Principal Investigator

P. Joel Ross, PhD

Associate Professor of Biology
Graduate Studies Coordinator, Faculty of Science

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



Alumni

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

Emma Campbell, BSc (Hons)

Honours thesis: Development of a self-sufficient and selectable reprogramming vector to convert human skin fibroblasts to neurons

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