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 The Sinclair Lab as 'Mendel and his peas', Winners of the Biology Department Halloween costume contest 2008. (L-R): Heath MacMillan (MSc), Lauren Strachan (MSc), Erfan Vafaie (Honours, back), Katie Marshall (MSc, front), Dr. Brent Sinclair, Dr Stephi Sobek (postdoc), Jill Crosthwaite (MSc), Caroline Williams (PhD), Diana Balmer (Honours). Roll of Honour Chris Lee (2007) - UWO Gold Medal in Animal Physiology Lauren Strachan (2008) - CSZ Travel Award Lauren Strachan (2008) - ESO Travel Award Katie Marshall (2009) - SICB Division of Invertebrate Zoology Best student Poster Katie Marshall (2009) - SICB Adrian M. Wenner Strong Inference Award Heath MacMillan (2009) - Ontario Graduate Scholarship Caroline Williams (2009) - Faculty of Science Graduate student research grant. Caroline Williams (2010) - Robert and Ruth Lumsden Graduate fellowship. Heath MacMillan (2010) - NSERC PGS-D (upgraded to Canada Graduate Scholarship) Caroline Williams (2010) - Faculty of Science Graduate Student Teaching Award Caroline Williams (2010) - American Physiological Society Scholander Award Caroline Williams (2010) - APS Intersociety meeting best oral presentation Katie Marshall (2010) - APS Intersociety meeting student travel award Katie Marshall (2010) - Entomological Society of Ontario best oral presentation. Katie Marshall (2010) - QEIIGSST (a scholarship, even though it sounds like an antioxidant) Caroline Williams (2010) - Ruth Horner Arnold Graduate Fellowship Katie Marshall (2011) - NSERC PGS-D Caroline Williams (2011) - Epcor water CSZ travel award Caroline Williams (2011) - Ontario Graduate Scholarship Caroline Williams (2011) - FoS Graduate thesis research award Katie Marshall (2011) - FoS Graduate thesis research award Evelyn Boychuk (2011) - White Mountain Research Station research minigrant Joe Stinziano (2011) - Metro Inc. Scholarship Hiroko Udaka (2012) - JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship Sarah Lake (2012) - Best speaker, Health and Physiology, Ontario Biology Day Sarah Lake (2012) - Best presentation, Phys&Biochem, Biology Dept Honours day Katie Marshall (2012) - Ruth Horner Arnold Graduate Fellowship Hiroko Udaka (2012) - Honourable Mention, 3 minute research competition, Western Postdoctoral Forum Katie Marshall (2013) - SICB Bruce Sidell Award for best presentation in Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry Laura Ferguson (2013) - NSERC PGS-D Lauren Des Marteaux (2013) NSERC CGS-D Laura Ferguson (2013) - Ruth Horner Arnold Graduate Fellowship Katie Marshall (2013) - John W Arnold Fellowship in Zoology Heath MacMillan (2013) - J.D. Detwiler award for the most outstanding Biology PhD thesis Jackie Lebenzon (2014) Joint best presentation, Phys&Biochem, Biology Dept Honours day Laura Ferguson (2014) - Helen Battle award for best student poster, CSZ/CSL/CSEE joint meeting, Montreal Alexander McKinnon (2014) - Ontario Graduate Scholarship Lauren Des Marteaux (2014) - President's poster prize, Entomological Society of Ontario annual meeting Alexander McKinnon (2014) - runner-up, President's oral presentation prize, Entomological Society of Ontario Annual Meeting Laura Ferguson (2014) - Michael Locke Travel Scholarship Laura Ferguson (2015) - Best student presentation, SICB Division of Ecoimmunology and Disease Ecology, West Palm Beach, Florida Jantina Toxopeus (2015) - Orthopterists' society research grant Susan Anthony (2015) - Northern Scientific Training Programme grant Jantina Toxopeus (2015) - Ruth Horner Arnold Graduate Fellowship Laura Ferguson (2015) - Malcolm Ferguson Award Lauren Des Marteaux (2015) - President's Prize for best oral presentation (biocontrol), Entomological Society of Canada, Montreal, Quebec Jantina Toxopeus (2016) - NSERC Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement Susan Anthony (2016) - Northern Scientific Training Programme grant Susan Anthony (2016) - NSERC PGS-D (upgraded to CGS-D in 2018) Jackie Lebenzon (2016) - NSERC CGS-M Kurtis Turnbull (2016) - NSERC CGS-M Kurtis Turnbull (2016) - Holeton Prize for best Comparative Physiology & Biochemistry poster, CSZ, London Lauren Des Marteaux (2016) - Irene Uchida Fellowship in Life Sciences Jantina Toxopeus -(2016) - Malcolm Ferguson Award Jantina Toxopeus (2017) - Ontario Graduate Scholarship Jackie Lebenzon (2017) - Ontario Graduate Scholarship Jackie Lebenzon (2017) - Helen Battle Award for best student poster, CSZ, Winnipeg Susan Anthony (2017) - J.D. Detwiler award for graduate student research in Biology Kurtis Turnbull (2017) - NSERC
PGS-D
Jackie Lebenzon (2017) - NSERC
PGS-D
Kurtis Turnbull (2017) -
President's Prize for best student poster - Entomological Society
of Ontario, Guelph
Laura Ferguson (2017) - John W.
