| Merlin Pelz | PhD Student | TBA (joint supervision with Michael Ward) |
| Liam Yih | PhD Student | Biophysics of virus-cell attachment |
| Shikun Nie | PhD Student | Single molecule imaging and biophysics |
| Fatemeh Saghafifar | PhD Student | TBA |
| Rituparna Banerjee | PhD Student | TBA (joint supervision) |
| Jonah Hall | MSc Student | Within-host virus modeling |
| Karan Bains | MSc Student | TBA |
| Ashley Ambrose | Research associate | Microscopy and immune cell signaling (co-supervised by Prof. Michael Gold, UBC) |
Previous:
| Graduate students | |
| James Bailey, MSc Applied Math 2008 | T cell
development; Amyloid clearance; Amyloid
fibrillization. James won the ACCELERATE BC 2007 Award of Excellence in Life Sciences for his project on amyloid fibrillization carried out jointly with Bruce Verchere's group at the BC Children's hospital. |
| Colleen Ball, MSc Applied Math 2006 | Understanding pathogen selection pressures at the within- and between- host levels. |
| Catherine Byrne, MSc Applied Math 2016 | Within-host modeling of HSV-1 dynamics and HIV coinfection. Now a PhD student. |
| Omer Dushek, PhD Applied Math 2008 | T cell signaling; Immune synapse; T cell development; FRAP analysis. Omer started a postdoc with Anton van der Merwe at Oxford in January, 2009 was awarded a Newton International Fellowship, and is now a faculty member in pathology at Oxford. |
| Monica Delgado Carrillo, MSc Applied Math 2012 | Analysis of two-photon imaging in immunology. Next move: mathematics education in Guanajuato. |
| Alejandra Herrera Reyes, MSc 2012 | HIV dynamics. Now a PhD student. |
| Jennifer Hubbarde, MSc | Virus dynamics modeling. |
| Sarafa Iyaniwura, MSc Applied Math 2016 | Particle-based simulation. Now a PhD student. |
| Humeyra Kiyak, MSc | PhD student |
| Bernhard Konrad, PhD Applied Math 2015 | HIV and malaria epidemic dynamics and stochastic dynamics during early HIV infection. Now: Google. |
| Venu Kurella, MSc Applied Math 2011 | Asymptotic analysis of first passage time problems in biology (joint supervision with Michael Ward). Next: PhD at McMaster. Now: engineering firm in Ontario. |
| Jennifer Morrison, MSc Applied Math 2010 | Analysis of single particle tracking data. Now: secondary education. | Sydney Pachmann, MSc Applied Math 2008 | Swimming in slime (motion of microorganisms in complex fluids). Moved on to Vista Projects in Calgary. |
| Daniel Woodsworth, MD-PhD Student | Experimental and theoretical work on immunotherapy (supervised by Prof. Rob Holt, BCCA). Now doing the rest of his medical training. |
| Karen Simmons, PhD Student | Experimental and theoretical virology (supervised by Prof. Soren Gantt, CFRI) |
| Shaimaa Azoz, PhD 2018 | Stochastic modeling of viral infection (long-term visiting student). Now a lecturer at Assiut University, Egypt. |
| Alejandra Herrera-Reyes, PhD 2019 | Interpretation of fluorescence microscopy experiments on cell surface receptor dynamics with stochastic and deterministic mathematical models. Now heading to a postdoc with Gary Mirams at Nottingham. |
| Suzanne ten Hage, MSc Student from Maastricht University, 2021 | Two-colour particle-tracking microscopy (experiment and analysis) |
| Joshua Scurll, PhD 2021 | Cell signaling in cancer; clustering analyses. Now a postdoc at the prostate centre in Vancouver |
| Sarafa Iyaniwura, PhD 2021 | Closest point method and passage time analysis (joint supervision with Prof. Colin MacDonald and Prof. Michael Ward). Now a postdoc at Los Alamos National Lab. |
| Rebeca Cardim Falcao, PhD 2021 | Particle tracking analysis and epidemiology. Now a postdoc at BCCDC with Michael Otterstatter and others. |
| Catherine Byrne, PhD 2022 | Immuno-virus modeling (joint supervision with Prof. Soren Gantt, CFRI). Now a postdoc with Josh Schiffer et al at Fred Hutch. |
