Oct 6, 2021 — Congratulations Adam
Congratulations to Dr. Adam Golding on his successful defense of his PhD thesis "Investigation of Nck1 and Nck2 in mammary gland development and breast cancer".
Sept 8, 2021 — Congratulations Hayley
Congratulations to Dr. Hayley Lau on her successful defense of her PhD thesis "Characterizing novel functions of the ShcD phosphotyrosine adaptor protein in receptor tyrosine kinase signaling."
Sept 1, 2021 — Congratulations Noah
Congratulations to Noah Phippen on his successful MSc defense of Establishing CRISPR-Cas9 and BioID workflows to probe molecular signaling pathways in kidney podocytes!
Dec 18, 2020 — Congratulations Sarah
Congratulations to Sarah Wismer on her successful MSc defense of "Investigation of the Role of Nck in Breast Cancer Cell Invasion and Invadopodia Formation and its Interaction with ADAM19"!
Dec 13, 2019 — Congratulations Manali
Congratulations to Manali Tilak on her successful PhD defense of A comprehensive proteomic and transcriptomic approach to understand novel features of adaptor protein ShcD! Thank you to Costin Antonescu from Ryerson for serving as the external examiner.
April 17, 2019 — Congratulations Nikkita
Congratulations to Nikkita Dutta for successfully defending her MSc thesis Investigation of Dok1 and Dok2 as novel modulators of focal adhesion dynamics in kidney podocytes. Thank you to the Kidney Foundation of Canada for your support of podocyte research in the Jones Lab.
April 5, 2018 — Congratulations Adam
Congratulations to Jones Lab PhD candidate Adam Golding on passing his qualifying exam today!
April 2, 2018 — Congratulations Hayley
Congratulations to Jones Lab PhD candidate Hayley Lau on passing her qualifying exam today!
Dec 14, 2017 — Congratulations Claire
Congratulations to Dr. Claire Martin for the successful defense of her PhD thesis Characterization of signaling pathways regulating nephrin endocytosis in kidney podocytes: novel roles for Nck and ShcA adaptor proteins today! Thank you to Dr. Jean-Francois Cote for travelling out to Guelph for the occasion.
Sept 12, 2017 — Congratulations Afreeda
Congratulations to Afreeda Mahesaniya on the successful defense of her MSc thesis "Investigating the effects of soy phytoestrogens on Nephrin and Akt podocyte survival signaling pathway"!
Aug 23, 2016 — Congratulations Rachel
Congratulations to Jones Lab M.Sc. candidate Rachael McNeilly for the successful defence of her M.Sc. thesis Investigating intracellular SNARE-mediated trafficking of the kidney slit diaphragm protein nephrin.
April 12, 2016 — Congratulations Melanie
Congratulations to Jones Lab Ph.D. candidate Melanie Wills for the successful defence of her doctoral thesis Decoding Shc Deviance: Evidence of Novel Roles for the Phosphotyrosine Adaptor ShcD in Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) Signalling and Dynamics. Great work Melanie! More photos of the celebration can be seen here.
Dec 18, 2014 — Congratulations Ava
Congratulations to Jones Lab M.Sc. candidate Ava Keyvani Chahi for the successful defence of her Master’s thesis Nck Adaptor Proteins Link Nephrin at the Podocyte Slit Diaphragm to the Hippo Regulator WTIP. We are pleased to report that Ava will stay on as a Laboratory Assistant.
May 16, 2014 — Congratulations Jim
Congratulations to Jones Lab M.Sc. Candidate Jim Cooper for the successful defence of his Master’s thesis A Putative Role for the Phosphotyrosine Adaptor Protein ShcD in Vav2-mediated Cell Signalling.
March 17, 2014 — Congratulations Laura
Jones Lab Ph.D. candidate Laura New successfully defended her doctoral thesis Investigation of the Role of Nephrin Phosphorylation and the Associated Signalling Pathways in Kidney Podocytes. Laura will continue to work in the lab as a Research Associate. Congratulations Laura!
Dec 11, 2013 — Congratulations Cameron
Jones Lab M.Sc. candidate Cameron Harris successfully defended his Master's thesis Evaluating the Role of Nck Adaptor Proteins in the Endothelial to Mesenchymal Transition. Cameron will be continuing in the lab in the role of Lab Technician. Congratulations Cameron!
August 26, 2011 — Congratulations Colin
Congratulations to Jones Lab M.Sc. Candidate Colin Stringer for the successful defence of his Master’s thesis "Development of an inducible and reversible mouse model of podocyte effacement".
April 29, 2011 — Congratulations Kelly
Congratulations to Jones Lab M.Sc. candidate Kelly (Keithlin) Peterson for the successful defence of her M.Sc. thesis “Investigating the Role of the ShcA Adaptor Protein in Kidney Proteins”.
Dec. 16, 2010 — Congratulations Steve
Congratulations to Jones Lab M.Sc. candidate Steve Hawley for the successful defense of his M.Sc. thesis “Investigating the role of ShcD in embryonic development”!
Dec 21, 2009 — Congratulations Sylvie
Congratulations to Jones Lab M.Sc. candidate Sylvie Tremblay for the successful defense of her M.Sc. thesis “Investigating the role of ShcD in regulating EGFR turnover”!
Oct. 9, 2009 — Congratulations Richard
Congratulations to Jones Lab M.Sc. candidate Richard Harris for the successful defence of his M.Sc. thesis "Determining the role of Nck in endothelial cells during cardiovascular development"!