PEOPLE
This picture shows the mathematical biology group in the
department of Applied Math at UWO.
In the front row (from left to right):
Dr. Zhaohui Yuan (Postdoc) , Prof. Huiyan Zhu (Visiting Prof.), Prof. Lindi Wahl,
Rachelle Miron (4th year thesis student), Jing Li (PhD student), Yanyu Xiao (MSc student), Jennifer Hubbarde (MSc student)
In the back row (from left to right):
Dr. Taishan Yi (Postdoc), Zaheerabbas Hamzaali Patwa (MSc student), Olga Krakovska (PhD student), Prof. Xingfu Zou, Dr. Geoff Wild (Postdoc).
In Dr. Wahl's group:
- Post-doctoral Fellows
- Geoff Wild: Geoff is expanding the tools of theoretical population
genetics to include more detailed models of the organism's life history.
In particular, we have found that our assumptions regarding birth, fecundity,
and death (generation times) profoundly affect our predictions of
the fixation probability.
- Graduate Students
- Olga Krakovska: Olga is working on predictions of
better treatment regimens for HIV therapy. She is looking for
"drug-sparing" regimens, which reduce the cost and toxicity of the
drugs, but still control viral replication.
- Jennifer Hubbarde: Jenn has been working on a better
analytical model for lytic viruses in experimental evolution.
- Zaheerabbas Patwa: Zaheerabbas is just starting his MSc
with our group and hasn't decided on his research topic yet.
- Undergraduate Research Students
- Rachelle Miron: Rachelle will be working on
improving our models of intracellular drug concentrations
during HIV therapy.
- Former group members
- Robert Smith: Robert finished his post-doc with us, and
has moved on to a faculty position at the University of Ottawa.
- Jane Heffernan:
Jane finished her PhD (winning the Governor General's Gold Medal!) and
moved on to a post-doctoral position at Warwick University
(UK). She will be joining the faculty at York University in 2007.
- LeQun Zeng: LeQun finished his MSc with us and is now a
PhD student at the University of Ottawa.
- Colleen Ball: Colleen finished her 4th year project
in our group and is now finishing her MSc at UBC.
- Louise Martin: Louise finished her post-doc in our
group but is still interested in the information
content of multi-sequence alignments. This is work with our
collaborators
Greg Gloor and
Stan Dunn in Biochemistry.
- Weiguang Yao:
Weiguang finished a post-doc in our group and is now a Research Asociate
in the Department of Medical Physics at the
Sudbury Regional Hospital.
- Svetlana Komarova:
Svetlana was a collaborator from the CIHR group in
Skeletal Development
and Remodeling; she has gone on to a faculty position at McGill (Physiology).
For people in Dr. Zou's group, click here.