Cell and Molecular Biology Faculty

Regular or Term Faculty

Cell and Molecular Biology Regular or Term Faculty

Name

Research Interest
Robert Cumming Brain Metabolism and Aging
Thomas DeFalco Plant molecular biology and cell signalling
Vava Grbic Arabidopsis Developmental Genetics/ Genomics of plant-pest interaction/ Biotechnology
Kathleen Hill Genome organization and integrity
Jim Karagiannis Eukaryotic Cell Division
Gregory Kelly Cell Signaling in Vertebrate Embryos
Susanne Kohalmi Gene Families and Regulation
Joshua Pemberton Eukaryotic Cell Biology – Organelle Dynamics, Membrane Trafficking, and Lipid Metabolism
Anthony Percival-Smith Molecular mechanisms of morphogenesis
Michael Pyne Synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, natural products
Anne Simon Genetics of Social Behavior
David Smith Genome evolution and genetic diversity of microbial eukaryotes
Alexander Timoshenko Cell Biology and Glycobiology

Adjunct, Emeritus or Cross-Appointed Faculty

Cell and Molecular Biology Adjunct, Emeritus or Cross-Appointed Faculty

Name

Research Interest
Dean Betts
(Dept. Physiology and Pharmacology)		 Understanding molecular and cellular mechanisms of early embryo development and pluripotent stem cells.
Yuhai Cui
(Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)		 Plant Molecular Biology; Seed Development
Sangeeta Dhaubhadel
(Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada )		 Gene expression and regulation, plant specialized metabolism, genomics and biotechnology, soybean and dry bean
Cam Donly
(Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada )		 Genomics and biotechnology, RNA interference, plant transformation, biopesticide development, entomology
Martin L. Duennwald
(Dept. Pathology and Laboratory Medicine)		 Protein misfolding, neurodegenerative diseases, cellular protein quality control
Abdelali Hannoufa
(Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)		 Molecular Plant Stress Physiology, Plant Biotechnology, Regulation of Gene Expression, Functional Genomics
Rima Menassa
(Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)		 Plant bioreactors for the production of veterinary vaccines and antibodies as alternatives to antibiotics
Shiva M. Singh
(Emeritus)		 Molecular Genetics of Complex Diseases and Phenotype