Arnold Fellowship in Zoology
Kurtis Turnbull (2018) - JEB travelling fellowship Laura Ferguson (2018) - T.W.M. Cameron Prize for best PhD thesis, Canadian Society of Zoologists Jantina Toxopeus (2018) - Robert
and Ruth Lumsden Graduate Fellowship
Jackie Lebenzon (2018) - Malcolm
Ferguson Award
Kurtis Turnbull (2018) - (Joint)
President's Prize for best student presentation, Entomological
Society of Ontario Annual Meeting.
Jackie Lebenzon (2019) - Best
student poster, SICB Division of Comparative Physiology and
Biochemistry, Tampa, FL.
Yanira Jiménez Padilla (2019) -
Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Jackie Lebenzon (2019) - J.D.
Detwiler award
Jackie Lebenzon (2019) - Best
presentation, BGRF
Jackie Lebenzon (2019) -
President's Prize for best oral presentation, Entomological
Society of Ontario
Kurtis Turnbull (2019) -
President's prize for best student poster, Entomological Society
of Ontario
Jantina Toxopeus (2019) - John W.
Arnold Fellowship in Zoology
Alyssa Stephens (2020) - NSERC
CGS-M
Kurtis Turnbull (2020) - Malcolm
Ferguson Award
Jackie Lebenzon (2020) - Ian Clarke
Graduate Scholarship
Jackie Lebenzon (2021) - Rene R.
Roth Memorial Award
Lamees Mohammad (2022) - NSERC
CGS-D
Jackie Lebenzon (2022) Detwiler
prize for best PhD thesis
Jackie Lebenzon (2023) T.W.M.
Cameron award for best PhD Thesis, Canadian Society of Zoologists
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 The Sinclair lab went to the
Entomological Society of Ontario meeting in Guelph, and narrowly
escaped the talons of the Guelph Gryphon. Back row (l-r): Betty
Paton (MSc), Kaitlyn Ludba (PhD), Stefane Saruhashi (PhD); Front
row (l-r) Menno Bok (visiting MSc), Brent Sinclair (gryphon
bait). Missing: Yanira Jiménez Padilla (PhD), Mika da Silva Lima
(PhD), Ayumi Lam (BSc Hons).
 The Sinclair lab picked
blueberries, and just didn't know where to look! July 2023. Back
row (l-r): Yanira JiménezPadilla (PhD), Babafemi Adewusi (lab
tech), Stefane Saruhashi (PhD), Dr. Vimbai Tarusikirwa
(postdoc), Mika da Silva Lima (PhD). Front row (l-r): Brent
Sinclair (mid-quality blueberry-picker), Menno Bok (visiting MSc
student), Jay Ing (intern).
 Sinclair lab extended lab family, Canadian Society of Zoologists’ annual meeting, Saskatoon, SK, May 2023. Back (l-r): Claire Baragar (BScHons ’20, now MSc in the McClelland lab, McMaster U); Becca Dean (PhD, MacMillan Lab, Carleton U); Serita Fudlosid (PhD, MacMillan Lab, Carleton U); Dr. Laura Ferguson (PhD ‘17; Assistant Professor, Acadia University); Mia Lauzon (BSc Hons, Ferguson Lab, Acadia U); Taylor Swanburg (MSc, Ferguson Lab, Acadia U); Dr. Katie Marshall (PhD 2014, Associate Professor, University of British Columbia); Emily Black (MSc, Marshall Lab, UBC). Middle (l-r): Dr. Fouzia Haider (postdoc, MacMillan Lab, Carleton U); Dr. Jackie Lebenzon (PhD ’22, Postdoc, Williams Lab, UC Berkeley); Brynne Duffy (BScHons ‘18; PhD, Staples Lab, UWO); Stefane Saruhashi (Sinclair lab PhD student); Jarrett Blair (MSc, Marshall Lab, UBC). Front (l-r): Brent’s head, Brent’s feet. Missing (at the conference, but we lost them in the galleries!): Jantina Toxopeus (PhD ’18, Assistant Professor, St Francis Xavier University) and her students Maranda van Oirschot & Sarah Rokosh; and Hossein Asgari, whose PhD Brent [juniorly] co-supervises with Dr. Natasha Mhatre at Western. 
Sinclair lab extended
family, American Physiological Society Comparative Meeting,
San Diego, CA, October 2022 - Back (l-r): Lamees
Mohammad (PhD, UWO), Stefane Saruhashi (PhD, UWO), Ella De
Nicola (PhD, Carleton), Alex Cheslock (MSc, Carleton), Jackie
Lebenzon (PhD UWO '22, now PDF Berkeley), Lisa Treidel (PhD
Berkeley '21, now Nebraska), Lourenço Martins (PhD Berkeley).
Middle (l-r): Jessica Li (PhD
UBC), Katie Marshall (PhD UWO '13, now UBC Faculty), Heath
MacMillan (PhD UWO '13, now Carleton Faculty), Caroline
Williams (PhD UWO '11, now UC Berkeley Faculty)
In Front: Brent Sinclair (UWO).
The Sinclair lab picks apples,
7 Sept 2022 (we may be terrible taxonomists, but we *are*
aware that those are sunflowers!). (l-r): Henrique Ho Cesar
(MSc), Stefane Saruhashi (PhD), Brent Sinclair (apple picker
extraordinaire), Kaitlyn Ludba (PhD interloper - usually at
AgCanada), Caitlin Oh (undergrad), Zainabl Hassonali
(undergrad). Missing, presumed apple-less: Lamees Mohammad
(PhD).
11 July 2022 - The Sinclair lab
plays mini-golf. (l-r): The finger of the one person in North
America who had never used a smart phone to take a photo,
Caitlin Oh (undergrad summer intern), Zainab Hassonali
(undergrad summer intern), Lamees Mohammad (PhD), Brent
Sinclair (mini-golf champion), Stefane Saruhashi (PhD).
 The Sinclair lab gets ice
cream, 30 May 2022. (l-r): Brent Sinclair (PI, black cherry);
Stefane Saruhashi (PhD student, strawberry cheesecake); Zainab
Hassonali (WSRI undergrad, matcha); Caitlin Oh (WSRI
undergrad, cappuccino); Lamees Mohammad (PhD student, moose
tracks). Missing for various reasons: Amanda Lynn Stubley
(Writerator, I'm guessing mint chocolate chip), Yanira Jiménez
Padilla (PhD, I reckon butter pecan), Kurtis Turnbull (PhD,
definitely a maple walnut kind of guy).
 Sinclair lab December 2021. We managed to slip in a holiday party before everything got covid-complicated again. Back (l-r): Sylvia Chong (Honours thesis), Stefane Saruhashi (PhD), Meghan DuellRick Simpson (interloper), Meghan Duell (postdoc), Brent Sinclair (he-who-supervises-those-who-freeze-the-bugs), Alyssa Stephens (MSc); Front (l-r): Lamees Mohammad (PhD), Jackie Lebenzon (PhD), Kitty McCatface (centre of attention), Aaron Mayordomo (MSc), Tania Naseer (MSc). Missing: Amanda Lynn 'singin' in a choir' Stubley (Writerator), Yanira 'I'll open my gift alone' Jiménez Padilla (PhD, on leave), Kurtis 'Nova Scotia is nice at this time of year' Turnbull (PhD).  Sinclair lab Quizzintinis, February 26, 2021. Top (l-r): Rick Simpson (interloper), Meghan Duell (postdoc), Brent Sinclair (quizmaster), Nasim Amiresmaieli (postdoc), Alex Torson (postdoc), Kurtis Turnbull (PhD); middle (l-r): Zoe Klein (honours thesis), Yanira Jiménez Padilla (PhD); Alyssa Stephens (MSc), Arteen Torabi-Marashi (honours thesis), Kevin Ong (Bionformaticsologist); bottom (l-r): Ollie (interloper), Amanda Lynn Stubley (writing support), Tania Naseer (MSc), Jackie Lebenzon (PhD), Ayush Namboothiri (honours thesis). The team "How many PhDs does it take?" (Meghan, Rick, Nasim, Alex) won a glorious victory which is hereby enshrined upon the Sinclair Lab website for mere mortals to gaze upon in wonder for all eternity*. (*in case you were wondering what the prize was).  