Lab Members

Belinda S.W. Chang, Professor

Canada Research Chair in Comparative Evolutionary Neurobiology

Postdocs:

Artyom Gritsunov, Postdoc

Expression of Drosophila rhodopsin genes in yeast
Different factors that affect rhodopsin light activation

PhD Students:

Emily Dong, PhD Student

Evolution and development of photoreceptors in snakes and lizards

Anthony Rajkumar, PhD Student

Molecular evolutionary changes in stingrays, accompanying a transition from marine to freshwater ecosystems; with a focus on vision.

Hudson M. Wentzell, PhD Student

Investigating the molecular evolution of mammalian visual proteins using computational methods of comparative sequence analysis

Benjamin Yeomans, PhD Student

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Isabella Mayol, PhD Student

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MSc Students:

Tony Xie, MSc Student

Developing automation tools for gene sequences
Investigating ecological differences within cetaceans and elasmobranchs

Undergraduates:

Samuel Balbas, Undergraduate Student

Investigating mutational differences in rhodopsin expression through Gibson assembly cloning

Devon Menzler, Undergraduate Student

Structure analysis of natural amino acid substitutions in vertebrate visual proteins

Kerem Berk Bozkurt, Undergraduate Student

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Howard Cheng, Undergraduate Student

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Serena Ganbaatar, Undergraduate Student

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Thomas Harris, Undergraduate Student

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Siena Hopkins, Undergraduate Student

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Sofia Hucal, Undergraduate Student

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Rachel Ronson, Undergraduate Student

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Ruby Yang, Undergraduate Student

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Yi Kai Zhou, Undergraduate Student

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