Graduates of the Downey Lab
This page lists of MSc and PhD graduates, as well as former PDFs, all of who made critical contributions to our lab.
DR. LIAM McCARTHY, PhD Student
Publications: PMIDs - 39836110; 36694267; 35862758; 33113373; 31466120
Awards: Canada Graduate Scholarship, OGS Scholarship, Excellence Award for PhD 2022, Excellence Award for MSc 2019, Best talk at Spring PolyP Day 2022, CMM Poster Day 2021 – First place poster award, OISB MSc Paper of the Year Award 2019, Taichman Award 2019
Current position: Researcher in Downey Lab
DR. KANCHI BAIJAL, PhD Student
Publications: PMIDs - 40621900; 39836110; 38478588; 34340551; 33998006; 33113373
Awards: Excellence Award for Mentorship 2025, OGS Scholarship 2022, 2023, 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Helmsley Scholarship (For Attendance at 20-Day Advanced Bacterial Genetics Course at CSHL), Poster Awards 2021, 2019, OISB Virtual Travel Award 2021, Excellence Scholarship 2022-2025
Current position: PDF -National Research Council of Canada
DR. SARAH LAFRAMBOISE, PhD Student
Publications: PMID: 38961766
Awards: NSERC graduate scholarship
Current Position: Lead, Evidence for Democracy
DR. ONYEKACHI ONONYE - PDF 2021-2024
Publications: PMID 36107838
Dr. AMANDA BentlEY-DESOUSA (2015-2021)
PHD student (First PHD from the Lab!)
Publications: PMID: 31466120; 29881919; 29590613; 27527516; 34544285
Awards: First Place PhD Talk, CMM Research Day 2019; Silver Medal CSHRF CIHR Health Sciences Conference 2019; Top oral presentation OISB retreat 2019; NSERC PHD Fellowship; PhD Award of Excellence (2018); 2nd Place Poster – CMM Poster Day May 2018; Ontario Graduate Scholarship 2018; Travel Award (ASBMB Conference 2018); Top Poster Day CMM Research Day Nov 2016; 2nd Place Poster Award - The Canadian Symposium on Telomeres and Genome Integrity 2016; 2nd place poster Award - CMM Research Day Nov 2016
Current Position: Post-doc, Ferguson Lab, Yale University
Rawan nasser (2018-2020)
MSc student
Publications: PMID: 33113373
Current/Next Position: PharmD program at UofT
Dr. Emma Bondy-CHorney (2017-2020)
FORMER PDF
Publications: PMID: 29590613; 31060926; 29671337; 33113373, https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.01.056192v2
Awards: NSERC PDF Fellow; CCSRI Travel Award; PDF Service Award; OISB Poster Award 2017
Current Position: Canadian Food Inspection Agency, formerly at Research Associate (Health Canada)
Charlotte Holinier (2016-2018)
MSc graduate
Publications: PMID: 29590613, 33113373
Travel Award (ASBMB Conference 2018)
Current Position: Technican: Stanford Lab OHRI
Anthony Rössl (2016-2018)
MSc graduate
Publications: PMID 27527516; 30804216
MSc Award of Excellence (2017)
Top Poster Award (CEEHRC Epigenetics Meetings, Whistler, November 2017)
Top Poster Award Chemical and Synthetic Biology Day Symposium, October 2017, University of Ottawa
Top Poster Award CMM Poster Day, April 2017
Current/Next Position: Analyst, Privacy Analytics