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