Shipa Gupta, BMSc Honors (2009), Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario

Honor's Thesis Student/Research Assistant (May 2007-July 2010)

Shipa graduated in 2009 and won the Gold Medal from the Honor's Program in Microbiooogy and Immunology. She stayed on in the lab to finish her research until the summer of 2010 and has since started her MD degree at the University of Ottawa.

Nur-ur Rahman, B.Sc. Honours (2003) Immunology, University of Toronto

Ph.D. Candidate (Jan 2004-April 2010)

Nur recently graduate as the first PhD student from our lab and has moved on to a PDF at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine with Dr. Michael Betts. Nur published 8 papers from his PhD work, including two first authored papers in the Journal of Immunology and the Journal of Biological Chemistry establishing the molecular basis by how bacterial superantigens discriminate between TCRs. Keep up the good science Nur, and good luck.

Margot Smith, BMSc Honors Student (4th year), Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario

Honors Thesis Student (Sept 2009-April 2010)

Margot has moved to New Zealand to persue a career in industry. Keep in touch Margot.

Mathias Scinocca, BMSc Honors Student (4th year), Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario

Honors Thesis Student (Sept 2009-April 2010)

Mathias has moved upstairs to Dr. Ewa Cairns laboratory to study citruline-induced rhumatoid arthritis for his Graduate work.

Fraser Pollard, BMSc Honors (2008), Microbiology and Immunology University of Western Ontario

Honor's Student, Research Assistant (Sep 2008-July 2009)

Mr. Pollard (a.k.a. The Cougar) has left us to pursue Medicine at Queen's University. Make us proud Fraser and keep away from that 'special' club down the street!

Mohammad Hussain, Undergraduate Student, Microbiology and Immunology University of Western Ontario

NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Assistant (May 2009-Aug 2009)

Mohammad has now started Medical School at McMaster University. Good luck Mohammad.

Christopher Yao, Undergraduate Student, Microbiology and Immunology University of Western Ontario

Research Assistant (Jan 2008-Dec 2009)

Christopher has now started Medical School at the University of Toronto. Keep in touch Chris.

Michael Peirce, B.Sc Honours (2007) Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario

Research Assistant (May 2007-August 2008)

After his epic battle with recombinant T cells, Mike started Medical School at UWO. Mike still graces us with his presence from time to time....

Chris Gilchrist, B.Sc Honors (2008), Microbiology and Immunology University of Western Ontario

Honor's Student (Sep 2007-April 2008)

No surprise, Chris has begun Medical School at the University of Toronto. Good luck Chris.

Peter Bastedo, B.Sc. Honors (2007) Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario

Research Assistant and Honors Student (Jan 2005-April 2007)

Adil Shamji, B.Sc. Honors (2007) Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario

Honors Student (Sep 2006-April 2007)

Adil was recently accepted into the M.D. program at the University of Toronto! Good luck Adil.

Nada Tabbara, B.Sc. Honors (2007) Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario

Honors Student (Sep 2006-April 2007)

Nada has been accepted into the joint MSc/DDS program at UWO. Keep smiling Nada.

Jonathan Herbert, B.Sc. Honors (2003) Genetics, M.Sc. (2007) Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario

Johnny defended in February 2007 and continued his studies at the Imperial Collage London.

Stephanie Shames, BSc Honors (2006), Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario

Stephanie spent two summers and her Honor's thesis with us. She is a coauthor on a recent paper in the Journal of Immunology. Stephanie is now a Ph.D. student at the University of British Columbia with Dr. Brett Finlay.

Aaron Wyatt, BSc Honors (2006), Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario

Aaron completed his Honor's thesis and spent the following summer with us. He received the top mark in the demanding Honor's Thesis Course and his work has now been published to two high-profile journals (Günther et al., 2007. J. Mol Biol; Rahman et al., 2010. J. Biol. Chem).

He left for UBC after graduation where he was completing his PhD with Dr. Bob Hancock but tragically, Aaron passed away on Dec 24th, 2008 in a car accident along Highway 401 during a snow storm. For those of you who knew Aaron, a memorial scholarship has been set up at UBC and contributions can be made to the Aaron William James Wyatt Scholarship Fund care of University of British Columbia (UBC Annual Giving, 500 - 5950 University Boulevard, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3).

Catherine Kerr, B.Sc. Honors (2003) Biological Sciences, Brock University; M.Sc. (2006) Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario

Catherine defended in June 2006 and the title of her thesis was "Development of a Novel RIVET System to Identify in vivo Induced Promoters of Gram-Positive Bacteria". She currently works for Dr. Tak Mak at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto.

Jennifer Dixon, B.Sc. Honors (2002) Biochemistry, University of Guelph; M.Sc. (2006) Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario

Jennifer defended in May 2006 and the title of her thesis was "Deveopment of an scFv antibody targeted superantigen". Her work will hopefully develop into a real superantigen based therapeutic. Jennifer now works for Smith-Kline-Beecham in Peterborough. Keep in touch Jen.

Sergio Cuozzo, B.S. (1994) Clinical Biochemistry, National University of Tucuman, Argentina; Ph.D. (2002) Biochemistry, National University of Tucuman, Argentina; Postdoctoral Fellow (2004) Food Engineering, Nantes, France

Sergio finished his postdoc with us (Feb 2005-Jan 2006) and returned to The National Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET) in Argentina. Good luck Sergio!

Nick Brouillard, B.Sc. Honors (2005), Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario

Nick started in 2003 as a summer student, spent the summer in 2004, conducted his Honour's project here (2004-2005), receiving the highest mark in the course and which was published (Brouillard et al. 2007. J. Mol. Biol). Nick now resides in Calgary working for industry.

Jennifer Laughton, B.Sc. Honors (2003), M.Sc. (2005) Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario

Jenny graduated in September of 2005 (co-supervised by D. Heinrichs) and the title of her thesis was "Characterization of cell-cell communication between Lactobacillus reuteri RC-14 and Staphylococcus aureus". She was supported by a graduate award from OGSST and her work was published in the journal Microbiology. Jennifer is currently an M.D. student at the University of Toronto. You must be almost done Jenny....?

Irene Gryski, B.Sc. Honors (2005), Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario

Irene conducted her 4th year Honour's thesis with our group and studied T cell receptor interactions with a novel streptococcal superantigen. She continued with us for the summer and now works as a Clinical Research Coordinator Assisstant for Allied Research International.