Postdoctoral Fellowships

Dr. Kimberley Arbeau
Department of Family Social Sciences
Faculty of Human Ecology, University of Manitoba

Project Title: Shyness and Shame in Middle Childhood: Can the Combination Lead to the Most Detrimental Outcomes?
Supervisor: Dr. Rosemary Mills

Dr. Arbia Arfaoui
Department of Microbiology
Faculty of Science, University of Manitoba

Project Title: Identification and characterization of Resistance-Nodulation-Division (RND) efflux pumps in the multiresistant bacterial pathogen Burkholderia cenocepacia
Supervisor: Dr. Silvia Cardona

Dr. Chantal Bassett
Department of Surgery
Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba

Project Title: Nutrigenomic approach to understanding the cardioprotective mechanism of dietary flaxseed
Supervisor: Dr. Randolph Guzman

Dr. Heather Blewett
Department of CCARM
University of Manitoba

Project Title: The role of adipose-derived stem cells in obesity related inflammation
Supervisor: Dr. Peter Zahradka

Dr. Rimpy Dhingra
Department of Physiology
Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba

Project Title: REGULATION OF BNIP3 AND AUTOPHAGY IN HEART
Supervisor: Dr. Lorrie Kirshenbaum

Dr. Daniel Flores Tapia
Department of Medical Physics
Other

Project Title: Electrical Impedance Tomography Imaging of the Breast using a novel 3D Multi-Frequency Monotonicity Reconstruction Approach
Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Pistorius

Dr. Yan Hai
University of Manitoba

Project Title: CaMKIV regulation of hnRNP L-Like protein in alternative splicing
Supervisor: Dr. Jiuyong Xie

Dr. Amit Kamboj
Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba

Project Title: Role of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-2 (PARP-2) in the pathogenesis of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis.
Supervisor: Dr. Christopher Anderson

Dr. Narisorn Kongruttanachok
Department of Physiology
Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba

Project Title: Characterization of telomere dysfunction in Hodgkin's lymphoma
Supervisor: Dr. Sabine Mai

Dr. Sandrine Lafarge
Department of Immunology
Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba

Project Title: The role the PI3K signaling pathways play in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (TAPPing into a potential target for therapy?)
Supervisor: Dr. Aaron Marshall

Dr. Zhirong Mou
Department of Immunology
Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba

Project Title: Identification of Leishmania major antigenic peptides that elicit protective memory T cell response
Supervisor: Dr. Jude Uzonna

Ms Nancy Newall
Department of Community Health Sciences
Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba

Project Title: Social Engagement Among Older Adults: Longitudinal Health Outcomes and Community Programming
Supervisor: Dr. Verena Menec

Dr. Peter Potrebko
Department of Medical Physics
University of Manitoba

Project Title: Improving Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning Using Multi-objective Optimization
Supervisor: Dr. Boyd Mccurdy

Dr. Mohammad Sabbir
Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, MICB
Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba

Project Title: Role of Dlc-1 and -2 genes in transformation, metastasis in vivo using conditional knockout mouse models.
Supervisor: Dr. Michael Mowat

Dr. Jingbo Zhang
Department of Immunology
Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba

Project Title: Molecular Regulation and Function of Pentraxin 3 in Allergic Asthma
Supervisor: Dr. Abdelilah Soussi Gounni