Current Members
STAFF
Liz St John – Lab Manager
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Kayla Amuge – MBS student
Education: B.A. Biology in Research & Cell, Molecular Biology, and Genetics (Laurier University)
Research Interests: Innate cellular responses to injury/ pathogenic attacks
Email: kamuge@uoguelph.ca
Fatima Askary – MSc candidate
Email: faskary@uoguelph.ca
Kayla Favaro – MSc candidate (part-time)
Education: Honours BSc (University of Guelph), minor in Psychology
Research Interests: I am interested in utilizing a variety of imaging techniques to study the process of gecko tail regeneration, focusing on neural regeneration, that can be applied to other mammalian systems
Email: kfavaro@uoguelph.ca
Melissa Hardman – PhD Candidate
Education: Honours BSc (University of Guelph)
Email: mhardman@uoguelph.ca
Alexandra Noble – MSc Candidate
Education: BSc.H (University of Guelph)
Research Interests: Neurogenesis and brain repair
Email: anoble01@uoguelph.ca
UNDERGRADUATES
Iliana Keritses
Ava Keykhosravi
Abby Gloade – BSc in Biological & Medical Physics
Past Members
GRADUATES
Brittany D’Agostin, MSc (2023 – 2025)
Adam McCarney, MBS (2024 – 2025)
Maia Hoover, MSc (2022 – 2024)
Avika Srivastava, MSc (2022 – 2024)
Solsa Cariba, MSc (2021 – 2023)
Rozana Qubrosi, MBS (2021 – 2022)
UNDERGRADUATES
Lelia Faouk Al-Aadah, USRA student (2025)
Fatima Askary, URA student, undergraduate research project (2024 – 2025)
Sydney Krasinkiewicz, undergraduate research project (2024 – 2025)
Iliana Keritses, Co-op student (2024)
Kendra Bronsema, USRA student, undergraduate research project (2023 – 2024)
Elizabeth Wildeboer, Co-op student (2023)
