
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: Knitting, not ballet
- Ensuring the lab doesn’t spontaneously implode/explode 75%
- Other lab managering 25%
- Chasing Mikko’s receipts 10%

Chris Mogg, MSc
Technician
Education: Carleton University (MSc)
Hometown: Ottawa, ON
Other activities:
- Making sure things are where they are supposed to be 60%
- Fixing broken equipment 30%
- Chasing Mikko’s receipts 20%

Hunsang Lee, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Education: Simon Fraser University (BSc), Seoul National University (PhD)
Hometown: Seoul, Korea
Other activities: Moving apartments
- Looking at extracellular interactions 70%
- Collecting toxins 20%
- CRISPRing everything that moves 20%

Juline Poirson, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Education: University of Strasbourg (MSc, PhD)
Hometown: Isle-Aubigny, France
Other activities: Climbing, running, drawing, taming cats
- Discovering E3/DUB/target interactions 86%
- Inhibiting the proteasome 13%
- Making many, many, many stable cell lines 11%

Ben Piette, MSc
PhD Student
MSc: Université de Montréal (BSc, MSc)
Hometown: Berthierville, Quebec
Other activities: Watching movies
- Characterizing the Hsp70/J protein/client network 63%
- Finding obscure papers on J proteins 27%
- Dealing with two supervisors (Taipale and Gingras) 20%

Nader Alerasool, MSc
PhD Student
Education: University of Esfahan (BSc), University of Heidelberg (MSc)
Hometown: Esfahan, Iran
Other activities: Thinking about desert islands
- Making proteins meet new partners… 64%
- …and studying the outcome of these encounters 23%
- Scheming to overthrow The Glorious Leader 23%

Jessica Lacoste, BSc
PhD Student
Education: Dalhousie University (BSc)
Hometown: Thornhill, Ontario
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, Ontario
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%

Akashdeep Dhillon, BSc
MSc Student
Education: University of Western Ontario (BSc)
Hometown: Mississauga, Ontario
Other activities: Student councils, volunteering with children as a student mentor, chasing after a puppy (Suzie) who enjoys chewing and hiding socks.
- Destroying proteins… 90%
- …and trying to find out how that happens 15%
- Looking for Nader 5%

Michael Ostrovski, BSc
MSc Student
Education: University of Tel Aviv (BSc, computer science), University of Toronto (BSc, molecular genetics)
Hometown:
Other activities:
- Taming Cas12 70%
- Testing oh so many constructs 25%
- Splitting time between Moffat and Taipale labs 15%

Thomas Zheng, BSc
MSc Student
Education: University of Toronto (BSc)
Hometown: Brampton, ON
Other activities: Contemplating the heat death of the universe.
- Searching for the killer KRAB 55%
- Dealing with two supervisors (Hughes and Taipale)… 45%
- …while trying not to adopt their hairstyle 10%