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Mitra Tabatabaee, PhD

Principal Investigator · Assistant Professor, Biology

Leads the lab's work on the glial biology, gut–brain axis, microbiome–glial crosstalk, and an evolutionarily conserved domain implicated in glutamate signaling and astrocytoma progression. Teaches through Socratic and discussion-based methods and leads an international COIL program with Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa.

Current Trainees at UFV

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Jadon Darby

Honours thesis

Honours thesis: Effects of Heat Stress on Glial Marker Expression in the Brains of Three-Spined Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

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Rahat Verma

BIO 409

Examining thermal stress markers in heat-treated three-spinedstickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) gut tissue

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Promise Neison

Honours thesis and EFCIE Scholar

Honours Thesis: Evolutionary Conservation of CaChe Domains and Development of an α2δ1-Targeted Drug Screening Platform for Glioblastoma

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Ania Bulla

EFCIE Scholar

EFCIE innovation grant project: PreservingBiodiversity: Establishing Novel Brain and Gut Cell Culture Models fromThree-Spined Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

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Harleen Bhular

EFCIE Scholar

EFCIE innovation grant project: Development and validation of a potential non-invasive therapeutic drug target for treatment of glioblastoma brain cancer

Past Trainees at UFV

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Megan Mulder

BIO 409

Identifying astrocytes in Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) fish brain cell cultures

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Jacopo Pezzella

BIO 409

Ligand Recognition by CACHD1 & Prokaryotic Chemotactic Receptors

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Harleen K. Bhullar

Honours thesis

Honours thesis: Studying α2δ1 protein in U118-MG Glioblastoma Cells.

Watch her award winning talk
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Karam S. Dhillon

Honors thesis

Honours thesis: Investigating Astrocyte-Like Cells in Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) Brain Using Molecular Analysis

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Mary Ann Thomas

BIO 408

Thermal Stress, Climate Resilience, and Host–Microbiome Interactions in the Three-Spined Stickleback

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Promise Neison

BIO 408

In Silico Study to Explore Glutamate Affinity to CaChe Domains of the CACHD1 Protein and α2δ Calcium Channel Subunits

Rosa Sprungman

AGRI 390/ Cosupervised with Dr. Lauren Erland

Investigating the Accuracy and Reproducibility of the MicroBIOMETER