St. George UTM UTSC All Faculty Ina Anreiter Assistant Professor ☀ Accepting Applications We study gene-regulatory processes underlying behaviour in Drosophila melanogaster. We are interested in undertanding the roles that genetics, epigenetics, epitrancriptomics, and the environment play in regulating behaviour, plasticity, and individual differences. Maithe Arruda-Carvalho Assistant Professor ☀ Accepting Applications Our lab uses a systems level approach to explore the relationship between the maturation of sensitive brain circuits, the emergence of complex behaviour, and stress sensitivity in mice. Guillaume Filion Assistant Professor ☀ Accepting Applications Kathlyn Gan Assistant Professor ☀ Accepting Applications Our lab studies molecular pathways that regulate human synapse formation and function and harnesses them to restore synaptic connectivity in the aging brain. Sonia Gazzarrini Professor ☀ Accepting Applications My research interests involve understanding the molecular mechanisms that regulate the transition from dormancy to germination and the role that hormones and abiotic stresses play in this processes. Eliana Gonzales-Vigil Assistant Professor ☀ Accepting Applications How, when and why do plants synthesize metabolites that cure our illnesses and flavour our foods? The lab is figuring out the answers to questions related to plant specialized metabolism. Christina Guzzo Assistant Professor ☀ Accepting Applications My research aims to delineate the molecular mechanisms of HIV-1 control and pathogenesis, including the role of host immune cell proteins (soluble and cell-derived) in altering HIV infection. Rene E. Harrison Professor ☀ Accepting Applications My lab uses advanced fluorescent imaging to study the cell biology of immune cells and bone cells under normal and pathological states. Clare Hasenkampf Professor Emerita Rutsuko Ito Associate Professor ☀ Accepting Applications We are interested in identifying brain circuits that underlie contextual and affective influences over motivated behaviour, and the neural and neurochemical mechanisms of approach avoidance decision making. Minoru Koyama Assistant Professor ☀ Accepting Applications We investigate the neural circuit mechanisms of behavioural development using power combinations of cutting-edge physiology, optics, genetics, and behavioural analyses in developing zebrafish. Nathan R. Lovejoy Professor ☀ Accepting Applications I am interested in the relationship between naturally occurring genomic variation and animal function. Current research focuses on the evolution of genes involved in electric signal production in Amazonian fishes. Andrew C. Mason Professor & Chair ☀ Accepting Applications Acoustic and vibrational communication; complex signals; sensory processing; decision making; signal function and evolution. Patrick O. McGowan Associate Professor ☀ Accepting Applications Epigenetic mechanisms of neurodevelopment and behaviour. Focus on molecular mechanisms that mediate the adaptation to psychosocial stress and complex disease in humans and other species. Adam Mott Assistant Professor ☀ Accepting Applications We combine wet lab and computational approaches to study how plants use cell surface receptors to sense their environment, integrate this information, and regulate growth and immunity. Joanne E. Nash Associate Professor ☀ Accepting Applications We employ a multidisciplinary approach to understand the cell and molecular mechanisms underlying neurological diseases such as Parkinson's disease. It is hoped that these studies will lead to better treatments for patients suffering from these diseases. Xue Pan Assistant Professor ☀ Accepting Applications Our research interests revolve around plant lipid synthesis, modification and signaling with the goal of developing innovative engineering strategies to enhance crop productivity, bio-oil yield and quality. Cosima Porteus Assistant Professor ☀ Accepting Applications The focus of our laboratory is to understand how fish sense, interact with and respond to their environment, linking environmental changes or challenges to whole animal physiology, behaviour and ecology. Satyaki Rajavasireddy Assistant Professor ☀ Accepting Applications We study the genetics and epigenetics of seed development. Stephen Reid Associate Professor Robert Rozeske Assistant Professor ☀ Accepting Applications We study how spatial representations guide defensive behaviour using a systems neuroscience approach. Mauricio Terebiznik Associate Professor ☀ Accepting Applications My laboratory specializes in cellular microbiology and cell biology. We investigate different unexplored aspects of the interplay of macrophages, and epithelial cells with intracellular pathogens and toxic fibres like asbestos. Tod Thiele Assistant Professor ☀ Accepting Applications We investigate how neural circuits produce behaviour using systems neuroscience approaches. Bebhinn Treanor Associate Professor ☀ Accepting Applications My research focuses on the cellular and molecular mechanisms controlling immune cell activation through the development and implementation of cutting edge optical microscopy. Greg C. Vanlerberghe Professor Emeritus We investigate the impact of abiotic and biotic stress on plant energy metabolism. We uncover the signature responses of metabolism to stress and elucidate how these responses support stress acclimation. Yan Wang Assistant Professor ☀ Accepting Applications We study fungal biology, evolutionary genomics, and how fungi interact with other organisms, using mosquitoes and the gut-dwelling fungi as the model. Kenneth C. Welch Associate Professor ☀ Accepting Applications I use and integrative and comparative approach to study the physiology of muscle function, fuel use, metabolism and energetics during locomotion. Rongmin Zhao Associate Professor ☀ Accepting Applications The mechanism of action of molecular chaperones and their roles in plant development, and in organelle functions; the mechanism of regulated protein degradation by the 26S proteasome.