Sinclair lab, Friday the thirteenth, November 2020. Top (l-r): Alex Torson (postdoc), Brent Sinclair (he-who-shall-be-zoomed), Jackie Lebenzon (PhD), Meghan Duell (postdoc); 2nd row (l-r): Alyssa Stephens (PhD), Ayush Namboothiri (honours thesis), Meaghan Carlson (writing support), Yanira Jiménez Padilla (PhD); 3rd row (l-r): Arteen Torabi-Marashi (honours thesis), Kurtis Turnbull (PhD), Nasim Amiresmaeili (postdoc), Tania Naseer (MSc); Bottom (l-r): Stefane Saruhashi (PhD), Zoe Klein (honours thesis).  Sinclair lab, Socially-distanced version, 11 September 2020. (l-r): Yanira Jiménez Padilla (PhD), Matt Chung (undergrad), Tania Naseer (MSc), Jackie Lebenzon (PhD), Alyssa Stephens (MSc), Stefane Saruhashi (PhD), Kaitlyn Lubda (interloping PhD), Brent Sinclair (just this guy, y'know), Meghan Duell (Postdoc), Alex Torson (postdoc). Elsewhere... Nasim Amiresmaeili, Catalina Fernandez, Kurtis Turnbull, Arteen, Ayush & Zoe.  Sinclair lab, COVID-19
edition 25 May 2020. Top (l-r): Meghan Duell
(Postdoc), Brent Sinclair (zoomer-in-chief), Alex Torson
(postdoc), Nasim Amiresmaeili (postdoc). Middle row (l-r):
Kevin Ong (MSc), Alyssa Stephens (MSc), Kurtis Turnbull (PhD),
Yanira Jiménez Padilla (PhD). Bottom (l-r): Jackie Lebenzon
(Essential PhD student), Alex Hicks (undergrad), Matt Chung
(NSERC USRA), Claire Baragar (undergrad thesis). Missing:
Catalina Fernandez (at another meeting!), Lyuquan Zhou
(visiting researcher, on parental leave).
 Sinclair lab, 2
November 2019 (at the ESO meeting, Bark Lake, Ontario). Back,
L-R: Alex Torson (postdoc), Lyuquan Zhao (visiting
scientist), Claire Baragar (Honours thesis student); Middle
(l-r): Alyssa Stephens (MSc student), Meghan Duell
(postdoc), Kevin Ong (bioinformatics minion), Yanira Jiménez
Padilla (PhD student), Jackie Lebenzon (PhD student), Kurtis
Turnbull (PhD Student); Front (l-r) Brent Sinclair (random
participant), Nasim Amiresmaeili (postdoc).
 Sinclair lab, 11 October 2019. Back, L-R: Claire Baragar (Honours thesis student), Meghan Duell (postdoc), Yanira Jiménez Padilla (PhD student), Jackie Lebenzon (PhD student), Kurtis Turnbull (PhD Student) Alex Torson (postdoc). Front (l-r): Kitty McCatface (Eater of Treats), Brent Sinclair (Deliverer of Treats), Alex Hicks (bioinformatics minion); Alyssa Stephens (MSc student); Kevin Ong (bioinformatics minion). MIA: Nasim Amiresmaeili (postdoc); Seun Esan (PhD student); Lyuquan Zhao (visiting scientist).  Sinclair Lab extended
Family, ISEPEP8 (well, actually in a tango club), Buenos
Aires 2 August 2019: Back (l-r) Kevin Roberts
(Williams lab), Caroline Williams (UC Berkeley), Katie
Marshall (University of British Columbia), Lauren Des Marteaux
(Czech Academy of Sciences), Ana Lyons (Williams lab), Brent
Sinclair (Western U), Alex Torson (Sinclair lab), Andre
Szejner Sigal (Williams lab), Jantina Toxopeus (University of
Colorado Denver). Front Liana Williams (my,
hasn't she grown!).
