Principal Investigator

M. Joanne Lemieux, PhD

Joanne completed a B.Sc. in Biochemistry with Dr. Catherine Mezei at Dalhousie University (1986-1991) where she worked on membrane proteins in the myelinating peripheral nerve.

This was followed by an M.Sc. with Dr Carl Breckenridge in Biochemistry/Neuroscience at Dalhousie (1992-1994) where she studied lipoproteins and lipid biosynthesis in the myelinating nerve.

After working with Dr. Da Neng Wang at New York University School of Medicine, she completed a Ph.D. in the Cell Biology/Structural Biology, Biomedical Sciences program. During this time she solved one of the first X-ray crystal structures of a gradient driven transporter, GlpT (Science, 2003).

Joanne completed a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Michael James at the University of Alberta where she solved the structure of the rhomboid peptidase hiGlpG (PNAS, 2007).

In December 2007, Joanne started her own research group. She is presently a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, and as of January 2018 Director of the Membrane Protein Disease Research Group. Her reserach focuses on understanfing protein strucutre and function of variosu protein targets that range from membrnae embeddedenzymes to viral proteases.

If you are interested in joining our group, contact us at mlemieux at ualberta.ca

 

Research Associate

Elena Arutyunova, PhD

2009-present

Postdoctoral Fellows

 

 

Pu Chen, PhD

July 2022 - present

Graduate Students

Raelynn Brassard

PhD Trainee
September 2018-present

Jimmy Lu

PhD Trainee
September 2019-present

 

Sizhu (Amelia) Chen

PhD trainee

Septmeber 2021-present

 

Cassidy Maplethorpe

MSc trainee

 

Jeremy Nichol

MSc (Neurosscience) 

Undergraduate Students

Meriam Marwas

Bioc499 Sept 2023 - Apr 2024  

Gabriel Lui

Sept - Dec 2023

 

 

 

Past lab members

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

Jason S. Lamoureux, December 2007-January 2009, current: Agriculture, AB. 

 Cory L. Brooks, November 1, 2009 – June 2013, current, tenure track-Faculty, University of California Fresno 

Elena Arutyunova, November 1, 2009 - October 31, 2011, current RA, Lemieux lab 

 Pankaj Panwar, April 1, 2012 – June 2014, current Biotech in BC 

 Rashmi Panigrahi, September 2014 – July 2017, current Research Associate, UofA 

 Yurong Wen, June 2018 – June 2019: current: Professor, First Affiliated Hospital, Xi’an Jiaotong University 

Xiaocen Lu, January 2021-August 2021; current PDF UBC  

GRADUATE STUDENTS 

MSc 

Padmapriya Sampathkumar, M.Sc. January 2010 - September 2012 

Melissa Morrison, M.Sc. September 2011 – June, 2013 

Laine Lysyk, M.Sc. September 2016 – Jan 2019 

Emmanuella Takyi (Neuroscience) M.Sc. September 2016 - December 2018 

Rui Chen M.Sc. September 2018 – March 2020 (co-supervision with Dr. Khaled Baraket, Department of Pharmacy, UofA) 

PhD 

Christelle Lazareno-Saez, Ph.D. January 2009 – November 2014 

Cameron Smithers, Ph.D. January 2014 – August 2015 (transferred) 

Kristian Mark Caldo, Ph.D. January 2014 –September 2017 (co supervisor, Dr. Randal Weselake Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science) 

Raelynn Brassard PhD September 2018- 

Jimmy Lu PhD January 2019 - 

Sizhu (Amelia) Chen PhD September 2021-  

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS