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Anthony K. Mittermaier                                                                                                                      
Professor

Education:
B.Sc. (University of Guelph Biophysics 1996)
Ph.D. (University of Toronto Biochemistry 2003)

Research Themes:
• Chemical Biology
• Chemical Physics
• Biophysics

Email: anthony.mittermaier [at] mcgill.ca

Chris (Guanyu) Wang
Postdoctoral Researcher (co-supervised with the Moitessier Lab)

Education:
B.Sc. (University of Manitoba 2016)
M.Sc. (University of Manitoba 2019)
Ph.D. (McGill University 2025)

Research Projects: 
• Resistance mutations of SARS-CoV-2 3CL^pro
• Development of high-throughput DNA melting assay
• In vitro screening of kinase inhibitors

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Lynn Samira Yamout
PhD Candidate (co-supervised with the Moitessier Lab)

Education:
B.Sc. (American University of Beirut 2019)
M.Sc. (American University of Beirut 2021)

Research Projects: 
• Structural dynamics of G-quadruplexes.
• G-quadruplexes as therapeutic drug targets.

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Hariz Mohd Nizal
PhD Candidate 

Education:
B.Sc. (New York University 2020)

Research Projects:
• Structural dynamics of DNA non-canonical structures using NMR.

Amos (Chuyang) Zhang
PhD Student 

Education:
B.Sc. (McGill University 2022)

Research Projects:
• Effects of flanking regions on DNA i-motif folding and stability
• DNA G-quadruplex evolution simulation
• DNA i-motif polymerase read-through assay

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George Hanna
PhD Student (co-supervised with the Thibodeaux Lab)

Education:
B.Sc. (McGill University 2023)

Research Projects:
• Discovery and characterization of novel RiPPs
• NMR spectroscopic studies of lanthipeptide synthetases

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Amanda Clairoux
MSc Student (co-supervised with the McKeague Lab)

Education:
B.Sc. (University of Ottawa Biochemistry 2023)

Research Projects:
• Development of a capture-based method for the separation of bacterial riboswitch conformations

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Ehecatl Guzman Aparicio
PhD Student (co-supervised with the Moitessier Lab)

Education:
B.Sc. (Hons) (University of Calgary Biochemistry 2024)

Research Projects:
• Novel drug-design methodologies to combat antimicrobial resistance.

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Luis Pablo Velazquez
PhD Student (co-supervised with the Auclair Lab)

Education:
B.Sc. (Universidad de Sonora 2022)
M.Sc. (Universidad de Sonora 2024)

Research Projects:
• Itaconate

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Antoine Moitessier
PhD Student (co-supervised with the McKeague Lab)

Education:
B.Sc. (McGill University 2023)
M.Sc. (University of Strasbourg 2025)

Research Projects:
• RNA riboswitches

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Lucia Mancinelli
Undergraduate Student 

Education:
B.Sc. (McGill University)

Research Projects:
• TBD

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Ramen Wang
Mental Health Support

Education:
Illiterate 

Research Projects:
• Boosting the morale of graduate students

Ali Baghirov (PhD rotation 2025)

Chris Hennecker (PhD 2024)             

Stephanie Peslherbe (MSc 2024)

Maira Rivera Valdés (PDF 2022-2023)

Felipe Venegas (RA 2020-2023)

Andrés Rueda (PDF 2020-2022)

Yun Wang (PhD 2020)

Simone Carrino (MSc 2019)​​​​​​

Prof. Denize Favaro (2019)

Justin Di Trani (PhD 2018)

Rob Harkness (PhD 2018)

Brandon Payliss (MSc 2017)

Farah El Turk (PDF 2012-2017)

Stephane De Cesco (PhD 2016)

Jason Harris (MSc 2015)

Erick Meneses (PhD 2014)

Prof. Claudia Nascimento (2013)

Teresa Miletti (PhD 2013)

Eric Habib (MSc 2013)

Siqi Zhu (MSc 2013)

Lee Freiburger (PhD 2011)

Patrick Farber (PhD 2011)

Alexey Denisov (RA 2009-2010)

Hari Darmawan (MSc 2009)

Jean-Philippe Demers (MSc 2008)

Aamir Wahhab

Frederic Abou

Rebecca O’Leary

Aditya Kumar

Grace Hanrahan

Rohan Vinaik

Amber Sun

Imran Sulemankhil

Armela Uthayakumar

David Nie

Olivia Dinica

Ana Murrieta

Faisal Shoaib

Sebastian Morales

Claire Peterson

Karen Galoustov

Taneille (Katherine) Johnson

Tom Derrien

Deniz Aydin

Viktoriya Vaisbrot

Sarah Cooper

Marc-Andre Rousseau

Zhiyu Chen

Miranda Green

Sam Roe

Martin Mawhinney

Juliana Seok

Sarah Wang

Chloe Nevitt

Maire Osborn

Connor O'Keefe

Lucia Mancinelli

Nathan Wu

Ian Zhao

Melissa Eraslan