 Sinclair lab extended
family, Canadian Society of Zoologists, Windsor, ON, May
2019 - Back (l-r): Skye Butterson (MSc, UBC),
Sujan Sadekuzzaman (PhD, UWO), Mahmoud El Saadi (undergrad,
Carleton), Serita Fudlosid (MSc, Carleton), Kaylen Brzezinski
(MSc, Carleton), Hannah Davis (PhD, Carleton), Kevin Ong
(undergrad, UWO), Peter Denezis (undergrad, UWO), Alex Torson
(postdoc, UWO), Kurtis Turnbull (PhD, UWO), Katie Marshall
(PhD UWO '13, now UBC), Meghan Duell (postdoc, UWO); front
(l-r): Heath MacMillan (PhD UWO '13, now Carleton), Jantina
Toxopeus (PhD UWO '18, now CU Denver), Seun Esan (PhD UWO),
Yanira Jiménez Padilla (PhD UWO), Brent Sinclair (denies all
responsibility, he's just very lucky to work with these
amazing people), Jackie Lebenzon (PhD UWO)
 Sinclair lab, 3 May
2019. Back, L-R: Kevin Ong (Bioinformatics
wrangler), Meghan Duell (postdoc), Peter Denezis (ex-honours
student), Sujan Sadekuzzaman (PhD student), Alex Torson
(postdoc), Claire Baragar (NSERC USRA), Yanira Jiménez
Padilla (PhD student), Kurtis Turnbull (PhD student), Jackie
Lebenzon (PhD Student). Front (l-r): Kitty McCatface (Ruler
of the Universe), Brent Sinclair (secretary to Mr.
McCatface). MIA: Seun Esan (PhD student).
 Sinclair lab, 22 March
2019. L-R: Jackie Lebenzon (PhD student), Alex Torson
(postdoc), Meghan Duell (postdoc), Yanira Jiménez Padilla
(PhDstudent), Brent Sinclair (general dogsbody), Seun Esan (PhD
student), Paul Vinu Salachan (visiting PhD student form Aarhus),
Kurtis Turnbull (PhD student), Md. (Sujan) Sadekuzzaman (PhD
student), Susan Anthony (PhD student and mum-to-be).
The Sinclair Lab, April 2011. Back (L-R): Wesley Chick, Justin
Saindon, David Bing, Heath MacMillan, Brent Sinclair + Liana
Williams; Front (L-R): Hiroko Udaka, Katie Marshall, Caroline
Williams, Litza Coello, Evelyn Boychuk, Victoria Ransberry. Sinclair Lab, 7 December 2018: Back (l-r) Paul Vinu Salachan (Visiting PhD student from Aarhus, Denmark), Adam Smith (Honours Student), 'Albatross Hunting' Painting on board by Chris Dennis 2008, Peter Denezis (Honours student), Susan Anthony (PhD Candidate), Alex Torson (Postdoc), Brent Sinclair (cat servant), Kitty McCatface (overlord), Meghan Duell (Postdoc); Front (l-r): Jackie Lebenzon (PhD Candidate), Kurtis Turnbull (PhD Candidate), John Ciancio (John finished his MSc months ago, but we like having him around), Yanira Jiménez Padilla (PhD Student).  Sinclair Lab, 27 July 2018: Back (l-r) Brent Sinclair (emailer-in-chief), Adam Smith (intern), John Ciancio (MSc), Dr. Alex Torson (postdoc), Kurtis Turnbull (PhD); Front (l-r): Jantina Toxopeus (submitted her PhD thesis that afternoon!),Yanira Jiménez Padilla (PhD), Susan Anthony (PhD), Jackie Lebenzon (PhD), Kendra Corral Nájera (Mitacs Globalink intern).  (Most of the) Sinclair Lab 1
July 2018: Back (l-r) Susan Anthony (PhD student, birthday
girl), Sirpa Kaunisto (former postdoc, now at University of
Eastern Finland), Raine Kortet (collaborator, University of
Eastern Finland), Brent Sinclair (tomato tender), Jackie
Lebenzon (PhD student), John Ciancio (MSc student), Kendra
Corral Nájera (Mitacs intern); Front (l-r) Jantina Toxopeus
(PhD student), Kurtis Turnbull (PhD student), Alex Torson
(postdoc). Missing, presumed setting off fireworks: Yanira
Jiménez Padilla, Adam Smith.
