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Dr. Michael Wu

Dr. Michael Wu

Dr. Michael Wu

Principle Investigator

Associate Professor


Dr. Wu completed his Ph.D. in hibernation stress physiology at Carleton University under the supervision of Dr. Ken Storey. 


After his graduate studies, Dr. Wu completed a NSERC postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Florida to study environmental stress and aging using the C. elegans model sy

Principle Investigator

Associate Professor


Dr. Wu completed his Ph.D. in hibernation stress physiology at Carleton University under the supervision of Dr. Ken Storey. 


After his graduate studies, Dr. Wu completed a NSERC postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Florida to study environmental stress and aging using the C. elegans model system at the lab of Dr. Keith Choe. 


Dr. Wu began his appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences at the University of Saskatchewan in July of 2018.

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Camiryn Kardal

Dr. Michael Wu

Dr. Michael Wu

M.Sc. student


Camiryn completed her B.Sc. in Toxicology at USask. She is currently a M.Sc. student studying genetic factors influencing C. elegans drug interactions.



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Mahsa Golshani

Dr. Michael Wu

Mahsa Golshani

M.Sc. student


Mahsa completed her DVM at University of Tabriz, Iran. She is currently a M.Sc. student studying genetic regulators of histone processing.



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Rahil Abedi

Mahsa Golshani

Ph.D. student


Rahil is using C. elegans as a model to study mechanisms of cryoprotectant toxicity. She is supervised by Dr. James Benson (Dept. of Biology)

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Kyra Shelton (NSERC USRA)

Kyra is studying genetic factors in drug interaction using C. elegans

Tami Onasanya (NSERC USRA)

Tami is studying Integrator complex in development

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GRADUATE STUDENTS

  • Brandon Waddell. Ph.D student, 19-24 (Postdoc, McGill)
  • Hadi Tabarraei. M.Sc. student 20-23 (PhD student, UofT)
  • Dylan Huynh. M.Sc. student. 20-22
  • Samantha Chomyshen. M.Sc. student. 19-21 (Research technician)


UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

  • Abdullah Qureshi. NSERC USRA, Honour's student. 23-24. (MD student, USask)
  • Sydney Murray. Honour's  student. 19-20. (MD student, USask)
  • Carlos Zapien. Honour's student. 21-22 (PharmD student, USask)
  • Spencer Dmytruk. NSERC USRA, 22-23, 23-24 (MD Student, USask)
  • Maheen Zafar. NSERC USRA, 23-24 (MD student, USask)
  • Kelly Raymond. NSERC USRA. 20-21 (Medical Lab technologist)
  • Jordan Comfort. NSERC USRA. 20-21 (MD student, USask) 
  • Yiping Wu. MITACs intern. 24 (Grad student, Columbia University) 
  • Ana Luiza Hendges Dalpiaz. MITACs intern 
  • Alice Ronita. MITACs intern. 23 (Grad student, India)
  • Mathilde Julien. MITACs intern. 22 (Grad student, France)




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