Graduate students
Natasha Porco
I am a first year MSc student at Ryerson and I joined the McPhee and Botelho labs in 2020 as a thesis student. My project looks at uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) filamentation through the activation of the PhoPQ system. During urinary tract infections, this system is activated in UPEC in response to stressful environmental conditions in order to promote survival. The goal of my project is to further understand and characterize filamentation mediated through this regulatory system.
Zaid Shahid
I am a first year MSc student with a background in immunology. My project looks at examining the impact of restoring ancestral signalling pathways to Shigella flexneri M90T.
Undergraduate students
Rebecca David
Rebecca is a fifth-year thesis student in the Biomedical Sciences program at Toronto Metropolitan University. Rebecca will be studying nucleoside analogues to identify potential antibacterial activity using model gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria. In addition, she will observe whether stable resistance can be selected against these compounds by assessing the behaviour that the bacteria will exhibit.
Sophia Di Clemente
Sophia is a fourth-year undergraduate thesis student in the Biomedical Sciences program at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her project investigates the role of regulatory protein EnvY in the PhoPQ two-component signalling system. This system is utilized by Gram-negative bacteria to control virulence and resistance to host-defense peptides. The goal of this project is to understand the mechanism by which EnvY represses the PhoPQ system in Escherichia coli (E. coli).
Shaili Kapadia
Jamie Rice
McPhee Lab Alumni
Reshmi Misir – MSc student – 2021-2023
Tesam Ahmed – undergraduate thesis student 2022-23
Jateya Grbic – – undergraduate thesis student 2022-23
Golsa Makvandi – undergraduate thesis student 2022-23
Youn Hee Cho – PhD student – 2016-2022
Arooj Qamar – MSc student – 2020-2022
Madison Tomlinson – MSc student – 2019-2021
Raymond Huynh – MSc student – 2019-2021
Mayet Awoke – undergraduate thesis student – 2021-22
Adelaida Blaxley – undergraduate thesis student – 2021-22
Selina Melilo – undergraduate thesis student – 2021-22
Shafi Rahman – undergraduate thesis student – 2021-22
Julia Novielli – undergraduate thesis student – 2021-22
Ingrid Bancolita – undergraduate thesis student – 2020-21
Ipar Karaali – undergraduate thesis student – 2020-21
Urooj Khan – undergraduate thesis student – 2020-21
Jocelyne Mendez-Guzman – undergraduate thesis student – 2020-21
Taylor Pham – NSERC USRA – 2021
Adam Khan – MSc student – 2017-2019
Zohra Kassam – undergraduate thesis student 2019-2020
Nathaniel Katzenberg – undergraduate thesis student 2019-2020
Avery Malpass – NSERC USRA undergraduate thesis student 2019-2020
Reshmi Misir – undergraduate thesis student 2019-2020
Deserie Montances – undergraduate thesis student 2019-2020
Eesa Chaudhry – visiting international student – 2018-2019
Abuzar Zainul Abedin – NSERC USRA 2017 and 2018; undergraduate thesis student 2018-2019
Disha Acharya – undergraduate thesis student 2018-2019
Jasika Bashal – undergraduate thesis student 2018-2019
Joy Dallaire – undergraduate thesis student 2018-2019
Anna Mapili – undergraduate thesis student 2018-2019
Michael Renouf – MSc student – 2016-2018
Sheena Shah – visiting international student – 2017-2018
Rebecca Cabral-Dias – undergraduate thesis student 2017-2018 (co-supervised with Dr. Costin Antonescu)
Najih Ismail – undergraduate thesis student 2017-2018
Ashuka Kayastha – undergraduate thesis student 2017-2018
Shion Song – undergraduate thesis student 2017-2018
Riasad Fadle Aziz – undergraduate thesis student 2017-2018
Tanuja Sutradhar – undergraduate thesis student 2017-2018
Viktoria Weisz – undergraduate volunteer 2016-2017
Mario Vargas MSc – graduate student 2015-2018
Jessica Kociper – undergraduate volunteer 2016-2017
Lauren Phillips – undergraduate thesis student 2016-2017
Veronica Cojocari – undergraduate thesis student 2015-16
Mariya-Nikol Leshchyshyn – undergraduate volunteer 2015-2016
Achjuthan Raveendran – undergraduate summer student 2016