How to Contact Us...
by mail...
160 College Street, 11th floor
Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research
University of Toronto
Toronto ON, M5S 3E1
Canada
by phone or fax
Lab: 416-978-4539
Administrative Office: 416-978-0553
Fax: 416-978-2666
lab members...
research associates...
| Brian Ballios, MD., PhD. | |
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Retinal Stem Cells Project Description: Retinal stem cell biology and applications in retinal degeneration. Contact: brian.ballios@utoronto.ca
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| Saeed Khalili, PhD. | Post Doctoral Fellow (2012-Present) |
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Retinal Stem Cells Project Description: Adult retinal and pancreatic stem cells. Contact: saeed.khalili@utoronto.ca
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post doctoral fellow...
| Taryn Grieder | |
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Motivation Group Project Description: Investigating the involvement of dopamine, CRF and various nicotinic receptors in the motivational effects of acute and chronic nicotine and withdrawal. Contact: taryngrieder@gmail.com |
graduate students ...
| Tania Alexson | |
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ES Cells/Developmental Stem Cell Biology Project Description: Investigating if cell cycle can serve as the gatekeeper to self-renewal. Contact: talexson@thinkers.cx
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| Ahmed Fhamy | Graduate Student (2012-present) |
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Cell Lineage and Brain Development/IPS cells Project Description: Using Neural Crest stem cells in investigating the mechanism of cellular reprogramming. Contact: ahmed.fahmy@utoronto.ca |
| Kenneth Grisé | Graduate Student (2012-Present) |
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Retinal Stem Cells Project Description: Characterization of neural stem cells in the brain and retina and development of regenerative therapies to repair damage caused by disease or injury. Contact: ken.grise@mail.utoronto.ca |
| Geith Maal-Bared | Graduate Student (2012-Present) | |
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Neurobiology of Motivation Project Description: Identifying the anatomical layout and molecular properties underlying the GABA switch in the VTA of opiate dependent/deprived rodents. Contact: geith.maal.bared@utoronto.ca
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| Isabel Mackay-Clackett | Graduate Student (2015-Present) |
Motivation & Learning and Memory in C.elegans Project Description: neurobiological mechanisms underlying the induction of psychoactive drug withdrawal, with particular attention to the motivational effects it produces & olfactory discrimination in C.elegans Contact: |
| Daniel Merritt | Graduate Student (2012-Present) |
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Learning and Memory Project Description: My research is on the biochemical nature of memory in the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans. Contact: dmerritt@gmail.com |
| Nikolaos Mitrousis | Graduate Student (Shoichet Lab 2012-Present) |
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Retinal Stem Cells Project Description: In collaboration with the Shoichet lab, we are studying the interactions between the retinal pigmented epithelium and the photoreceptors of the eye, using a bioengineering approach. Contact: nikolaos.mitrousis@mail.utoronto.ca
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| Tahani Waheeb | Graduate Student (2012-Present) |
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Retinal Stem Cells Project Description: Retinal stem cell therapy and the steps toward success. Contact: mrs.alnami@gmail.com |
| Mandy Yee | Masters Student (2015-Present) |
Motivation Project Description: neurobiological substrates of the rewarding effects of caffeine. Contact: mandy.yee@mail.utoronto.ca
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| Glenn Wolfe | Graduate Student (2011-Present) |
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Learning and Memory Project Description: Unravelling the genetic mechanisms of learning and memory by characterizing a learning deficient C. elegans mutation. Contact: glenn.wolfe@utoronto.ca
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| Samantha Yammine | Graduate Student (2012-Present) |
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Neural Stem Cells Project Description: Regulation of pluripotency and self-renewal of primitive and definitive neural stem cells in the developing mammalian brain. |
lab support
| Brenda Coles-Takabe | Lab Manager & Technican |
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Please contact for all techinical lab querieies Contact: 416-978-4539 Contact: brenda.coles@utoronto.ca Fax: 416-978-2666
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| Monika Ignacak | Research Projects Administrator |
Please contact for any lab querieies Contact: 416-978-0553 Contact: monika.ignacak@utoronto.ca Fax: 416-978-2666 |
past students...
| Margot Arntfield, PhD. | |
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Pancreatic Stem Cells
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| Irina Brokhman, PhD. | |
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Pancreatic Stem Cells Project Description: Dual embryonic origin of the mammalian enteric nervous system.
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| Mary Rose Bufalino | |
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Asymetrical Division Project Description: The asymmetric segregation of damaged proteins during cell division and its influence on stem cell aging and cancer cell differentiation.
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| Laura Clarke-Donaldson, MDPhD. | |
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Retinal and Neural Stem Cells Project Description: Investigated the properties of progenitor cells found in the adult mammalian subependymal zone and dentate gyrus of the brain as well as the pigmented ciliary epithelium of the eye using a combination of in vitro clonal assays and transplant models
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| Brian DeVeale, PhD. | |
Cell Lineage and Brain Development Project Description: Lineage specification of pluripotent populations in murine development.
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| Rachel Leeder | |
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Retinal Stem Cells Project Description: The role of Oct4- expressing primitive neural stem cells in the neural stem cell lineage.
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| Rozita Razavi, PhD. | |
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Pancreatic Stem Cells
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| Ryan Ting-A-Kee | |
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Motivation Group Project Description: Studies the brain regions important for caffeine, opiate, and ethanol reward.
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| Hector Vargas-Perez, PhD. | |
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Neurobiology of Motivation
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| Jie Xu, PhD. | |
Pancreatic Stem Cells |
by air and land
Fly into Toronto Pearson Airport (YYZ). If you take a cab, expect to pay $60-$70, depending on traffic. We are located downtown on the U of T campus.
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Derek van der Kooy
**photo credit: Simon Smukler - depicted are differentiated cell progeny derived from a single pancreas-derived precursor cell. The green colour represents labeling of insulin (pancreatic beta cells) and the red colour represents labeling of a neuron-specific marker. The blue colour shows the nuclei of all the cells present in the field. From Seaberg, et al, Nature Biotechnology, 2004 Sep;22(9):1115-24. **