PI-Devi Atukorallaya

Assistant Professor in Oral Biology

Dr. Atukorallaya received her Bachelor of Dental Surgery degree from University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka and her PhD from Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan, under the supervision of Professor Yoshiro Takano. She then completed her post doctoral training at the Mount Saint Vincent University, Nova Scotia with Dr. Tamara Franz-Odendaal where she began to study the molecular aspects of development and evolution of vertebrate craniofacial skeleton. In 2017, she began her position as an assistant professor in the Department of Oral Biology at the University of Manitoba.


Current Trainees

Zheng Fang

MSc Student

Zheng is a MSc candidate. Zheng has completed his undergraduate degree in dental medicine at Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, and a master program in regenerative dentistry at King’s College London, London, England. Currently, Zheng is investigating the early tooth development. Specifically, he studies the tooth number variation in Mexican tetra.

Sophie Chen

BSc Dent student


Lab Alumni

Post Doctoral Fellows

Vikram Bhatia

Post Doctoral Fellow (2018)

Currently post doctoral fellow at the Children’s Hospital Research Institute,Manitoba

Ravi Ratnayake

Research Assistant (2017-2021)


Graduated Students

Praneeth Silva

Parnia A Zavareh

Nuwanthika Gimhani

(2019-2021)

PhD candidate Western University Ontario


Summer Students

Jessica Gonzales

(2018 and 2019)

Fourth year Dentistry student, Dr Gerald Niznick College of Dentistry

Priyantha Wengapulliarachchi

(2018)

Nursing graduate

Justin Lane

(2021)

First year Pharmacy student, College of Pharmacy, University of Manitoba

Emma C Wiklinski

(2022)

Undergraduate student University of Durham,United Kingdom

Natasha Hargreaves

(2022)

Undergraduate student University of Durham,United Kingdom


Co-op students

Rachel Webber

(2020 Winter)

Science undergraduate student -University of Manitoba

Can Ngyogen

(2020 Fall)

Science undergraduate student - University of Manitoba

Bhavin Chaudhari

(2022 Winter)

Science undergraduate student - University of Manitoba


Research Assistants

Dinu Rajapakshe

(2019 Summer)

Science undergraduate student -University of Manitoba

Nocolette Olkopa

(2021 Winter)

Science undergraduate student -University of Manitoba


High School Student

Joshef Banisch

(2018 Winter)