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Current group members (group photo album here) Their projects are described on our research pages, and a list of former group members is at the bottom of the page. Fraser Hof - The boss man (with the bikers who visited the lab one day). See Fraser's CV for more info. Sarah Douglas - Research associate Histone code/protein interaction antagonists and protein guru Kevin Daze - Ph.D. student (SFU - Biology) Histone code/protein interaction antagonists Tom Pinter - Ph.D. student (SFU - Chemistry) Heterocyclic anion sensors and transporters Graham Garnett - M Sc. Student (UVic - Chem/Biochem) New proteomics/epigenomics tools Sara Tabet - M Sc. Student (UVic - Biochem) Novel histone code writer/eraser protein assays Kevin Allen (joint with Berg) - Ph.D. student/Betta fish MRI contrast agents Chakravarthi Simhadri - M.Sc. student (Andhra University, India - Organic Synthesis) Histone code/protein interaction antagonists Amanda Whiting - Ph.D. student (UVic - Chemistry) Macrocycles and heterocycles for methyllysine recognition Undergraduates Taylor Quon - Biochem 499 Honour's Thesis Structure/function studies on the epigenetic reader protein CBX4 Marie Malone - Chem499 Honour's Thesis Dimethyllysine binders/antagonists Trevor Henderson - Undergraduate researcher Small molecule histone code/protein interaction antagonists Emma Abrioux - Undergraduate research student Novel histone code writer/eraser protein assays Krystyn Dubicki - Undergraduate research student New scaffolds for ion sensing Benny Sio - Chem 499 Honour's Thesis New calixarene scaffolds for the binding of post-translationally modified proteins James McFarlane (joint with Paci) - Undergraduate researcher Molecular dynamics simulations of protein targets Derek Reay (joint with Berg) - Chem 499 Honour's Thesis Novel lanthanide ligands as MRI contrast agents and PARACEST agents Marie-Claude Magnan - Undergraduate researcher Chemo-peptide hybrids for antagonism of epigenetic reader proteins Former group members     Name Year Current/last known location Sam Minaker 2010-2012: M.Sc. degree Medical school at UBC/Island Medical Program Lance Shaver 2012: Undergrad research Ongoing undergrad at UVic Truman Hirkala-Schaefer 2012: Undergrad research Ongoing undergrad at UVic Cindy Wang 2006-2012: Ph.D. degree Grad student in Health Information Science, UVic Scott Roebuck 2011-2012: Undergrad research Ongoing undergrad at UVic James Piers 2012: Undergrad research Ongoing undergrad at UVic Melaine Fontaine 2012: Undergrad research Ongoing undergrad at UVic Rebecca Courtemanche 2011-2012 Undergrad research B.Sc. UVic; M.Sc studies at U of Toronto (Yudin lab) Florent Pineux 2011: M.Sc. exchange student from Belgium Grad studies at U of Namur, Belgium Nikita Kuklev 2010-2011: Undergrad research Ongoing undergrad at UVic Mike Hamilton 2010-2011: Undergrad research B.Sc. UVic; Centre for Drug Research and Development, Vancouver, now at Child and Family Research Inst., Vancouver Graham Garnett 2010: Undergrad research B.Sc. UVic; grad student at UVic Dr. Jill Murray 2009-2010: Post-doc Fellow in Watson lab at BC Cancer Agency Manuel Ma 2010: Undergrad research Ongoing undergrad at UVic Brendan Snarr 2010: Undergrad research B.Sc. UVic; Grad studies at McGill (microbiology) Kathleen Genge 2009-2010: Undergrad research B.Sc. UVic; Cyclotron operator, TRIUMF, Vancouver Kourosh Purdavaie 2009-2010: M.Sc. studies Ph.D. student at Queen's University Subrata Jana 2008-2009: Post-doc Asst. Prof., Dr. C.V. Raman University, India Cory Beshara 2007-2009: Post-doc Asst. Prof., University of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, BC Catherine Jones 2008-2009: Undergrad research B.Sc. UVic; Research Associate, Tekmira Pharmaceuticals, Vancouver, BC Kim Osten 2008-2009: Undergrad research B.Sc. UVic; Grad studies at UBC (Mehrkhodavandi lab) Nigel Burke 2009: Undergrad research B.Sc. Biology, McGill; now Physics undergrad at UVic Keri McQuinn 2006-2008: M.Sc. degree Remediation project manager, Imperial Oil, Calgary Rafael Leon 2008: Post-doc Post-doc at Cambridge University, UK Brandin Lilgert 2008: Undergrad research B.Sc. UVic; Bicycle designer for MEC Greg Gibson 2008: Undergrad research B.Sc. UVic; Grad studies U of Toronto (Seferos lab) Gisella Ramon-Brown 2007-2008: Undergrad research B.Sc. UVic; Chiropractic college Aaron McKie 2006-2008: M.Sc. studies B.Sc./B.Ed. UVic Sayuri Friedland 2007: Undergrad research B.Sc. McGill (Cosa group); now medical student at McGill Devin Mahnke 2005-2007: Undergrad research B.Sc. UVic; M.Sc. UC Berkeley (John Arnold); now M.Sc. student at Calgary (Neuroscience) Olga Sarytcheva 2005-2007: Undergrad research B.Sc. UVic; M.Sc. (Reg Mitchell/Natia Frank), UVic Nicole Fowler 2007: Undergrad research Research Associate: Gilead, Edmonton, AB Sandra Ferreira 2006: Undergrad research B.Sc. UVic; M.Sc. U of Ottawa (Robert Ben); most recently a Chemist at CIBER-BBN in Spain. Bryan Koivisto 2006: Post-doctoral research Assistant Professor, Ryerson University Soizic Wadge 2005-2006: Undergrad research B.Sc. UVic; M.Sc. SFU (Neil Branda); Lab Instructor at Kwantlen Polytechnic University Timothy Chow 2005: Undergrad research B.Sc. UVic; then Amgen, Tousand Oaks, CA, then Ph.D. studies at UBC (Pharmacology)