Henderson Lab, Personnel

CURRENT LAB MEMBERS:

Jeffrey T. Henderson Principle Investigator Director MIH Core Facility PDF: CNS Injury and Repair, LTRI, Mount Sinai Ph.D.: Biochemistry, University of Illinois B.A.: Molecular Biology/Biochemistry, CSUF jeff.henderson@utoronto.ca
Christopher Rogers Position: Doctoral Candidate Research: Mechanism of a Novel Form of Cooperative PCD in Stem Cells chris.rodgers@mail.utoronto.ca>	Shudi Huang Position: Doctoral candidate Research: Intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms of PCD in hypoxic CNS neurons and derivatives shudi.huang@mail.utoronto.ca
Dima El Hassanieh Position: Senior Thesis Intern Research: Mechanism of a Novel Form of Cooperative PCD in Stem Cells dima.elhassanieh@mail.utoronto.ca	Christina Merekoulias Position: Senior Thesis Intern Research: Regulation of PCD pathways in human ES cells and derivatives cmerekoulias@rogers.com
Kai Henderson Position: Engineering, 3D printingequipping Research: Mobi setup, lab/machine interfaces kai.henderson@mail.utoronto.ca	Ouye Chen Position: Senior Thesis Intern Research: Cortical derivation of modified stem cells ouye.chen@mail.utoronto.ca

PAST LAB MEMBERS:

Dr. Mohammad Ali Amini Current Position: CEO QurCan Therapeutics Research: Nanotherapeutic imaging agents ma.amini@qurcan.com	Dr. Chesarahmia Bouhs Current Position: Scientific Associate, Tumour Immunotherapy Program, University Health Network Research: Tumor Immunotherapy, Cell Death chesarahm@yahoo.com
Lora Stepanian Current Position: Medical student (Queens) Research: Proteomic fingerprinting of PCD family mutants l.stepanian@qmed.ca	Andrea Elia Current Position: PharmD Student, University of Toronto Research: Analyisis of Neural Differentiation of PCD ES mutants andrea91elia@gmail.com
Nan Ji Suo Current Position: Cell & Molecular Biology and Physiology program, U of T Research: Pressure induced cellular mechanics nanji.suo@mail.utoronto.ca	Monica Garcia-Segura Current Position: Doctoral candidate, Neuroscience, Univ. of Cambridge Research: Tissue reprogramming of embryonic stem cells monica.emiligarcia.segura@mail.utoronto.
Tyler Henderson Current Position: Doctoral candidate, S. Cordes, Mt. Sinai Research: Role of Tubby protein in modulating appetite regulatory neuropeptides and receptors ty.henderson@mail.utoronto.ca	Jeffrey Stulberg Current Position: Doctoral candidate, V. Tropepe, U of T Research: Optimization of homology and targeting requirements for CRISPR-mediated HDR in embryonic stem cells jeffrey.stulberg@mail.utoronto.ca
Maya Latif Current Position: Instructor, U of T Research Area: Regulation of cisplatin-mediated PCD in vivo maya.latif@utoronto.ca	Dr. Anastasiya Lezhanska Current Position: Family Practice, Trillium Health Partners Research Area: Efficient methods of HDR-directed gene modification anastasia.lezhanska@mail.utoronto.ca
Grant Li Current Position: Graduate Student Research Area: Neural induction of embryonic stem cells grant.li@mail.utoronto.ca	Dr. Tonya Bongolan Current Position: Medical Writer, IC Axon Research Area: CRISPR-mediated gene modification - embryonic stem cells tonya.bongolan@mail.utoronto.ca
Stephanie Chan Current Position: Diagnostic Sonography (Michener Inst.) Research Area: Mechanisms of induction - murine embryonic stem cells stephanieky.chan@mail.utoronto.ca	Sofia Huroy (M.Sc.) Current Position: Clinical Research Coordinator, Mississauga Research Area: EphB-mediated regulation of opiate responses in vivo sofia.huroy@utoronto.ca
Dr. Zoe Winterton-Perks Current Position: Obstetrics and Gynecology,Milton ON Research Area: Biomarkers of programmed cell death pathways zoe.winterton-perks@mail.mcgill.ca	Dr. Yanshan Cao Current Position: Pharmaceutical Researcher, Toronto Research Area: Chemotherapy induced caspase-dependent programmed cell death yanshan.cao@utoronto.ca
Faraz Salmasi Current Position: Pharm.D., Medical Science Liaison and Clinical Pharmacist, San Francisco Research Area: Apoptotic versus necroptotic PCD in vivo f.salmasi@mail.utoronto.ca	William Tang Current Position: Student, Columbia University Research Area: Induction of intrinsic pathway apoptosis following DNA damage william.tang@utoronto.ca
Dr. Kelvin Hui Current Position: Program Research, CiRA: Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto Research Area: Neural Development/Ubiquitination kelvin.hui@alum.utoronto.ca	Mary Dan Shan Current Position: CMO Quality Site Manager, Roche Research Area: Ex vivo inhibition of EphB2 function, Nanoparticles dan.shan@utoronto.ca
Dr. Stephanie Ho Current Position: Research Associate, Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, Toronto Research Area: Neural Development / Eph and Wnt-family Signaling stefkyho@hotmail.com	Ashlin Kanawaty (M.Sc.) Current Position: Mechatronics Engineer at Mariner Endosurgery Inc. Research Area: Mechanisms of Opiate Tolerance within the Mammalian Central Nervous System ashlin_kanawaty@hotmail.com
Dr. Anish Kanungo, MD PhD Current Position: Neurologist, Coastal Specialty Clinics, BC Research Area: Intrinsic / Extrinsic mechanisms of Programmed Cell Death akanungo@ucalgary.ca	Dr. Lara Spector Current Position: Forest Hill Physiotherapy and Health Care Research Area: High-throughput in vitro screening strategies for small molecule inhibitors of apoptosis lara_spector@utoronto.ca
Dr. Stephano Chang Current Position: Neurosurgery Resident University of British Columbia Research Area: Real-time screening strategies for small molecule PCD inhibitors stephano.chang@utoronto.ca	Dr.Dan Cojocari Current Position: AbbVie's Discovery Oncology group. Princess Margaret Cancer Centre Research Area: Suppression of PCD regulators using lentiviral-mediated shRNA dan.cojocari@utoronto.ca
Lili Huang Current Position: Genscript (Hong Kong) Research Area: In vivo analysis of cell death in Smac/Casp-3 mutants lili.huang@utoronto.ca	Gennie Wang Current Position: Medical Student (Queen's) Research Area: Cell-based molecular screening for inhibitors of BH3 domain oligomerization gennie.wang@gmail.com
Dr. Ciric To Current Position: Principal Scientist/Lab Head at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR) Research Area: Cell-based molecular screening for inhibitors of BH3 domain oligomerization ciric.to@schulich.uwo.ca	Melissa Shih Current Position: M.Sc. Urban and Regional Planning (Whitby, Ontario) Research Area: Transcriptional control of EphB-family receptors 6mgs2@queensu.ca
Patrick Ng Current Position: Instructor Department of Biological Sciences University of Toronto, Scarborough Research Area: ENU-based mutagenesis of motor control patrickng@utsc.utoronto.ca	Maria Michalowska Current Position: Research Coordinator, Women's College Research Institute Research Area: Development of Antibody-Epitope Registry Database butterfly1509@hotmail.com
Dr. Erin Chan Current Position: Family Care Physician Scarborough, Ontario Research Area: Development of MRI / CT surgical atlases of the murine brain erintchan18@hotmail.com	Jacqueline Wong Current Position: Pharmacist, Telehealth Ontario Research Area: Construction of in vivo 3D axon guidance channels jacquiewong@hotmail.com
Dr. Nicole Liadis Current Position: Adjunct Faculty Northwestern University Research Area: Caspase-3 regulation of Neurotrophic and NMDA-mediated PCD in vivo nliadis@uhnres.utoronto.ca	Dr. Jennifer Robertson Current Position: Biosafety Manager, McMaster University Research Area: EphB-family signaling in the regulation of cortical axon guidance robertjv@mcmaster.ca
Dr. Rebecca Laposa Current Position: Assistant Professor, Coordinator PEY Co-op Program Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology University of Toronto Research Area: DNA Repair and Genotoxic stress in Xenobiotic-Induced Teratogenesis Laboratory Homepage rebecca.laposa@utoronto.ca	Dr. Jason Wasserman, MD PhD Current Position: Physician The Ottawa Hospital, University of Ottawa, Dept. of Anatomical Pathology JWASS021@uottawa.ca
Jessica Knox Current Position: Chief Executive Officer, Metrix Group Research Area: CNS injury and repair jknox@metrixgroup.com	Reza Mohammed Current Position: Optometry Research Area: Neurodevelopment, EphB2-mediated signaling rezah_m@hotmail.com

Members of the Henderson Lab