Current Lab Members
and Co-Supervisions
Past lab members and co-supervisions
Olivia Demetrakopoulos (2024-2025)
NSERC-USRA summer 2024
Undergraduate student honors thesis 2024-2025
Research assistant summer 2025
As of September 2025, Msc Student in the Kharouba lab, at University of Ottawa.
Maryam Allyahari (2025)
Msc BINF Student, May-August 2025 .
Thesis:
co-supervision Dr. Merhdad Hajibabaei
Aparna Ramanathan (2025)
Wildlife biology and conservation coop-student, supported by a Mitacs Accelerate Fellowhip. Worked as a resesarch assistant in the lab and herbarium on the invasive Magnolia next-generation sequencing project.
As of December 2025, completing her undergraduate degree at U. of Guelph.
Juan David Torvar (2023-2025)
PhD Student, Universidaded Federal de Paraiba, Brazil. Main-supervisor Dr. Leandro Giacomin, co-supervision
Qing Yuan Pei
(2024)
Msc BINF Student, May-December 2024 .
Thesis:
co-supervision Dr. Lewis Lukens
Sarah Morris
(2024)
Undergrad research assistant, May - August 2024.
Supported by the CBS Summer Research Assistanship Award -
"Dr. Anne Innis Dagg Research Assistantship"
Sasi Mohan Sonnai
(2024)
Msc Agrigenomics University of Kiel, November 2023 - February 2024 .
Co-supervision of Msc thesis; Main supervisor: Dr. Remco Stam.
Jay Delves
(2021)
Co-supervision of Msc thesis at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
Moved on as PhD Student at Western Sydney University, Australia.
Ludwig Baldaszti
(2021)
Co-supervision of Msc thesis at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
Moved on as PhD Student at University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
Rebecca Hilgenhof (2019)
Co-supervision of Msc thesis at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
Starting in Fall 2024 as a PhD Student at University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
Mathew Rees
(2019)
Principal supervisor of Msc thesis at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
Currently PhD Student at University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
Carlos Cormier
(2018)
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Université de Moncton, Nouveau-Brunswick