Cristina Marolda, Biochemist (University of Buenos Aires), Research Associate; cmarolda@uwo.ca

She gives all of us a hard time to keep the lab organized, and in the meantime works on the mechanisms of LPS O antigen assembly.

María Soledad Saldías Morales, Biochemist, Ph.D. (University of Chile), Postdoctoral Fellow; msaldia@uwo.ca

Armed with a wonderful smile even when the experiments do not work and a strong will to succeed Soledad represents a pure Chilean vintage that will surprise more than one with her studies on B. cepacia-macrophage interactions.

Daniel Aubert, Ph.D. (Université de Paris), Postdoctoral Fellow; daubert@uwo.ca

A quiet fellow, highly dependable, who has discovered a new secretory pathway involved in B. cenocepacia survival in macrophages and in the rat agar bead model of chronic lung infection. Did I say quiet? Wait for a party!

Xiang Ruan, Ph.D. (Tsinghua University, China), Postdoctoral Fellow; xruan3@uwo.ca

Tenacious at all cost, slower pace but but always stepping on solid ground, and ready to tackle the assembly of O antigen and its ligation to the lipid A-core oligosaccharide

Mohamad Hamad, Ph.D. (University of North Dakota, USA), Postdoctoral Fellow; mhamad3@uwo.ca

A bubbly fellow and an innate geneticist. His name is a palindrome with a combination of insertions and deletions. Perfect to unravel regulatory networks involved in B. cenocepacia resistance to antimicrobial peptides...and more...much more.

Roberto Rosales Reyes, Ph.D. (Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados, Mexico), Postdoctoral Fellow; rrosale@uwo.ca

A highly dependable, well-trained fellow with great thirst of knowledge and ability to succeed understanding the cell biology of the intracellular infection of B. cenocepacia in macrophages.

Slade Loutet, B. Sc. (University of British Columbia), Ph. D. Student; sloutet@uwo.ca

With commitment and a strong desire to excel, he is ready to show how B. cenocepacia resists the action of antimicrobial cationic peptides.

Kinnari Patel, B. Sc. (University of Waterloo), Ph.D. student; kpatel68@uwo.ca

Patiently and quietly trying to see how loops and pops ("loolypops") determine the function of WbaP in Salmonella

Jennifer Tolman, B. Sc. (Carleton University), Ph. D. student; jtolman3@uwo.ca

Quiet but ambitious, she optimized a method to detect B. cenocepacia genes expressed intracellularly in macrophages...It works and now the fun begins!

Sarah Furlong, B. Sc. (University of Western Ontario), M.Sc. student; sfurlon@uwo.ca

She has discovered the wonders of LPS synthesis. Not afraid to tackle a tough one.

Alex Skeldon, B. Sc. (University of Toronto), M.Sc. student; askeldon@uwo.ca

A true self learner excited with long and thin projections in macrophages after phagocytosis of B. cenocepacia

Chelsea Clarke, B.Sc. (University of Guelph), M.Sc. student

Full of enthusiasm and with an european experience, she is ready to tackle microbial glycobiology using B. cenocepacia as a model system

Amanda Roa Rosales, Biochemist (University of Santiago de Chile), Researcher, Ph.D. Candidate; aroarosa@uwo.ca

A Chilean import with incredible talent for experimental research and thirst for scientific adventure while learning about protein glycosylation in B. cenocepacia.

Sherry X. Hu, Summer Student (University of Western Ontario)

Extremely enthusiastic and very dependable, Sherry will investigate the function of some of the Type 6 secretion genes of B. cenocepacia. She is supported by an Award from the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.