Biosketch

Personal

Nationality: Canadian

Languages: English and French

Education

Ph.D. Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology (2004)

University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Thesis: Type IV collagen in development and disease: Towards gene therapy for X-linked Alport syndrome. Supervisor: Paul S. Thorner MD, PhD

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B.Sc. Honors Cell Biology (1996)

University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Faculty of Arts & Sciences

Postdoctoral Training

Avenir Laureate (2008-present)

Inserm U574, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades

Hosted by Corinne Antignac MD, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow (2004-2008)

Renal Division, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

Supervisor: Jeffrey H. Miner, PhD

Research grants and Fellowships

Institut Clinique de la Souris, Strasbourg, France. Project title: Generation of miR-30 knockout mice. €33,350 (2008)

Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR). Project title: Identification of novel genes and characterization of the role of microRNAs in hereditary FSGS (GLOMGENE). Co-investigator. €153,000 (2008-2011)

Inserm ‘AVENIR’. Project title: miRNAs in Kidney Development and Function. hosted by Corinne Antignac MD, PhD, Inserm U574, Hôpital Necker - Enfants Malades, €60,000/yr (2008-2011)

KRESCENT Fellowship. Canadian Society of Nephrology and Kidney Foundation of Canada, Project title: miRNAs in Kidney Development and Function. $55,000/yr (2007-2008)

Research grant, National Kidney Foundation of Eastern Missouri & Metro East. The Role of MicroRNAs in Kidney Development and Function. Principle Investigator. $20,000/yr (2006-2007)

National Kidney Foundation Fellowship. Project Title: The Role of Agrin in Glomerular Development and Function. $40,000/yr (2004-2007)

Graduate awards

2004 Stuart Alan Hoffman Memorial Prize. Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, University of Toronto. Awarded annually to ‘a graduating student who has shown special ability in the research field’

Hospital for Sick Children RESTRACOMP Studentship. (1998-2002)

University of Toronto Open Fellowship. (1996-2001, 6 terms)

Teaching Experience

Masters thesis supervisor (M2, Master de Recherche Genetique), Samuel Saal MD, Université Paris Descartes, 2008-2009

Teaching Assistant (1999-2001). MBY376H Microbiology Laboratory. Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology, University of Toronto

Publications

Please see Publications webpage

Invited lectures

'miRNAs in kidney development and function'. 5th Course on Genetics and Renal Diseases, Genoa, 2009

'Is there a role for charge in permselectivity ?' Am Soc Nephrol, Philadelphia, 2008

'Knockout of Dicer in podocytes alters cytoskeletal dynamics and causes glomerular disease'. 7th International Podocyte Conference, Toronto, 2008