Graduate Students
Joshua T. Taylor
B.Sc.
Master's Student
Bioscience of Health and Disease
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Joshua Taylor, Master's Student
Joshua Taylor is a Master’s student in the Andronowski Lab. He is researching opioid use and its implications on the bone remodeling process and potential connections to pathological bone diseases (e.g., osteoporosis). Additionally, he currently serves as the lead teaching assistant for the Undergraduate Medical Education’s Human Anatomy curriculum and for Human Physiology for non-medical students. In 2021, Josh was awarded the Aging Research Centre’s (ARC-NL) Graduate Fellowship and Dean's Fellowship. During his undergraduate degree, he was a research assistant in the Andronowski Lab, curating the Andronowski Skeletal Collection for Histological Research (ASCHR), which is the largest documented skeletal collection of its kind worldwide. Josh continues as the primary curator for the collection.
Josh is currently a member of the Microscopy Society of America (MSA), the Canadian Association for Biological Anthropology (CABA), the National Society for Collegiate Scholars, and the Aging Research Centre - Newfoundland and Labrador.
Shreya Hande
B.Sc.
Master's Student
Bioscience of Health and Disease
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Shreya Hande, Master's Student
Shreya is a graduate student at the Memorial University of Newfoundland in the Bioscience of Health and Disease program. Her thesis work will examine the relationship between bone microstructural changes and associated biochemical parameters (e.g., estrogen, testosterone) as a result of opioid exposure using a rabbit model. Shreya’s undergraduate thesis was based on the microarchitecture of harp seal (Phoca groenlandica) bacula (os penis) visualized using synchrotron and laboratory µCT; this project was supervised by Drs. Janna M. Andronowski and Ted Miller. Shreya has previously worked as an undergraduate student researcher at the Andronowski Lab. Additionally, she has worked as an undergraduate research assistant with Dr. Michiru Hirasawa, gaining experience with immunohistochemical techniques. During her stint as a staff writer and section editor at The Muse, the student-run newspaper at Memorial, Shreya covered scientific and social campus news. Shreya’s volunteering experiences include mentoring incoming international students at the university, as well as organizing and
promoting blood donation events for the Canadian Blood Services.