
TANNY LAB

Jason C. Tanny, PhD
Principal investigator (2009-present)
Education: BSc, University of Toronto (1995); MSc, University of Toronto (1998); PhD, Harvard University (2003); Postdoc, Rockefeller University (2007)

Jennifer Chen
PhD candidate (2016-present)
Education: BSc, McGill Pharmacology (2016)
Working on formation and function of
H2Bub1 in S. pombe

Sarah MacKinnon
PhD candidate (2016-present)
Education: BSc, McGill Pharmacology (2016)
Working on new functions of the Spt5
CTD in S. pombe

Ashika Jain
PhD candidate (2021-present)
Education: BSc, Jamia Hamdard (Delhi, India) in Pharmacy (2018); MS University of Minnesota Twin Cities in Pharmacology (2021)
Working on CDK9 pathways in heart disease and cancer
(co-supervised with Dr. Terry Hébert)

Jacob Blaney
PhD candidate (2021-present)
Education: BSc, McGill University Pharmacology (2021)
Working on direct role for Gbetagamma in transcriptional regulation
(co-supervised with Dr. Terry Hébert)

Viviane Pagé
Research Associate (2009-present)
Education: BSc, U de Sherbrooke Biology, MSc McGill Microbiology (2003)

Ali Shariat-Panahi
PhD candidate (2022-present)
Education: BSc, University of Tehran (2017), MSc University of Calgary (2022)
Lab Alumni
Grad Students:
Ryan Martin-just got his PhD (joint with Terry Hébert) studying Cdk9, Brd4, and response to GPCR signaling pathways in cardiomyocytes. Now works for a Montreal-based start-up on AI and the microbiome.
Xinwen Zhu-completed her MSc (joint with Terry Hébert) in 2018 working on JQ1 effects in cancer cell lines. Now doing a PhD in Biological Engineering at Boston University.
Daniel Pinto-completed his MSc in 2016 working on H2Bub1 and antisense transcription. Now working for a molecular diagnostics lab in Toronto.
Stephen Nagy-completed his MSc in 2012 characterizing the Cdk9-Rtf1 pathway in S. pombe. Now working in finance at RBC in Toronto.
Ariane Racine-completed her MSc in 2011 working on H2Bub1-H3K4me crosstalk, attended medical school at Universite de Montreal.
Research staff:
Dr. Jean Mbogning
Undergraduate thesis students:
Erica Zhu
Dorsa Majdpour
Emily Schwenger
Jillian Burston
Haya Fernandez
Jonathan Leung
David Grabowski