Wiseman Research Group

Professor Paul Wiseman originally hails from Nova Scotia and completed a B.Sc. (Hons) Chemistry at St Francis Xavier University in 1989, and his Ph.D. at the University of Western Ontario in 1995 (Chemistry/Biophysical). He was a Japanese Society for the promotion of Science postdoctoral fellow at the University of Tokyo and Nagoya University from 1996 to 1998 and then LJIS postdoctoral fellow and research associate at University of California, San Diego from 1998 to 2001. Paul joined McGill in 2001 as an assistant professor of Chemistry and Physics and has grown his interdisciplinary research program at McGill since that time. Paul is currently the Otto Maass Chair in Chemistry and Professor of Physics. He received one of the Inaugural Fessenden Professorship in Science Innovation and the Keith Laidler Award in Physical Chemistry by CSC, and the Young Fluorescence Investigator Award of the Biophysical Society, and a Fullbright Chair Fellowship at UCLA.

Kamila joined in September 2016, after completing her B.Sc. in Chemistry from Jacobs University (Germany), where she previously undertook research in supramolecular chemistry. Her current projects includes cellular imaging using STED, a super-resolution microscopy technique.

Rodrigo is a PhD student in McGill’s [Quantitative Life Sciences Interfaculty Program](https://www.mcgill.ca/qls/). He is jointly supervised by [Prof. Arnold Hayer]( http://hayerlab.org/) and [Prof. Paul Wiseman]( http://wiseman-group.mcgill.ca/). Born and raised in Mexico city, he did his B.Sc. in Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine at the Université de Montréal and his M.Sc. in Biochemistry at the National Laboratory for Advanced Microscopy at the Biotechnology Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He has worked on small GTPases signaling, focal adhesion formation in breast cancer cell migration, centriole biogenesis and more recently on actin cytoskeleton remodeling during endothelial cell migration. He’s fascinated with protein-protein interaction networks, signal transduction pathways and complex systems such as collective cell migration. When he is not analyzing live cell images or coding, he can be found out in the nature practicing amateur photography.

Ahmad joined the lab in January 2021 in the Department of Physics. He completed his BSc. in Honours Mathematics and Physics and MSc. in Physics at McMaster University. His projects were supervised by Dr. Cécile Fradin and included protein-membrane interactions (simulation and experiment), and studying diffusion in heterogeneous 3D samples via construction of a SPIM-FCS (Single plane illumination microscopy - fluorescence correlation spectroscopy). His current project includes the construction of a super-resolution SPIM to perform STICS in 3D.

Michelle joined the lab in September 2021 in the Department of Physics after completing her B. Sc. and M. Sc. with the Department of Physics at the University of British Columbia. Her previous research projects include MRI/NMR physics and nanopore biophysics. Her current project will involve the use of STICCS to analyze the cytoskeletal dynamics in neurons with netrin-1 nanodots to study neuron pathfinding. In her free time, she can be found fencing, watching anime, and working on her artwork.