Past Lab Members
Past Lab Members
Past Lab Members
Dr. Fangming Xiu - Post Doctoral Fellow
Dr. Uladzimir (Vova) Karniychuk - Post Doctoral Fellow
Dr. Matthew William Woods - Post Doctoral Fellow
Dr. Jocelyn Wessels - Post Doctoral Fellow
Dr. Allison Felker - Post Doctoral Fellow
Dr. Kristy Roth, PhD
Dr. Jessica Kafka, PhD
Dr. Victor Ferreira, PhD
Dr. Varun Anipindi, PhD
Dr. Puja Bagri, PhD
Sudha Bhavanam, MSc
Sameer Kassim, MSc
Sherie Fernandez, MSc
Erin MacDonald, MSc
Sara Dizzell, MSc
Danielle Vitali, MSc
Jeffrey Lam, MSc
Haley Dupont, MSc
Ramtin Ghasemi, MSc
Andrew Rempel, MSc
Philip Nguyen, MSc, Research Assistant
Amy Gillgrass, Lab Technician
Jillian Wong, Lab Technician
Dr. Hong Jiang, Lab Technician
Erin Walters, Research Assistant
Maeve Cooper, Research Assistant
Kristen Mueller, Lab Technician and Lab Manager
Sussan Kianpour, Research Lab Technician IV
Yung Lee, Project Student
Padmaja Sreeram, Project Student
Lianna Braham, Co-op Student
Alexia Kim, Project Student
Oscar Chan, Project Student
Ghaznia Khan, Project Student
Chris Gunst, Project Student
Olivia Chan, Project Student
Karen Ho, Project Student
Nishant Heryani, Project Student
Emma Yu, Project Student
Ryan Chow, Undergraduate Thesis Student
Puja Bagri, PhD Graduate
In 2014, Puja enrolled in the Medical Science Graduate Program at McMaster University to complete her Masters degree under the supervision of Dr. Kaushic and transferred into the PhD stream in 2016.
Puja's graduate project involved working with the mouse model of herpes-simplex type-2 (HSV-2) infection. Puja's project aimed at underlying mechanism behind enhanced protection observed in estradiol-treated mice, more specifically, by investigating the role of IL-17 and the establishment of tissue-resident memory cells in anti-viral immune responses to HSV-2. Puja completed her Honors PHD in 2020.
Haley Dupont, MSc Graduate
Haley joined the Kaushic lab in 2017 under the Medical Sciences Graduate program. Here she was looking at the microbiome and sex hormones in relation to HIV susceptibility in the female reproductive tract. Haley completed her Honours Master of Science at McMaster University in 2020.
Ramtin Ghasemi, MSc Graduate
Ramtin joined the Kaushic lab in 2017 in the Medical Sciences Graduate Program. His research examined humoral immune responses against HSV-2 in the female genital tract of mice under the influence of estradiol. Ramtin completed his Master of Science at McMaster University in 2020.