CURRENT LAB MEMBERS
Dr. Maria S. Ioannou
Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology
Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry
University of Alberta
Canada Research Chair in Brain Lipid Cell Biology
Member, Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute
Member, Group on Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids
Member, Women and Children’s Health Research Institute
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
2021 National New Investigator from the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada
2020 Amgen Stewart Whitman CLC Young Investigator Award
Our Team:
Research Associate
PhD Student
PhD Student
MSc Student
Research Assistant
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ju-Young Bae PHYSL468/469 Student 2022-2023
Jeremy Wong – Undergraduate Summer Student
Ceili Green – Undergraduate Summer Student
LAB ALUMNI
Kennedi Chik PHYSL468/469 Student 2022-2023
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
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