Christine Yergeau, MSc, 2017-2022. Clinical Research Coordinator, Natural History Study on Patients

                                                           with Peroxisomal Disorders.

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Wedad Fallatah, , MD, MAS, PhD, 2014-2021. PhD student in Human Genetics, Exploring phenotype

                                                                          and therapy for Rhizomelic Chondrodysplasia Punctata.

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Yasmin D'Souza, PhD, 2019-2021. Clinical Research Coordinator, Natural History Study on Patients

                                                        with Peroxisomal Disorders.

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Kelsey Smolash, BSc, 2020-2021. Master's student in neuroscience. Investigating vision loss in the

                                                       PEX1-p.G844D homozygote mouse model.

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Hong Yeob Choi, PhD, 2019. Research associate. Investigating the effects of drug treatments on the

                                               PEX1-p.G844D homozygote mouse model. 

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Connor Castrataro, Bsc, 2019. Genetic Counselling student. Longitudinal Natural History Study of

                                                  Peroxisome Biogenesis Disorders in the Zellweger Spectrum:

                                                  Management  Guidelines for Adolescent and Adult Patients.  

 

Alanna Mistry, BSc, 2019. Genetic Counselling student. Longitudinal Natural History Study of

                                          Peroxisome Biogenesis Disorders in the Zellweger Spectrum: Management 

                                          Guidelines for Adolescent and Adult Patients.

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Brittany Pounder, BSc,  2018. Master's student in Biotechnology. Evaluating the role of plasmalogen

                                                deficiency in health and disease using Pex7 deficient models.

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Xuting Sun, BSc,  2017. Master's student in Biotechnology. Peroxisome Recovery after 

                                       Candidate Drug Treatment in Patient Fibroblasts with Various PEX Mutations.

 

Gozde Ercan, MD. 2017. Pediatrician from Ümraniye Training and Research Hospital, Turkey.

                                         Investigation of a patient with combined ZSD and RCDP features.

Misia Kowanda, MSc, PhD, 2016-2017. Clinical Research Coordinator, Natural History Study on

                                                                Patients with Peroxisomal Disorders.

Jessie Kulaga-Yoskovitz, MSc, 2015-2016. Clinical Research Coordinator, Natural History Study on

                                                                     Patients with Peroxisomal Disorders. 

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Ivette Camayd Viera, 2015-2016. PhD candidate visiting from the National Medical Genetics Center,

                                                     Cuba.  Biochemical and Molecular Diagnosis of Cuban families with

                                                     X- linked adrenoleukodystrophy.

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Gabi Dodt, PhD, 2015. Colleague sabbatical. Developing methods to evaluate PEX1/6 mutant 

                                     complex function in response to drug therapies. 

François Plourde, CCGC, 2013-2015. Clinical Research Coordinator and Genetic Counsellor, Natural

                                                             History Study on Patients with Peroxisomal Disorders.
 

Gillian Maclean, BSc, 2009-2013. Master's student in Human Genetics. Recovery of PEX1-Gly843Asp 

                                                       associated peroxisome dysfunction by flavonoid compounds in

                                                       fibroblasts from Zellweger spectrum patients.

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Raffaele Castelo, MSc. 2012. PhD candidate in student exchange from Seconda Università di Napoli

                                               and Telehton Institute of Genetics and Medicine. Mechanism of

                                               peroxisome proliferation by 4-phenylbutyrate.

 

Xuefei He, BSc, 2010-2012. Master's student. Assigning roles for plasmalogens in lung development.

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Ahmed Alfares, 2010-2011. Medical genetics resident. CMAMA gene identification and clinical 

                                             evolution.

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Claudia Matos-Miranda, MD, 2009-2011. Master's student in Human Genetics. Identification,

                                                                  phenotype correlation and functional analysis of novel

                                                                  mutations in Arylsulfatase E in patients with X-linked

                                                                  recessive brachytelephalangic chondrodysplasia punctata                                                                      phenotype.

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Sébastien Lévesque, 2009-2010. Medical genetics resident. Novel approaches to mutation

                                                      identification in PBD.

Graeme Nimmo, MSc, 2008-2009: Research technician. 2010: Medical student, Investigating

                                                        Rhizomelic Chondrodysplasia Punctata.

Sarn Jiralerspong, Msc, 2008-2009 Senior research technician. Contributed to find novel mutations in

                                                          RCDP, founder mutations in PEX6 in a French Canadian

                                                          population and to screen for small molecules to recover PEX1-

                                                          G843D peroxisome dysfunction.

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Undergraduate students :

 

Mahmoud Moustafa, 2021. Medical student. Genotype-phenotype correlations in D-bifunctional

                                            protein deficiency.

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Mary Agopian, 2021. Undergraduate student in microbiology and immunology. Development of

                                  Machine-Learning Based Methodology for Severity Scoring of Mild and

                                  Intermediate Peroxisome Biogenesis Disorder - Zellweger Spectrum Disorder.

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Yunus Emre Polat, 2018. Undergraduate student in Gulhane Medical school in Ankara, Turkey. 

                                         Knocking out the PEX1 gene in human fibroblast MCH64E cell with

                                         CRISPR/cas9 gene editing.

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Monica Hsieh, 2016-2018. Undergraduate student in Anatomy and Cell Biology.  Characterization of

                                           Liver Disease in the Pex1-G844D Mouse Model for Zellweger Spectrum

                                           Disorder.

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Grace Carter, 2017-2018. Undergraduate Student in Biology and Neuroscience (Elon University).

                                          Using a Rare Disease Plasmalogen-deficient Mouse Model to Investigate 

                                          Markers of Alzheimer’s Disease

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Jiaru Liu, 2017-2018. Medical student. Neurological spectrum of peroxisome biogenesis disorder.
 

Pallavi Ganguli 2016. Medical student.  Data collection and analysis for the natural history

                                   study on peroxisomal disorders.

Yi Tong, 2015. Medical student. Effects of candidate drugs on peroxisome import in patient cell

                        lines.

Robin Luo, 2015. Undergraduate student. Effects of candidate drugs on peroxisome import in

                             patient cell lines.

 

Brandon Itzkovitz, 2012. Undergraduate student at Concordia University. Mutation analyses in RCDP

                                       types 2 and 3.

 

Sarah Monsenago, 2012. Undergraduate student. Mutation analyses in RCDP types 2 and 3.

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Jeffrey Wang, 2012. Medical student. Evaluating plasmalogen deficient Pex7 mouse models for

                                 pathological evidence of Alzheimer disease.

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David Zhang, 2010. Medical student. Pathophysiology of cataract in the Pex7 deficient mouse.