Lab members

2022-2023

L to R: Ainsley Lewis, Anya Frans

2022-2023

From left to right: Dr. Hind Emad, Sonia E. Evans, Mateja Perc, Scott Ford, Anya Franks, Kamar Nayal (honorary member) (not shown: Matthew Bergman)

PhD students

Sonia Evans, M.Sc. is a Ph.D. candidate studying carbon fixation and substrate supply to the chloroplast terpenoid (isoprenoid) pathway in Arabidopsis.

Matthew E. Bergman is a Ph.D. candidate studying monoterpenoid volatile biosynthesis in rose-scented geraniums (Pelargonium spp.).

MSc students

Anya Franks is an M.Sc. student developing terpene synthetic biology approaches in Arabidopsis and Nicotiana benthamiana.

Scott Ford is an incoming M.Sc student interested in biochemistry and evolutionary biology. His project is jointly supervised with Prof. Rob Ness and addresses triacyglycerol storage in Chlamydomonas rheinhardtii.

Undergraduate students

Mateja Perc is a UTM work-study student providing technical support to graduate research projects in plant molecular biology and biochemistry.

Former lab members

2021-2022

Clockwise from upper left: Sonia Evans, Matthew Bergman, Anya Franks, Sara Yoshimi , Yingxia ‘Daicy’ Liu, Daniela Cobo

2019-2020

Left to right: Amreetha Jayathilake, Cindy Han, Michael Phillips, Benjamin Davis, Matthew Bergman, Sonia Evans, Yve Magedans, Mridula Bhardwaj

2018-2019

Left to right: Rehma Hamid, Matthew Bergman, Amreetha Jayathilake, Michael Phillips, Anmol Chahal

2017-2018

Left to right: Ibadat Bajwa, Matthew Bergman, Alex Chang, Michael Phillips, Ekaterina Kibkalo, Riya Bali, Haniya Adnan