Kirsten Benidickson
PhD student (co-supervised by Wayne Snedden)
Thesis topic: Role and control of glutamate decarboxylase and the GABA shunt in the metabolic adaptations of phosphate starved Arabidopsis thaliana
Congratulations Kirsten for winning Directors' award for best poster presentation by a CSPB student member at recent 2023 Eastern Regional Meeting of the Can. Soc. Plant Biol. (Concordia Univ.), along with being recently awarded a prestigious NSERC CGS-D scholarship!
Katie Jenkins
MSc student (co-supervised by Wayne Snedden)
Thesis topic: Does the GABA shunt function as a respiratory (TCA cycle) bypass in phosphate starved Arabidopsis?
Brittany Menard
MSc student (co-supervised by Wayne Snedden)
Thesis topic: Post-translational control of Arabidopsis glutamate decarboxylase-1 via proteolytic truncation of its calmodulin binding domain
Congratulations Brittany on being awarded a prestigious Ontario Graduate Scholarship for 2024-2026
Faranak Soleimani
PhD student (co-supervised by Jacqueline Monaghan)
Thesis topic: Control of the Arabidopsis E3 ligase ATL6 by CDPK mediated phosphorylation
Congratulations Faranak for winning the Presidents' Award for best poster presentation by a CSPB student member at the 2023 Annual General Meeting of the Can. Soc. Plant Biol. (Univ. Laval)!
Faiqa Amin
MSc student (co-supervised by Jacqueline Monaghan)
Thesis topic: Role of calcium dependent protein kinase-4 (CPK4) in the regulation of the E3 ligase ATL6 during immune signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana