
Mikko Taipale, PhD
The Glorious Leader, capo di tutti capi
Education: University of Oulu (MSc), EMBL Heidelberg (PhD), Whitehead Institute (Postdoc)
Hometown: Helsinki, Finland
Other activities: Working from home
- Doing things that PIs do (not experiments) 97%
- Doing experiments (ideally) 12%
- Doing experiments (actually) 1%

Mandy Lam, PhD
Senior Research Associate, Lab Manager
Education: University of Toronto (BSc, PhD)
Hometown: Mississauga, ON
Other activities: Managereering the next feline social media star
- Ensuring the lab doesn’t spontaneously implode/explode 75%
- Other lab managering 25%
- Trying to NOT kill Mikko’s plants 10%

Juline Poirson, PhD
Research Associate
Education: University of Strasbourg (MSc, PhD)
Hometown: Isle-Aubigny, France
Other activities: Climbing, running, drawing, taming cats
- Forcing proteins to interact with each other 60%
- Finding new ubiquitin ligases 30%
- Sorting many many many cells 20%

Chris Mogg, MSc
Technician
Education: Carleton University (MSc)
Hometown: Ottawa, ON
Other activities:
- Making sure things are where they are supposed to be 55%
- Fixing broken equipment 40%
- Ordering 15%

He Leng, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Education: Heilongjiang University (BSc, MSc), Peking University (PhD)
Hometown: Harbin, China
Other activities: Ping-pong and badminton
- Characterizing TFs/COFs interactions 63%
- Designing superactivators in human cells 27%
- Beating Dmitri at squash with only a ping-pong paddle 20%

Hanna Cho, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Education: POSTECH (MSc), Korea University (PhD)
Hometown: Seoul, Korea
Other activities: Walking
- Inducing proximity to oncogenic proteins 64%
- Finding novel small molecules 23%
- Learning French…but only as high as her elevator goes 23%

Jessica Lacoste, BSc
PhD Student
Education: Dalhousie University (BSc)
Hometown: Thornhill, ON
Other activities: Taking pictures of Todd, running
- Phenotyping pathogenic disease variants 74%
- Mastering high-content microscopy 25%
- Filling up hard drives 11%

Dmitri Segal, BSc
PhD Student
Education: University of Western Ontario (BSc)
Hometown: Richmond Hill, ON
Other activities: Ice hockey
- Mapping the interactome of 14-3-3 proteins 85%
- Trying to find a better name for 14-3-3 proteins 20%
- Playing hockey with old men (Puckheads) 5%

Michael Ostrovski, BSc
PhD Student
Education: University of Tel Aviv (BSc, computer science), University of Toronto (BSc, molecular genetics)
Hometown: Toronto, ON
Other activities: bouldering, camping, moving stuff at the gym
- Taming dCas12 68%
- Thinking about naked mole rats 26%
- Splitting his time between the Moffat and Taipale labs 16%

Zoheyr Imrit, BSc
MSc student
Education: York University (BSc)
Hometown: Port-Louis, Mauritius
Other activities: Reading
- Figuring out the PRR20A degron 71%
- Testing degraders 10%
- Training to become the next big rapper/Karaoke star 29%

Travis Tribble, BSc
MSc student
Education: University of Western Ontario (BSc)
Hometown: London (no, not that one), ON
Other activities: Almost beating Dmitri in squash, listening to music and podcasts, actively trying not to kill my plants
- Cloning Libraries 48%
- Figuring out why my clones are the wrong clones 49%
- Reading about Viruses!!! (And listening to TWiV) 13%

Elizabeth Mei, BSc
MSc Student
Education:University of Toronto (BSc)
Hometown: Toronto, ON
Other activities: Birdwatching, baking, drawing bees for kids at the ROM
- Quickly killing cells with toxins 80%
- Slowly killing cells with toxins 28%
- Finding family-friendly synonyms for “toxin” 2%

Jack Li, BSc
MSc student
Education: University of Toronto (BSc)
Hometown: Beijing, China
Other activities: Playing first person shooter games
- Taming dCas13 67%
- Drinking up all the luciferase reagents 14%
- Climbing the two flights of stairs between Blencowe and Taipale labs 29%

Francis Lefebvre, BSc
MSc student
Education: University of Montreal (BSc)
Hometown: Chandler, QC
Other activities: Reggaeton, hockey, hunting
- Inducing proximity to rescue PTEN dysfunction 65%
- Scheming to translate academic science to therapies 37%
- Beating Travis at squash (in the near future) (hopefully) 8%

Chloe Reno, BSc
PhD student
Education: York University (BSc)
Hometown: Seattle, Washington
Other activities: Long walks
- More phenotyping of rare diseases (ideally) 54%
- Cloning her days away 40%
- Battling robots 16%

Kaiden Thompson
Undergraduate student
Education: University of Toronto (Undergraduate)
Hometown: Indian Head, SK
Other activities: Cooking, reading, semi-successfully growing plants
- Being a human midi-prep machine 70%
- Doing Michael’s bidding 11%
- Educating the lab on the existence of Saskatchewan 29%

Cindy Zhou
Undergraduate student
Education: University of Toronto (Undergraduate)
Hometown: Shanghai, China
Other activities: Walking & trying different activities
- Learning new lab techniques 70%
- Trying to kill cells with toxins 22%
- Memorizing where everything is supposed to be in the lab 18%