Graduate Student Committee


Graduate Student Representative

Current Grad Rep: Yodit Tesfagiorgis – ytesfagi@uwo.ca 
Member Elect: Robert Kuiack – rkuiack@uwo.ca
 

Post-Doctoral Fellowship Representative

Current PDF Rep: Mariya Goncheva – mgonchev@uwo.ca
 

Graduate Studies Committee Representative 

Current Rep: Yodit Tesfagiorgis – ytesfagi@uwo.ca  
 

Undergrad Education Committee Student Representative

Current Rep: Smriti Juriasingani (Simi) – sjuriasi@uwo.ca  
Second Rep: Blake Shannon – bshanno2@uwo.ca
 

Outreach Committee Representatives 

Current Rep: Blake Shannon – bshanno2@uwo.ca
 

*Appointments Committee Student Representative (non-voting)

Current Rep: Yodit Tesfagiorgis – ytesfagi@uwo.ca  
PDF Rep: Mariya Goncheva – mgonchev@uwo.ca
 

*Seminars Committee Student Representative 

Grad Rep: Faizah Alotaibi – falotai3@uwo.ca 
PDF Rep: Mariya Goncheva – mgonchev@uwo.ca
 

MNI Graduate Student Representative to Schulich 

Current Rep: Scarlett Puebla Barragan – spueblab@uwo.ca
 

SOGS Representatives 

Current Rep:  Katherine Ferguson – kfergu49@uwo.ca  
Second Rep: Robert Kuiack – rkuiack@uwo.ca  
Alternate Rep: Mackenzie Joseph Dodge – mdodge@uwo.ca
 

Graduate Teaching Assistant Union Representative 

Current Rep: Steven Trothen – steven.trothen@uwo.ca
 

Infection and Immunity Research Forum Committee 

Chair: Michelle Lim – mlim57@uwo.ca  
Co-chair:  Steven Trothen – steven.trothen@uwo.ca

Representative to Let’s Talk Science  

Current Rep: Katelyn MacNeil – kmacne9@uwo.ca
 

*Representative to the Canadian Society of Microbiologists 

Current Rep: Blake Shannon – bshanno2@uwo.ca
 

*Representative to the American Society of Microbiologists 

Current Rep: Izabela Batko – ibatko@uwo.ca
 

Representative to the American Society for Virology

Current Rep: Yiying Zhang – yzha3294@uwo.ca
  

Representative to the Canadian Society for Immunology 

Current Rep: Yodit Tesfagiorgis – ytesfagi@uwo.ca