Meet the Team

  • Omid Haji-Ghassemi, PhD

    Principal Investigator

    Assistant Professor
    Department of Biological Sciences
    University of Calgary
    Libin Cardiovascular Institute
    Arnie Charbonneau Cancer Institute

Graduate Students

  • Joshua Steward

    MSc. Student

    Likes: Brute force method
    Dislikes: Endless LIC cloning

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  • Oleg (Alec) Khassan

    MSc. Student

    Likes: crystals
    Dislikes: Coloured photos

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  • Rachi Panchal

    MSc. Student

    Likes: ITC (isothermal titration calorimetry)
    Dislikes: Seasonal migraines

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  • Eliany Arias del Rio

    MSc. Student

    Likes: TBD
    Dislikes: TBD

Undergraduate Students

  • Jakob Gorodetsky

    Alberta Innovates and Honours Student

    Likes: Deep thoughts
    Dislikes: TBD

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  • Nirmal Cheema

    Honours Student

    Likes: TBD
    Dislikes: TBD

  • Michael Schieman

    Honours Student

    Likes: crystals, hiking
    Dislikes: TBD

  • Julia Kaawach-Mohareb

    Honours Student

    Likes: TBD
    Dislikes: TBD

Post-Docs

Former Lab Members

  • Megan Torres (May 2023 - Oct 2024, co-supervised with Dr. Matt Vijayan) - Now a government scientist (Calgary, AB)

Graduate Students

Undergraduate Students

  • Nicole Hansed (Sep 2023 - Apr 2024) - Honours Student

  • Chase Talarico (Sep 2023 - Apr 2024) - Honours Student - Now a UBC graduate student (Yip lab)

  • Isabel Zhao (May 2023 - Aug 2024) - Summer NSERC student