Alumni
Dr. Siavash Partow
Email: s.partow@utoronto.ca
Siavash’s research focuses on industrial biotechnology using synthetic biology and metabolic engineering. Using these approaches he is engineering model microorganisms, e.g. E. coli and S. cerevisiae, with the aim of generating a robust cell factory for the production of fine chemicals and/or biopharmaceuticals.
Dr. Jonas Muller
Postdoc
Email: Jonas.muller@utoronto.ca
PhD (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETHZ)
Masters (Eberhard Karls University)
Jonas works on microbial based production of non-natural diacids and dialcohols
Cleo(Hanchen) Ho
Education:
B.A.Sc. (Chemical and Biological Engineering): University of British Columbia, Canada
Current Project:
E-mail: cleohc.ho@utoronto.ca
Nikolaos Anesiadis
Education:
B.A.Sc. (Chemical Engineering): Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
M.A.Sc. (Chemical Engineering): University of Toronto, Canada
Current Project:
E-mail: nikolaos.anesiadis@utoronto.ca
Mohammad Ahsannul Islam
Education:
B.Sc. (Chemical Engineering): Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh
M.Sc., D.I.C. (Chemical Engineering): Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, United Kingdom
Current Project:
E-mail: ahsan.islam@utoronto.ca
Patrick Hayland
Education:
B.A.Sc. (Chemical Engineering): University of Toronto, Canada
Current Project:
His current project involves developing strains of industrially relevant organisms for the production of specialty and bulk chemicals. To this end, heterologous genes are incorporated into host strains and model-based strain optimization is employed to suggest further genetic modifications that benefit yield and productivity.
Tahmineh Khazaei
Education:
B.A.Sc. (Chemical Engineering): University of Toronto
Current Project:
E-mail: tahmineh.khazaei@utoronto.ca
Nadeera Jayasinghe
Education:
B.Sc. (Chemical Engineering and Computer Technology): University of Ottawa, Canada.
Current Project:
E-mail: nadeera.jayasinghe@utoronto.ca
Nicholas Bourdakos
Education:
B.A.Sc. (Chemical Engineering): University of Toronto, Canada
Current Project:
E-mail: n.bourdakos@utoronto.ca
Gary Botes
Education:
Undergraduate (Chemical Engineering): University of Toronto, Canada
Current Project:
The modification and/or optimization of the metabolic networks of different microorganisms in order to determine: the best substrate/organism combination for the production of value added chemicals, and the most effective genetic manipulations for the production of coenzyme Q10.
E-mail: gary.botes@utoronto.ca
Nicole Botes
Education:
B.A.Sc. (Chemical Engineering): University of Toronto, Canada
Current Project:
Her research project involves expanding the current model of metabolism in the human brain to include the baroreflex pathway. Various physiological conditions, such as hypertension and hypoxia, will then be simulated in order to determine how the neurons and astrocytes function under these stressful circumstances. This knowledge is beneficial for determining the severity of the effects of these conditions on energy metabolism in the brain.
E-mail: nicole.botes@utoronto.ca
Lan Li
Education:
B.A.Sc. (Chemical Engineering): University of Toronto, Canada
Current Project:
Worked with graduate student, Fahime Salimi, as a research assistant in the project related to conversion of glucose into biofuels, such as ethanol and butanol, through anaerobic fermentation of Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824.
E-mail: lan.li@utoronto.ca
Bahareh Sayyar
Education:
Bachelor’s Degree (Chemical Engineering): Sharif University of Technology, Iran
Current Project:
Modification of Thermodynamic Electron Equivalent Model to Predict the Microbial Yield of Geobacter species
Karthik Srinivasan
Education:
B.Eng., Ph.D, Hiroshima University, Japan
Current Project:
I am working on experimental evaluation and model prediction of biomass yield and proton balance in Geobacter species.
E-mail: karthie_sri@yahoo.ca