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NSE Trainees

Fareed Abuzaid

Degree Program:

MASc (Expected: August 2023)

Primary Supervisor:

Prof. D. Grant Allen

Research Focus:

Characterization of algal suspension and biofilm productivities in biofilm reactor systems

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Ethan Agena

Degree Program:

MASc (Expected: June 2023)

Primary Supervisor:

Prof. Christopher Lawson

Research Focus:

Engineering chain elongating bacteria for alkane bioproduction

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Sofia Bonilla Tobar

Degree Program:

Primary Supervisor:

Prof. D. Grant Allen

Research Focus:

Bioprocess engineering of red algae for use in pet food
CEO/Founder of HOPE Pet Food

CREATE Working Groups:

Breakthroughs and Innovation Talk Series (BioZone BITS) (2021, 2022)
Design of Experiments (2022)

Erica Di Pede

Degree Program:

MASc (Expected: May 2023)

Primary Supervisor:

Prof. Bradley Saville

Research Focus:

Prebiotic potential of copra meal derived mannooligosaccharides via optimized enzymatic hydrolysis

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Xuebin Feng

Degree Program:

PhD (Expected: November 2025)

Primary Supervisor:

Prof. Emma Master

Research Focus:

Aminated polysaccharide production using biocatalytic cascades

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Data Visualization with Python (2021)

Temesgen Fitamo

Degree Program:

Primary Supervisor:

Prof. Elizabeth Edwards

Research Focus:

Solid state anaerobic digestion of mixed solid wastes

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Design of Experiments (2022)

Joel Howard

Degree Program:

PhD (Expected: August 2025)

Primary Supervisor:

Prof. Christopher Lawson

Research Focus:

Engineering microbiomes to convert lignocellulosic biomass into medium chain fatty acids

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Mara Jezernik

Degree Program:

MASc (Expected: September 2023)

Primary Supervisor:

Prof. Radhakrishnan Mahadevan

Research Focus:

Conversion of CO₂ to value added chemicals via microbial electrosynthesis

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Jens Kastenhofer

Degree Program:

Primary Supervisor:

Prof. D. Grant Allen

Research Focus:

Revealing the microalgal response to rare earth elements

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Design of Experiments (2022) (Instructor)

Owen Mototsune

Degree Program:

PhD (Expected: August 2024)

Primary Supervisor:

Prof. Emma Master

Research Focus:

Oxidative enzymes for synthesis of bio-based crosslinkers

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Support team for non-NSE (Faculty of Law) open science summer project (2020, 2021)
EDI Working Group (2020, 2021, 2022)

Chester Pham

Degree Program:

PhD (Expected: September 2023)

Primary Supervisor:

Prof. Alexei Savchenko

Research Focus:

Transcription factor biosensor design and engineering for the production of value-added products

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Open Publishing & Data Sharing (2020)
Support team for non-NSE (Faculty of Law) open science summer project (2020)
Data Visualization with Python (2021)

Katherine Picott

Degree Program:

PhD (Expected: September 2023)

Primary Supervisor:

Prof. Elizabeth Edwards

Research Focus:

Substrate and structural differences within the reductive dehalogenase enzyme family

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Data Visualization with Python (2021)

Olanrewaju Raji

Degree Program:

Primary Supervisor:

Prof. Emma Master

Research Focus:

Enzymatic oxidation of biomass for production of high-value bio-based products

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Support team for non-NSE (Faculty of Law) open science summer project (2020, 2021)
Breakthroughs and Innovation Talk Series (BioZone BITS) (2021, 2022)

Premy Shanthamoorthy

Degree Program:

PhD (Expected: September 2023)

Primary Supervisor:

Prof. Hannes Röst

Research Focus:

High-throughput metabolomics using ion-mobility enhanced mass spectrometry

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Open Publishing & Data Sharing (2020)
Support team for non-NSE (Faculty of Law) open science summer project (2021)
EDI Working Group (2021, 2022)

Anupama Sharan

Degree Program:

PhD (Expected: August 2022)

Primary Supervisor:

Prof. Emma Master

Research Focus:

Enzymatic modification of industrial lignins and methods to evaluate changes in lignin performance

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Open Publishing & Data Sharing (2020)
Support team for non-NSE (Faculty of Law) open science summer project (2020)
EDI Working Group (2020)
Design of Experiments (2022)

Kavya Siddhartha

Degree Program:

PhD (Expected: September 2023)

Primary Supervisor:

Prof. Radhakrishnan Mahadevan

Research Focus:

Computational strategies for the microbial biosynthesis of (R)-1,3-butanediol in Escherichia coli

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Support team for non-NSE (Faculty of Law) open science summer project (2021)

Aparna Srinivasan

Degree Program:

MSc (Expected: June 2022)

Primary Supervisor:

Prof. Hannes Röst

Research Focus:

Improving identification of phosphopeptide isomers and phosphosite localization using ion mobility and data independent mass spectrometry

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Support team for non-NSE (Faculty of Law) open science summer project (2021)

Pailin Sukwong

Degree Program:

Primary Supervisor:

Prof. Radhakrishnan Mahadevan

Research Focus:

Adipic acid production in yeast

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Design of Experiments (2022)

Kimberly Tok

Degree Program:

MASc (Graduated: September 2021)

Primary Supervisor:

Prof. Bradley Saville

Research Focus:

Techno-economic assessment and life cycle analysis of adipic acid production from lignin

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Open Publishing & Data Sharing (2020)