​Dr. Meaghan Jones
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​​Dr. Jones received her BScH in Biology from Mount Allison University, and her PhD in Medical Genetics from the University of British Columbia. She pursued post-doctoral training at the University of British Columbia studying epigenetics of early life environments with Dr. Michael Kobor, before joining the Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics at the University of Manitoba in 2018. 

Lab Members

Yan Hai - Lab Manager​

Yan received her PhD in Human Genetics from Peking Union Medical College of Tsinghua University. Yan currently serves as our lab manager and is our go to for all things lab related!

Samantha Lee - PhD Student

​Samantha received her BSc  and MSc from the University of Manitoba. Samantha started as a technician in the lab but is now working on her PhD.

Doris Onuzulu - PhD student

Doris obtained her BSc and MSc degrees in Biochemistry in Covenant University, Nigeria. She is currently working on her PhD and is studying the mechanisms behind prenatal cigarette smoke-induced epigenetic modifications.
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Brittany Forsberg 
Undergraduate student

​Brittany is a 4th year biology student in the cellular, molecular, developmental stream. She received a 2019 Faculty of Science Undergraduate Student Research Award. Currently she is working on developing a time and cost effective epigenetic clock for mice to help study epigenetic age effects. She hopes to get into the genetics technologist field in the future.

Shenna Fauni
Undergraduate student

​Alumni

Mira Villegas
Undergraduate student
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Mira is a recipient of the University of Manitoba Faculty of Science Undergraduate Research Award. She recently graduated with a Bachelor of Science - Majoring in Biological Sciences. Mira will be entering medical school this fall. Her project involves investigating DNA methylation and expression of important genes involved with metabolism and obesity.

Nav Kaur
Med 1 Summer student 2019
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Nav is entering her second year of medical school. Her summer research focused on the impact of breastfeeding on epigenetic age acceleration in the first year of life. She is the recipient of the Med Summer Research Grant.

Kurt Kolsun
Undergraduate student​

​Kurt is a 4th year student completing his BSc-Major in Microbiology. His summer research has focused on the differences in epigenetic gestational age between cell types from cord blood. He joined the lab thanks to the support from the Faculty of Science Undergrad Research Award. 

Samarpita Sen - undergraduate student

MITACS Globalink scholar 2019