 Sinclair Lab, 7 April 2018: Back (l-r) Joanne Tang (Honours Thesis), Adam Smith (Intern), John Ciancio (MSc), Dr. Alex Torson (postdoc), Lamees Mohammad (Honours thesis), Brent Sinclair (wrangler-in-chief). Middle (r): Jackie Lebenzon (neglected middle lab-child). Front (l-r): Brynne Duffy (Honours thesis), Aisa Kuper-Psenicnik (Honours thesis), Susan Anthony (PhD), Jantina Toxopeus (PhD). Missing: Yanira Jiménez Padilla (PhD), Kurtis Turnbull (PhD).  Sinclair Lab past and present students (and grand-students!) at the 2018 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting in San Francisco, where Alum Caroline Williams received the Bartholomew award for early career researchers. Standing (l-r): Susan Anthony (current PhD), Katie Marshall (PhD 2013, now U Oklahoma), Yanira Jiménez Padilla (Current PhD), Caroline Williams (PhD 2011, now UC Berkeley), Liana Williams (born when Caroline was in the Sinclair lab!), Kevin Roberts (current PhD, UC Berkeley), Rebecca Clark (postdoc, UC Berkeley), Lisa Treidel (current PhD, UC Berkeley); sitting (l-r) Brent Sinclair ('I just try not to get my fingers caught in the machinery'), Jantina Toxopeus (current PhD), Andre Szejner Sigal (current PhD, UC Berkeley).  Sinclair Lab, 1 December 2017: Back (l-r) Mozhgan Mohammadzadeh (Visiting PhD), Alex Torson (Postdoc), John Ciancio (MSc), Aisa Kuper-Psenicnik (Honours thesis). Adam Smith (intern), Joanne Tang (Honours Thesis), Brynne Duffy (Honours Thesis), Lamees Mohammad (Honours Thesis); Middle (l-r) Jackie Lebenzon (PhD), Susan Anthony (PhD), Tomáš Štětina (visiting PhD), Kurtis Turnbull (PhD); Front (l-r) Jantina Toxopeus (PhD), Brent Sinclair (general assistant),Yanira Jiménez Padilla (PhD).  Sinclair Lab, 29 September 2017: Back (l-r) Mozhgan Mohammadzadeh (Visiting PhD), Yanira Jiménez Padilla (PhD), Susan Anthony (PhD), John Ciancio (MSc), Kurtis Turnbull (MSc), Adam Smith (tech), Tomáš Štětina (visiting PhD), Joanne Tang (Honours thesis); Front (l-r) Jantina Toxopeus (PhD), Brent Sinclair (money guy), Brynne Duffy (Honours thesis), Lamees Mohammad (Honours thesis), Aisa Kuper-Psenicnik (Honours thesis). Missing, presumed drinking beer: Jackie Lebenzon (PhD), Dr. Alex Torson, (postdoc).  Sinclair Lab, 13 April 2017: Back (l-r) John Ciancio (MSc); Dr. Sirpa Kaunisto (postdoc); Yanira Jimenez Padilla (technician); Susan Anthony (PhD); Brent Sinclair (all-purpose email-wrangler); Dr. Lauren Des Marteaux (freshly-minted PhD graduate); Middle (l-r) Jantina Toxopeus (PhD); Jackie Lebenzon (PhD); Minette Karsten (visiting postdoc); Front: Kitty McCatface (cat-in-the-box). [Missing - Kurtis Turnbull, Lamees Mohammad]  Sinclair Lab, 30 November 2016: Back (l-r) Susan Anthony (PhD), Laura Ferguson (PhD), Maddie Doyle (class of 2035), Sirpa Kaunisto (postdoc), Raine Kortet (sabbatical visitor from Finland), Lauren Des Marteaux (PhD); Middle (l-r) Jackie Lebenzon (PhD), John Ciancio (MSc) Front (l-r) : Laura Forster (high school co-op student), Brent Sinclair (cat herder), Kitty McCatface (undervertebrate), Yanira Jimenez Padilla (MSc), Jantina Toxopeus (PhD).  Sinclair Lab, 17 June 2016: (l-r) Xinjian Xu (visiting researcher from Fuzhou, China), Jantina Toxopeus (PhD), Brent Sinclair (emailer-in-chief), Lauren Des Marteaux (PhD), Yanira Jimenez Padilla (MSc), Laura Ferguson (PhD), Ruth Jakobs (MSc 2015, now a PhD student in Bielefeld Germany), Kurtis Turnbull (MSc), Sirpa Kaunisto (postdoc), Jackie Lebenzon (MSc), Raine Kortet (sabbatical visitor from University of Eastern Finland), John Ciancio (almost-an-MSc-student), Susan Anthony (PhD).  