Current members

John Bechhoefer
Supervisor [email]		 John Herrick
Research Associate

Project: DNA replication
Michel Gauthier
Postdoctoral Fellow [email]

Project: DNA replication; general modelling and application to cancer cells 		Yonggun Jun
Postdoctoral Fellow

Project: Feedback-based molecular traps
Scott Yang
PhD Student [email]

Project: Modeling eukaryotic DNA replication		 Chang Min Kim
MSc Student [email]

Project: Electrical conductivity of DNA

Alumni

Senior visitors:

  • Peter Williams (2004, 2005; Prof., Acadia Univ.)
  • Andrei Sonin (1994-5; Prof., Russian Academy of Science, Moscow)

 

Postdocs:

  • Connie Roth (2004-5; Assistant Prof., Physics, Emory Univ.)
  • Yuekan Jiao (2002-4; Research Associate, PAPRICAN)
  • Ramesh Rao (2000)
  • Mike Degen (1997-9; Project Manager, Rigaku Innovative Technologies)
  • Gavin Wheeler (1998-9)

 

Graduate students:

  • Yang Li (2008, Transfered to Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of Toronto)
  • Philip Grant (2007, MSc; High-school teacher, Surrey, BC)
  • Shun Lu (2006, MSc; Univ. of Guelph PhD Program)
  • Haiyang Zhang (2005, MSc; Oxford Business School MSc program, England)
  • Suckjoon Jun (2004, PhD; NSERC PDF fellow, AMOLF, Amsterdam; now Bauer Fellow, Harvard)
  • Bram Sadlik (2004, MSc; instructor, Capilano College, N. Vancouver; now at Day4 Energy)
  • Christoph Hebeisen (2002, MSc; U. Toronto PhD Program)
  • Anand Yethiraj (1999, PhD; faculty at Memorial Univ [Nfld])
  • Jeff Hutter (1997, PhD; faculty member at U. Western Ontario)
  • Nancy Tamblyn (1994, MSc)

 

NSERC USRAs and other undergrads from Canada: The USRA is a wonderful program that helps undergrads in Canada get research experience.

  • Thomas Luo (2007 and 2008, from UBC)
  • Karl Wouterloot (2008, USRA, from UBC)
  • Chris Ward (2008, USRA, from UBC)
  • Brandon Marshall (2006, USRA, from UBC)
  • Alex Bowie (2005, USRA, from UBC)
  • Stefan Murphy (2005, USRA and BSc thesis to come, from Acadia Univ.)
  • Russell Woods (2004, USRA, from Alberta)
  • Kevin Wong (2003, 2004; SFU)
  • Lorraine Courneyea (2003, USRA, from UBC)
  • Tim Warner (2002, USRA, from SFU)
  • Russ Greenall (2000, USRA, from SFU)
  • Bram Sadlik (2000, USRA, from UBC)
  • Matt Case (1999, USRA, from Memorial)
  • Nicolas Costanzino (1998, BSc thesis, SFU)
  • Angelo Miele (1993, USRA, from UWO)

 

International Connections: Over the years, a number of students from abroad have come to spend short stays (3-6 months) in our lab.

  • Ullrich Siems (2008, Univ. Konstanz, Germany)
  • Otto Verhage (2005, Univ. of Utrecht, the Netherlands)
  • Sébastien Kawka (2004, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France)
  • Mélanie Boussard (2004, Institut Pasteur, Paris)
  • Elise Praly (2003, ENSL)
  • Bloen Metzger (2002, ENSL)
  • Philippe Gastrein (2002, ENSL)
  • Vincent Fourmond (2002, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France)
  • Laurent Talon (2000, ENS)

and Damien Jurine, François Coulombeau, Laurent Daudet, Valerie Ego, Sébastien Manneville, and Julien Prieur (all ENS, before 2000). C'est fun!