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Asher Cutter
Principal investigator

Research interests include: Evolutionary Genomics; Breeding System and Sex Ratio Evolution; Population Genetics; Molecular Evolution; Caenorhabditis spp.
asher.cutter@utoronto.ca

Alivia Dey
PhD student

Alivia is studying the molecular population genetics of C. remanei and C. brenneri.

Richard Jovelin
EEB Postdoc (arriving October 2009)

Richard is studying population genomics with C. remanei.

Joanna Kozlowska
PhD student

Joanna is studying the genetics of reproductive isolation in Caenorhabditis.

 

Rosalind Murray
MSc student

Rosalind is studying the evolution of sperm number in C. elegans using experimental evolution.

 

Deepthi Rajagopalan
MSc student (arriving January 2010)

Deepthi will be studying genome evolution in Caenorhabditis.

Gregory Stegeman
MSc student (arriving January 2010)

Greg will be investigating the genetic basis to natural phenotypic variation in C. briggsae.

Julie (GuoXiu) Wang
Visiting Scientist

Julie is studying Caenorhabditis biodiversity and the molecular population genetics of C. sp. 5.

 

 

Abeer Ahmad
Undergraduate student (ROP 299 2009)

Abeer is studying the genetics of reproductive isolation in Caenorhabditis.

Karen (Ji Dong) Bai
Undergraduate student (ROP 299 2009)

Karen is studying interspecific competition in Caenorhabditis.

Erik Bracciodieta
Undergraduate student (ROP 299 2009)

Erik is studying interspecific competition in Caenorhabditis.

 

Matthew Bueno
Research technician (2008 - 2009), currently volunteer extraordinaire!

Matt is making transgenic C. elegans by microinjection.

 

 

Cecilia Chan
Undergraduate student (CSB 498 2009)

Cecilia is studying the molecular population genetics of C. brenneri.

 

 

Jae Young Choi
Undergraduate student (EEB 498 2008, CSB 498 2008-2009, NSERC summer student 2009)

Jae is studying molecular evolution and quantitative genetics in C. briggsae.

 

 

Kangping Cui
Undergraduate student

 

Anjali Silva
Undergraduate student (2009)
 

Supreet Sunil
Undergraduate student (ROP 299 2008, EEB 498 2009)

Supreet is studying thermal behavioral responses in C. briggsae.

 

 

Nadejda Tsvetkov
Undergraduate student (ROP 299 2008, EEB 498 2009)

Nadejda is studying male mating-related behavior in C. briggsae.

 

Weiang Yan
Undergraduate student (ROP 299 2008; UTEA summer fellow 2009)

Weiang is studying the biogeography of C. briggsae, based on nucleotide variation.

Jack Zeng
Undergraduate student (2009)

 

Former lab members:

Pari Afshordy
Undergraduate student (Summer 2009 volunteer)

Matthew Bueno
Research technician (2008-2009)

Jae Young Choi
Undergraduate student (EEB 498 2008, CSB 498 2008-2009, NSERC summer student 2009)

Melanie Croydon-Sugarman
Undergraduate student (ROP 299 2007-2008; NSERC summer student 2008)

Elie Dolgin
PhD 2008 (University of Edinburgh)

Fan Dong
Undergraduate student (CAGEF summer student 2008)

Jason Lee
Undergraduate student (Summer 2009 volunteer)

Olivia Ng
Undergraduate student (Summer 2008 volunteer)

Tommy Oliver
Undergraduate student (2009 volunteer)

Dan Pineda
Undergraduate student (2006-2007)

Anisha Prasad
Undergraduate student (ROP 299 2007-2008; NSERC summer student 2008)

Isinsu Sakalli
Undergraduate student (Summer 2009 volunteer)

Kasse Tharmakulasingam
Undergraduate student (2006-2007)

Stephanie Tung
Undergraduate student (2008-2009)

Yuri Yatsenko
Undergraduate student (2008-2009)

Jane Zhang
Undergraduate student (NSERC summer student 2007)

Robbie Zhang
Undergraduate student (2006-2007)

 

Honorary lab members:

Beatrix & Oona


Worm Links:

Worm Methods from the Ambros Lab
Worm Methods from the Koelle Lab
Wormlab Recipe Book
Worm Classroom Protocols

Wormbook
C. elegans II book online

C. elegans server
C. briggsae Research
Wormbase
Felix Lab Strain Database

Other C. elegans labs at the University of Toronto:
Andrew Fraser Lab
Peter Roy Lab
Will Ryu Lab
Andrew Spence Lab
Lincoln Stein Lab
Derek van der Kooy Lab
Mei Zhen Lab
Also, labs of Hiroshi Suzuki, Brent Derry, Joe Culotti

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