Lab Members
Deb Court, PhD, BSc (Hons) Professor (1996-) & Dept. Head
(2012-) University of Manitoba
Postdocs
Mitochondrial protein import
Physiological Chemistry, Universitat Muenchen
Dr. Walter Neupert's lab
Mobile introns in bacteriophage
Wadsworth Labs, NY State Dept. of Health
Dr. Marlene Belfort's lab
Education
PhD Microbiology
Mitochondrial plasmids
University of Guelph
Dr. Helmut Bertrand's lab
BSc (Hons) Biochemistry and Biology,
University of Regina
Current Students
Ifeoluwa Bamibe, MSc program
BSc (Hons) U. Manitoba
Junie Na, BSc (Hons project) completed
Rana Ahmed, PhD program
BSc (Suez Canal University)
Project: Searching for mitochondrial efflux pumps through transcriptomics
Awards: FoS TA of the Year; US/Canada MMEG; FGS Research Completion Scholarship; UM Emerging Leader Award; Philanthropy award, Magnificent Women's Gala, UM; Science Spark 3K Pitch Competition winner, UM; Dept. of Microbiology Leadership and Service Award, UMGF, Research Manitoba PhD studentship
Brady Jason, MSc program (Chemistry); co-supervised with Sabine Kuss
Natasha Theriault, PhD program
BSc and MSc (University of Manitoba)
Project: Development and validation of phage display-based vaccine platforms
Awards: UMGF, Falling Walls Lab Manitoba Grand Prize Winner, Roma Zenovea Hawirko Award
Nic Fournier, PhD program
Co-supervised with S. Theriault
BSc, MSc (University of Calgary)
Project: Engineering a rapid bacteriophage modification platform
Summer 2026
Junie Na, BSc (Hons Microbiology) program
Janice Namuyiga, BSc (Biochemistry) program
Recent graduates
Niloofar Ahmadi, MSc (2025)
Tia Arnaud, MSc (2025)
(co-supervised with S. Theriault)
Ifeoluwa Bamibe
BSc (Hons)
(2025)
Jason Dubyna
MSc (2023)
Katie Wiebe
MSc (2022)
(co-supervised with S. Theriault)
Deen Islam
MSc (2021)
Klara Wang
MSc (2020)
(co-supervised with S. Theriault)
Lexus Diato
BSc(Hons) (2022)
Fraser Ferens
PhD (2019)
Sabbir Shuvo
PhD (2018)