Kirstie Anne DeJong
Project: Visiting PhD Trainee from Australia May 2017-Sept. 2017
Research Focus: Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
Supervisor: Dr. Donna Vine
Email: kgraham@deakin.edu.au
Maurice Kanyoni
Project: Visiting Lecturer from the University of Rwanda, School of Health Sciences, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Kigali, Rwanda.
Research Title: HIV and ART - Associated Cardiometabolic Research Training in Rwanda
Supervisor: Dr. Spencer Proctor (UofA) & Dr. Eugene Mutimura (RASD, Rwanda)
Francisco Javier Ruiz Ojeda
Project: Visiting PhD student 2016 (Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology, Center of Biomedical Research, University of Granada, Spain).
Research Focus: Genes related to obesity, insulin resistance and inflammation.
Supervisor: Dr. Spencer Proctor
Activities outside the lab: I like movies, music, swimming, skiing, outdoor activities, travelling and meeting friends.
Email: fruizojeda@ugr.es
Adriano Cotrim Vilas Boas
Project: Visiting Trainee 2014 (Student of Medicine at Federal University of Maranhão, Brasil)
Research Focus: Exchange Student of the Program Science without Borders
What I like to do outside the lab: I like to read and watch movies when I'm not in the lab.
Supervisor: Dr. Spencer Proctor
Email: cotrimvi@ualberta.ca
Yosdel Soto López
Project: Visiting PhD Trainee 2013 (Center of Molecular Immunology, University of Havana, Cuba).
Research Focus: Idiotypic vaccine for atherosclerosis.
Supervisor: Dr. Spencer Proctor
Activities outside the lab: I like music, outdoor activities, hiking and camping.
Email: yosdel@cim.sld.cu
Gabriela Salim F Castro
Project: Visiting Trainee 2012 (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Supervisor: Dr. Rene Jacobs
What I like doing outside of the lab: I like to read and watch movies.
Email: gabriela.castro@usp.br
Tina Ullrich, MSc
Project: Visiting Trainee 2012 (University Leipzig, Germany)
Research Focus: To determine whether the blood lipid-lowering properties of Niacin (Vitamin B3) are a direct result of improvements in intestinal lipid production in the JCR:LA-cp rat.
Supervisor: Dr. Spencer Proctor
What I like doing outside of the lab: I like team sports as volleyball and ultimate and I also enjoy playing the piano, cooking, baking and watching movies.
Email: ti.ullrich@googlemail.com
Claudia Vacca, PhD
Project: 2011 Visiting Trainee (Science and Technology Park of Sardinia, Polaris, Pula, Italy)
Research Focus: Modulation of endocannabinoid synthesis and hypothalamic neuropeptides by ruminal trans fats: c9, t11 CLA and t-11 vaccenic acid in an animal model of the metabolic syndrome.
Supervisor: Dr. Spencer Proctor
Email: claudiavacca@yahoo.it