Sinclair Lab, 8 April 2016: Back (l-r): Sirpa Kaunisto (postdoc), Yanira Jimenez Padilla (MSc), Susan Anthony (PhD), Jackie Lebenzon (MSc), Lauren Des Marteaux (PhD), Laura Forster (High School Co-op student). Front (l-r): Xinjian Xu (Visiting Professor), Kurtis Turnbull (MSc), Brent Sinclair (wrangler).  Sinclair Lab, 1 December 2015: Back (l-r): Brent Sinclair (aka 'Eye of Sauron'), Alkistis Elliot-Graves (Postdoc/Rotman Institute of Philosophy interloper), Lauren Des Marteaux (PhD), Kurtis Turnbull (MSc); Front (l-r): Susan Anthony (PhD), Soheila Khazareenia (Visiting PhD Scientist), Sirpa Kaunisto (postdoc), Jackie Lebenzon (MSc), Jantina Toxopeus (PhD), Yanira Jimenez Padilla (MSc), Xinjian Xu (Visiting Professor).  Sinclair Lab, 17 July 2015: Back (l-r): Susan Anthony (PhD), Alexander McKinnon (MSc), Lauren Des Marteaux (PhD), Laura Ferguson (PhD), Alkistis Elliot-Graves (Visiting postdoc from the Rotman Institute of Philosophy); Middle (l-r): Yanira Jimenez Padilla (MSc), Soheila Khazareenia (visiting researcher); front (l-r) Jackie Lebenzon (MSc), Brent Sinclair (form-wrangler and track-changer), Jantina Toxopeus (PhD).  Sinclair Lab, 2 May 2015: Back (l-r): Lauren Des Marteaux (PhD), Jackie Lebenzon (MSc), Alexander McKinnon (MSc), Jantina Toxopeus (PhD); Front (l-r): Yanira Jimínez Padilla(MSc), Laura Ferguson (PhD), Brent Sinclair (check out those shades!), Patricia Gibert (visiting from Lyon, France). Missing, presumed snorkeling: Susan Anthony (PhD).  Sinclair Lab, 30 November 2014: Back (l-r): Lauren Des Marteaux (PhD), Ruth Jakobs (nearly-done MSc), Michael Brown (Honours Thesis); Front (l-r): Jantina Toxopeus (PhD), Brent Sinclair (mo-grower), Susan Anthony (PhD), Laura Ferguson (PhD), Alexander McKinnon (MSc); On-the-carpet: Primrose Anthony (cat chaser-in-chief).  Sinclair lab, 30 September 2014: Back (L-R): Laura Ferguson (PhD), Brent Sinclair (signer of documents), Lauren Des Marteaux (PhD), Jantina Toxopeus (PhD); Front (L-R): Sarah Houben (DAAD RISE intern), Justin Doyle (interloper), Ruth Jakobs (MSc), Alexander McKinnon (MSc).  Sinclair Lab 28 March 2014: Back (L-R): Lauren Des Marteaux, Brent Sinclair, Hiroko Udaka, Laura Ferguson, Alexander McKinnon; Front (L-R): Jackie Lebenzon, Lindsay Crawford, Banafsheh Ahmadi, Ruth Jakobs, Qian Long.  Sinclair Lab past, present & future. ISEPEP5, 13 August 2013. Front Row (L-R): Tanya Dann (visiting PhD student 2013), Dr. Katie Marshall (MSc & PhD 2007-2013), Dr. Hiroko Udaka (Postdoc 2010- ), Ruth Jakobs (DAAD RISE fellow, 2011; MSc 2013- ), Lauren Des Marteaux (PhD 2013- ); 2nd Row... by himself... Alexander McKinnon (MSc 2013- ); 3rd Row: Katharina Nikolaev (DAAD RISE fellow 2013), Daye Li (NSERC USRA 2013), Dr. Caroline Williams (PhD 2007-2011), Laura Ferguson (PhD 2012- ), Golnaz Salehipour (MSc 2012- ); Back row: Dr. Fengliang Jin (Postdoc 2013- ), Brent Sinclair (2006- ), Dr. Heath MacMillan (Undergrad volunteer 2006-7, NSERC USRA 2007, Honours student 2007-2008, MSc & PhD 2008-2013), Dr. Annegret Nicolai (Postdoc 2012-2013), Qian Long (PhD 2013- ).   Another view of the dinner on May 10th - the lab as drawn by Magdalena Nicolai.  Sinclair Lab 20 April 2013. Hiking in Backus Woods with Dr. Rick Lee to celebrate Katie Marshall's defense. (L-R) Golnaz Salehipour (MSc), Dr. Rick Lee (external examiner and all round insect cold tolerance hero), Brent Sinclair, Lauren Des Marteaux (PhD), Dr. Katie Marshall (new graduate!), Dr. Hiroko Udaka (postdoc), Laura Ferguson (PhD), Louie-the-dog (lab alumnus).   