Dr. Dean H. Betts, BSc (Western); MSc (Western); PhD (Guelph)

Full Professor, UWO

Scientist, Children’s Health Research Institute (CHRI)

Scientist, Ontario Institute for Regenerative Medicine (OIRM)

Principal Investigator, The Stem Cell Network (SCN)

Director, Collaborative Graduate Program in Developmental Biology

Photo: Neuronal differentiation of canine ES cells

Ian Tobias, BSc (UWO)

NSERC PhD. student

“Cell modeling canine diseases with induced pluripotent stem cells”                                                                                                                                                                         

Dr. Jonathan Teichroeb, PhD (Waterloo)

SCN/Neusentis Post-Doctoral Fellow

“The extra-telomeric role of TERT splice variants in self-renewal and pluripotency”

Nicole Edwards, BSc, MSc (McGill)

PhD student (co-supervisor: Dr. Andrew Watson)

“The role of p66Shc in redox control of embryonic genome activation in preimplantation embryos”                                                                                                                                                                         

Joohwan Kim, BSc (Guelph)

MSc. student

“The role of mitochondrial TERT in human embryonic stem cells”                                                                                                                                                                         

The Betts Lab

David Hawke, BSc (Wateroo); MSc (Queen’s)

PhD student (co-supervisor: Dr. Andrew Watson)

“Secreted blastocyst microRNAs and embryo competence”                                                                                                                                                                         

Joshua Dierolf, BSc (Western)

MSc student

“The role of pyruvate kinase muscle isoforms in regulating metabolism during transitioning from a naive to primed pluripotent state”                                                                                                                                                                         

Courtney Brooks

Stem Cell Technician (Level III)