Graduates of the Downey Lab

This page lists of MSc and PhD graduates, as well as former PDFs, all of who made critical contributions to our lab.

Dr. AMANDA BentlEY-DESOUSA (2015-2021)
PHD student (First PHD from the Lab!)

• Publications: PMID: 31466120; 29881919; 29590613; 27527516; 34544285

• Awards: First Place PhD Talk, CMM Research Day 2019; Silver Medal CSHRF CIHR Health Sciences Conference 2019; Top oral presentation OISB retreat 2019; NSERC PHD Fellowship; PhD Award of Excellence (2018); 2nd Place Poster – CMM Poster Day May 2018; Ontario Graduate Scholarship 2018; Travel Award (ASBMB Conference 2018); Top Poster Day CMM Research Day Nov 2016; 2nd Place Poster Award - The Canadian Symposium on Telomeres and Genome Integrity 2016; 2nd place poster Award - CMM Research Day Nov 2016

• Current Position: Post-doc, Ferguson Lab, Yale University

Rawan nasser (2018-2020)
MSc student

Publications: PMID: 33113373

Current Position: PharmD program at UofT

Dr. Emma Bondy-CHorney (2017-2020)
FORMER PDF

• Publications: PMID: 29590613; 31060926; 29671337; 33113373, https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.01.056192v2

• Awards: NSERC PDF Fellow; CCSRI Travel Award; PDF Service Award; OISB Poster Award 2017

• Current Position: Canadian Food Inspection Agency, formerly at Research Associate (Health Canada)

Charlotte Holinier (2016-2018)
MSc graduate

• Publications: PMID: 29590613, 33113373

• Travel Award (ASBMB Conference 2018)

• Current Position: Technican: Stanford Lab OHRI

  
  

Anthony Rössl (2016-2018)
MSc graduate

• Publications: PMID 27527516; 30804216

• MSc Award of Excellence (2017)

• Top Poster Award (CEEHRC Epigenetics Meetings, Whistler, November 2017)

• Top Poster Award Chemical and Synthetic Biology Day Symposium, October 2017, University of Ottawa

• Top Poster Award CMM Poster Day, April 2017 

• Current Position: Analyst, Privacy Analytics