Lab Members
Prashen Chelikani PhD
Professor, Department of Oral Biology
Scientist, Childrens Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba
Director, Manitoba Chemosensory Biology Group [Website - click here]
Education/Training:
PhD, University of Manitoba; Postdoc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Principal Investigator
Research Staff
Nisha Singh, PhD
Lead Research Associate
Nisha.Singh@umanitoba.ca
Ankita Vaishampayan, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ankita.Vaishampayan@umanitoba.ca
Ryan Cunnington, PhD
Research Associate
Ryan.Cunnington@umanitoba.ca
Tejas Gupte, PhD
Research Associate
Tejas.Gupte@umanitoba.ca
Yongqiang Chen, PhD
Research Associate
Yongqiang.Chen@umanitoba.ca
Graduate Students
M Wasif Khan (PhD Candidate)
khanmw@myumanitoba.ca
Advisor: Dr. Pingzhao Hu
Co-advisor: Dr. Prashen Chelikani
Mojan Shafizadeh (Master student)
shafizam@myumanitoba.ca
Advisor: Dr. Raj Bhullar
Co-advisor: Dr. Prashen Chelikani
Current Members
Alumni
Thi Le
Technician (2008-2012)
Ryan Howard
DMD, BSc (Dent) (2014-2016)
Jasbir D Upadhyaya
Graduate Student (MSc, 2008-2010;
PhD, 2010-2015)
Current Position: Associate Professor, Southern Illinois University (SIU), USA
Juliana Pfeffer
Summer Student (2009-2010)
Lisa Wai
Project Student (2012-2013)
Ganesh Seru
Summer Student (2013)
Current Position: Engineer, R&D, Halifax, Canada
Raja Chakraborty
Graduate Student (PhD, 2010-2014)
Current Position: Research scientist,
Yale University, USA
Kun Liu
Graduate Student (MSc, 2015-2018)
Rohini Billakanti
Graduate Student (MSc, 2011-2014)
Appalaraju Jaggupilli PhD
Graduate Student (PhD, 2013-2018)
Postdoc (2018-2019)
Current Position: Senior Principal Scientist, Enzene Biosciences, Pune, India
Derek Oryniak
DMD, BSc (Dent) (2018-2020)
Manoj Reddy Medapati
Graduate Student (PhD, 2016-2021)
Current Position:Postdoctoral Fellow,
Western University, Canada
Ben Ulmer
BioTalent Canada/CHRIM co-op student (2023)
Current Position: MSc student, McGill University, Canada
Ana-Maria Costa
UG student researcher (2022-2023)
Oleksandra Havruk
UG student researcher (2022-2023)
Nuha Iqbal
URA summer student researcher (2023)
Current Position: Dental student, University of Manitoba, Canada
Nicole Croitor
ISSIP Summer Internship Program (2023)
Makoto Arakawa DDS, PhD
Postdoc (2008-2009)
Current Position: Associate Professor,
Chiba Prefectural University Of Health Sciences, Japan
Navsharan K Warraich
Research Assistant (2011-2012)
Ana Carolina
Exchange Student (Brazil) (2013)
Bing Xu PhD
Research Associate (2011-2014)
Current Position: Research Associate, Masonic Medical Research Laboratory (MMRL), NY, USA
Sai Prasad Pydi
Graduate Student (PhD, 2009-2014)
Current Position: Assistant Professor,
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
(IIT KANPUR), India
Tyler Sobotkiewicz
DMD, BSc (Dent) (2012-2014)
Current Position:Endodontist, Vancouver, Canada
Premnath Dhanaraj PhD
Postdoc (2016-2017)
Current Position:Assistant Professor,
Karunya University, India
Anurag Sikarwar PhD
Postdoc (2016-2018)
Feroz Ahmed Shaik
Graduate Student (PhD, 2014-2019)
Postdoc (2019-2020)
Current Position: Scientist, POPVAX, Hyderabad, India
Kelsey Mann
Research Coordinator (CHRIM) (2017-2019)
Anjali Yadav PhD
Postdoc (2019-2021)
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University, Canada
Chloe Ellerbrock
Summer student (2022)
Vivianne Cruz de Jesus, PhD
Graduate Student (PhD, 2017-2022)
Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-2023)
Current Position: Pediatric Dental resident, University of Manitoba, Canada
Shaan Sareen
CHRIM summer student researcher (2023)
Current Position: Dental student, University of Manitoba, Canada
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