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Rebecca Laposa
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Latest papers
Promoting research readiness and broadening student understanding of and skills for biomedical careers.
Advances in physiology education · 2026
Characterizing the NLRP3 Inflammasome in Mood Disorders: Overview, Technical Development, and Measures of Peripheral Activation in Adolescent Patients
International Journal of Molecular Sciences · 2021
Leveraging increased cytoplasmic nucleoside kinase activity to target mtDNA and oxidative phosphorylation in AML
Blood · 2017
Latest funding
- $17,500
Disruption of embryonic neural progenitor function by environmental chemicals.
CIHR · 2010 · Supervisor
- $17,500
Susceptibility to Neurodegeneration and Birth Defects in Mice with Proofreading-Deficient mitochondrial DNA Polymerase.
CIHR · 2010 · Supervisor
- $155,000
Mitochondrial RNA polymerase in the nucleus
NSERC · 2010 · Principal investigator
4 publications.
Promoting research readiness and broadening student understanding of and skills for biomedical careers.
French MB, Miliotis H, Laposa R, Andreopoulos S, Zakala C, Ghazisaeidi S, Arnot M
Characterizing the NLRP3 Inflammasome in Mood Disorders: Overview, Technical Development, and Measures of Peripheral Activation in Adolescent Patients
Xinyang Y. Zhou, Shehan M. Fernando, Alexander Pan, Rebecca R. Laposa, Kathryn Regan Cullen, Bonnie Klimes‐Dougan, Ana C. Andreazza
Leveraging increased cytoplasmic nucleoside kinase activity to target mtDNA and oxidative phosphorylation in AML
Sanduni U. Liyanage, Rose Hurren, Véronique Voisin, Gaëlle Bridon, Xiaoming Wang, Changjiang Xu, Neil MacLean, Thirushi Piyumika Siriwardena, Marcela Gronda, Dana Yehudai, Shrivani Sriskanthadevan, Daina Zofija Avizonis, Aisha Shamas‐Din, Mark David Minden, Gary D. Bader, Rebecca R. Laposa, Aaron David Schimmer
A comparison of contaminant dynamics in arctic and temperate fish: A modeling approach.
Gewurtz SB, Laposa R, Gandhi N, Christensen GN, Evenset A, Gregor D, Diamond ML
Disruption of embryonic neural progenitor function by environmental chemicals.
Principal investigators: Mielnik, Catharine A
Keywords: Developmental Neurotoxicity; Embryonic Neural Progenitor Function; Environmental Chemicals; Neural Stem Cells
Susceptibility to Neurodegeneration and Birth Defects in Mice with Proofreading-Deficient mitochondrial DNA Polymerase.
Principal investigators: Bralha, Fernando N
Keywords: Animal Models; Dna Damage And Repair; Mitochondrial Dna; Neural Stem Cells; Neurodegeneration; Rotenone Toxicology; Teratogenicity
Mitochondrial RNA polymerase in the nucleus
Principal investigators: Laposa, Rebecca
Infrastructure for DNA damage and Neurotoxicology
Principal investigators: Laposa, Rebecca
Infrastructure for DNA damage and Neurotoxicology
Principal investigators: Laposa, Rebecca
Keywords: DNA damage, DNA repair, RNA polymerase, birth defect, molecular toxicology, environmental pollutant, stem cells, mouse models
Protecting Neural Precursor Cells from DNA damage
Principal investigators: Laposa, Rebecca R
Keywords: Dna Damage; Dna Repair; Neural Precursor Cells; Neural Stem Cells; Oxidative Stress; P53
CIHR team in developmental toxicology
Principal investigators: Wells, Peter G
Keywords: Developmental Toxicology; Endocrine Disruptors; Environmental Contaminants; Epigenetics; Genetics; Oxidative Stress
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Aaron Schimmer and Mark Minden: 296 shared papers
- Gary Bader and Mark Minden: 62 shared papers
- Aaron Schimmer and Gary Bader: 31 shared papers
- Aaron Schimmer and Ana Andreazza: 1 shared paper
- Aaron Schimmer and Rebecca Laposa: 1 shared paper
- Ana Andreazza and Rebecca Laposa: 1 shared paper
- Gary Bader and Rebecca Laposa: 1 shared paper
- Mark Minden and Rebecca Laposa: 1 shared paper
- Michelle Arnot and Stavroula Andreopoulos: 1 shared paper
- Michelle Arnot and Rebecca Laposa: 1 shared paper
- Stavroula Andreopoulos and Rebecca Laposa: 1 shared paper
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
- Department of Medicine
- Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research
- Department of Medical Biophysics
- Department of Biochemistry
Co-authors at University of Toronto, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Aaron Schimmer
Department of Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2017
Ana Andreazza
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Gary Bader
Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research
1 shared papers, latest 2017
Mark Minden
Department of Medical Biophysics
1 shared papers, latest 2017
Michelle Arnot
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Stavroula Andreopoulos
Department of Biochemistry
1 shared papers, latest 2026
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