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Dr. Geoffrey Wasteneys, Principal Investigator
Contact: geoffrey.wasteneys@ubc.ca
Meng Li, PhD Candidate
Aida Rakei, PhD Candidate
Contact: aida.rakei@botany.ubc.ca
Jayamini Jayawardhane, PhD Candidate
Sean Ritter, PhD Candidate
Contact: laryssahalat@gmail.com
Wasteneys Lab Alumni:
Tommy (Chak Chung) Kuo, Honours 2021
Laryssa Halat, PhD 2021
Joyce Li Work Learn student
Cameron Houchmand
Honours and Work Learn student
Rostislav Blume
Mitacs Summer student from Taras Shechenko National University of Kyiv)
Melanie Law
NSERC USRA student
Jenna Rever
Work-learn and Directed Studies student (currently a Research Technician in Jim Haseloff's Lab at the University of Cambridge)
Katie Gyte
Work-Learn student (currently a co-op student at UBC)
Dr. Miki Fujita
PhD student and Research Associate (currently manager of the UBC Bioimaging Facility)
Karlson Pang
MSc student (currently taking Computer Science at UBC)
Josh Ma
NSERC USRA student
Phyllis Lesnikov
Science fair project and volunteer (currently an undergraduate student at UBC)
Jorge Holguin
Work-Learn student
Marcus Woodley
Summer research student funded by a SURE award
Dr. Till Matzat
Post-doctoral fellow (currently a researcher at Biocan Technologies Inc.)
Ron Blutrich
NSERC USRA student (currently a PhD student at the University of Toronto)
Shamin Shoker
Work-Learn student
Dr. Caitlin Donnelly
PhD student (currently an Instructor at UBC)
Dr. Katherine (Kasia) Celler
Postdoctoral fellow
Dr. Sylwia Jankowski
Postdoctoral fellow (currently a Research Scientist at Zymeworks)
Adam Mulvihill
MSc student
Dr. Ryan Eng
PhD student (currently at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology)
Dr. Yuan Ruan
PhD student (currently a Post Doc at Caltech in the Meyerowitz lab)
Samuel Livingston
Undergraduate Researcher (currently a PhD student in Lacey Samuels' Lab at UBC)
Junsu Kwon
Undergraduate/Work-learn Student
Salar Fazeli
Undergraduate/Directed Studies Student
Kensen Gao
Undergraduate/Volunteer student
James Wang
Undergraduate Researcher
Dr. Chris Ambrose
Postdoctoral fellow (currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Saskatchewan)
Dr. Eric Johnson
PhD student (currently an Assistant Prof at Virginia Wesleyan College)
Krysta Wark
Honours Undergraduate Student
Amanda Catching
Research Assistant
Laura Tamblyn
Honours Undergraduate Student (currently in UBC Medical School)
Dr. Paulus Den Hollander
Visiting Scholar from Wageningen University
Yi Zhang
Masters student (currently a Research Associate at UC San Diego, Mark Estelle Lab)
Dr. Bettina Lechner
Postdoctoral fellow (currently a research scientist at Roche)
Dr. Hannie van der Honing
Visiting Scholar from Wageningen University
Dr. Eiko Kawamura
PhD student (currently a technician at the WCVM imaging centre at the University of Saskatoon)
Dr. Ankit Walia
PhD student (currently a Research Associate in the Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge)
Dr. Amanda Kotzer
Postdoctoral fellow (currently at The Terry Fox Laboratory)
Dr. Tsubasa Shoji
Visiting scholar
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