Mario Esposito I received my BSc. in Biology at Wilfrid Laurier University focusing on molecular genetics in April of 2017 after completing an honours thesis project in comparative genomics. My research focused on determining where function is conserved via synonymous and non-synonymous substitutions. This laid the foundation for my passion Read more…
Project STREAM, Sequencing the Rivers for Environmental Assessment and Monitoring was officially launched on February 4. Our lab has started an exciting collaboration with WWF-Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Living Lakes Canada and many community groups and citizen scientists to advance the use of environmental DNA metabarcoding to assess Read more…
Congratulations to Katie McGee for completing her PhD. Congratulations to Siavash Nazari for completing his MSc Bioinformatics.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B The theme issue, ‘From DNA barcodes to biomes’ co-edited by Paul Hebert, Mehrdad Hajibabaei and Peter Hollingsworth is available for review.
I am a Research Associate with the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph. My research background is in ecology and evolution, mycology, and bioinformatics. I use environmental DNA and genomics methods to assess biodiversity from soil, water, and freshwater benthic samples to monitor water quality and soil health. I Read more…
Gina Capretta made an excellent contribution to our lab’s research with her MSc project on targeted transcriptomics. She also had a great defence day on Thursday and is officially done before Christmas break 🙂 Of course, she is also happy to claim her “You Made It” mug.
Nicole Fahner defended her thesis on Thursday. Nicole made an excellent contribution as part of the Biomonitoring 2.0 team. Here is Nicole at a local restaurant one hour after her defence…and soon after.
Rachel Smith, BSc. (Laboratory Technician) I completed my B.Sc. in Marine and Freshwater Biology at the University of Guelph. I started in the Hajibabaei lab as an undergraduate NSERC USRA summer student in 2014, continued working through the last year of my degree and started as a full-time technician in Read more…
Lisa Ledger successfully defended her MSc thesis yesterday. Great job, Lisa. One more project completed using samples from our long-term field sites in ACG, Costa Rica. Best wishes to Lisa in her future plans.