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Marjorie Brand, Principal Investigator

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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

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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.

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
dollinger @ wisc . edu

Deep Kapadia, Research Specialist

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Deep joined the lab in June 2023.
 
He obtained a B.Sc. in Biochemistry (2023) from 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
dkapadia @ wisc . edu

Audrey Kopp, PhD Student

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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, 

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
akopp5 @ wisc . edu

Thomas Olender, PhD Student

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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.

Address
Sprott Center for Stem Cell Research
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
501 Smyth Road - Mailbox 511
Ottawa, ON, K1H 8L6
Canada

Phone
+1-613-737-8899 ext. 70327

FAX
+1-613-737-8803

 E-mail
tolen059 @ uottawa . ca

 

Carmen Palii, Scientist III

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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

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
palii @ wisc . edu

 

Steven Tur, PhD Student

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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.

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
tur @ wisc . edu

Sirui Yan, Research Intern

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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

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
syan66 @ wisc . edu

Qingzhou (Johnson) Zhang, Postdoctoral Fellow and Bioinformatician

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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.

Address
Sprott Center for Stem Cell Research
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
501 Smyth Road - Mailbox 511
Ottawa, ON, K1H 8L6
Canada

Phone
+1-613-737-8899 ext. 70327

FAX
+1-613-737-8803

 E-mail
qinzhang @ ohri . ca

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)