Dr. Iveta Dobreva (Research Associate)
Dr. Dobreva completed her Ph.D. in the laboratory of Dr. Christian Widmann at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland in 2006. Prior to joining the WRC as a Research Associate, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Shoukat Dedhar at the BC Cancer Research Centre in Vancouver. Dr. Dobreva is a protein biochemist and an expert in quantitative proteomics approaches and their application to complex biological systems
Dr. Zongli Luo (Research Associate)
Dr. Luo received his Ph.D. in Genetics from the Institute of
Microbiology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow
in the laboratory of Dr. Dieter Gallwitz at the Max Planck Institute for
Biophysical Chemistry in Gottingen, Germany. Dr. Luo is a yeast molecular
biologist and was recruited to the WRC as a Research Associate in 2003.
Dr. Christopher Walkey (Research Associate)
Dr. Walkey recently joined the WRC as a research associate. Prior
to UBC , he was a research fellow in cell biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer
Institute and the Harvard Medical School for nine years.
He is a molecular biologist and a specialist in proteomics.
Calvin Adams (Researcher/Technician)
Calvin Adams has been the lab manager in the van Vuuren laboratory since 2007 and is involved with research in the
Genome BC WineGen project. He obtained his M.Sc. degree at the University of Guelph in Ontario.
Lina Madilao (Researcher)
Lufiani Lina Madilao has been the analytical laboratory facility manager in the UBC Wine Research Centre since 2003. She
obtained her B.Sc. in chemistry at UBC . Prior to joining the WRC, she worked for 13 years as a mass spectrometrist at the
BC Regional Mass Spectrometry Centre in the UBC Dept. of Chemistry.
Sara Saberi (M.Sc. student)
Dr. John Husnik, UBC (2007)
Dr. Husnik obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in the van Vuuren laboratory. He has constructed the ML01 and urea-degrading
wine yeasts which have been patented. He is currently employed as a senior research scientist at Phyterra Yeast in Napa, California.
Dr. Danie Erasmus, UBC (2005)
Dr. Erasmus obtained his Ph.D. in the WRC and is currently a senior
laboratory instructor in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Program at
the University of Northern British Columbia.
Dr. George van der Merwe, U of Stellenbosch (2002)
Dr. van der Merwe completed his Ph.D. in the WRC. He is now an Associate Pprofessor in the Dept. of Molecular and
Cellular Biology at the University of Guelph in Ontario.
Dr. Joana Coulon, University of Bordeaux (2001)
Emily Terrell, UBC(2010)
Matthew Dahabieh, UBC (2008)
Susanne Kanel, ETH Switzerland (2003)
Martin Schanz, ETH Switzerland (2003)
M. Albert, Brock University (2002)
Brad Greatrix, UBC (2002)
Cherie Spriggs, UBC (2002)
Juan Rico Molins, M.Sc. student, IATA, Spain
Amelie Boury, M.Sc. student, SupBiotech, France
Joana Coulon, Ph.D. student, University of Bordeaux
Susanne Kanel, M.Sc. student, ETH Switzerland
Martin Schanz , M.Sc. student, ETH Switzerland
Giacomo Zara, Ph.D. student, University of Sassari, Italy
Dr. Young-Tae Hahm, Visiting Professor, Chung-Ang University, South Korea
Further research details are available in Dr. van Vuuren's Research page and Publications page.
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