Dr. Simone C. da Silva Rosa is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Rady College of Medicine in the Human Anatomy and Cell Science Department, University of Manitoba. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Manitoba (2021), where she investigated the cellular and molecular mechanisms of muscle insulin resistance and therapeutic approaches to mitigate its detrimental effects on early-onset Type 2 Diabetes. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Biology, York University (2021–2022), investigating the role of adiponectin in regulating autophagy and its vital function in cardioprotection. Currently (2022-present), she is a CIHR-Postdoctoral Fellow at the Human Anatomy and Cell Science Department, University of Manitoba. Her research focuses on the role of autophagy and lipid metabolism in glioblastoma chemoresistance and lung cancer metastasis.
Benjamin W. Lindsey is an Assistant Professor at the Max Rady College of Medicine in the Human Anatomy and Cell Science Department. He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto, where he studied the ultrastructural composition of adult neurogenic niches of the mature zebrafish brain. He then moved to Monash University in Australia as an NSERC-funded postdoctoral fellow, where he studied the molecular and cellular regulation of neural stem-cell populations for brain and spinal cord regeneration. He then returned to Canada for a second postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Ottawa, Brain and Mind Research Institute, where he developed models to study spinal cord regeneration. In February 2019, he joined the Human Anatomy and Cell Science Department at the University of Manitoba as an Assistant Professor, where he established the first zebrafish facility for neural stem-cell research. His research interests include the zebrafish model; environmental and sensory enrichment; brain and spinal cord regeneration and therapeutics; advanced fluorescence and live in vivo imaging; electron microscopy; cell and molecular techniques; and learning and memory.
Joseph W. Gordon is an Associate Professor at the University of Manitoba. He is an Adjunct Professor of Human Anatomy and Cell Science Physiology and Pathophysiology. He received a Master's of Science from the Department of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University, Toronto, and received a Ph.D. degree from the Department of Biology, York University, Toronto. As an independent scientist, he is pursuing his experimental interests, such as muscle lipotoxicity and diabetes-associated complications of the cardiovascular system.
Prof. Dr. Saeid Ghavami is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science at the University of Manitoba. He completed his undergraduate training in 1989 (Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran), and an MSc and PhD (1995, 2004, TMU University, Tehran, Iran) in clinical biochemistry. His postdoctoral training was focused on the application of apoptosis/autophagy/unfolded protein response (UPR) in the regulation of cell fate. His current research program is focused on the regulation of cellular phenotype via targeting autophagy and UPR at the Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, University of Manitoba. He has been the recipient of several prestigious awards including the CIHR/GSK/CLA postdoctoral award (No. 1 in Canada, 2007), the Parker B Francis Career Development Award (top 10 in North America, 2009), the ATS Science and Innovation Center Rising Star of Research Award (2017), and the CIHR/CCS/OICR Early Career Research Award (2017). Prof. Dr. Ghavami was an Honorary Professor and co-founder of the Autophagy Research Centre at Shiraz University of Medical Science and Tehran University of Medical Sciences. He is Honorary Professor at Katowice School of Technology, Poland. Since 2019, he has been among the top 2% of scientists in the world. He is currently Associate Editor of BBA-Mol Basis of Disease, and Hepatitis Monthly, also scientific editor of PLOS ONE, Cells and IJMS>
