MAY 2025 - We are excited to welcome Zaid Ismail (FNU), Shivam Sharma (UofR UGRA), Richard Xu (UofS NSERC USRA).
Congratulations to Chloe Argue for gaining entrance into medical school at UofS!
APRIL 2025 - Congratulations to Chloe Argue for successfully completing her honour's research.
DECEMBER 2024 - Congratulations to Ali Molaeitabari for having a first-author paper accepted describing how the plant-based essential oil, carvacrol, impacts biofilm formation!
NOVEMBER 2024 - Congratulations to Easter Ndlovu for winning the UofR Graduate Student Research Excellence Award!
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OCTOBER 2024 - Congratulations to Dr. Shahina, former PhD student, who has published yet another paper form her research in our lab: https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/29/23/5536Â
SEPTEMBER 2024 - We are excited to welcome Iliyana Koleva as a new MSc candidate in the lab!
MAY 2024 - We are delighted to welcome Chloe Argue, Mariia Liulchak and Mackenzie Weidel to the lab this summer. Chloe is a UofR student doing research as a BIOC 391 student, Mackenzie and Mariia are MITACS Globalink students visiting from the USA and Ukraine, respectively.
MARCH 2024 - Congratulations to Ali Molaeitabari for having his poster submission to the American Society for Microbiology being accepted as both a poster presentation and a talk!
NOVEMBER 2023 - Congratulations to Eliz Acuna on her first publication in Microorganisms, and to Shahina Zinnat who orchestrated this research in collaboration with Easter Ndlovu, Ali Molaeitabari and myself.
SEPTEMBER 2023 - Easter Ndlovu is publishing her exciting research on how the opportunist pathogen Candida albicans adheres more strongly to cancer cells than non-cancerous ones, a paradigm shift in our understanding of cancer development
JULY 2023 - Dr. Zinnat Shahina is off to a postdoctoral position with Matt Anderson at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
DECEMBER 2022 - Supriya Bhat is now a Special Project Manager of Sustainability at FCC.
MAY 2022 - Zinnat Shahina successfully defended her thesis and is now Dr. Zinnat Shahina!!!
MAY 2020 - Congratulations to Annaliese Beck-McKenzie for receiving the University of Regina Legacy Award, and being accepted into medicine at UBC, and to Apurv Patel and Jared Price on their admission to Saskatoon's College of Medicine. Excellent achievements for excellent students!