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Ana Nijnik
Dr. Ana Nijnik is a Principal Investigator and Associate Professor at the Department of Physiology of McGill University. She holds a Canada Research Chair Tier II in Hematopoiesis and Lymphocyte Development, and is a full member of the McGill Research Centre on Complex Traits.
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About me
Originally from Ukraine, Dr. Nijnik completed her undergraduate studies in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry at the University of Oxford (UK) in 2002, working under the supervision of Prof. Dominic Kwiatkowski and Prof. Irina Udalova on transcriptional regulation of inflammatory response. She carried out her Ph.D. training also at the University of Oxford, working under the supervision of Prof. Richard Cornall, and postdoctoral studies at the University of British Columbia (Canada) and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (UK), in the laboratories of Prof. Bob Hancock and Prof. Gordon Dougan. During her training with these mentors, Dr. Nijnik gained expertise and contributed to the knowledge of hematopoietic stem cell biology in the context of ageing, B lymphocyte development, immunogenetics of humoral immunity and autoimmunity, and the role of antimicrobial peptides in innate immune response. She joined McGill University as a Principal Investigator in 2011.
Dr. Nijnik is the coordinator and primary instructor of the PHGY 488 Stem Cell Biology course, and also contributes to the teaching of other upper-level courses for the Department of Physiology. She is also an active member of the McGill Regenerative Medicine Network. Outside of work, Dr. Nijnik enjoys playing with her kids, learning about astronomy and history (mainly from YouTube videos), and (sometimes unsuccessfully) gardening and baking.