Our Team
Research associates:
Dr. Elena Kitova (ekitova@ualberta.ca)
- Ph.D. in Chemistry, Moscow State University, 1994
- Research associate with Dr. John Klassen
Elena’s research field is biological mass spectrometry, with focus on non-covalent protein complexes
Dr. Pavel I. Kitov (pkitov@ualberta.ca)
- M.Sc. in Chemistry, Moscow State University, 1987 (Advisor: Prof. Y. G. Bundel)
- Ph.D. in Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1994 (Advisor: Prof. N. K. Kochetkov)
- Postdoctoral fellow then research associate with Dr. David Bundle since November, 1994
Pavel’s current research is focused on organic chemistry and data analysis.
Dr. Ling Han (ling.han@ualberta.ca)
- B.Sc., Chemistry, Nanjing University, China, 2007
- M.Sc., Chemistry, Nanjing University, China, 2010
- Ph.D., Chemistry, University of Alberta, 2015
- Postdoctoral Fellow in Klassen group since September 2015
Ling is mainly focusing on investigating the mechanism of protein-glycolipid interactions, and the influence of membrane environments on the interactions, also he is interested in developing mass spectrometry based methods for small biomolecules (e.g. glycolipids) quantitation
Postdoctoral Fellow
Visiting Professor
Dr. Amr El-Hawiet
- Assistant professor, faculty of pharmacy, Alexandria university, Egypt
Graduate students
Zhixiong Li (zl10
- Ph.D. Candidate in Klassen group since January 2017
Linh Nguyen (llnguyen@ualberta.ca)
- B.Sc., Chemistry, Hanoi University of Science, 2017
- Ph.D. Candidate in Klassen group since September 2018
Duong Bui (buithi@ualberta.ca)
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- Ph.D. Candidate in Klassen group since March 2020
James Favell (jfavell@ualberta.ca)
- B.Sc., Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, 2020
- Ph.D. Candidate in Klassen group since November 2020
Nethmi Thalakotunnage (harindra@ualberta.ca)
- B.Sc. in Chemistry at University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka
- Ph.D. Candidate in Klassen group since September 2022
Undergraduate students
Gabriel (Gabe) Liu (gzliu@ualberta.ca)
- B.Sc. Biochemistry with honors at University of Alberta since September 2021
Jainilkumar (Jainil) Patel (jainilku@ualberta.ca)
- B.Sc. Biochemistry with honors at University of Alberta since September 2021