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Pelling Lab May 2010



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Group Photos

Group Leader
Prof. Andrew E. Pelling
HBSc, University of Toronto
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles

Background
Curriculum Vitae

 
Post-Doctoral Fellows

Dr. Dominique Tremblay
BEng, Polytechnique Montréal
MASc, Polytechnique Montréal
PhD, McGill University
"Cellular Responses to Mechanical Microenvironments and Dynamical Strain"


Graduate Students
Zeinab Al-Rekabi (PhD Student, Physics, uOttawa)
BSc, University of British Columbia
uOttawa NSERC CREATE Quantitative Biomedicine Graduate Student
"Mechanotransduction in Muscle Precursor Cells Investigated with Traction and Atomic Force Microscopy"
Co-Supervised with Prof. James L. Harden
Louise Guolla (MSc Student, Physics, uOttawa)
BSc, University of Ottawa
NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship, 2009-2010
Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2010-2011
"Cytoskeletal Deformation and Mechanotransduction"
Kristina Haase (PhD Student, Physics, uOttawa)
MASc, University of Ottawa
"Cell Membrane Loading and Deformation"
Joan Macadangdang (MSc Student, Physics, uOttawa)
BSc, Ateneo de Manila University Quezon City
"Optical Stretching of Live Cells in Microfluidic Environments"
Pamela Wu (MSc Student, Biology, uOttawa)
BSc, University of Ottawa
"Mechanical and Morphological Determinants in Wound Healing"
Undergraduate Students
Alexandre Leclerc (1st Year BSc Student, Physics, uOttawa)
"Computational Feature Tracking of Cells and Sub-Cellular Structures"
 
Jiashan Wang (4th Year BSc Student, Biomedical Science, uOttawa)
NSERC uOttawa CREATE Undergraduate Student
"Biochemical and Mechancial Breakdown of Cytoskeletal Crosslinkers During Apoptosis"
 
Visiting Scientists

Dr. Patricia Kunda
Research Fellow in the Buzz Baum Lab (website)
MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology

 

Alumni
Dr. Yaron R. Silberberg, Graduate Student, University College London, 2006-2009.

Jonathan Melong, Summer NSERC Undergraduate Research Student, Dalhousie University 2009.

Zichun Ken Tang, Summer Student, University of Toronto, 2009.