Our team

Prof. Kayla King
Dr. Laurinne Balstad
NSERC McDonald
Post-doc

Dr. Paradyse Blackwood
Hakai Sentinels
Post-doc Fellow
Dr. Mike Blazanin
NSF Post-doc Fellow


Manisha Dosanjh
Lab Manager


May Fujiwara-Forster
Lab Technician
Emmy Gonzalez
PhD Student
Dr. Toby Hector
NERC Post-doc
Chelsea Higgins
PhD student


Sarzana Hossain
PhD student
Serena Johnson
PhD student
Dr. Judy Li
NSERC Post-doc Fellow


Luna Li
BBSRC DPhil Student

Liya Miksovsky
MSc Student

Dr. Luis Silva
CERC Post-doc

Dr. Thomas Travers-Cook
NSERC McDonald
Post-doc
Dominik Vinopal
PhD student
Dr. Mathilda Whittle
CERC Post-doc


Alex Wiebe
MSc student

Dr. Ian Will
CERC Post-doc

Past Lab Members

Sam Greenrod (Oxford, DPhil 2026)
Cameron Smith (Oxford, ERC post-doc 2023-2025)
Antoine Filion (UBC, CERC post-doc 2024)
Kim Hoang (Oxford, US NSF fellow 2020-2024)
Judy Li (Oxford, DPhil 2024)
Duhita Sant (Oxford, NERC post-doc 2022-2023)
Emily Stevens (Oxford, ERC post-doc 2019-2023)
Kieran Bates (Oxford, St. Hilda’s Junior Research Fellow 2019-2023)
Georgia Drew (Oxford, ERC post-doc 2019-2023)
Andrea Gomez-Chamorro (Oxford, Swiss NSF fellow 2019-2021)
Maria Ordovas-Montanes (Oxford, DPhil 2020)
Alice Ekroth (Oxford, DPhil 2020)
Jordan Sealey (Oxford, Technician 2017-2019)
Charlotte Rafaluk-Mohr (Oxford, Leverhulme post-doc 2014-2019)
Alex Betts (Oxford, DPhil 2017, St. Hilda’s Junior Research Fellow 2017-2018)
Suzie Ford (Oxford, DPhil 2016 and Wellcome post-doc 2018-2020)
Dylan Dahan (Oxford, MA 2018)
Crystal Vincent (Oxford, technician 2014-2015)
Crystal Frost (Liverpool, post-doc 2012-2014)
Steve Parratt (Liverpool, PhD 2013)

Collaborators

Ben Ashby (SFU)  
Tim Barraclough (Oxford)
Tom Bell (Imperial)
Dan Coombs (UBC) 
Laura Ferguson (Acadia)
Cara Haney (Pittsburgh)  
Chris Harley (UBC) 
Andrew Lang (Memorial)
Ben Matthews (UBC) 
Thomas Richards (Oxford) 
Evan Richardson (ECC Canada)
Chadi Saad-Roy (UBC)
Selena Sagan (UBC) 
Alison Woollard (Oxford)