Current Members

Alyssa Schermel (Lab Manager)

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Alyssa has been Lab Manager of the L’Abbe Lab since attaining her Master’s degree under Dr. Mary L’Abbe in 2012. In addition to assisting with various projects, grants, budgets and coordination of students, Alyssa manages… [Read More]

Post Doctoral Fellows

Daniel Zaltz

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Daniel joined the L’Abbe Lab in Fall 2023 , where he will be investigating changes in added sugars in the retail food supply, consumption patterns, and projected health impacts of new food labeling policies in… [Read More]

PhD Students

Samer Hamamji

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Samer is a PhD Candidate in the L’Abbé Lab. His doctoral research examines the relationship between dietary choices aligned with the recommendations in Canada’s Food Guide 2019 and cardiometabolic risk factors among Canadians using a… [Read More]

Hayun (Sarah) Jeong

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Sarah is a PhD student in the L’Abbe Lab. Her thesis research focuses on facilitating healthy food choices outside the home in Canada and evaluating nutrient profile models for menu labelling. She is also leading… [Read More]

Emily Ziraldo

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Emily is a PhD student in the L’Abbé lab. Her thesis research focuses on analyzing the relationship between food policies that aim to improve the diets of Canadians and food prices. Emily is also the… [Read More]

MSc Students

Undergraduate Thesis Students

Julia Do

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Julia is a fourth-year undergraduate thesis student in the L’Abbe Lab, majoring in Nutritional Sciences and Physiology, with a minor in Psychology. Her NFS394 and summer UROP projects focused on evaluating the effect of Front-of-Package… [Read More]

Anusha Ramesh

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Anusha is a fourth-year undergraduate thesis student in the L’Abbé Lab, majoring in Nutritional Sciences and Psychology. Her thesis for NFS494 is focused on evaluating how the sugar content of sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) varies globally… [Read More]

Research Assistants

Laura Vergeer

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Laura completed her PhD with Dr. Mary L’Abbé in July 2021 after joining the lab in September 2016 as an undergraduate student. Her doctoral thesis compared the product (re)formulation actions and commitments of the top… [Read More]

Yahan (Hailey) Yang

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Beginning as an undergraduate research summer student in 2018, Hailey went on to obtain her Master’s degree in June 2022 under Dr. L’Abbé. Hailey continues to support the L’Abbe Lab as a Research Analyst. Hailey led a… [Read More]