CURRENT IKURA RESEARCH GROUP MEMBERS

The following people may be contacted by e-mail or (if not otherwise noted)
by phone 416.581.7551 or by fax 416. 581.7597


Fernando Amador
Fernando joined the Ikura lab as a Master's student in September 2006, after completing his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at the University of Waterloo.

e-mail:famador@uhnres.utoronto.ca

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Fiona Bower
Fiona joined the Ikura Lab in June 2007. She brings over 15 years of experience in film and television production.

email: fbower@uhnresearch.ca
phone: 416-581-7563

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Jenny Chan
Jenny joined the lab as a Master's student in September 2003, after completing her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at McGill University. She was previously a summer student in the lab in 2001.

e-mail: jennyc@uhnres.utoronto.ca

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Melissa Cheung
Melissa joined the lab in May 2007 as a labtechnician. She completed an undergraduate degree in biology at Carleton University in Ottawa.

e-mail: mel.cheung@uhnres.utoronto.ca

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Mitsuhiko Ikura
Mitsu is a Senior Scientist at the Ontario Cancer Institute and Professor with the Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto. He is currently Canadian Research Chair in Structural Biology, and was previously a CIHR Senior Investigator, a Howard Hughes International Research Scholar and a Medical Research Council of Canada Research Scientist. His primary area of expertise is NMR spectroscopy of biomacromolecules.

e-mail: mikura@uhnres.utoronto.ca
phone: (416) 581-7550

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Noboru Ishiyama
Noboru joined the lab in November 2005 as a postdoctoral fellow. He previously studied electron crystallography (M.Sc.) with Dr. George Harauz at the University of Guelph and X-ray crystallography (Ph.D.) with Dr. Albert Berghuis at McGill University. He currently holds an OCI fellowship.

email: nishiyam@uhnres.utoronto.ca

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Bryan Kim

email: bryank@uhnres.utoronto.ca

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Max (Guang-Yao) Li
Max (Guang-Yao) joined our group as a Postdoctoral Fellow in April 2004, after he completed his Ph.D. at Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

e-mail: gyli@uhnres.utoronto.ca

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Chris Marshall
Chris completed his Ph.D. at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario under the supervision of Peter Davies. He joined the lab in May 2005 as a postdoctoral fellow and holds an OCI fellowship.

e-mail: cmarshal@uhnres.utoronto.ca

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Carol (Shuang) Liu
Carol is from Beijing, China. She worked at the Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Science as a technician for five years. She worked at the Beijing Tri-prime Genetic Engineering Co. Ltd, Department of R&D for two years and at the Toronto General Hospital Max Bell Research Center, Transplanation Research for half a year.

e-mail: sliu@uhnres.utoronto.ca

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Genevieve Seabrook
Genevieve is a Scientific Associate, NMR Research & Facility Manager in
Dr. Ikura's lab at the Ontario Cancer Institute. She joined the lab in
January 2008. Her area of expertise is soluble and membrane protein
structure determination using State-of-the-Art NMR Spectroscopy.

email:gseabroo@uhnresearch.ca

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Matthew Smith
Matt joined the lab in September of 2007 as a postdoctoral fellow. He previously completed a doctorate in Molecular and Medical Genetics with Dr. Tony Pawson at the University of Toronto, and a B.Sc. in Microbiology at the University of Guelph.

email: msmith@uhnresearch.ca

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Peter Stathopulos
Peter completed his PhD studies at the University of Waterloo under the
supervision of Professors Elizabeth M. Meiering (Departments of Chemistry and Biology) and James R. Lepock (Department of Physics). He joined the Ikura group in August of 2005 as a post-doctoral fellow with funding awarded by NSERC.

e-mail: pstathop@uhnres.utoronto.ca

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Feng Wang
Feng joined the lab as a Masters student in September 2005, after graduating with his B.Sc. at Tsinghua University, China.

email: fwang@uhnres.utoronto.ca

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Le Zheng
Le joined our lab in April 2000 as a lab technician. Le is from Shanghai where she worked about 10 years as a research assistant at the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

e-mail: lezheng@uhnres.utoronto.ca


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