Lab Members
Prashen Chelikani PhD
Associate Dean (Research), Dr. Gerald Niznick College of Dentistry
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
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
ManiKanta Kella (PhD student)
kellvnsm@myumanitoba.ca
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
Ankita Vaishampayan, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-2025)
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