People

Graduate Students

	Maythem Ali   2016-Present BSc Concordia University (2015) As part of his MSc, Maythem is investigating regulators of natural product biosynthesis bioactive compounds natural products produced by Gram-negative bacteria.
	Liana Zaroubi   2018-Present BSc Concordia University (2018) As part of her MSc, Liana is investigating the chemical ecology of myxobacteria.
	Michael Mahdavi   2019-Present BSc Carleton University (2018) Michael is studying the effect of antibiotic adjuvants.
	Lydia Rili   2019-Present BSc Concordia University (2019) Lydia is deciphering natural product regulation in Photorhabdus luminescens.
	Laura Domínguez 2020-Present BSc Monterrey Institute of Technology (2020) PhD student and Mitacs alumni Laura Domínguez is studying how bacteria react to antibiotic stress.
	Clothilde Francois 2020-Present MSc University of Birmingham (2014) BSc University of Sunderland (2013) For her PhD Clothilde is studying the evolution of antibiotic resistance-conferring plasmids.

Undergraduate Students

Rolan Papazyan 2020-Present As part of his Honours BSc project Rolan is investigating the wide world of natural product biosynthesis.

Lab Alumni

	Bahar Pakseresht MSc Concordia University 2020 PharmD Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences and Health Services (2017) As part of her MSc, Bahar investigated marine myxobacteria and all the wonderful compounds that they produce.
	Rami Antoun 2020 With funding through the Concordia Undergraduate Student Research Award Program Rami studied the phylogeny of geosmin synthase and its associated proteins.
	Md Ali Yousof 2017-2019 (Co-supervised with Adrian Tsang) Concordia Horizon Postdoctoral Fellow PhD Pukyong National University (2016) MSc Islamic University, Kushtia (2011) BSc Islamic University, Kushtia (2009) Dr. Yousof studied natural products produced by fungi and bacteria.
	Laura Dominguez 2019 Laura studied the expression of natural products in Photorhabdus luminescens, thanks in part to funding from the Mitacs Globalink program.
	Emily Cervenka 2018-2019 Emily studied the regulation of natural product biosynthesis in Gram-negative bacteria.
	Nadia Sari 2018-2019 Nadia studied the evolution of Salmonella enterica in response to antimicrobials.
	Maxwell Miller 2018 Maxwell worked on the evolution of E. coli and Salmonella enterica as part of an NSERC USRA. Current position: Dentistry, Western University.
	Mona Maarouf 2017-2018 BSc Beirut Arab University (2009)Mona studied the regulation of natural product biosynthesis in Gammaproteobacteria as part of her graduate diploma in biotechnology. Current position: Junior Quality Control Inspector, MEDISCA.
	Zach Schiffman 2016-2018 Zach isolated new environmental myxobacteria as part of a Chem 450 honours project. Current position: MSc, Manitoba.
	Kris Singh 2018 Kris worked on developing a new synthetic route to isocyanides as part of a Chem 450 project.
	Mona Hashemi  2017 Mona evolved antibiotic-resistant E. coli as part of a Bio 490 honours project.
	Nour Ghaddar  2016-2017 Nour completed both a Chem 450 and a Concordia Undergraduate Student Research Award in the lab (2016-2017), evolving E. coli strains with interesting phenotypes. Current position: MSc, McGill University.