Current members of the laboratory
Dr. Arinjay Banerjee, Principal Investigator, Canada Research Chair in Zoonotic Virus and Animal Reservoirs.
Dr. Hannah Mahoney, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) funded postdoctoral fellow (2025-present)
Arkadeb Bhuinya, PhD candidate (2023-present)
Dr. Sophie-Marie Aicher, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, Germany) funded postdoctoral fellow (2023-present)
Sabrina O’Krafka, MSc student (2025-2027). Summer research student, VIDO undergraduate research scholarship awardee (May 2024-August 2024)
Sauhard Shrivastava, PhD candidate (2023-present)
Dr. Kristof Jenik, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Canada Postdoctoral Research Award funded postdoctoral fellow (2024-present)
Jay Tiemann, MSc student (May 2026 - present)
Dr. Akarin Asavajaru, Research Technician and Lab Manager (2021 - present)
Dr. Kaushal Baid, Postdoctoral Fellow (2021 - present)
Dr. Arianna M. Hurtado-Monzon, Postdoctoral fellow (2022 - present)
Rita Quintela, PhD candidate (2023-present)
Dr. Ansil B.R., Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) funded postdoctoral fellow, co-supervised with Dr. Daniel Becker, USA (2024 - present)
Dr. Benedicte Moni, Postdoctoral Fellow (co-supervised, 2024-present)
Manuela Muniz Tomás Pereira, MSc student (2024-present)
Ansalna Ansari, Research Assistant and PhD student (2025 -present)
Marin Habbick, incoming PhD student (2026 - present)
Alumni
Dr. Victoria Gonzalez, NSERC PhD candidate (2021 - 2025)
Dr. Nuraina Anisa, Postdoctoral fellow (2023-2025)
Subham Saha, Mitacs Globalink Research fellow from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc, Sannula laboratory) (July 2024- October 2024)
Vaidehee Lanke, UG honors thesis student (2021 - 2022)
Kashika Dhar, Undergraduate summer student (May 2025 - August 2025)
Pahul Singh, NSERC USRA summer student (May 2023 - August 2023), Student Research Assistant ( September 2023 - April 2024), NSERC USRA summer student (May 2024 - August 2024)
Subham Das, Mitacs Globalink Research fellow from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc, Sannula laboratory) (October 2023- January 2024)
Damilola-Oluwa Adeniyi, UG honours thesis student (2021 - 2022)
Dr. Arely Hernandez, PhD candidate (2019-2025)
Dr. Kim Lam Chiok, Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-2025)
Jessica Wang, NSERC USRA Summer Student (May 2022 - August 2022)
Omar Haque, UG summer student (May 2023 - August 2023)