Sinclair Lab 15 June 2012. Back: Golnaz Salehipour (MSc), Evelyn Boychuk (MSc), Heath MacMillan (PhD); Front: Katie Marshall (PhD), Annegret Nicolai (postdoc-to-be), Hiroko Udaka (postdoc). Gone campin': Litza Coello (MSc).     The Sinclair Lab, December 2010. Back (L-R): Justin Saindon, Heath MacMillan, Brent Sinclair, Caroline Williams; Middle (L-R): Victoria Ransberry, Litza Coello, Katie Marshall, Hiroko Udaka; Front: Jian Zhang.  The Sinclair Lab at Canada's Wonderland, June 2010. (L-R): Leigh Boardman, Jane Zhang, Jill Crosthwaite, Katie Marshall, Caroline Williams, Justin Saindon, Brent Sinclair, Joeseph Stinziano, Celina Lin, Casper Nyamukondiwa, David Bing.  The Sinclair Lab at CSZ in Vancouver, May 2010. (L-R): Jill Crosthwaite, Brent Sinclair, Leigh Boardman, Katie Marshall, Heath MacMillan, Caroline Williams.  The Sinclair lab, 23 April 2010. Back (L-R): Jane Zhang (MSc), Brent Sinclair (paragraph rewriter); 2nd from Back (L-R): Jill Crosthwaite (MSc), Casper Nyamukondiwa (PhD exchange student from Stellenbosch), Stephi Sobek (Postdoc), Justin Saindon (MSc); 2nd from front (L-R): Katie Marshall (PhD/Crutcher), Jessie MacAlpine (Grade 9, Huron Park Secondary School), Heath MacMillan (PhD); Front: Wesley Chick (uber-volunteer), Caroline Williams (PhD), Leigh Boardman (MSc exchange student from Stellenbosch).  The Sinclair lab curling trip 21
February 2010. Back (L-R): Caroline Williams (PhD), Jane
Zhang (MSc), Jill Crosthwaite (MSc); Front (L-R): Liana Williams
(vocal lab meeting participant), Brent Sinclair (lab cleanliness
freak), Justin Saindon (MSc), Leigh Boardman (SA exchange
student), Casper Nyamukondiwa (possibly Zimbabwe's greatest
curler), Tony Renda (Hons).
The Sinclair Lab, 5 December 2009. (Back, L-R): Martin Vezer
(Philosophical interloper), Jill Crosthwaite (MSc); (2nd back,
L-R): Tony Renda (Hons), Jane Zhang (MSc), Caroline Williams
(PhD); (2nd Front, L-R): Aimee Bazinet (Hons), Katie Marshall
(PhD), Heath MacMillan (MSc); Front (L-R): Brent Sinclair (gall
cracker and account code provider), Liana Williams (vocal lab
meeting participant), Wesley Chick (insect wrangler-in-chief).
Absent, presumed socialising: Stephi Sobek (postdoc).  The Sinclair lab minigolf outing, 26 July 2009. (Back, L-R): Heath MacMillan (MSc), Jill Crosthwaite (MSc), Brent Sinclair (arranger and problem solver); (Middle, L-R): Jane Zhang (MSc), Stephi Sobek (postdoc), Alison Wardlaw (NSERC USRA), Katie Marshall (PhD); Front: Alex Ford (Dogsbody).  Click here to see pictures of the Sinclair lab at SICB in Boston in January 2009.  The Sinclair Lab, 26 September 2008. (L-R): Caroline Williams (PhD), Sanjay Rajamohan, Heath MacMillan (MSc), Lauren Strachan (MSc), Katie Marshall (MSc), Dr. Stephi Sobek (Postdoc), Jill Crosthwaite (MSc), Dr. Arun Rajamohan (Postdoc), Dr. David Renault (collaborator), Dr. Brent Sinclair (form signer).  The Sinclair Lab, 5 April 2008. Back (L-R): Dr. Arun Rajamohan, Sourabh Arora, Heath MacMillan, Lauren Strachan, Dr. Brent Sinclair, Sanjay Rajamohan. Front (L-R): Caroline Williams, Heather Tarnowski, Katie Marshall.  The Sinclair Lab, 17th September 2007. Back Row (l-r) Caroline Williams, Arun Rajamohan, Lauren Strachan, Heath MacMillan. Front row (l-r) Brent Sinclair, Jillian Walsh, Heather Tarnowski, Erfan Vafaie, Katie Marshall, Daniel Dillon.  The weird-coloured Sinclair Lab,
30th April 2007. (l-r) Heath MacMillan, Chris Lee, Heather
Tarnowski, Arun Rajamohan, Brent Sinclair. Missing (at
brewery!): Crystal Bross.
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