Lab Members
Principal Investigator
Kevin Wei, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology
Email: wei.kevin@ubc.ca
Fly person by day, cat person by night.
Research Technician
Jie Liu
Searching for pretty sea shells near the ocean of genome.
PhD Candidate
Ankita Chauhan
Catching genes red-handed violating Mendel's Law of Segregation.
PhD Candidate
Haocun Ye
A world traveler in life, studying the world traveler in the genome.
PhD Student
Jessie Li
Clearly too excited to see so many Drosophila species among the flowers
MSc Student
Rana Zakerzade
“One genome to rule them all?
One genome to find them?
One genome to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them?” ;)
MSc Student
Ashley Fielding
Ageing? More like agen't!
MSc Student
Deep Sangha
Miranda hates taking the tram
Undergraduate Student (WLIURA)
Aoniya Colynn
I study the Benjamin Button of the fly world :)
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Undergraduate Student
Ebrahim Akhavizadegan
In possession of too many Y chromosomes
Undergraduate Student (CBR Award )
Nathan Yeung
Always crossing over the line
Undergraduate Student (NSERC USRA)
May Wang
You "albomi-CAN-s" do it!
P.S. I also work with D. nasuta and love drawing and creating scientific illustrations.
Undergraduate Student (NSERC USRA)
Jomiloju (Jay) Aribaloye
Giving fruit flies nightmares and getting irritated by wacky qPCR results since 2026
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Ada Liang
Alan Wei
Helen Kim
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