Senior Scientist and Department Head – Cell Biology Program
University Professor – Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto
william.trimble@sickkids.ca
416-813-6889
Rashna Irani
Administrative Assistant – Cell Biology
rashna.irani@sickkids.ca
416-813-5727
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Research Associate
2000 – Present
Education: Carol completed her PhD at University of Waterloo where she studied aging and senescence in plants as well as plant storage lipids.
Current Project: Carol has been working on many areas of septin biology over her time spent in the lab including post translational modifications and signalling.
Activities: She enjoys spending lots of time hiking in forests. In particularly she forages for edible wild plants and mushrooms. She is also interested in cheese making, other types of fermentation and cooking in general.
Favourite Quote: Oscar Wilde`s reputed last words: “Either that wallpaper goes or I do“.
Lab Research Project Coordinator
1996 – Present
Education: Hong did an MD at Hebei Medical University in Shijianzhuang, China and an MSc degree in biology at University of Waterloo where she worked on genetically modifying soil bacteria to promote plant growth.
Current Project: Hong’s research includes the early work on septin localization, septin involvement in secretion, and Rho family GTPase signalling and septins. She maintains the septin knockout mouse lines in the lab.
Hong also organizes and orders materials for the lab, trains new people with techniques we commonly perform, and she tends to complete revisions for papers submitted by graduate students and post docs who have moved on.
Activities: Hong’s favourite activities include cooking, reading and traveling.
Favourite Quote: “The human brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working the moment you are born, and never stops until you stand up to speak in public”. – George Jessel
Lab Research Project Coordinator
1998 – Present
Education: Rich obtained his B.Sc in Microbiology from the University of Toronto.
Current Project: Rich is interested in the signalling pathways of scavenger receptors as well as lipid and cholesterol transport. He has studied how CD36, a fatty acid transporter, is internalized by cells, followed by a single-particle tracking study of CD36, and the signaling pathway following ligation to oxidized LDL. In 2013 he published a paper on the X-ray crystallographic structure of LIMP-2, in the same family as CD36.
Activities: In the spring and summer Rich can be found racing sailboats every week, hiking along the Bruce Trail, or training for a half-marathon. In the fall he will be fishing for rainbow trout or salmon on Lake Ontario tributaries. In winter you can find him carving up the slopes of Blue Mountain.
Favourite Quote: An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field – Niels Bohr
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