People
Dr. Frank Beier
Department of Physiology & Pharmacology
Graduate Program: Physiology & Pharmacology
- The study of mechanisms regulating development, growth and maintenance of the mammalian skeleton using genetic/genomic approaches (conventional and tissue-specific knockout mice, microarrays, etc.)
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Dr. Nathalie Bérubé
Department of Biochemistry
Graduate Program: Biochemistry
- The control of higher-order chromatin structure in brain development and disease
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Dr. Dean Betts
Department of Physiology & Pharmacology
Graduate Program: Physiology & Pharmacology
- The molecular and cellular mechanisms of cellular senescence and to examine the epigenetic phenomena involved in reprogramming aged somatic cells to a pluripotent state
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Dr. Arthur Brown
Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology
Graduate Program: Anatomy & Cell Biology
- The role of Eph receptors in the developing nervous system and in the developing heart
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Dr. Lina Dagnino
Department of Physiology & Pharmacology
Graduate Program: Physiology & Pharmacology
- The control of epidermal cell growth, differentiation and regeneration
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Dr. Sashko Damjanovski
Department of Biology
Graduate Program: Biology
- The role of the extracellular matrix in the development of Xenopus laevis
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Dr. Rodney DeKoter
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Graduate Program: Microbiology & Immunology
- Regulation of immune system development and function by transcription factors
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Dr. John DiGuglielmo
Department of Physiology & Pharmacology
Graduate Program: Physiology & Pharmacology
- The relationship between TGFβ receptor trafficking and signal transduction
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Dr. Thomas Drysdale
Department of Paediatrics
Graduate Program: Physiology & Pharmacology
- The transcriptional control of heart differentiation and morphogenesis
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Dr. Qingping Feng
Department of Physiology & Pharmacology
Graduate Program: Physiology & Pharmacology
- The understanding of pathyphysiological mechanisms of heart failure and molecular regulation of fetal heart development
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Dr. Victor Han
Department of Paediatrics
Graduate Program: Biochemistry
- The molecular and cellular mechanisms of normal fetal and placental growth with the aim of understanding the pathobiological mechanisms of fetal growth restriction and preeclampsia
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Dr. Daniel Hardy
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
Graduate Program: Physiology and Pharmacology
- Investigating the role of nuclear receptors in fetal programming
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Dr. David Hess
Department of Physiology & Pharmacology
Graduate Program: Physiology & Pharmacology
- The rational development of cellular therapies to mediate the repair of diseased, damaged, or ischemic tissues
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Dr. David Hill
Department of Medicine
Graduate Program: Physiology & Pharmacology
- The hormonal control of growth and development, with a particular interest in the prenatal human
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- Lawson Health Research Institute
Dr. Greg Kelly
Department of Biology
Graduate Program: Biology Cell
- signaling in the development of zebrafish
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Dr. Zia Khan
Department of Pathology
Graduate Program: Pathology
- Mechanisms of vascular stem cell (VSC) differentiation and postnatal blood vessel formation in physiological and pathological conditions
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Dr. Susanne Kohalmi
Department of Biology
Graduate Program: Biology
- Complexity of regulatory processes in organisms
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Dr. Jamie Kramer
Department of Physiology & Pharmacology
Graduate Program: Physiology & Pharmacology
- Role of epigenetics in learning and memory, and to understand the contribution of epigenetic deregulation to human cofnitive disorders
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Dr. Priti Krishna
Department of Biology
Graduate Program: Biology
- Hormonal regulation and functional genomics in plants
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Dr. Susan Meakin
Department of Biochemistry
Graduate Program: Biochemistry
- Receptor tyrosine kinases in the development, disorder and regulation of the nervous system
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Dr. Tony Percival-Smith
Department of Biology
Graduate Program: Biology
- The role of exercise during pregnancy for fetal and maternal health
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Dr. Christopher Pin
Department of Paediatrics
Graduate Program: Physiology & Pharmacology
- Molecular events in pancreatic development and disease
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Dr. Fred Possmayer
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Graduate Program: Biochemistry
- The role of lung surfactants in development and disease
Dr. Lynne-Marie Postovit (Adjunct)
Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology
Graduate Program: Biology
- The study of the effects of microenvironmental factors
- Lawson Health Research Institute
Dr. Bryan Richardson
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Graduate Program: Physiology & Pharmacology
- The impact of acute and chronic hypoxia on fetal development, both short term and long term, with a focus on that of the brain, using invasive study in fetal sheep and complimentary non-invasive study in pregnant guinea pigs and their offspring
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Dr. Cheryle Séguin
Department of Physiology & Pharmacology
Graduate Program: Physiology & Pharmacology
- Using human embryonic stem cells to understand the mechanisms regulating early development and cell lineage specification
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Dr. Trevor Shepherd
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Graduate Program: Physiology & Pharmacology
- Translational Ovarian Cancer Research through Primary Cell Culture and Animal Modelling
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Dr. Rennian Wang
Department of Physiology & Pharmacology
Graduate Program: Physiology & Pharmacology
- The development of islet beta cells in the pancreas and the potential for islet progenitor cells to differentiate into insulin-producing islet cells
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Dr. Andrew Watson
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Graduate Program: Physiology & Pharmacology
- The specific mechanisms controlling early mammalian development to improve success of mammalian embryo culture
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Dr. Kaiping Yang
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Graduate Program: Physiology & Pharmacology
- Glucocorticoid actions in fetal and maternal health and the fetal origins of visceral obesity
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