Group picture on Dec. 18th, 2019 at CORe atrium.

Established in 2018

The Tong lab at Windsor officially started in August 2018 and moved into the second floor of the Essex Centre of Research (CORe) at the end of 2018. The CORe is a purpose-built research building that features open access lab space. The Tong lab shares lab space with other five great laboratories working in the fields of biophysics, cell biology, physiology, and proteomics.

At the University of Windsor, we pride ourselves in an unparalleled undergraduate research experience, with support from the University and the Faculty of Science in programs such as Outstanding Scholars, Ignite work-study, Connecting4Success and many others.

We have a small, but rapidly growing and tightly knitted research community in biochemistry and life sciences on campus. Graduate trainees have plenty of opportunities to closely interact with researchers in other fields.

We are always looking for talented, self-motivated individuals to join the lab. Please contact me at ytong (at) uwindsor.ca to discuss opportunities.

EDI Statement

The University of Windsor is a signatory of the Dimensions Charter and hosted the first Canadian LGBTQ+ in STEM conference. We are well aware of, commit to, and strongly support equity, diversity and inclusion. Our lab space at the Essex Centre of Research (CORe) is handicap-accessible.

Team Leader

Yufeng Tong
Principal Investigator
Dr. Tong got his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. He has training in protein nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography. He was a principal investigator at the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) Toronto before he joined the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Windsor.

Meet Our Team

Cody got his M.Sc. in Biochemistry from the University of Windsor and joined the group on Jan. 2019. He is interested in the structural biology of ubiquitin signaling.

Cody Caba

Ph.D. student
Ayan got his B.Sc. in Biology from California State University and joined the lab on May, 2020. He is working on the interaction of ovarian tumour deubiquitinases with binders.

Ayan Yeleuov

M.Sc. student
Robert graduated from Villanova catholic high school with Honors and is a member of Canadian Historical Aircraft Association, and Royal Canadian Air Cadets. ​

Robert Bradford

Undergraduate
Faraz graduated from St. Anne Catholic High School in 2019 and is currently a second-year Computer Science student with a minor in Mathematics. Faraz joined the lab in Sept. 2020 and is working on a bioinformatics project to develop a platform for BIOC-4010 teaching.​

Faraz Nassem

Undergraduate
Sarah graduated from St. Anne Catholic High School in 2017. She majors in Biochemistry and is working on the interaction of ovarian tumour deubiquitinases with ubiquitin variants (UbVs).

Sarah Schilling

Undergraduate
Victoria is working on the regulation of a deubiquitinase activity with Cody Caba as a team.

Victoria Silvera

Undergraduate
Benjamin graduated from the Assumption High School in the IB programme and joined the lab in December, 2019 

Benjamin Horvath

Undergraduate