CURRENT LAB MEMBERS
Dr. Maria S. Ioannou
Associate Professor, Department of Physiology
Adjunct, 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:
2026 Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry Excellence in Mentoring Award – Basic II
2026 Canadian Association for Neuroscience New Investigator Award
2024 Martha Cook Piper Research Prize
2022 Canada Research Chair, Tier 2
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
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD Student
MSc Student
Technician
LAB ALUMNI
Kennedi Chik
MSc Student 2024-2026
Undergrad Researcher 2022-2023
Current: MD Student UofA
Iset Ilarraza Arizmendi
Undergrad Researcher 2024-2026
Ehlam Iftikar
Undergrad Researcher 2024-2026
Dr. Isha Ralhan
PhD Student 2019-2025
Current Position: Postdoc DZNE
Dr. Claudia Acevedo-Morantes
Research Associate 2024
Kiarra Grimes
Undergrad Researcher 2024
Luis Fernando Rubio Atonal
MSc Student 2020-2024
Jeremy Wong
Undergrad Researcher 2023-2024
Ceili Green
Undergrad Researcher 2023-2024
Claire Liden
Undergrad Researcher 2022
Muhammad Elezzabi
Undergrad Researcher 2020-2021
Wendy Cai
Undergrad Researcher 2020-2022
Research Assistant 2022-2023
Ian Gatera
Undergrad researcher 2019-2020
