Team Members
PI-Devi Atukorallaya
Assistant Professor in Oral Biology
Dr. Atukorallaya received her Bachelor of Dental Surgery degree from University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka and her PhD from Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan, under the supervision of Professor Yoshiro Takano. She then completed her post doctoral training at the Mount Saint Vincent University, Nova Scotia with Dr. Tamara Franz-Odendaal where she began to study the molecular aspects of development and evolution of vertebrate craniofacial skeleton. In 2017, she began her position as an assistant professor in the Department of Oral Biology at the University of Manitoba.
Under Graduate Students
Ms. R. Nafees
PhD
Ms. D. Awais
MSc
Ragheeba Khan
BSc Dent
BSc Dent Students
Dr. Sophie Chen
Rosa Iranpour
Lab Alumni
Post Doctoral Fellows
Vikram Bhatia
Post Doctoral Fellow (2018)
Currently post doctoral fellow at the Children’s Hospital Research Institute,Manitoba
Ravi Ratnayake
Research Assistant (2017-2021)
Graduated Students
Praneeth Silva
Parnia A Zavareh
Nuwanthika Gimhani
Summer Students
Tanzeela Ahmerd
Jessica Gonzales
(2018 and 2019)
Fourth year Dentistry student, Dr Gerald Niznick College of Dentistry
Priyantha Wengapulliarachchi
(2018)
Nursing graduate
Justin Lane
(2021)
First year Pharmacy student, College of Pharmacy, University of Manitoba
Emma C Wiklinski
(2022)
Undergraduate student University of Durham,United Kingdom
Natasha Hargreaves
(2022)
Undergraduate student University of Durham,United Kingdom
Co-op students
Rachel Webber
(2020 Winter)
Science undergraduate student -University of Manitoba
Can Ngyogen
(2020 Fall)
Science undergraduate student - University of Manitoba
Bhavin Chaudhari
(2022 Winter)
Science undergraduate student - University of Manitoba
Research Assistants
Dinu Rajapakshe
(2019 Summer)
Science undergraduate student -University of Manitoba
Nocolette Olkopa
(2021 Winter)
Science undergraduate student -University of Manitoba
High School Student
Joshef Banisch
(2018 Winter)