People

CURRENT LAB MEMBERS

Dr. Maria S. Ioannou
Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology
Group on Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids
Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute
University of Alberta

Maria obtained her BSc and MSc with Dr. Margaret Fahnestock at McMaster University, her PhD with Dr. Peter McPherson at McGill University and her post-doctoral training with Drs.  Zhe Liu and Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz at the HHMI Janelia Research Campus. She started her lab at the University of Alberta in May 2019.

Awards and Honors:

2021 Sloan Fellow in Neuroscience
National New Investigator from the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada
Amgen Stewart Whitman CLC Young Investigator Award

Our Team:

Dr. Jinlan Chang
Research Associate
Isha Ralhan
PhD Student
Luis Fernando Rubio Atonal
PhD Student
Nathanael Lee
MSc Student
Wendy Cai
Undergraduate Student
Dr. Julie Jacquemyn
Postdoctoral Fellow

LAB ALUMNI

Claire Liden PHYSL461 Student 2022

Muhammad Elezzabi PHYSL468/469 Student 2019-2020

Nathanael Lee PHYSL468/469 Student 2019-2020

Wendy Cai CELL398 Student 2020
PHYSL468/469 Student 2021-2022

Ian Gatera PHYSL467 Student 2019-2020

COLLABORATORS

Dr. Peter Stys, University of Calgary, Canada

Dr. Hugo Bellen, HHMI, Baylor College of Medicine, USA

Dr. Doreen Matthies, National Institutes of Health, USA

Dr. Mark Cembrowski, University of British Columbia, Canada

Dr. Ian Winship, University of Alberta, Canada

Dr. Jesse Jackson, University of Alberta, Canada