Current Post Doctoral Fellow
2010- Dr. John Schellenberg
Metabolic, proteomic and genomic characterization of Clostridium stercorarium. Physiological and proteomic characterization of C. stercorarium-C. thermocellum cellulolytic consortia.
Graduate Students Currently Supervised:
2006- Thomas Rydzak Ph.D. candidate
Metabolic, metabolomic and proteomic characterization of C. thermocellum under different growth conditions
2008- Tobin Verbeke Ph.D. candidate
Physiological and molecular characterization of Thermoanaerobacter strains including genomic characterization of strain WC1. Physiological and proteomic characterization of Thermoanaerobacter-C. thermocellum cellulolytic consortia.
2009- Scott Wushke Ph.D. Candidate
Bioprospecting for novel air-tolerant fermentative cellulolytic consortia. Physiological and genomic characterization of Geobacillus strain gb1. Physiological and proteomic characterization of Geobacillus-C. thermocellum cellulolytic consortia.
2010- Marcel Taillefer Ph.D. Candidate
Biochemical characterization of potential key catabolic enzymes in C. thermocellum
2010- Hon Wai Wan M.Sc. Candidate
(co-supervised with David Levin Biosystems Engineering)
Development of molecular tools for genetic manipulation in biofuels producing anaerobes
2011- Alexandre Moreau Ph.D. Candidate
(co-supervised with Simon Barnabé, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières)
Metabolic characterization and process optimization for biofuels production of C. thermocellum in pulp and paper effluent sludges.