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LAB MEMBERS

DR. ANTONIO RUZZINI

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR 

Assistant professor, Department of Veterinary Microbiology

Western College of Veterinary Medicine

University of Saskatchewan

Associate member, Department of Biochemistry Microbiology and Immunology, University of Saskatchewan

Member of Molecular Design Research Cluster (U of S, CoM)

Member of the Proteomics Research in Interactions and Structure of Macromolecules (PRISM) Group (U ofS)

Education & Training

Post-doctoral fellow, Harvard Medical School (2014-2017), supervised by Dr. Jon Clardy

Post-doctoral fellow, University of Paris-Sud (2013-2014), supervised by Jean-Luc Pernodet

Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia (2008-2013), supervised by Lindsay Eltis

BSc, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Trent University (2008)

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DR. POONAM DHINDWAL

Post-Doctoral Fellow
Veterinary Microbiology
(pod898@usask.ca)

Ph.D., Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Saskatchewan, Canada (2020)
MSc, Biotechnology, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India (2014)
BSc, Microbiology and Biochemistry, St. Xaviers University, Mumbai, India (2014)

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KATHYANA DEEYAGANHAGE

PhD candidate
Veterinary Microbiology
(hkd912@mail.usask.ca)

BSc, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka (2017)
Project: Antimicrobial peptides and their mechanism of action

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RADWA ASAR

PhD candidate
Veterinary Microbiology
(rra016@mail.usask.ca)

Bachelor of Pharmacy, University of Alexandria, Egypt (2009)
MSc in Pharmacognosy, University of Alazhar, Egypt (2017)
Project: Bile modification by a common resident of the bison gut

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IRYNA MYZIUK

MSc candidate
Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology

BSc, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine (2021)
Project: Characterization of macrolide esterases

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FATIMA MASOOD

MSc candidate
Veterinary Microbiology
co-supervised by Dr. Sarah Wood
(fam088@mail.usask.ca)

BSc, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Saskatchewan, Canada (2021)
Project: Melissococcus plutonius AMR

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DR. ELHEM YACOUB

Post-doctoral fellow
Large Animal Clinical Sciences
co-supervised by Dr. Murray Jelinski
(elhem.yacoub@usask.ca)

PhD, Biology, University of Tunis El Manar, Pasteur Institute of Tunis (2017) 
MSc, Microbiology, University of Tunis El Manar, Pasteur Institute of Tunis (2011) 
BSc, Life Sciences – Biotechnology, University of Tunis El Manar (2008) 
Project: Characterization of Mycoplasmopsis bovis infections in vitro

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DANIEL KOS

MSc candidate
Large Animal Clinical Sciences
co-supervised by Dr. Murray Jelinski
(daniel.kos@usask.ca)

BSc, University of Victoria, Canada (2021)
Project: Microbial & AMR profiles in beef feedlots

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DANILO WADT

MSc candidate
Large Animal Clinical Sciences, co-supervised with Murray Jelinski

BSc, Veterinary Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil (2020)
Project: Isolation and characterization of BRD pathogens

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JENNY LIANG

Lab technician
(jel434@mail.usask.ca)

BSc, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (2012)

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PAST MEMBERS

CHARIS THOMPSON (MITACS GLOBALINK INTERN, 2022)

SYED (ALI) RIZVI (UNDERGRADUATE SUMMER STUDENT, 2022)

MALLORY NORFIELD (UNDERGRADUATE SUMMER STUDENT, 2022, CO-SUPERVISED WITH DR. M. JELINSKI)

RYLAN BAHREY (UNDERGRADUATE SUMMER STUDENT, 2022)

KOA PLANEDIN (UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA CO-OP STUDENT, SUMMER 2022, CO-SUPERVISED WITH DR. M. JELINSKI)

RICHA JAIN (UNDERGRADUATE SUMMER STUDENT & LAB TECHNICIAN, 2019-2021)

KENDRA MCGOUGAN (DVM SUMMER STUDENT, 2021)

JESSIE HEISLER (BMI UNDERGRADUATE THESIS STUDENT, 2020-21)


COLE SIMON (BMI UNDERGRADUATE THESIS STUDENT, 2019-2020)


AIMEN KHAN (UNDERGRADUATE SUMMER STUDENT, 2018 & 2019)

ALIX NELSON (DVM SUMMER STUDENT, 2018, CO-SUPERVISED BY DR. J. RUBIN)

People: Our Team
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