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 75%
- Other lab managering activities 25%
- Trying to NOT kill Mikko’s plants 10%
Juline Poirson, PhD
Visiting Scientist
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%
Tanisha Teelucksingh, MSc
Technician
Education: University of Guelph (MSc)
Hometown: Brampton, ON
Other activities: Aerial fitness, crocheting and taking too many photos of my cats.
- High throughput profiling of pathogenic disease variants 63%
- Brushing up on my microscopy skills 33%
- Collecting all the pink coloured items in the lab 14%
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%
Jason Q. Tang, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Education: University of Toronto (HBSc)
Hometown: Shanghai, China (but really Scarborough, ON)
Other activities: Thinking of startup ideas, smashing shuttlecocks, fishing, eating food
- Getting proteins to engineer themselves 71%
- Thinking novel ways to use engineered proteins 25%
- Undercover Angers Lab spy – please don’t tell them 14%
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%
Jack Li, BSc
PhD 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%
Chloe Reno, BSc
MSc 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%
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%
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%
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%
Emma Mozer, BSc
MSc student
Education: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (BSc & MSc)
Hometown: Lausanne, Switzerland
Other activities: Horse riding, hiking (and complaining while doing it)
- Induce proximity to activate T cells 55%
- Sort many many cells 35%
- Read papers and try to write my Master’s thesis 20%
Chérine Sifri
Undergraduate student
Education: University of Toronto (BSc)
Hometown: Toronto, ON
Other activities: Reading, cuddling my dog, and stressing over grad school applications
- Finding proteins that induce mitophagy 60%
- Reading up on degradation pathways 35%
- Daydreaming about Cambridge 15%
Kaiden Thompson
Undergraduate student
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Hometown: .
Other activities: .
- . 65%
- . 37%
- . 8%
Kevin Yuan
Undergraduate student
Education: University of Toronto (BSc)
Hometown: Vaughan, ON
Other activities: Going to the gym, listening to music, playing the bass
- Learning new techniques 70%
- Mulling over career options 32%
- Figuring out how to cook for myself 8%