Our Postdocs
Dr. Andreas (Nils Mauritz) Eriksson
Dr. Eriksson is a postdoctoral fellow in the Wiseman group in the Biological Sciences department. Dr. Eriksson's research focuses on how anthropogenic pollution impacts and affects fish at multiple levels of biological organization; ranging from (gen)omic alterations to physiology, and behaviour.
Research Interests include: Environmental toxicology, (gen)omics, developmental toxicology, bioinformatics, biostatistics.
Dr. Paula Olivares Guzman
Dr. Olivares Guzm谩n is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience (CCBN), collaborating with Dr. Rob Sutherland and Dr. Hardeep Ryait (CCBN), Dr. Joyce Van Donkersgoed (Dr. Joyce Van Donkersgoed Inc.), and Dr. Karen Schwartzkopf-Genswein (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada). Her current Alberta Innovates鈥 and Mitacs-funded project brings together behavioural science, AI, and app development to support early detection of lameness in beef cattle.
Research interests include: Beef cattle welfare and behaviour, with a particular emphasis on how emerging technologies and artificial intelligence can advance animal welfare and management practices.
Dr. Esmaeel Ghasemi Gojani
Dr. Ghasemi Gojani is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Neuroscience in Dr. Sutherland鈥檚 lab. His current research explores the mechanistic impact of psychedelic microdosing on the progression of Alzheimer鈥檚 disease pathology.
Research interests include: molecular pathobiology of Alzheimer鈥檚 disease and the development of therapeutic interventions.
Dr. Jackson Ham
Research Interests include: Neuroscience; Alzheimer Disease; Social neuroethology
Dr. Melissa Chelak
Research interests include: avian ecology with current project on Alberta's greater sage-grouse population.
Dr. Behroo Mirza Agha
Research Interests include: sporadic Alzheimer鈥檚 disease
Dr. Shaylyn Kress
Dr. Kress is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the 免费福利资源在线看片 of Lethbridge, collaborating with Dr. Ekstrand (Lethbridge) and Dr. Culham (Western). Her current postdoctoral research examines the emerging realm of digital neuroscience, investigating how perception and action in the brain operate when faced with virtual environments.
Research interests include: cognitive neuroscience, digital neuroscience, video games, neuroimaging
Dr. Qiana Hunt
Research interests include: high-energy astrophysics. Specifically, I do multi-wavelength analyses of X-ray binaries in the Milky Way and beyond
Dr. Vinicius Silva Castro
Dr. Castro is a Mitacs-BCRC-funded Postdoctoral Fellow under the supervision of Dr. Kim Stanford. His research focuses on foodborne pathogens across diverse food matrices. He is currently working an E.coli biofilm project that examines interspecies interactions and evaluates alternative approaches to prevent and control contamination, integrating conventional microbiological techniques with advanced bioinformatic analyses.
Research interests include: Food Microbiology and Bioinformatics.
Dr. Foryuy Fairo Dzekashu
Dr. Fairo Dzekashu Foryuy is a postdoctoral researcher at the 免费福利资源在线看片 of Lethbridge, involved in the research group led by Dr. Shelley Hoover, the principal investigator and an associate professor. Their research project is funded by the Alberta Canola Producers Commission and Results Driven Agriculture Research (RDAR) under the Canola Agronomic Research Program (CARP).
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Dr. Austin Pounder
Dr. Pounder is an Alberta Innovates funded Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry working with faculty supervisors, Dr. Stacey Wetmore and Dr. Jean-Denys Hamel. Dr. Pounder's research interests include: Computational (bio)organic chemistry.
Dr. Parth Rathee
Earning his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the 免费福利资源在线看片 of Miami, Parth is a Postdoctoral Fellow working with the Wetmore Lab to build quantum computation models of DNA-editing enzymes to identify prospective targets for gene therapy. In his spare time, Parth is an avid sci-fi reader, audiophile and photographer.
Dr. Kaniz Jannat
Kaniz Jannat is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Faculty of Health Sciences. She is committed to advancing evidence-based approaches that improve child health outcomes globally. Her postdoctoral research focuses on supporting children and youth with ADHD through innovative nutritional interventions as part of the POINT study. She has over a decade of experience in global child health research, including randomized controlled trials and community-based interventions aimed at improving nutrition, growth, and developmental outcomes.
She is particularly passionate about the role of gut health in shaping overall well-being and is working to advance research on microbiome-focused nutritional strategies for mothers and children. Her broader interests include designing and evaluating interventions that promote children鈥檚 health and support better long-term developmental and health trajectories.
Dr. John White
Dr. John Robert White is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy whose work aims to fundamentally reconfigure biodiversity science through decolonial, biocultural data integration. He is developing 鈥淓thnobiodiversity Informatics鈥 as a paradigm-shifting framework for linking biological, cultural, linguistic, archaeological, and ecological datasets so that different disciplines and knowledge traditions can tag, annotate, and analyze data on their own terms. He is establishing an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural plant science and data lab that builds software, database add-ons, and shared reference collections (including phenology and diagnostic phytolith datasets for lesser-known crops and crop wild relatives) to enable interoperability analysis, expose cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary mismatches, and catalyze new research directions. Since 2010, he has worked closely with Kichwa communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon and is now extending this work through emerging collaborations with Blackfoot and other North American Indigenous groups to co-produce more just, usable, and future-oriented biocultural data infrastructures.