Kate Borgert
Cohort of 2024 My name is Kate and I am from Barrie, Ontario. I graduated from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario with a BSc Honours in Biology in 2023. Upon graduating, I completed a summer internship at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute. Here, I worked in the Gibson Lab where I investigated epigenetic regulation […]
Grace Garvey
Cohort of 2024 Hi! My name is Grace, and I am from Toronto, Ontario. I graduated from Queen’s University in 2022 with a Bachelor of Science in Honours Biology and a minor in Health Studies. At Queen’s, I had the opportunity to be a research mentorship student in the Bendena lab, where I studied the […]
Amy Hentschel
Cohort of 2024 Hi, my name is Amy and I’m from Victoria, BC. I graduated from the University of Victoria where I was a part of the co-operative education program and earned a BSc Honours in Biochemistry with a focus in genetics. For my undergraduate degree, I wrote a thesis on my research in Dr. […]
Kennedy Irving
Cohort of 2024 Hi there! My name is Kennedy and I came to Vancouver from Edmonton, Alberta. I graduated from MacEwan University with an BSc in molecular biology and a minor in psychology. Throughout my degree I volunteered as a crisis responder with Kids Help Phone and spent time in a volunteer peer support role […]
Gabrielle Kowalchuk
Cohort of 2024 Hello! My name is Gabrielle Kowalchuk, and I am from Vancouver, BC. I graduated in 2022 with an Honours BSc. in Microbiology from the University of Victoria. In the final year of my degree, I completed my thesis project at BC Cancer Victoria, where I investigated how alanine impacts T cell metabolism […]
Miya Matz
Cohort of 2024 Hi, my name is Miya, and I am from Edmonton, Alberta. I graduated from MacEwan University in 2021 with a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences and a minor in Chemistry. During my undergraduate degree, I was employed as a Chemistry lab assistant and then as a research assistant working on microplastic […]
Lauren Stadel
Cohort of 2024 Hello! My name is Lauren, and I was born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta. I completed my BSc in Honours Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at the University of Alberta in 2023. During my degree, I completed two undergraduate thesis projects studying bacterial genetics and RNA sequencing. Throughout my undergraduate program, I […]
Aparna Udiaver
Cohort of 2024 Hello! My name is Aparna Udiaver, and I am from Mississauga, Ontario. I completed a Bachelor of Science degree with an honours specialization in genetics from Western University, as well as a Master’s degree in Public Health Genetics from the University of Pittsburgh. I was introduced to genetic counselling during my undergrad […]
Nadia Dingelstad
Cohort of 2023 Hello! My name is Nadia Dingelstad and I am from West Montrose, Ontario. I graduated from the University of Waterloo’s co-operative education program in 2022 with a Bachelor of Science in Honours Biology and a specialization in molecular genetics and bioinformatics. Throughout my time in the co-operative education program, I had the […]
Cristina Fodor
Cohort of 2023 Hello! My name is Cristina and I am from Calgary, Alberta. I completed a Bachelor of Health Sciences degree and a Master of Science in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the University of Calgary. I then worked as orthopaedic research coordinator for the SCRUBS research group, where I managed a national multi-centre […]