Current lab members

Rob Ness
Principal Investigator

Ahmed Hasan
PhD Student

Eniolaye Balogun
PhD Student

Alice Chen
MSc Student

Sara El-Shawa
Undergraduate Researcher

Yeshoda Harry-Paul Undergraduate Researcher

James Santangelo
PhD Candidate

Shanza Ayub
Undergraduate Researcher

Madeleine Oman
PhD Student

Lab Alumni

Trevor Schmahl
Undergraduate (2018-2019)

Josianne Lachapelle
Postdoctoral Fellow (2016-2018)

Mariana Pesquiera-Chavez
Postdoctoral Fellow (2016)

Aqsa Alam
Undergraduate (2017-2018)

Fathiya Mohamed
Undergraduate (2016-2017)

Daniel Kim
Undergraduate (2016-2017)

Tommy Lin Weng
Undergraduate (2018-2019)

Safa Ahmad
Undergraduate (2018)

Jaspreet Duggal
Undergraduate (2016-2017)

Matthew Jabile
Undergraduate (2016-2017)

Ibrahim El-Hamamy
Undergraduate (2016)

Devon Du Vernet
Undergraduate (2016)

Get to know the team

Eniolaye Balogun (PhD student)

I completed a Bachelor of Science at the University of Toronto Mississauga campus in 2019. I am currently completing research on the effect of mutation on global gene expression variance in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. I am concurrently exploring Michael Lynch’s Drift Barrier Hypothesis and its possible use in estimating the effects of indels and SNMs on fitness.

My special interests include baking, sewing, yoga and generally everything involving physical fitness.