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Dr. John Paul Pezacki

Full Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa
Curriculum Vitae

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Positions available. Contact Dr. Pezacki for more details. 

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 Graduate Research Students 

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Geneviève Desrochers

PhD candidate

• ​​​Development of new activity-based profiling methods, application of activity-based profiling methods to study protein-protein interactions

​​Rhea Alonzi

PhD candidate

• ​Investigating the roles of exosomes in host - pathogen interactions and viral propagation​
• Investigating the effects of small molecules on sorting exosomal cargo
• Engineering exosomes as biocompatible, pan-antiviral delivery systems for therapeutic applications

Roxana Filip

PhD candidate

• ​Application of activity-based protein profiling methods to study the immunological response to infection and host-pathogen interactions

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Tyler Shaw

PhD candidate

• ​​Activity-based profiling of host-virus interactions and investigation of microRNA modulation of metabolic pathways during viral infection​

Nadine Ahmed 

PhD candidate

 Noreen Ahmed 

PhD candidate

• ​Investigating the role of miRNAs in modulating the innate immune response to viral infection.
• Application of activity-based protein profiling techniques to study the innate immune response during viral infection.
  

• Developing biochemical tools to study RNA silencing
• Improving the function of the p19 protein, using it as a tool to study small RNA molecules and their interactions​

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Didier Bilodeau

PhD candidate

Kaitlyn Margison

MSc candidate

David Lefebvre

MSc candidate

• ​Development and optimization of new bioorthogonal chemistry, namely the Kinugasa reaction
• Exploration of nitrone reactivity

• ​Interested in the development of novel bioorthogonal chemistry, with current focus on the optimization of the Kinugasa reaction in aqueous media

• Study of human-pathogen interactions 

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Mariam Serhan

MSc candidate

•  Interested in the development of new bioorthogonal chemistry with a focus on nitrones and 3-oxidopyridium species. 

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Undergraduate Research Students 

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Owen Orser

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Kaitlyn Morrill

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Jacques Kadamani