Program Management

Prof. Ian Lewis, Ph.D.

**Principal Investigator**
admin.lrg@ucalgary.ca
Associate Professor, University of Calgary; Director, Alberta Centre for Advanced Diagnostics,

Thomas Rydzak, Ph.D.

Head Scientist

Troy Feener, M.Sc.

**Program Manager**
pm.lrg@ucalgary.ca

Jennifer Roberson

**Program Coordinator**

Keir Pittman, Ph.D.

**Scientific Writer**

Postdoctoral Fellows

Mehdi Mohammadi, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Senior Scientists

Ryan Groves, M.Sc.

**CMRF Research Coordinator**
Metabolomics Specialist - International Microbiome Centre

Annegret Ulke-Lemée, Ph.D.

**CMRF Ops. Coordinator**
Quantitative Proteomics and Microbiome Metabolomics Applications

Dominique Bihan, Ph.D.

**CMRF Analytical Specialist**
Metabolomics Applications

Research Staff

Raied Aburashed

**DPF Operations Coordinator**

Graduate Students

Luis Ponce Alvarez, M.Sc.

Ph.D. Student

Rajnigandha Pushpker, M.Sc.

Ph.D. Student

Mario Valdez Tresanco, M.Sc.

Ph.D. Student

Anika Westlund

Ph.D. Student.

Undergraduate students

Sydney Dauvin, 2026 APEX Access Project Student

Trevor Hume, 2026 APEX Access Student

David Akingbade, 2026 Project Student

Fortune Ade Kanye, 2026 Alberta Innovates USRA Student

Alumni

Faculty Hosted for Sabbatical Research

Dr. Daniel Gregson, M.D. (Alberta Precision Laboratories)

Dr. Deirdre Church, M.D., Ph.D. (Alberta Precision Laboratories)

Postdoctoral Fellows

Beata Mickiewicz, Ph.D.

Matthias S. Klein Ph.D.

Vishaldeep K. Sidhu, Ph.D.

Shephanie Bishop Ph.D.

Visiting Scientists

Luis Alberto González López (University of Antioquia)

Yulieth Alexandra Upegui Zapata (University of Antioquia)

Sneider Alexander Gutierrez Guarnizo (University of Antioquia)

Research Associates

Grace Gallo

Kathleen Merx

Kurt I. Ebeling

Miranda Moll

Fatemeh Yazdanpanah

Ruichuan Zhang

Barbora Svobodova

Amy Poelzer

Jenna Poelzer

Saad Luqman

Max Baatar

Soren Wacker

Graduate Students

Michelle Chang, M.Sc.

Austin Nguyen, M.Sc.

Travis Bingeman, M.Sc.

Melissa King M.Sc

Spencer Wildman, M.Sc.

Alikhan Mansuri, M.Sc.

Ayush Mandwal Ph.D.

Rory Gilliland M.Sc.

Colin Mackenzie Ph.D.

Carly Chan Ph.D.

Maryam Mapar Ph.D.

Dimitri Desmonts de Lamache Ph.D.

Undergraduate students

Mikayla Gray

Elvira Nurmambetova

Sukhjit Sidhu

Arooj Aftab (co-advisee)

Inaara Mawji

John Pascua

Spencer Wildman

Andriy Plakhotnyk (co-advisee)

Rita Hannawayya

Kosar Khani

Khaled Elmalawany

Zoha Asif

Isabella Quartly

Alishba Babar

Gloria Sun

Austin Keown

Emiko Lau

Keerat Kooner

Rosie Hager

Justin Mann

Jennifer Lai

Selena Osman

Evgeny Vlasov

Amina Mohamud (co-advisee)

Bruce N. Allen

Yasaman Samanian

Anna Ulrich

Saad Luqman

Nathaniel Fernetti

Anika Westlund

Stephanie Dang

Carter Chopin

Amy Wycislik

Julia Adug

Sophie Hoyer

Gabriel Ceballo

Eleanor Chuen

Sasha Sharow

Noordin Yusuf

Gavin Head

Dani Kilani

Gurnoor Aujla

Sardar Shahzeb Khan

Balraj Singh Brar

Palliser Shomody

Brooklynn Malec

Alikhan Mansuri

Mahdi Moezzi

Xufan Huang

Katherine Heger

Vivian Huang

Nathan de Olivera

Kyle Story

Sofia Su

Karan Klair

Jasmine Parhar

Ariana Nielsen

Ishmal Hamid

Diya Athwal

Benjamin Chew