Past Student Projects

Andrew Ma (MSc 2020): Examining the role of DNM1L-dependent mitochondrial fission and mitophagy receptors during skeletal muscle differentiation

Fatemeh Keyvani (MSc 2020): Interplay between autophagy and apoptosis during skeletal muscle differentiation

Brittany Baechler (PhD 2019): Examining the role of autophagy and mitophagy in regulating muscle differentiation 

Darin Bloemberg (PhD 2018): Examining autophagy and mitophagy as inducible mechanisms of cellular remodelling

Erin Turner (MSc 2017): The development of a Green Fluorescent Protein reporter system for apoptosis repressor with caspase recruitment domain promoter analysis

Kristen Boonstra (MSc 2016): Examining the role of caspase-2 in skeletal muscle cell differentiation

Troy Campbell (MSc 2015): Examining the role of autophagy in modulating apoptotic signaling and skeletal muscle recovery after cardiotoxin injury in tamoxifen-inducible, skeletal muscle-specific Atg7 knockdown mice

Elliott McMillan (PhD 2015): Examining the role of autophagy in skeletal muscle cell death and differentiation

Kira Vorobej (MSc 2015): The role of apoptosis repressor with caspase recruitment domain (ARC) in aging mouse skeletal muscle morphology and apoptotic signaling

Marie-France Paré (MSc 2014): Apoptotic signalling and structural alterations in autophagy-deficient murine skeletal muscle

Darin Bloemberg (MSc 2012): Examining the role of apoptotic cell signalling and mitochondrial fission during skeletal muscle differentiation

Andrew Mitchell (MSc 2011): Morphological and apoptotic alterations in skeletal muscle of mice deficient in apoptosis repressor with caspase recruitment domain

Aaron Dam (MSc 2010): The effect of mitochondrial biogenesis on apoptotic susceptibility in L6 myoblasts

Crystal Lalonde (MSc 2010): The role of glutathione depletion in skeletal muscle apoptotic signalling in young and old rats