MSC STUDENTS

Christina Ly

MSc. Cellular and Molecular Medicine, 2012-2014.

The influence of Vaccinium angustifolium var.laevifolium House (Ericaceae) leaf extract on trophoblast biology

Tasfia Ahmed

MSc. Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, 2012-2015.

Multivitamin Intake During Pregnancy: Effect of Excessive Concentrations of Micronutrients on Placental Stress Response.

Co-Supervised with Dr. Fontaine-Bisson

Chantal Dubé

MSc. Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, 2015-2017.

The influence of maternal myokines on placental health and function.

Co-Supervised with Dr. Adamo

Philip Marshall

MSc. Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, 2016-2019.

NAD+ depletion and mitochondrial dysfunction as a causal role in preeclampsia.

Co-Supervised with Dr. Menzies

Anika Mukherjee

MSc. Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, 2016-2021.

Digital automation of placenta pathology examination in cases of placenta-mediated diseases.

Purvasha Patnaik

MSc. Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, 2018-2021.

Machine learning to detect distinct histopathology lesions in the human placenta.

Alexandra Goudreau

MSc. Human Kinetics, 2020-2022

Characterizing the Hofbauer Cell Response to Maternal Physical Activity During Pregnancy.

Erika Mery

MSc. Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, 2020-2022.

Using placenta pathology findings to predict maternal cardiovascular health after a preeclamptic pregnancy.

 

PhD Students

Pascale Robineau-Charette

PhD. Cellular and Molecular Medicine, 2015-2021.

The role of FGL2 in placental development and preeclampsia.

Co-Supervised with Dr. Vanderhyden

Fahmida Jahan

PhD. Biochemistry, 2017-2023.

Placental Mitochondrial Function and Dysfunction in Preeclampsia.

Co-Supervised with Dr. Menzies

 

Post-docs

Patricia Peticca

Post-doc, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2011-2012

SIRT1: Identification of a novel placental stress-response protein that regulates fetal growth?

Jonathan Ferrier

Post-doc, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, 2014-2016.

Vaccinium (Blueberry) leaf extract for human trophoblast survival: a natural health product for preventing preeclampsia.

Samantha Benton

Post-doc, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, 2015-2020.

Biomarkers or Preeclampsia Pathophysiology and Long Term Maternal Health Risk.

Goutham Vasam

Post-doc, Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, 2019-2022.

The role of mitochondrial metabolism in placenta health and disease.

 

Technicians

Jeremiah Gaudet

Technician, 2012-2022.

Honours BSc. in Biochemistry, University of Ottawa.

 

Undergraduate Students

Caitlin Ennis

Community Service Placement & Health Science Communication Ambassador, 2023.

Science Communication Ambassador.

Jessica Berryhill

Community Service Placement, 2023.

Science Communication Ambassador.

Ashley Lam

Community Service Placement, 2023.

Science Communication Ambassador.

Eden Clark-Campbell

Bachelor’s Honours, 2022-2023.

Placenta-mediated disease and maternal cardiovascular disease, a systematic review.

Shreya Suade

Undergraduate Research Internship, 2022-2023.

IISER Mohali, India.

Jennie Nelson

Community Service Placement, 2022.

Science Communication Ambassador.

Varsa Murugesu

Community Service Placement, 2022.

Science Communication Ambassador.

Nussaiba Iftekhar

Bachelor’s Honours, 2022.

NAD+ signalling and placental vascular development.

Trina Julien

Bachelor’s Honours, 2021-2022.

NAD+ signalling and placental development and function.

Troiana Claxton

Bachelor’s Honours, 2020-2021.

Maternal opioid use during pregnancy and placenta pathology.

Brenden Spano-Osborn

Bachelor’s Honours, 2019-2020.

Neonatal outcomes associated with placental villitis of unknown etiology.

Amy Zeglinsky-Spinney

Medical Student Summer Placement, 2019.

Application of a synoptic placenta pathology reporting tool in community hospital settings.

Sonia Dancey

UROP, Summer Student/RA, 2019-2023.

Validation of synoptic placenta pathology reporting.

Maria Henin

Bachelor’s Honours, 2018-2019.

Effects of cannabis on placental health and function.

Michal Leckie

Summer Student, 2017 & 2018.  

Validation of synoptic placenta pathology reporting.

Fadi Gorgi

Bachelor's Honours, 2017-2018.

Hypomorphic SIRT1 compromises placental vascular development.

Ben McLeod

Bachelor’s Honours, 2017-2018.

Development of an antibody based screening tool for preeclampsia subtypes.

Sapir Fellus

Bachelor’s Honours, 2016-2017.

Validation of a novel histopathology tool to classify placenta-mediated disease.

Peter Pham

Bachelor’s Honours & Co-op Student, 2016-2017.

Development of a novel antibody panel for the diagnosis of preeclampsia.

Sadad Rahman

Bachelor’s Honours, 2015-2016.

Identification of subclass-specific biomarkers for the early prediction of preeclampsia.

Ramitashini Kamalathasan

Bachelor’s Honours, 2015-2016.

Using standardized placenta pathology evaluation to identify distinct molecular subclasses of preeclampsia.

Abdul Hadi Djokhdem

Bachelor’s Honours, 2015-2016.

Mechanisms of SIRT1-mediated trophoblast invasion.

Sonya Vukovic

Bachelor’s Honours, 2015-2016.

Determining the bioactive components of Vaccinium (Blueberry) leaf extract for improved human trophoblast invasion.

Georges Gharib

Bachelor’s Honours, 2014-2015.

Identification of subclass specific biomarkers of preeclampsia.

Jamal Alkadri

Bachelor’s Honours, 2014-2015.

Hypoxia induced reductions in SIRT1 compromises placental function.

Santana Sivasalapathi

Bachelor’s Honours, 2014-2015.

Mechanisms of fetal growth restriction in SIRT1 knockout mice.

Ilan Fellus

Bachelor’s Honours, 2013-2014.

Effects of exogenous folic acid on placental health and function.

Christopher Mansour

Bachelor’s Honours, 2013-2014.

SIRT1: A novel placental stress response protein that regulates fetal growth.

Miesha MacDonald-Roberts

Bachelor’s Honours, 2012-2013.

Effects of niacin on placental stress response.

Hiba Abdul-Fattah

Bachelor’s Honours, 2011-2012.

Effect of prenatal multivitamin supplementation on placental stress response.