Ms. Ava Vandenbelt

ava.vandenbelt@mail.utoronto.ca

Awards and Scholarships

  • CGS-M (2024)
  • OGS-M (2023)
  • KPE Alumni Award (2022)
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Undergraduate Summer Research Award (USRA) (2022)
  • University of Toronto Scholar (2021)
  • University of Toronto Translational Biology and Engineering Program Undergraduate Summer Research Program Scholarship (2021 and 2022)
  • Physiology Summer Undergraduate Research Award- UROP (2021)
  • R. Tait McKenzie Honour Society, University of Toronto (2020)
  • Duke of Edinburgh Bronze (2015)

Graduate Student –

Ms. Ava Vandenbelt is one of our MSc candidates. Presently, she is working on our Phospholamban project.

Education and Professional Experience

Teaching Assistant in Anatomy
(2021-present)
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.

Functional Enhanced Anatomy Training Leader
(2020 – 2021)
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.

Summer Research Assistant
(2020)
Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), Ottawa, ON.

Projects Assistant
(2018 – 2019)
Filterstream Canada, Ottawa, ON.

Bachelor of Kinesiology and Physical Education
(in progress)
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.

Publications

An efficient and cost-effective purification protocol for Staphylococcus aureus Cas9 nuclease

Teng AC, Tavassoli M, Shrestha S, Marks RM, McFadden MJ, Evagelou SL, Lindsay K, Vandenbelt A, Li W, Ivakine E, Cohn R. An efficient and cost-effective purification protocol for Staphylococcus aureus Cas9 nuclease. STAR protocols. 2023 Mar 17;4(1):101933.