LAB MEMBERS
Lab MEMBERS
Mark Gillrie MD PhD
Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases Physician, and Lab Principal Investigator
Rehan Mohammad PhD
Post-Doctoral Associate 2022-
Project: Advancing 3D models of human lungs - Snyder Organoid Initiative
Kelsie Volek
BME MSc Student 2022-
BME Honors Project 2021-2022
Project: Generating a high throughput lung on a chip to study fibroproliferative ARDS
Theo Nelson
MDIM MSc Student 2022-
BHSc Honors Project 2021-2022
Project: Integrating human alveolar macrophages into a human lung on a chip
Marian Grell
BHSc Honors Project Student 2023-
Undergraduate Summer Student 2023
Project: S. pneumoniae activators of hypoxic signaling pathways in pneumonia
Rigel Tormon
BME Honors Project Student 2023-
Project: Impact of heme in malaria-ARDS
Past Members
Hellen Kang
MSc Graduate Student 2021-2023
Projects: Role of hypoxia regulators in S. pneumoniae bacterial pneumonia
Currently: Medical Student Queens University
Mortaza Fatehi Hassanabad
MSc Graduate Student 2020-2022
Co-supervised by Dr Bryan Yipp
Projects: Bacterial Pneumonia and Ventilator Induced Lung Injury
Currently: Medical Student at Univ. of Alberta
Kristine Lee
Laboratory Technician
Part-time, 2020-2022
Expertise: Western Blot, ELISAs and Real-Time PCR
Collaborators
COVID-19 Lung Imaging Collaborative and BSL3 Team
Drs Paul Kubes, Chris Mody, Jennifer Corcoran, Craig Jenne, Margaret Kelly, Nathan Peters and Braedon McDonald
Lung Injury Collaboration
Drs Margaret Kelly, Matthias Amrein, David Proud, University of Calgary
Airway Inflammation Research Group
COVID-19 Clinical Trials Group
Dept Medicine, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Calgary
Drs Deepa Suryanarayan, Davinder Sidhu, Alejandra Ugarte-Torres,
Study Nurses: Traci Robinson and Suzanne Westcott