Recent trainees
Undergraduate trainees currently (and recently) mentored by me
Aaida Arpa
2020-2021
Undergraduate Thesis project investigating the effects of Helicokinin isoforms on the Malpighian tubule function in caterpillars.
Damandeep Kapoor
2020-2021
NSERC USRA and Undergraduate Thesis Project, investigating transcription and exon content of voltage-gated, ligand-gated and mechanosensitive ion channels expressed in the Malpighian tubules of caterpillars.
Aliyyah Khan
2020-2021
Bio 3IR3 investigating nitric oxide signalling in the Malpighian tubules of caterpillars. Undergraduate Thesis project investigating the roles of mechanosensitive ion channels in the Malpighian tubules of caterpillars
Vanessa Marocha
2019-2020
Biochem 4T15, investigating mechanosensitive ion channels and paracrine ligand production in the Malpighian tubules of caterpillars
Neha Anwar
2018-2020
LifeSci 4C12 and 4A03, investigating why caterpillars crave salt and how they use their ‘kidney’ retain dietary Na+.
Gayatri Sivaratnam
2017-2018
Undergraduate thesis, investigating K+ transport in the Malpighian tubules of caterpillars
Harish Ravisangar
2017-2018
Undergraduate thesis, investigating inward-rectifying K+ channels in the Malpighian tubules of caterpillars
Maria Tauqir
2016-2017
Undergraduate thesis, investigating ion transport in isolated distal ileac plexus of the larval Trichoplusia ni