Meet The Team

Current Lab members

The Boss

Dirk Weihrauch

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M.Sc. Student

Baoyue Zhang (Beryl)

Project: Identifying intracellular activation pathways of branchial ammonia excretion in decapod crustaceans.

M.Sc. Student

Mina Amiri

Project: Characterization of Tight Junction and Septate Junction complex in the crustacean gill.

M.Sc. student

Holly Whiting

Project: Characterization of 2 AMTs in the gills of the horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus.

Hope to welcome her as a MSc in 2024

Summer Student

Xavier Kohoko

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Former Lab Members

B.Sc./M.Sc./Ph.D Student (2011 - 2023)

Dr. Alex R. Quijada-Rodriguez

Thesis title:

Acid-Base Regulation and Physiological Responses to Aquaculture and Global Change Stressors in Euryhaline Crustaceans

Recipient of NSERC Graduate Fellowship

Finalist of the William S. Hoar Award (Canadian Society of Zoologists) (2017)

Nominated for Bioscience Association Manitoba “Most Promising Bioscience Student Award” (2022)

M.Sc./Ph.D. Student (2015 - 2022)

Dr. Garett J.P. Allen

Thesis title:

Relating the Acid-Base Compensatory Strategies of Brachyuran Crabs to their Environments and Life Histories

NSERC CGS-M, Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement ($ 6,500$) (2016)

Nominated as the single nominee by the Depart of Biological Science for the Dean of Graduate Studies Student Achievement Award

Nominated for the CCUBC Graduate Student Research Prize by the Department of Biological Science, UoM 2023.

Lab member/M.Sc. Student (2019 - 2022)

Mikyla Nash

Thesis title:

Potential Role of a Recently Identified Crustacean Aquaporin in Branchial Ammonia Excretion of the European Green Crab, Carcinus maenas.

Lab member/M.Sc. Student (2019 - 2022)

Maria Sachs

Thesis title:

Characterization of two isoforms of a novel ammonia transporter, LpHIAT1α and LpHIAT1β, in the American horseshoe crab Limulus polyphemus.

Ph.D. Student (2017 - 2022)

(Co-supervised with Dr. Peter Eck)

Dr. Haonan Zhouyao

Thesis title:

The functional characterization of two unknown gene: SLCA14 and MFSD14A.

Recipient of James Gordon Fletcher Ph.D. Fellowship for Research in Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals

Recipient of Katharine M.S. Middleton Scholarship

B.Sc./M.Sc. Student (2018 - 2021)

Aaron K. Klymasz-Schwarz

Thesis title:

Investigating the metabolism and thermal physiology of Northern Crayfish (Faxonius virilis) exposed to ecologically relevant temperatures found within the central prairies of North America.

Recipient of NSERC Graduate Fellowship

B.Sc. Honours Student (2020- 2021)

Natalie Nash

Thesis title:

Physiological response of the common water flea, Daphnia magna, to environmentally relevant elevations in isolated and combined temperature and ammonia levels.

Recipient of NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (2020)

Ph.D. Student (2011 - 2015)

Visiting Post-doc (2019-2022)

Dr. Sandra Fehsenfeld

Thesis title:

Linking Acid-base balance with nitrogen regulation in the decapod crustacean,

Carcinus maenas

Recipient of the CCUBC Graduate Student Research Prize (2016)

Nominated for the Distinguished Dissertation Award by Departmetnt of Biological Sciecnes and Faculty of Science, U of Manitoba (2016)

Recipient of NSERC-Postdoctoral Fellowship (2019-2022)

Ph.D. Student (2010 - 2015)

Dr. Aida Adlimogaddam

Thesis title:

Molecular and Physiological Characterization of the Nitrogen Transport System in Caenorhabditis elegans

Summer Students

Holly Simpson (2022)

Project: Expression of AMTs in branchial cilia in Limulus Polyphemus

Molly Crandall (2022)

Project: Osmoregulation in the American horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus.

Joseph Bui (2022)

Project: Identification of tight junction proteins in gills of the green crab

Emily Slice (2022)

Project: Transcriptional response of branchial 4 tight junction proteins in Carcinus maenas after transfer from full strength salinity to brackish water.

Hayley Bowley (2022)

Project: Expression of AMTs in the gills of Horseshoe crabs upon acute exposure to HEA.

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