Our team is diverse culturally, professionally, and in every aspect you can imagine!. Each of us brings unique talents and personalities and together, we help each other during these unprecedented times.
Silvia T. Cardona, Ph.D.
Professor and Principal Investigator, Silvia is passionate about science and mentoring scientistis through their careers
silvia.cardona@umanitoba.ca
ASM Zisanur Rahman
Zisan is a Ph.D. candidate, working on AI-driven discovery of antibiotics, chemical genomics, and mechanism of action of new drugs
rahmasmz@myumanitoba.ca
Zhong Ling Yap
Ph.D. candidate, working on bioplastic degradation and CRISPR tools
yapzl@myumanitoba.ca
Zayra Batun
Pursuing a Master’s degree, Zayra is investigating the genetic stability of CRISPRi mutants of essential genes batunz@myumanitoba.ca
Julieta (Jules) Novomisky-Nechcoff
With a Master’s degree in mind, Jules is building CRISPRi mutant libraries and predicting antibiotic activity with AI tools
novomisj@myumanitoba.ca
Ryan Darragh
Close to graduate with a degree in Microbiology, Ryan is working toward discovering new degradation capacities in Burkholderia
Juliana Osler
An Honors project student, Juliana is experiencing research for the first time. Mission? validate CRISPRi-seq results with selected mutants
Jay Wieler
Jay is an undergraduate student, working on validating the mechanism of action of novel antimicrobials
Hamid Hadipour
Data Scientist, Masters in computer science
ready to use machine learning to help us find antibacterial molecules
Himanshu Kamboj is coming soon!
We are looking forward to having Himanshu as a new Ph. D. student
