Current Members
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Sidhartha Goyal
Principal investigator (PI)
Sid Goyal got his PhD in Physics at Princeton in 2009 and then moved to KITP, UC Santa Barbara for a postdoc. He got his first degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay. Since 2014, he is an Assistant Professor in the Physics Department at University of Toronto’s downtown (St. George) campus.
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Spencer Farrell
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Working on understanding cell fate dynamics from recently emerging large single cell RNA sequencing datasets (Homepage)
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Samuel Lui
PhD Student
He has an interest in studying networks and complex systems. (Homepage)
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Zhi Zhang
PhD Student
Zhi Zhang is a PhD student in Sid’s group, focusing on the fascinating dynamics of bacteria-phage interactions. His research aims to uncover the molecular mechanisms that govern these interactions, with implications for understanding microbial ecosystems and therapeutic applications. Outside the lab, Zhi is an avid cyclist who enjoys exploring new trails and staying active. He also appreciates unwinding with good company and a well-crafted drink.
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Sophie McGibbon-Gardner
PhD Student
Her current interests relate to diversity growth of genetically identical cells, particularly during cellular reprogramming and short term cancer therapy resistance. (Homepage)
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Colin Brandys
PhD Student
Working on biophysics research with a particular interest in aging. (Homepage)
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Casey Ka Wun Leung
PhD Student
His research interests relate to biophysics of developmental biology and regenerations. (Homepage)
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Jun Jang
PhD Student
Jun earned his undergraduate degree in Physics from Cornell University. Now in his first year of advanced study, he is delving into the world of biophysics, with a special focus on its human dimensions.
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Braulio Ojeda Valencia
Master Student
I’m Braulio and I’m currently a MSc student at the Goyal research group. I’ll be studying intercellular communication and repair using machine learning techniques. I did my undergrad here at UofT, where I was involved in materials science research. In my free time, I enjoy reading and listening to music.
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Aidan Wong
Master Student
Aidan is from Edmonton, where he completed his BSc in Honors Physics at the University of Alberta. He is currently a MSc student at the Goyal Biophysics Lab where he is pursuing his interests in biological systems. Outside of research, he likes reading, playing the board game Diplomacy, and cooking.
Alumni
Chris Nunn
Worked on mitochondrial aging, maintenance, and inheritance, and experimental tools to detect mitochondrial DNA diversity in populations of yeast, as well as models to describe this distribution of DNA resulting from both cell and population level selection.
Nava Leibovich
Her research was concentrated on studying stochastic process, using analytical and numerical approach together with simulations.
Madeleine Bonsna-Fisher
Worked on bacterial-virus evolutionary arms race as found in the CRISPR system
Ue-Yu Pen
Worked on Prophage Ecology in the background of bacteria-phage competition
Sabyasachi Dasgupta
His major interests was towards single cell genomics, specifically towards constructing cell-lineage relationships and cell to cell transition dynamics. (Personal Webpage)
Dominique Soutiere
She developed a model for phage-bacteria coevolutionary dynamics
Marat Mufteev
He wrote his MSc thesis on physical and mathematical models of cellular reprogramming and differentiation.
Christian Farfan
He developed theoretical tools to understand multilevel selection.
