People

Mike Gordon

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Professor

Mike is a member of the Department of ZoologyLife Sciences Institute, and Centre for Brain Health. He completed his BSc at McMaster University, where he worked on signal transduction during development; his PhD at Stanford, working on Wnt signaling; and his postdoc at UC Berkeley, working on fly taste circuits. A full list of Mike’s publications can be found on Google Scholar.

Kevin (Yihang) Pan

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Postdoctoral Fellow

Kevin received his PhD from University of Ottawa, where he worked on breathing regulation in larval zebrafish. In the Gordon lab he is working to uncover novel ligand-receptor interactions in insects.

Jinfang Li

Sasha

Postdoctoral Fellow

Jinfang recently defended her PhD from the lab, during which she primarily investigated the logic of higher-order taste circuits in the fly brain. She is now continuing to work on taste processing, with a particular interest in sugar circuits.

Zack Marshall

Jinfang

PhD Candidate

Zack is in the Zoology Graduate Program. He received his BS in Neuroscience and Psychology from the University of Colorado Boulder, studying social stress in rats. He then worked in Dr. Jessica Nelson’s lab at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, examining sensory-evoked behaviours in zebrafish larvae.

Cindy Wang

Melissa

MSc Student

Cindy is a graduate student in Zoology. She received her BSc in Biology from Western University, where she worked on insect ecology. 

Clare Vu

Melissa

Undergraduate


Carlos Perez

Melissa

Undergraduate


Anna-Liisa Volohhonski

Melissa

Undergraduate


Alumni

Graduate students
Sasha McDowell (PhD student 2019-2025)
Janet (Mengyi) Zhao (MSc Student 2022-2024)
Mel Armstrong (PhD Student 2021-2024)
Elsa Cyr (MSc student 2021-2024)
Meghan Jelen (PhD Student 2016-2022)
Britya Ghosh (MSc Student 2018-2020)
Celia Lau (MSc Student 2017-2020)
Alexandria Jaeger (MSc student 2014-2017)
Emily LeDue (PhD student and postdoc, 2012-2017)
Danielle McEachern (PhD student, 2011-2017)
Jeff Stafford (MSc student 2013-2015)
Bonnie Chu (MSc student 2011-2014)

Postdocs
Molly Stanley (2017-2022)
Pierre-Yves Musso (2016-2021)
Pierre Junca (2017-2021)
Yunpo Zhao (2015)
Kevin Mann (2014)

Staff
Minnie Jiang (Technician 2018-2019)
Rachael Bartlett (Technician 2017-2019)
Marie Gauthier (Technician 2016-2017)
Mary Pines (Research Associate 2013-2016)
Vincent Chui (Technician 2011-2013)

Undergraduates
Lisa Guo (Honours 2022-2025)
Priya Thind (Honours 2024-2025)
Yolanda Vizitiu (URA 2024)
Kai Mah-Morhaliek (Directed studies 2024)
Gurleen Nirwal (USRA 2023)
Victoria Lee (Various positions 2021-2023)
Rabiah Dhaliwal (Directed studies 2023)
Sanam Farman (Directed studies 2022-2023)
Dennis Truong (Honours 2021-2022)
Kiereth Atariwala (Volunteer 2019-2020)
Nafeesa Alibhai Fazel (Volunteer 2019-2020)
Katherine Whitmore (Work Learn 2019)
Brandon Huntington (Directed studies 2019)
Zach Weiss (Undergraduate 2014-2018)
Jamie Christiaanse (Summer student 2018)
Caitlin Main (Undergradate, 2018)
Ilya Capralov (Undergraduate, 2018)
Herman Kazakov (USRA 2018)
Damian Feldman-Kiss (Undergraduate 2017-2018)
Cariad Knight (Undergraduate 2017-2018)
Linda Au (NSERC USRA, 2017)
Brenna Li (directed studies 2017)
Ali Scott (volunteer 2017)
Saba Vafei-Nodeh (volunteer 2017-2018)
Sherry Zhao (volunteer 2017)
Karen Somal (volunteer 2017)
Sherri Graham (Undergraduate 2016)
Katherine Tourigny (Undergraduate 2016)
Jacqueline Garvin (Undergraduate 2015-2016)
Ellen Koch (undergraduate honours student 2013-2015)
Karina Spoyalo (undergraduate 2014-2015)
Gunjan Mhapankar (undergraduate 2013-2014)
Julie van Baardwijk (NSERC USRA, undergraduate honours student)
Sheena Sachdeva (undergraduate 2011-2014)
Aera Jung (NSERC USRA, directed studies student, and volunteer 2012-2013)
Shannon Wong (NSERC USRA, directed studies student, and volunteer 2012-2013)
Shannon Goodall (undergraduate 2012-2013)
Yuda Shih (undergraduate volunteer 2011-2012)
Deepak Banghu (undergraduate directed studies 2011-2012)
Jason Drew (undergraduate directed studies 2012)
Kaylea Lynd (undergraduate research assistant 2011)
Anthony Heggen (undergraduate volunteer 2011)
Perdita Wito (undergraduate directed studies 2011)
Torin Heavyside (undergraduate volunteer 2011)
Allen Zhang (undergraduate volunteer 2011)
Jean-Marc Goldsmith (undergraduate volunteer 2011)