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Serohijos & Michnick SuperGroup Summer 2025

Departmental retreat
Summer 2026

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Principal Investigator  |  Research Associates  |  Postdoctoral Fellows  |  Grad Students  |  Undergrads  |  Visitors

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Adrian Serohijos

Principal Investigator

Canada Research Chair in ​Evolutionary Systems Biology & Population Dynamics
Associate Professor (2021/06 - present)
Assistant Professor (2015/09 - 2021/05)


Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
PhD Physics (Biophysics), University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
BS Computer Engineering, BS Physics, Ateneo de Manila University

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Philippe Garneau

Research Associate & Lab Manager

BSc Molecular microbiology, Université Laval
MSc Molecular microbiology, Université Laval

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Rini Ravindran

Research Associate

​PhD Biochemistry, Louisiana State University
MS Biochemistry, University of Mumbai
BS Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Mumbai

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Hemant Kumar

PhD student, Biochemistry

MSc. Structural Biology & Biochemistry, Hebrew University 
BTech. Biotechnology, India Institute of Technology-Guwahati

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Nazli Koçatug

PhD Student, Bioinformatics
​(co-advised with Pascale Legault)

MS Molecular Biology, Genetic, and Bioengineering, Sabanci University (Turkey)
BS Molecular Biology, Genetic, and Bioengineering, Sabanci University (Turkey)

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Chloé Matta

MS student, Bioinformatics

​​​BS Bioinformatics, Université de Montréal

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Jacob Beaulac
​(co-advised by Paul François)

MS student, Bioinformatics

​​​BS Bioinformatics, Université de Montréal

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Cassandre Clermont

MS student, Biochemistry

​​​BS Biochemistry, Université de Montréal

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Awa Samb

Grad Student Intern,
MS Bioinformatics, UdeM

BS Medical Biology, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

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Mathieu Demers

Undergrad Student Intern
BS Bioinformatics, UdeM

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Augustin Afi

Graduate Student Intern
MS Fundamental Physics (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Université Paris-Saclay)

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Matteo Caiola

Graduate Student Intern
Master Data Science & Artificial Intelligence (University of Trieste)

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Sarah Yoon Jin Cho

Undergrad Student Intern
BS Bioinformatics, UdeM

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Alumni

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Postgraduate Fellows
Dr. Tatsuya Sakaguchi, Visiting Professor, 2019 – 2023
Dr. Tara Kunwar, Postdoc, 2019 – 2022
Dr. Sébastien Boyer, Postdoc, 2018 – 2020 
Dr. Pouria Dasmeh, Postdoc, 2018 – 2020 
Dr. Arnad Barua, Postdoc, 2019 – 2023 (co-advised with Stephen Michnick) 
 
Graduate Students
Dr. Melis Gençel, PhD Bioinformatics, 2019 – 2025 
Dr. Savandara Besse, PhD Bioinformatics, 2020 – 2023 (co-advised with Julie Hussin)
Xavier Castellanos-Girouard, MS Bioinformatics, 2022 – 2025 (co-advised with Stephen Michnick)
David Gagné-Leroux, MS Bioinformatics, 2023 – 2025 
Thibault Maumy, MS Bioinformatics, 2023 – 2025 (co-advised with Manuela Santos)
Niloofar Mojaradshafiee, MS Biochemistry, 2020 – 2022
Arnaud G’Nessan, MS Bioinformatics, 2018 – 2021 
Louis Gauthier, MS Bioinformatics, 2017 – 2021 
Anh-Tien Ton, MS Bioinformatics, 2016 – 2018
 
Research Associates
Cassandre Clermont, 2023 – 2024
Etienne Ossona de Mendez, 2021 – 2022
Zahra Sahaf, 2018 – 2021
Yun Zhu, 2016 – 2018

Undergrad interns
Jacob Beaulac, BS Bioinformatics, UdeM
Mathieu Demers, BS Bioinformatics, UdeM
Chloe Matta, BS Bioinformatics, UdeM
Olivier Péloquin, BS Bioinformatics, UdeM
Ethan Solis, BS Bioinformatics, UdeM
David Gagne-Leroux, BS Bioinformatics, UdeM
Adam Joober, BS Bioinformatics, UdeM
Xavier Castillanos-Girouard, BS Biochemistry, UdeM
Katia Hitache, BS Biochemistry, UdeM
Lydia Belaid, BS Biochemistry, UdeM
Emily Prowse, BS Biochemistry, University of British Columbia
Marc-Antoine Cleroux, BS Bioinformatics, UdeM
Eric Girard, BS Bioinformatics, UdeM
Christopher Savoie, BS Biochemistry, UdeM
Philippe Lévesque-Gobeil, BS Biochemistry, UdeM

International interns
Cristina Protuc, MS Life Sciences, Université de Strasbourg, 2023 – 2024 
Assia Chao, MS Medical Physics, Université de Montpellier, 2022 – 2023
Mikel Urdin Bravo, MS Biotechnology, Universidad de Zaragoza, 2020 – 2021
Remicia Di Franco , Bordeaux Institute of Technology (France), 2017

CEGEP Students
​Joudy Charbaji, John Abbott College, (2020)
Daniel Palladino, John Abbott College, (2019)
Ferhat Gherbi, John Abbott College, (2018)
Martha Kraweic, John Abbott College, (2017)
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