Group Members
Paul Wiseman
 | Professor Paul Wiseman originally hails from Nova Scotia and completed a B.Sc. (Hons) Chemistry at St Francis Xavier University in 1989, and his Ph.D. at the University of Western Ontario in 1995 (Chemistry/Biophysical). He was a Japanese Society for the promotion of Science postdoctoral fellow at the University of Tokyo and Nagoya University from 1996 to 1998 and then LJIS postdoctoral fellow and research associate at University of California, San Diego from 1998 to 2001. Paul joined McGill in 2001 as an assistant professor of Chemistry and Physics and has grown his interdisciplinary research program at McGill since that time. Paul is currently the Otto Maass Chair in Chemistry and Professor of Physics. He received one of the Inaugural Fessenden Professorship in Science Innovation and the Keith Laidler Award in Physical Chemistry by CSC, and the Young Fluorescence Investigator Award of the Biophysical Society, and a Fullbright Chair Fellowship at UCLA. |
Ph.D. Students
Julia Azzi
 | Julia joined McGill University’s Department of Physics in September 2025 as a PhD student. She previously earned an M.Sc. in Chemical and Biological Engineering from the University of British Columbia and a B.Sc. in Medical and Biological Physics Co-op from McMaster University. Through conducting research in fluorescence spectroscopy, sustainable materials, particle physics, and soft matter physics, Julia developed a strong interest in using interdisciplinary approaches to study biological and biobased materials, which drew her to the Wiseman lab. Currently, she uses fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) to probe the viscosity of biological systems. When not iterating on her research, Julia enjoys Zumba, swimming, reading, and convincing Paul that the Ottawa Senators are the best hockey team in Ontario (Go Sens Go!). |
Teophile Lemay
 | Teo Joined the lab in September 2022 after completing a BSc. in physics at the University of Toronto and is now working as a PhD candidate. His research projects aim to develop new methods to measure protein-protein interactions in living cells with two-colour fluorescence microscopy. His work is mostly applied to studying G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) and their affinities for G proteins. When not in the lab, Teo can be found climbing, playing mahjong, or cooking. |
Cameron Hastie
 |
|
Rodrigo Migueles-Ramirez
 | Rodrigo is a PhD student in McGill’s [Quantitative Life Sciences Interfaculty Program](https://www.mcgill.ca/qls/). He is jointly supervised by [Prof. Arnold Hayer]( http://hayerlab.org/) and [Prof. Paul Wiseman]( http://wiseman-group.mcgill.ca/). Born and raised in Mexico city, he did his B.Sc. in Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine at the Université de Montréal and his M.Sc. in Biochemistry at the National Laboratory for Advanced Microscopy at the Biotechnology Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He has worked on small GTPases signaling, focal adhesion formation in breast cancer cell migration, centriole biogenesis and more recently on actin cytoskeleton remodeling during endothelial cell migration. He’s fascinated with protein-protein interaction networks, signal transduction pathways and complex systems such as collective cell migration. When he is not analyzing live cell images or coding, he can be found out in the nature practicing amateur photography. |
Ahmad Mahmood
 | Ahmad joined the lab in January 2021 in the Department of Physics. He completed his BSc. in Honours Mathematics and Physics and MSc. in Physics at McMaster University. His projects were supervised by Dr. Cécile Fradin and included protein-membrane interactions (simulation and experiment), and studying diffusion in heterogeneous 3D samples via construction of a SPIM-FCS (Single plane illumination microscopy - fluorescence correlation spectroscopy). His current project includes the construction of a super-resolution SPIM to perform STICS in 3D. |
-->