Dr. Matt Lanktree is a clinician-scientist, assistant professor, and medical director of the McMaster Kidney Genetics Clinic, caring for patients with chronic and end-stage kidney disease at St. Joseph Healthcare Hamilton and McMaster University. Dr. Lanktree has published extensively on genetics and kidney disease and has received peer review funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Canadian and American Societies of Nephrology, and was recently awarded the Canadian Society of Nephrology New Investigator Award. Matt has set his goal to use genetics to improve the care of patients with kidney disease.

Caitlyn is an Internal Medicine Resident in the Clinician-Investigator stream at Queen’s University interested in nephrology and genetics. She recently completed her PhD studying the effects of clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP) in kidney disease at Queen’s, leading to publications in Circulation, Blood, Leukemia, JASN, CJASN, AJKD, and Nature Reviews Nephrology. Prior to this, she completed medical school at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine and a Masters in bioinformatics at the University of Ottawa. Caitlyn has received the nationally top-ranked Canada Graduate Scholarship – Doctoral award from CIHR in 2020 as well as an Emerging Generation Award from the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) in 2023

Dr. Shamini Ayyadhury is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, under the supervision of Drs. Gary Bader and Trevor Pugh. She is affiliated with The University Health Network and The Hospital for Sickkids.  She is using a mix of spatial, single cell and microscopy technologies to understand the architecture of adult glioblastoma. She is currently applying and developing various computational pipelines, which includes computer vision and AI methodologies, for spatial and single cell transcriptomic and image datasets. She is the Director of Panoramics – A Vision, a pan-Canadian spatial and single cell working cluster bringing spatial and single cell scientists together for scientific debate, education and discussion.
 
She obtained her Doctor of Philosophy from McGill University, under the supervision of Dr. Kevin Petrecca, her Masters of Science from Imperial College London and her Bachelor of Science from The National University of Singapore. She has worked in various labs as a wet lab scientist, many of them falling under the Agency of Science, Technology, and Research (A-Star), Singapore.