Quinton recently completed his Master of science at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute under the supervision of Dr. Michael Schlossmacher. During this time, he worked to understand whether the PD-associated gene GBA1 has a role in host response to infection in mice to better understand the etiology of typical PD and GBA1-linked PD. He is now working under the co-supervision of Dr. Michael Schlossmacher and Dr. Steffany Bennett, expanding on his MSc. findings to understand the role that lipids play in GBA1-mediated effects in the murine host response to infection.