Marjorie Brand, Principal Investigator

Marjorie received a PhD in Molecular Biology (2001) from Universite Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg, France) and did her postdoctoral studies (2001-2004) at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle, WA, USA). From 2004 to 2023, she was a Senior Scientist at the Sprott Center for Stem Cell Research in the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and a Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Ottawa in Canada. In March 2023, Marjorie joined the Wisconsin Blood Cancer Research institute and became Professor in the Department of Cell and Regenerative Biology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Address Wisconsin Blood Cancer Research Institute, Department of Cell and Regenerative Biology University of Wisconsin in Madison 1111 Highland Ave Madison, WI, 53705 Phone 608-262-4676  E-mail mbrand3 @ wisc . edu

Roberta Dollinger, Postdoctoral Fellow

Roberta joined the lab in January 2024.   She holds a BSc in Biochemistry with with Honors and English (2016) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and she obtained a PhD in Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology (2023) from The Pennsylvania State University.

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Deep Kapadia, Research Specialist

Deep joined the lab in June 2023.   He obtained a B.Sc. in Biochemistry (2023) from the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

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Audrey Kopp, PhD Student

Audrey joined the lab in January 2019.   She holds a M.Sc. degree in Biotechnology, Genomics and Biotherapy from the Université de Limoges (France).   Audrey is a recipient of a University of Ottawa Admission Scholarship and the Walter Faigan Kiwanis Club Fellowship in Lymphoma and Transplant Research   Audrey is affiliated to the Cell and Regenerative Biology Department at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, but remains a PhD student in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine in Ottawa,

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Thomas Olender, PhD Student

Tom joined the lab in May 2017.   He obtained his B.Sc. with honours in Biochemistry (2017) from the University of Ottawa (ON, Canada).   Tom is a recipient of the Walter Faigan Kiwanis Club Fellowship in Lymphoma and Transplant Research and the Ontario Government Scholarship.

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Carmen Palii, Scientist III

Carmen joined the lab in December 2006.   She holds a M.Sc. in Biochemistry (2003) from Al. I. Cusa University (Iasi, Romania) and a PhD in Biochemistry (2006) obtained in collaboration between the Universite des Sciences et Technologies de Lille 1 (Lille, France) and Al. I. Cusa University (Iasi, Romania).   In Ottawa, Carmen was a postdoctoral fellow in the Brand lab until August 2012 when she became a Research Associate.   In Aug 2023, Carmen moved with the lab to the Wisconsin Blood Cancer Research institute and the Department of Cell and Regenerative Biology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison where she holds the position of Scientist III

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Steven Tur, PhD Student

Steven joined the lab in September 2021.   He obtained a B.Sc. in Physics (2017) from the University of Tours in France and an MSc. in Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies (2018) from the University Grenoble Alpes in France.   Steven was a PhD student at the University of Ottawa from Nov 2021 to Jan 2023.    In Feb 2023, Steven transferred to the Cellular and Molecular Biology Graduate Program at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

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Sirui Yan, Research Intern

Sirui joined the lab in July 2023.   She obtained a B.Sc. in Biotechnology (2021) from Sun Yat-sen University in China and an M.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering (2023) from John Hopkins University

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Qingzhou (Johnson) Zhang, Postdoctoral Fellow and Bioinformatician

Johnson joined the lab in January 2021.   He obtained a MSc in Bioinformatics (2011) fom the University of Manchester in the UK and a PhD in Biochemistry (2021) from the University of Regina in Canada.

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Former Trainees		Last Known Position
Marilyn Vera Chang	Postdoctoral Fellow 2019 - 2021	Research Scientist Canadian Nuclear Laboratories
Zeinab Mokhtari	Postdoctoral Fellow 2019 - 2020	Junior Principal investigator University of Wuerzburg (Germany)
Kaitlin Kharas	Master Student 2015 - 2018	PhD Student University of Toronto
Aissa Benyoucef	Postdoctoral Fellow 2013 - 2017	Research Assistant Université de Montreal (Canada)
Maxwell Sunohara	Master Student 2014 - 2017	Canadian Airforce
Alexander Griffith	Master Student 2013 - 2016	Scientific Officer Health Canada (Ottawa, ON, Canada)
Sylvain Fraineau	Postdoctoral Fellow 2013 - 2016	Associate Professor of Physiology Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University of Rouen (France)
Dmitry Yevstafiev	Master Student 2012 - 2014	Research Assistant Applied Biological Materials Inc. (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
Erinija Pranckeviciene	PhD Student 2010 - 2013	Research Scientist Department of Human and Medical Genetics,  Vilnius University,  Vilnius (Lithuania)
Chandra-Prakash Chaturvedi	Postdoctoral Fellow 2007 - 2013	Principal Investigator, Associate Professor and Wellcome Trust-DBT Indian Alliance Fellow Stem Cell Research Center,  Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences,  Lucknow (India)
Brinda Somasundaram	Master Student 2010 - 2012	Associate VWR (India)
Camilia Thieba	Master Student 2010 - 2012	Research Associate Sussex Research Laboratories Inc. (Ottawa, ON, Canada)
Alison Hosey	Postdoctoral Fellow 2008 - 2010	Manager of Research Services University of Ottawa Heart Institute (Ottawa, ON, Canada)
Cathy (Xin Yue) Zhang	Master Student 2007 - 2010	PhD Student Min Lin's Lab in the Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa (Ottawa, ON, Canada).
Zeshawn Awan	Master Student 2005 - 2007	Scientific Officer Health Canada (Ottawa, ON, Canada)