Robinson Lab

Our lab represents a collaborative team of unique individuals who support and respect others and their work. Our lab is part of the Department of Medical Genetics at The University of British Columbia. We are located in the BC Childrens Hospital Research Institute at the Childrens and Womens Health Centre of British Columbia. (Corner of 28th and Oa... k Street.) Click map to enlarge. Wendy completed her PhD. in Population Genetics at U.C. Berkeley and a post-doctoral fellowship in Zurich, Switzerland. She is currently a professor in the Dept. of Medical Genetics. She enjoys dark chocolate, walking/running and being outdoors! If she could go back in time, she would like to see and hike in the forests and mountains of western North America from 200 years ago. If she could have a superpower, it would be the ability to bring calm to others. Profile on ResearchGate E-Mail: Wendy P. Robinson aria completed her PhD in Medical Genetics at UBC in 2003 in this very lab studying X chromosome inactivation in human placenta. She is originally from Quito, Ecuador, and returned there after her degree where she set up the countrys most modern forensic and paternity genetics lab for the Ecuadorian Red Cross. However, she missed us too much and had to come back! She has a special interest in understanding the developmental origin of different tissues, as well as genomic imprinting in the human placenta. Maria coordinates all research projects and lab collaborations, as well as protocol standardization and training of students and staff. Her ideal superpower would be to have the ability to heal people. E-Mail: Maria Peñaherrer a Giulia is a PhD student studying the role that placental genetic variation plays in pregnancy complications and birth outcomes, investigating everything from confined placental mosaicism of aneuploidies to copy number variation and single nucleotide variants. She received her BSc. Honours degree in Biology from Queens University in 2015. Outside of the lab, Giulia enjoys hiking, running, and indulging in ...Read More