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Natalie Reznikov

Academic title(s): 

Associate Chair (Undergraduate Programs)

Associate Professor

William Dawson Scholar

Natalie Reznikov
Contact Information
Email address: 
natalie.reznikov [at] mcgill.ca
Office: 
McConnell Engineering Building | Research lab: 141 du Président-Kennedy Avenue, 5th floor
Degree(s): 

Ph.D. Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
M.Sc. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Areas of interest: 
  • Biomineralization

  • Structure-function relationships in biological materials

  • 3D-imaging and image analysis

Courses: 

  • BIEN 200/201: Introduction to Bioengineering and Design

  • BIEN 380: Biological Structures, Assemblies and Patterns

  • BIEN 535: Electron Microscopy and 3D Imaging for Biological Materials

Selected publications: 

A full list of publications can be found here

  1. Rudski BZ, Deering J, McKee MD, Reznikov N. Statistical analyses of feature orientation in 3D reticulate biological assemblies. Materials Today Advances, 31:100869, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtadv.2026.100869.
  2. Hosseinitabatabaei S, Nelson A, Piché N, Dagdeviren D, Reznikov N. Craniofacial CBCT: Addressing Volume-Resolution Dilemma using Generative AI. Bone, 207:117841, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bone.2026.117841

  3. Bromage TG, Denys C, De Jesus CL, Erdjument-Bromage H, Kullmer Schrenk F, McKee MD, Reznikov N, Ittah E, Buss DJ, Ashley GM, Sandrock O, Pudel SB, Yakar S, Hu B, Rabieh S, Neubert TA.   Fossil mammalian bone paleometabolomes yield metabolic and ecologic profiles.  Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09843-w.

  4. Jia S, Piché N, McKee MD, Reznikov N. Advancing X-ray micro-computed tomography image processing of avian eggshells: An improved registration metric for multiscale 3D images and resolution-enhanced segmentation using edge-attentive neural networks. Micron. 199:103915. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micron.2025.103915

  5. Rudski BZ, Deering J, Reznikov N. The Anisotropy Vector Rose: A new package for analysing and visualising 3D non-unit vectors in Python. J Open Source Software, 2025, 10(111):8369 https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.08369
  6. Nelea V, Ittah E, McKee MD, Reznikov N. Bone mineral tessellation: Visualization by atomic force microscopy of the volume-filling mineralization pattern in hydrated and dehydrated states.  Acta Biomaterialia., 2025, 200:251-264 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2025.05.016

  7. Khurshid B, Benchetrite A, Guichaoua L, Brodusch N, Stewart BD, Kröger R, Gauvin R, Mallet M, Tremblay R, Reznikov N. Investigating temperature influences on shell growth and microstructural variations in Bay scallops: Insights from multiscale microscopy. Faraday Discussions, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1039/D5FD00023H

  8. Buss DJ, Kröger R, McKee MD, Reznikov N. Hierarchical organization of bone in three dimensions: A twist of twists. J Struct Biol: X, 2022 (6):100057 doi.org/10.1016/j.yjsbx.2021.100057

  9. Reznikov N, Hoac B, Buss DJ, Addison WN, Barros NMT, McKee MD. Biological stenciling of mineralization in the skeleton:  Local enzymatic removal of inhibitors in the extracellular matrix. Bone, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bone.2020.115447 (journal cover) 

  10. Reznikov N, Bilton M, Lari L, Stevens MM, Kröger R. Fractal-like hierarchical organization of bone begins at the atomic level.  Science, 2018, 360: eaao2189

 

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