Lemieux Lab @UofA

M. Joanne Lemieux

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

Fraser Ferens, PhD

Dec 2023 - present

Raelynn Brassard, PhD

Sept 2024-

Graduate Students

Jimmy Lu

PhD Trainee
September 2019-present

Sizhu (Amelia) Chen

PhD trainee

September 2021-present

Sydney Demmon

MSc trainee

September 2024-present

Undergraduate Students

Lane Buchan

Parco Leong

Nicole Thomas

Rayna McFeetors

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)

Sydney Demmon September 2024-

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-September 2024

Jimmy Lu PhD January 2019 -

Sizhu (Amelia) Chen PhD September 2021-

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

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