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Spencer Freeman<\/strong><\/p>\n

Team Leader<\/p>\n

Canada Research Chair Tier II in Immune Surveillance<\/p>\n

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Gang Ye<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Lab Research Project Coordinator<\/p>\n

2019-<\/p>\n

Solute flux in macrophages in vitro and in vivo<\/p>\n

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Ruiqi Cai<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Post-doctoral fellow<\/p>\n

2021-<\/p>\n

Sodium transport in lysosomes<\/p>\n

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Ali Bin Munim<\/strong><\/h4>\n

PhD Student<\/p>\n

2024-<\/p>\n

Metabolite recycling and organelle volume control<\/p>\n

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Angelina Kim\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Graduate Student<\/p>\n

2024-<\/p>\n

Mechanotransduction from organelles<\/p>\n

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L\u00e9o Han<\/strong><\/h4>\n

PhD student<\/p>\n

2024-<\/p>\n

Calcium signalling and microglia homeostasis<\/p>\n

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Nourhan Almasri<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Graduate Student<\/p>\n

2024-<\/p>\n

Rho GTPases and immune surveillance<\/p>\n

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Sina Ghasempour<\/strong><\/h4>\n

PhD student<\/p>\n

2020-<\/p>\n

Monogenic causes of inflammation and immunodeficiency<\/p>\n

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Guillermo de Paz Linares<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Graduate student<\/p>\n

2021-<\/p>\n

Inflammation and organellar stress<\/p>\n

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Jin Kwon<\/strong><\/h4>\n

PhD student<\/p>\n

2024-<\/p>\n

Specialized phagocytes and phagosome resolution<\/p>\n

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Ori Scott<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Clinician Scientist in Training<\/p>\n

2024-<\/p>\n

Inborn errors in immunity and clinical immunology<\/p>\n

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Daniel Yu<\/strong><\/h4>\n

PhD student<\/p>\n

2024-<\/p>\n

Myeloid cells in IBD<\/p>\n

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Undergraduate Students<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Lucas Wyss<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

Project student<\/span><\/p>\n

2023-<\/span><\/p>\n

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Alumni<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Dante Barreda<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

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2021-2023<\/span><\/p>\n

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Paul Imbert<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

Post doctoral fellow<\/span><\/p>\n

2018-2020<\/span><\/p>\n

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Giselle Menezes<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

Project student<\/span><\/p>\n

2021<\/span><\/p>\n

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Immanuela Okeke<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

Project student<\/span><\/p>\n

2021<\/span><\/p>\n

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Project student<\/span><\/p>\n

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Project student<\/span><\/p>\n

2023<\/span><\/p>\n

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Trieu Le<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

Post-doctoral fellow<\/span><\/p>\n

2021-2024<\/span><\/p>\n

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PhD student<\/span><\/p>\n

2020-2025<\/span><\/p>\n

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Project student<\/span><\/p>\n

2025<\/span><\/p>\n

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2019-2023<\/span><\/p>\n

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Post doctoral fellow<\/span><\/p>\n

2019-2022<\/span><\/p>\n

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Project student<\/span><\/p>\n

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Project student<\/span><\/p>\n

2019-2021<\/span><\/p>\n

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Project student<\/span><\/p>\n

2022-2023<\/span><\/p>\n

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Project student<\/span><\/p>\n

2022-2024<\/span><\/p>\n

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2022-2024<\/span><\/p>\n

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2021-2023<\/span><\/p>\n

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Project student<\/span><\/p>\n

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