Who We Are
The Rutter Lab is a cutting-edge research laboratory based at the University of Montreal. We are focused on diabetes mellitus, and specifically the control of insulin secretion and its fundamental signaling pathways.
Management
Guy Rutter, Ph. D., B. Sc.
Principal Scientist
Audrey Provencher-Girard, B.Sc., MBA
Lab Manager
Lab Members (Listed in order of addition to team)
Luis Fernando Delgadillo-Silva, Ph.D.
Postdoc Fellow
Exploration of pancreatic islet beta cell connectivity and hierarchy in vivo and in vitro.
Shiying Li, M.Sc.
Ph.D. Student
Bioinformatic approaches to type 2 diabetes genetics
Shadai Salazar, Ph.D.
Postdoc Fellow
Mouse models of MODY diabetes and control of calcium dynamics. In vivo imaging of islet function in Type 1 diabetes models.
Ya-Chi Huang, Ph.D.
Postdoc Fellow
Control of pancreatic alpha cell function
Giada Ostinelli, Ph.D.
Postdoc Fellow
Transcriptomic analyses of pancreatic beta cell subgroups, and changes in type 1 and type 2 diabetes
Priscila Carapeto, M.Sc.
Ph.D. Student
Roles and regulation of senescence in pancreatic beta cells
Marie Gasser, Ph.D.
Postdoc Fellow
Zinc transporter function in stem cell-derived beta cells. Control of mitochondrial calcium.
Inès Cherkaoui, Ph.D.
Postdoc Fellow
MODY variants in stem cell-derived beta cells
Ayush Mehra, M.Sc
Ph.D. Student
Mitochondrial dynamics in pancreatic beta cell controlled by glucose and incretins (2025 01)
Rana Melhem, Ph.D.
Postdoc Fellow
Mitochondrial fission and fusion in insulin secretion. Cell biology of diabetes biomarkers
Amira Lazizi, B.Sc.
Research Assistant
Previous Team Members
First Name
- Naima
- Karen
- Jennifer Irene
- Maria-Magdalena
- Kelly
- Zoya
- Jannick
- Giselle
- Jules
- Fiona
- Pauline
Last Name
- Lacete
- Dakessian
- Severe
- Virlan
- Trimigliozzi
- Kabbash
- Bonenfant
- Jimenez de la Cruz
- Wastin
- Yong
- Chabosseau
Targeted diploma
- B.Sc.
- B.Sc.
- B.Sc.
- B.Sc.
- Visiting (Ph.D.)
- B.Sc.
- B.Sc.
- B.Sc.
- M.Sc
- Visiting (Ph.D.)
- Postdoc
Year of departure
- 2024
- 2024
- 2024
- 2024
- 2024
- 2023
- 2023
- 2023
- 2023
- 2023
- 2022
