The McKenna Lab welcomes Alyssa Cohen as a new MSc student in the group. Alyssa completed their Microbiology degree last year at the University of Manitoba, and had previously worked int he McKenna lab as an honours thesis student.

Welcome to Navreet Ghuman, a grade 12 student from the Maples Met School, pursuing an internship project in the McKenna lab related to investigation of non-coding RNAs!

As of May 1, 2021, Dr. McKenna will be joining the Faculty of Science Dean's office as the Associate Dean - Undergraduate Programs.

Congrats to McKenna Lab Ph.D. student Danny Gussakovsky on being awarded the first James C. Jamieson Scholarship in Biochemistry for his academic and research contributions/potential! We would like to thank the Jamieson family for establishing an endowment fund to honour Dr. Jamieson's career as a teacher, researcher, and leader in the Chemistry Department and Faculty of Science at the University of Manitoba.

Congrats to Taegi Choi on successfully defending his M.Sc. thesis entitled "Characterization of interaction between the long non-coding RNA BC200 and Signal Recognition Particle 9/14"!

Congrats to Amit Koul on successfully defending his Ph.D. work on characterization of the human innate immune enzyme OAS2!

Welcome to new group member Mira Brown (Faculty of Science USRA) to complement returning members Daniel Gussakovsky (NSERC USRA) and Steven Dupas (Faculty of Science USRA). Looking forward to a great summer under these remote conditions!

Dr. McKenna was promoted to Full Professor at the University of Manitoba. Thanks to all of the McKenna Lab group members and colleagues at the University of Manitoba for all of the hard work and support.

Congrats to Ewan McRae on successfully defending his Ph.D. work on characterization of quadruplex helices and their targets! Ewan has joined the lab of Dr. Ebbe Sloth Andersen at the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Welcome to two new M.Sc. students in the group, Taegi Choi and Nikki Lubna! Taegi will be working on the non-coding RNA, BC200, and Nikki will work on OAS enzymes in the group.