Lab Members
Deb Court, PhD, BSc (Hons) Professor and Dept. Head
University of Manitoba 1996-
Postdocs
Mitochondrial protein import
Physiological Chemistry, Universitat Muenchen
Dr. Walther 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
Junie Na, BSc (Hons) in progress
Niloofar Ahmadi, MSc program
MSc (University of Tehran)
BSc (Shahre-Ghods Azad University)
Project: Impacts of mitochondrial targeting drugs on the yeast proteome
Awards: FGS Research Completion Scholarship
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 (declined)
Natasha Theriault, PhD program
BSc and MSc (Univeristy 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 2024
Eden Shwartz, BSc Coop program
Ifeowula Bamibe, BSc program
URA, UManitoba
Jordan Pries, BSc program
URSA, Faculty of Science
Recent graduates
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)