Group Members

Back Row (left to right): Cecile Fradin, Arthur Montazeri, James Jonkman, Felix Wong, Dmitri Satsoura

Front Row (left to right): Ajit Thakur, Asmahan Abu-Arish, Daniel Banks, Vera Matulovic, Aleksandra Dabkowska.

• Principal Investigator

Cecile Fradin ( fradin@physics.mcmaster.ca )



• Graduate Students

	Asmahan Abu-Arish (Ph.D. student, Physics, abuaria@univmail.cis.mcmaster.ca) Ran-GTP/Ran-GDP Gradient across the Nuclear Membrane(more) Conformational Changes in Probe Molecules
	Daniel Banks (Ph.D. student, Physics, banksds@univmail.cis.mcmaster.ca) Anomalous Diffusion (more)
	James Jonkman (Ph.D. student, Physics) Molecular Beacons (more)
	Dmitri Satsoura (Ph.D. student, Biochemistry, satsoud@univmail.cis.mcmaster.ca) Membrane insertion of pro-apoptotic protein Bax (more)
	Felix Wong (M.Sc. student, Physics, wonghc@muss.cis.mcmaster.ca) Membrane Fluctuations (more)



• Undergraduate Students

	Aleksandra Dabkowska (Biochemistry, dabkowa@mcmaster.ca) Molecular Beacons Aleksandra is a fourth-year Biochemistry student who is helping in the investigation of the dynamics of molecular beacons.
	Vera Matulovic (Biochemistry, matulov@mcmaster.ca) Quantum Dots Vera is a fourth-year Biochemistry student who is helping with the investigation of the photophysical behavior of individual fluorescent particles with respect to both temperature and pH.
	Ajit Thakur (Physics and Biology, AJIT.THAKUR@learnlink.mcmaster.ca) Microtubule Walks and Quantum Dots Ajit studies molecular dynamics of live cells that relate to the transport across the nuclear pore complex.

• Group Alumni

	Cecile Couzon (Physics, summer student '03, ccouzon@ens-lyon.fr) Molecular Beacons
	Clinton Campbell (Biochemistry, campbecj@muss.cis.mcmaster.ca) Genetic Engineering of Nuclear Pore Complexes in Yeast Cells
	Arthur Montazeri ('03, B.S. Engineering Science, arthur_9000@hotmail.com) Currently Arthur is working on a M.Sc. in Engineering Physics at McMaster.
No picture Available	Kieran Finan (kieranfinan@hotmail.com)
No Picture Available	Rachel Lockyer (rlockyer@uwo.ca)

Group Pictures

Lab group 2003

Left to right: Cecile Couzon, Cecile Fradin, Arthur Montazeri, Felix Wong, Asmahan Abu-Arish, Daniel Banks, Dmitri Satsoura, Clinton Campbell, Ajit Thakur