Dr. Maira Rivera Valdés
Research Associate | Chemistry (Luedtke Group)

Project: mRNA design
Country: Chile

Dr. Fiona Ebanks
Postdoctoral Fellow | Chemistry

Project: Chemically enhanced aptamer selection
Country: Jamaica

Dr. Eiman Osman
Postdoctoral Fellow | Chemistry

Project: DNA-encoded library selection of therapeutic aptamers
Country: Sudan

Micaela Belleperche
PhD Candidate | Chemistry

Project: Small molecule aptamer biosensing
Awards: NSERC CGS-M, David Noble Harpp Fellowship, NSERC CGS-D, FRQNT doctoral scholarship
Country: Canada

Olivia Kovecses
PhD Candidate | Pharmacology

Project: Nucleic acid therapeutics for acute myeloid leukemia
Awards: Canadian Cancer Society – Research Training Award; CIHR CGS-D Doctoral Scholarship
Country: Canada

Monika Kojic
PhD Candidate | Pharmacology

Project: RNA switches for endogenous genetic control
Awards: NSERC PGS-D Doctoral Scholarship
Country: Canada

Brandon Albert
PhD Candidate | Chemistry

Project: Aptamer-based delivery of nucleic acid therapeutics
Awards: MITACS Accelerate
Country: Canada

Amanda Clairoux
MSc Candidate | Chemistry

Project: Solid-phase capture of riboswitch conformations
Awards: FRQNT – Master's Training Scholarship
Country: Canada

Grace Liu
PhD Candidate | Chemistry

Project: Synthetic aptazymes for multiplexed chemogenetic control and biosensing in cells and animals
Awards: Major departmental award, CRBS studentship
Country: China

Kristina Gremi
MSc Candidate | Chemistry

Project: Development of endogenous sensors for oxidative stress
Country: Canada

Omar Salam
MSc Candidate | Pharmacology

Project: Therapeutic potential of a mitochondrial thiamine transporter in acute myeloid leukemia
Awards: Max Stern Recruitment Fellowship
Country: Canada

Omma Shahara Ayon
PhD Candidate | Chemistry

Project: Chemically-modified RNA tools for controlled self-amplifying RNA
Country: Bangladesh/Canada

Antoine Moitessier
PhD Candidate | Chemistry

Project: Experimental and computational tools to measure riboswitch conformational change
Country: Canada

Yasamin
MEng Candidate | Biological and Biomedical Engineering

Project: Chemically-modified mRNAs
Country: Canada

Carmen
BSc Honours | Pharmacology

Project: Comparison of theophylline ribozymes
Country: Canada

Levana
BSc Honours | Pharmacology

Project: Relationship of transcription factors and FLT3 inhibitors in AML
Country: Canada

Koren Kim
BSc | Biochemistry, Minor in Chemistry

Project: Discovering riboswitch binding ligands
Country: Canada

Gracie
BSc Honours | Biochemistry

Project: Discovering riboswitch binding ligands
Country: China

Sietse
BSc | Chemistry

Project: New methods for rapid aptamer comparison
Country: Netherlands

Mia
BSc | Honours Environment (Ecological Determinants of Health-Cellular), Minors in Chemistry & Biotechnology

Project: Unnatural nucleotide/fluorescent probes in C. elegans of mercury exposure
Country: Canada