| Navjot Virk, MSc 2022 | Epidemic modelling around Covid-19 vaccination |
| Samantha Bardwell, MSc 2022 | Modelling naloxone distribution and uptake in BC. Also Covid-19 modelling |
| Undergraduate Students | Adrian Cortes, BSc. NSERC USRA 2006 | Analysis of single particle tracking data. Adrian subsequently did his master's in bioinformatics at UBC and has then moved on to a PhD, also in bioinformatics. | Isaac Holloway, BSc. NSERC USRA 2004 | Models for antigen presentation. | Gurpreet Khaira, BSc. Honours Integrated Science 2008 | T and NK cell response to tumours. Gurpreet moved on to medical school after this. | Disha Mehta, BSc. Honours Biophysics 2007 | Dynamics of viral infections at the single cell level. Disha subsequently went to UBC medical school. | Jared Simpson, BSc. RA 2006-2007 | Software for studying intracellular signaling. Jared moved on to a PhD program in computational biology, did rather well and is now at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. | Mani Hamidi, BSc. RA 2009 | Computational study of multi-strain pathogen dynamics in host networks. |
| Eric Foxall, Undergrad RA 2009 | Software for single particle tracking analysis. Next: master's and PhD in mathematics at U Vic. |
| Joel Fox, BSc. Honours Biophysics 2010 | B cell signaling. Next: UBC Medical School |
| Ian Zhu, USRA 2014 | Models of mosquito and malaria control. Next: PhD student in Engineering at U. of Toronto. |
| Brian Irwin, USRA 2015 | Single particle microscopy |
| Rachel Stiyer USRA 2015 | Particle-based simulation of calcium dynamics in the heart. |
| Ki-Woong Sung USRA 2015 | Interpretation of clustering data from super-resolution microscopy. |
| David Kong Honours biophysics thesis 2016 | Single particle tracking analysis. Next: MSc student in Applied Math at UBC. |
| David Zheng USRA 2016 | Algorithms for detecting and characterizing particle clustering in super-resolution microscopy |
| Darius Muglich USRA 2017 | Neural networks and emulation of complex models (main supervisor was Mike Irvine) |
| Rhys Chappell USRA 2016 | Analysis of single particle microscopy |
| Tommi Muller, USRA 2017+2018 | Analysis of single particle microscopy |
| Brendan Tankwa, Summer 2017 | Calcium dynamics, and FRAP |
| Daphne Nesenberend, Visiting student, Fall 2017 | Infectious disease epidemiology in Vancouver |
| Aahana Kanyal, USRA 2020 | Modelling coronavirus transmission in structured populations |
| Arpan Grover, USRA 2020 | Assessing methods for microscopic particle trajectory classification |
| David Bromley, USRA 2020 | Simulation and fitting of B cell receptor mobility and clustering |
| Harvir Bhattal | COVID ascertainment in British Columbia |
| Postdoctoral fellows | Raibatak Das, PhD | Amyloid clearance; Single-particle-tracking; FRAP analysis; B cell signaling. Now: Senior scientist, Applied Biomathematics, Boston. |
| Jessica Conway, PhD | HIV and influenza models (within-host and epidemic). Next move: Los Alamos National Lab, Theoretical Biology and Biophysics group. Now: tenure track faculty at Penn State. |
| Yana Nec, PhD | Analysis of reaction-diffusion systems. Now: CRC at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops | Stewart Chang, PhD. | Antigen processing and presentation. HIV modeling. Next move: University of Washington, Bioinformatics. Now: Institute for Disease Modeling, Seattle |
| Mike Irvine, PhD | HIV epidemiology in Vancouver and modelling responses to the opioid overdose epidemic. Next: BC Children's Hospital. Then: back to BCCDC. |
| Claire Guerrier, PhD | Modeling neural activity in-vivo. Next: Faculty position in Nice |
| Libin Abraham, PhD | Single particle microscopy and B cell signaling (co-supervised by Prof. Michael Gold, UBC). Next: Notch Therapeutics. |
