Lab Personnel

Kirsten Benidickson

Kirsten Benidickson

PhD student (co-supervised by Wayne Snedden)

Thesis topic: Role and control of glutamate decarboxylase and the GABA shunt in the metabolic adaptations of phosphate starved Arabidopsis thaliana

 

Congratulations Kirsten for winning Directors' award for best poster presentation by a CSPB student member at recent 2023 Eastern Regional Meeting of the Can. Soc. Plant Biol. (Concordia Univ.), along with being recently awarded a prestigious NSERC CGS-D scholarship!  

Katie Jenkins

Katie Jenkins

MSc student (co-supervised by Wayne Snedden)

Thesis topic: Investigation into the roles of Arabidopsis thaliana calmodulin-like proteins during abiotic stress acclimation

Brittany Menard

Brittany Menard

MSc student (co-supervised by Wayne Snedden)

Thesis topic:  Control of the Arabidopsis protein kinase SnRK1a by calmodulin-like protein paralogs CML26 and CML27

 

Congratulations Brittany on being awarded a prestigious Ontario Graduate Scholarship for 2024-2026

Faranak Soleimani

Faranak Soleimani

PhD student (co-supervised by Jacqueline Monaghan)

Thesis topic: Control of the Arabidopsis E3 ligase ATL6 by CDPK mediated phosphorylation

 

Congratulations Faranak for winning the Presidents' Award for best poster presentation by a CSPB student member at the 2023 Annual General Meeting of the Can. Soc. Plant Biol. (Univ. Laval)!

Faiqa Amin

Faiqa Amin

MSc student (co-supervised by Jacqueline Monaghan)

Thesis topic:  Phosphorylation of the Arabidopsis thaliana E3 ubiquitin ligase ATL6 by the Ca²⁺-dependent protein kinase AtCPK4

 

Congratulations Faiqa for the successful defense of your MSc thesis on Sept. 6, 2024!