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Holt Lab Alumni
Past members of the lab — students, postdocs, staff and visiting scientists who have contributed to our work over the years, listed in reverse chronological order of departure.
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With research focus and links where available.
Nicole Knoetze
PhD Candidate · 2018–2025
Bioinformatic development of T-cell specific mini-promoters for CAR-T therapy
Sheryl Munshan
Co-op Student · 2024
Craig Rive
Research Associate · 2016–2024
James Round
Postdoctoral Fellow · 2021–2024
Applying synthetic biology to the discovery and development of immunotherapies
Mhairi Sigrist
BC Cancer Immunotherapy Program Project Manager · 2017–2025
Chris May
PhD Candidate · 2015–2023
Engineering solid tumour T cell therapies
Gwen Bui
Directed Studies Student · 2023
mRNA-LNP development against GI oncomicrobes
Maria Stephenson
Graduate Rotation Student · 2023
Development of a STARR-seq data analysis pipeline
Joan Shellard
Staff Scientist · 2020–2021
Proteomics discovery & validation of GI oncomicrobes
Manolya Sag
Part Time Student · 2021
Sophie Sneddon
Postdoctoral Fellow, prev. Visiting PhD Student · 2015–2021
Investigating micro-regional immune mechanisms in tumours
Daniela Di Francesco
FLEX Research Student / Honours Student · 2019–2021
Investigating brachyury epitope responses of reconstituted T-cells in chordoma
Allyson Banville
Visiting Graduate Student · 2018–2019
Engineering safer, more targeted CAR-T therapies for leukemia and lymphoma
Hitesh Arora
Postdoctoral Fellow · 2018–2019
Discovering rare antibodies against difficult membrane protein targets
Yen Chan
Graduate Rotation Student · 2018
Building HLA-expressing cell panels to screen antigen presentation and T-cell recognition
Sarania Sivasothy
Directed Studies Student, prev. Volunteer · 2018
Sreedevi Kesavan
Summer Student · left 2018
Christina Tran
Volunteer, prev. Directed Studies Student, SFU 2017 · left 2018
Jelena Sihvonen
Directed Studies Student, prev. Co-op, UBC 2015 · left 2018
Kyla Cochrane
Postdoctoral Fellow · left 2018
Profiling Fusobacterium nucleatum virulence genes to inform vaccine strategy
Kirsten San Juan
Admin Assistant · 2017–2018
Payal Sipahimalani
Projects Manager · 2011–2017
Anne-Mette Bjerregaard
Visiting PhD Student · 2017
Linking TCR repertoire sequences to predicted tumour neo-epitopes
Daniel Woodsworth
PhD Candidate, UBC · 2012–2017
Engineering lymphocytes as a delivery chassis for cell-based therapeutics
Zahra Ali
Volunteer 2017, prev. Co-op, UBC 2016
Ashley Basra
Admin Assistant
Spencer Martin
PhD Student, UBC · 2010–2016
Developing personalized neoantigen vaccines in a mouse ovarian cancer model
Alice Wang
Co-op Student · 2015–2016
Metagenomic analysis of lung infiltrates in leukemia patients
Earlier alumni
Michelle Ng — Summer Student, UBC2015
Anjali Tarrant — Summer Student, BCIT2014
Venus Lau — Co-op, SFU2014
Ewan Gibb — Postdoctoral Fellow2012–2014
Jillian McKenna — Admin Assistant2011–2014
Mauro Castellarin — PhD Student, SFU2009–2014
Janie Rae Byrum — Directed Studies, UBC2013
Doug Freeman — Research Technician2008–2013
Rene Warren — Bioinformatics Coordinator2007–2013
Luolan Li — GSAT Rotation, UBC2013
Kristoffer Palma — Postdoctoral Fellow2011–2012
Lisa Raeburn — MSc Student, SFU2009–2012
Sophia Peng — Co-op, UBC2011
George Yang — Research Technician2005–2011
Gary Wilson — Research Technician2003–2011
Daniel Horspool — MSc Student, UBC2007–2009
Vikramjit Chopra — Postdoctoral Fellow2004–2008
Rebecca Chung — Co-op, UBC2008
Tim Reid — Rotation Student, UBC2006
Brianna Melnyk — MSc Student, UBC2004–2006
Perseus Missirlis — MSc Student, UBC2003–2004