick and C. Erkinbaev)
Aaron is Physics student at the University of Manitoba. Aaron's summer research term is funded by a Faculty of Science Undergraduate Research Award.
JENNIFER DOERING
Course Development Assistant
Jennifer is developing the tutorials for the new Intro to Computational Biology Course.
M.Sc. Biological Sciences (2014-2017): University of Manitoba (landscape genetics of semi-aquatic lichens)
B.Sc. (Honours) Biological Sciences (2011-2014): University of Manitoba
ALUMNAE
SEAN ROBERTSON
Co-op student (2020)
JOOHEE LEE
Co-op student (2020)
MINJEONG KANG
Research Assistant (2019-2020)
JÉROME GÉLINAS-BÉLANGER
NSERC and FRQNT MSc Student (2017-2019), NSERC USRA (2017)
RUITE CHEN
MSc Student (2017-2020)
OLIVIA HALEY
MSc Student (Co- 2016-2017)
JACK LAMONT
PhD candidate (2016-2017)
PHILLIP ROSENBAUM
NSERC USRA (2017, 2018)
VINCENT MCCARTY
Honours Project (2018-2019)
NSERC USRA (2018)
JONATHAN SANGIOVANNI
Intern (2018), Project Student (2019)
AZRIEL ABRAHAM LOPEZ JAUREGUI
MITACS Globalink Scholar, Tecnológico de Monterey (2018)
RAÚL ERNESTO FLORES GONZÁLEZ
MITACS Globalink Scholar, Tecnológico de Monterey (2018)
CESARÉE MORIER-GXOYIYA
Project Student (2018)
MD BULBUL AHMED
Postdoctoral Scientist (2017-2018)