Principal Investigator

P. Joel Ross, PhD

Associate Professor, Biology

pjross (a) upei.ca



Current Students

Shelby Squires, BSc (Hons)

Graduate Student

MSc thesis: Interplay between LINC00473 and PDE10A in CREB-dependent gene expression

Kaileigh Rowe, BSc (Hons)

Graduate Student

MSc thesis: Overcoming metabolic constraints on embryonic stem cell growth for cultured meat

Lauren Gaudet, BSc (Hons)

Graduate Student

MSc thesis: Human cellular models to test mRNA vaccine potency



Alumni

Emma Campbell, BSc (Hons)
  • Honours thesis: Development of a self-sufficient and selectable reprogramming vector to convert human skin fibroblasts to neurons
Brandon Smith, MSc
  • MSc thesis: Development of a functional genetics toolkit to study the primate specific long noncoding RNA LINC00473
  • Honours thesis: CRISPR-interference and -activation to test roles of LINC00473 in CREB-dependent gene expression
Shruthi Bandi, BSc (Hons)
  • Honours thesis: Genetic engineering approaches to improve the conversion of human skin fibroblasts to neurons
Brandon McDonald, BSc (Hons)
  • Honours thesis: Mechanistic analysis of stimulus-evoked expression of the synaptic gene PTCHD1
Marcus Gauthier
  • Co-op project: CRISPR tools to test Pde10a promoter regulation
Katerina Krouglicof, BSc
  • Summer student
Jason Ryan, BSc
  • Summer student