The position involves assisting in preclinical rodent studies designed to test potential therapeutics for various neurological conditions, primarily Parkinson's disease. Responsibilities include in vivo rat and mouse work (e.g., different routes of test item administration, stereotaxic surgery, behavioural measures, tissue collection, etc.) as well as ex vivo tissue processing and analysis (tissue sectioning, ELISA, Western blot, immunohistochemistry, stereology, etc.).

CIHP-funded project on Regulation of transcription by SUMO at Rosonina Lab. Assisting on the development of novel molecular assays for studying nascent transcription and transcription re-initiation in yeast.

An independent undergraduate research project examining SUMO post-translational modification kinetics, supervised by Dr. Emanuel Rosonina at York University. Investigating the transience of sumoylation of yeast transcription factors Sko1 and Tfg1 using a novel sumoylation inhibitor 1,10-phenanthroline.[Obtained data is featured in EMBO Reports publication https://doi.org/10.1038/s44319-023-00010-8]