LAB MEMBERS

DR. ANTONIO RUZZINI

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Associate 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)

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)

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

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

IRYNA MYZIUK

MSc candidate
Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology

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

DANIEL KOS

Research Assistant
Joint with Dr. Murray Jelinski
(daniel.kos@usask.ca)

MSc, University of Saskatchewan, Canada (2023)

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

DANILO WADT

MSc candidate
Large Animal Clinical Sciences, co-supervised with Murray Jelinski
(daw956@usask.ca)

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

JENNY LIANG

Lab technician
(jel434@mail.usask.ca)

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