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Spring 2015

Delorme, Amy E

Candida albicans is an opportunistic pathogen and major cause of invasive fungal infections. Choice of antifungal therapy is complicated by the underlying associated diseases of patients infected, other drug interactions, and in vitro susceptibility of the isolate. Echinocandins are emerging as a...

Fall 2011

Armanious, Hanan A R

ABSTRACT Wnt signalling is of great biological importance as it has been implicated in development and cancer. The Wnt canonical pathway (WCP) is the best characterized signalling pathway. Based on my preliminary studies in my first and second years I found that the WCP is not linear and that it...

Spring 2013

Zhurova, Mariia

There has been significant interest in the literature on the possibility of using red blood cells (RBCs) derived from umbilical cord blood (cord RBCs) for neonatal transfusions. Low stability of cord RBCs during hypothermic storage necessitates the development of a cryopreservation method to...

Spring 2014

McGuigan, Claire Frances

Drinking water disinfection byproducts (DBPs) are formed unintentionally when organic matter in raw water reacts with disinfectants used to kill pathogens. Epidemiological studies have shown that an increased risk of bladder cancer is associated with consumption of chlorinated water, but little...

Spring 2011

Mukherjee, Oindrila

Resistance to tetracycline (Tc), an inhibitor of protein synthesis, decreases its effectiveness for the treatment of bacterial infections. Tc resistance (TcR) can be mediated by the ribosomal protection protein, Tet(O), which was first reported in Campylobacter jejuni, a cause of bacterial...

Fall 2017

Alshareef, Abdulraheem

Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) is a receptor tyrosine kinase receptor that was initially identified as a potent oncogenic driver in anaplastic large-cell lymphoma (ALCL) in the form of NPM-ALK fusion protein. Various forms of oncogenic ALK proteins have been identified, subsequently, in various...

Spring 2017

Wu,Chengsheng

ALK-positive anaplastic large-cell lymphoma (ALK+ALCL) is a rare type non-Hodgkin lymphoma of null/T cell original, preferentially occurs in children and young adults. Approximately 85% of ALK+ALCL patients carry the gene translocation t(2;5)(p23;q35), which results in the generation of the...

Spring 2013

Chavali Venkata Subramanya, Ravi Shankar

The In-gel polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technology developed by our group at the University of Alberta makes use of PCR reagents entrapped within nano-liter polyacrylamide gels. To adapt this technology for use at the point of care, methods were developed to preserve gel-based PCR reagents by...

Fall 2017

Garg, Saurabh

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), one of the deadliest known human pathogens, infects ~ 2 billion people (33% of the world's population) and remains the leading infectious cause of death. According to the World Health Organization's (WHO) report, 225 million new infections will occur and ~79...

Fall 2015

Kostiuk, Tyler T.

Reoviruses have been shown to infect a very broad range of mammalian sources and infections in humans have been associated with gastrointestinal and respiratory illnesses. While the presence of reovirus in several different water matrices and clinical samples has been reported, the clinical...