Researchers
Amir G. Moghadam
PhD candidate
Eric Chiu
PhD candidate
Eric Tseng
PhD candidate
Farshad Murtada
PhD candidate
Kousha Kamal
PhD candidate
(co-supervised with Dr. Kim Tsoi)
Leo Chou
Principal Investigator
Meghan Rothenbroker
PhD candidate
Ryan Lee
PhD candidate
Shana Alexander
PhD candidate
Travis Douglas
PhD candidate
Alumni
Abdulmateen Aderinto
MASc (2022)
Associate Scientist
Vital Bio
Ian Chen
PDF (2021)
Scientist
Shennon Biotechnologies
Sachin Davis
MASc (2022)
PhD candidate
UPenn Bioengineering
Stuti Joshi
MASc (2022)
Applications Scientist
PacBio
Wendy Wang
Postdoc (2023)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Broad Institute / Harvard University
Work and fun
Celebratory lab brunch
Brunch to celebrate recent CIHR project grant proposal approved for funding
Lab holiday dinner!
Photo from the group’s holiday dinner at Amano Trattoria with a custom set menu. Thanks to Travis for organizing!
Lab outing for Leo’s birthday!
Photo from today’s group luncheon at Cottage Cheese, having delicious urban indian cuisine (minus Eric, who’s hard at work with experiments!!)
Chou lab members presenting at the annual ToBE departmental symposium
Great job to Eric and Shana on their poster presentations, as well as Ryan and Meghan on their oral presentations. Good representation from the group. A big congratulations goes to Meghan as well for winning best oral presentation in the Molecular Stream!
Travis finishing his first (of many?) marathon race!
All smiles at the finish line!
Travis presenting his research at the Foundations of Nanoscience conference
Travis presenting his research on FcR targeting nanoparticles at FNANO 2023 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Also did some skiing on the side!
2022 holidays lab group photo
Happy holidays from the Chou lab!
Wendy, Shana presents at the annual Medicine by Design symposium
Wendy delivers a talk in a packed auditorium on her development of origamiFISH, a method for visualizing DNA nanostructures in biological samples. Shana also gave a poster presentation on how she is advancing this technology further to enable broader applications. Chou lab well-represented at the annual MbD symposium!
Eric, Shana, and Travis present at the annual PRiME symposium
Travis gives a lightning talk as one of the eight 2022 PRiME fellows, while Eric and Shana discusses their work on using origamiFISH-Flow to study DNA origami - immune interactions
Mid-night stroll through Toronto’s Nuit Blanche
Group pic from Nuit Blanche, Toronto’s all-night celebration of contemporary art. The installation is called “synapse” so kind of fitting we took our photo in front of it
Treetop trekking at this year’s lab retreat. Thanks to Ariel for organizing!
This year we head to Stouville, Ontario to try out treetop trekking. First lab retreat outside the city. Thanks to our undergrad Ariel for a fantastic job organizing the trip. This is turning into a tradition…
Sachin walks us through his python probe design pipeline
Btw, thanks for making us install all the extra dependencies…
Celebrating Shana’s birthday with mini-golf tournament
Happy birthday Shana!
Getting lab’s first in vivo experiments underway!
Students learning how to work with mice. Thanks to our neighbor Julien for the kind help!
Meghan awarded the prestigious Vanier scholarship!
Congratulations to Meghan, well-deserved recognition! Looking forward to doing great science and many more celebrations with you!
We finally made it happen! Annual Lab Dinner at JUMP!
With the pandemic restrictions easing, the long awaited annual lab dinner, originally scheduled before the holidays, finally happened! What a great bunch to science with. Special thanks to Meghan for organizing!
Farewell to Stuti Joshi, who joins Pacific Biosciences in sunny California!
We celebrate Stuti on accepting the offer to join Pacific Biosciences in sunny San Diego, CA. Best of luck Stuti, be the future of long-read dna sequencing! You will be sorely missed by the lab!
Coffee addicts rejoice with arrival of nespresso
just in time for Xmas
Lab BBQ at Hanlan’s Point, Toronto Center Islands.
Big thanks to our undergraduate researcher Jason Zhang for organizing! Check out the only photo we managed to take.
First lab social in the year of the global pandemic. We staying strong
First lab social of the year, it’s going to be virtual drinks & games night!
First Discord lab meeting
Adapting to the pandemic reality!
Happy birthday Abdulmateen!
Celebrating Abdulmateen’s birthday with some cupcakes
Thanks for the office decoration
I think this is a good sign?
First lab outing
Went to Snakes and Lattes for some boardgames
Floor social
We invited neighboring labs to join us for a Friday night food and games
Setting up the lab
Got our first equipment and getting ready to set up an experiment!
Chou lab begins
Welcome to the lab team STAR!
Want to join us?
Postdocs
Prospective postdoctoral scholars should send Leo an email and discuss your research interests ( include your CV and contact details of three references). It would be great if you can suggest potential topics you are interested in working on. You’re certainly not bound by this, it is merely a starting point of conversation.
Graduate students
We are always looking for highly motivated students with a passion for engineering biology and developing new biomedical technologies to join our mission-driven and dynamic work environment. Prospective students should send Leo an email to introduce yourself, what your interests are, along with your up-to-date CV and transcript.
Undergraduate students
We offer a limited number of fully-funded summer internship positions each year. Our lab can also sponsor undergraduate design competitions and thesis projects. Interested individuals are advised to email Leo early in the year to introduce yourself, your interests, along with your CV and transcript.