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%
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 55%
- Brushing up on my microscopy skills 40%
- Collecting all the pink coloured items in the lab 15%
Guillaume Dugied, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Education: Université Paris Cité (MSc, PhD)
Hometown: Paris, France
Other activities: Baking, cooking, baseball
- Taking pictures of things pathogenic effectors do to cells 65%
- Reading about pathogenic effectors 25%
- Thinking about new assays for pathogenic effectors 20%
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%
Jack Li, BSc
PhD student
Education: University of Toronto (BSc)
Hometown: Beijing, China
Other activities: Playing first person shooter games
- Taming dCas13 71%
- Drinking up all the luciferase reagents 25%
- Climbing the two flights of stairs between Blencowe and Taipale labs 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%
Chloe Reno, BSc
MSc student
Education: York University (BSc)
Hometown: Seattle, Washington
Other activities: Long walks
- More phenotyping of rare diseases (ideally) 67%
- Cloning her days away 14%
- Battling robots 29%
Kaiden Thompson, BSc
Summer student
Education: University of Toronto (BSc)
Hometown: Indian Head, SK
Other activities: Cooking, reading, growing plants with sad levels of apartment daylight
- Tagging endogenous proteins to force them together 54%
- Generating concerning volumes of lentivirus 40%
- Educating the lab on the existence of Saskatchewan 16%
Tisha Parikh, BSc
Summer student
Education: McMaster University (HBSc)
Hometown: Brampton, ON
Other activities: Hiking, drawing, reading
- Identify and characterize proteins of interest involved in viral DNA-triggered signaling pathways 80%
- Apply my findings to expand our eORFeome database 28%
- Holding my breath every time I check my cells 2%
Chérine Sifri, BSc
Summer 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%
Avi Tabibian
Summer student