The Tobin Lab at Trent University
Current Team
STEPHANIE TOBIN
Assistant Professor
Post-doc: TGHRI ('16-'21) PhD: York University ('16) BSc: Western University ('10) Teaching: 2070, 4080, 4250. Check out: mcstrent.ca
KATIE LYCETT
MSc Candidate Spring 2025-Present
4th year thesis student '24-'25
Lorna Phan
M.Sc. Candidate Fall 2024-Present
4th year thesis student '23-'24
MAXWELL MCPHERSON
MSc Candidate Fall 2025-Present
Co-supervised by C Robertson
HANNAH SMITH
MSc Candidate Spring 2025-Present
4th year thesis student '24'-25
2024 NSERC USRA Research Assistant
LIANA YUEN
Summer research assistant '25
4th year thesis student '25-'26
Co-supervised by J Hendel
ERIN ST. CLAIR
4th year thesis student '25-'26
ADITI MIDHA
4th year thesis student '25-'26
Co-supervised by J Yee
GABRIELLE SHAO
Animal Care Technician
MSc Forensic Science Summer Intern '25
MEGAN TAPAJNA
4th year thesis student '25-'26
Former Trainees
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Jack Campbell, MSc student '23-'25.
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Lela Fox-Doran, Animal care technician & Fleming Biotech intern Sept. '24-Aug. '25. Subsequent position: Medical Laboratory Science program at Ontario Tech.
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Noah Fiorucci, Summer research assistant and undergraduate thesis student '24-'25. Subsequent position: MD at Trinity College Dublin.
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Isabel Ariga, Summer '25 research assistant. Subsequent position: continuing student.
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Hannah Kavanagh, Summer research assistant and undergraduate thesis student '24-'25. Subsequent position: MSc at The University of Ottawa.
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Rachel Wamsteeker, Undergraduate thesis student '24-'25. Subsequent position: MHSc in Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Toronto.
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Paking Pongpaiboon, Undergraduate thesis student '24-'25.
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Farnoush Kabiri, MSc student, '23-'24.
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Ben Witmer, Undergraduate thesis student '23-'24.
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Risha Gupta, Undergraduate thesis student '23-'24. Subsequent position: MSc at The University of Guelph
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Julio Cisneros Medrano, Undergraduate thesis student '23-'24. Subsequent position: MSc at The University of Guelph
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Samantha Caudle, Undergraduate thesis student '23-'24
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Sabastian Koprich, Undergraduate thesis student '22-'23. Subsequent position: MPH - Indigenous Health at UofT Dalla Lana
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Abbey Politeski, Undergraduate thesis student '22-'23. Subsequent position: MSc at Queen's University
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Vivien Musiime, Undergraduate thesis student '22-'23. Subsequent position: Research technician at Sunnybrook Hospital
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Alex Rico, Undergraduate thesis student '22-'23. Subsequent position: MSc at Western University
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Beth Westby, Research assistant, May 2022-April 2023. Subsequent position: Technician at SGS
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Ethan Holder, Reading course student, WI 2022