Microstats Lab v2.0 (Fall 2019)
Abdul-Rahman Adamu Bukari, MSc. (email)
Abdul got his Honours degree in Biological Sciences at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. He then joined the University of Bath as a Commonwealth Scholar to pursue a Masters in Molecular Microbiology where he focused on cholera genomics with Jaime Matinez-Urtaza. He is passionate about building bioinformatics capacity in Africa and is a member of the H3ABioNet project. He is interested in employing 'omics approaches to understanding the factors that drive genotypic and phenotypic diversities in microbes with a specific interest in antimicrobial drug resistance. He is honored to be the pioneer Ph.D.
student of the lab!
Abdul got his Honours degree in Biological Sciences at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. He then joined the University of Bath as a Commonwealth Scholar to pursue a Masters in Molecular Microbiology where he focused on cholera genomics with Jaime Matinez-Urtaza. He is passionate about building bioinformatics capacity in Africa and is a member of the H3ABioNet project. He is interested in employing 'omics approaches to understanding the factors that drive genotypic and phenotypic diversities in microbes with a specific interest in antimicrobial drug resistance. He is honored to be the pioneer Ph.D.
student of the lab!
Madison Chapel (email)
Madison is a co-op student who is doing her fourth year honours project in the MicroStats Lab looking at experimental evolution of drug resistance to posaconazole.
Madison is a co-op student who is doing her fourth year honours project in the MicroStats Lab looking at experimental evolution of drug resistance to posaconazole.
Aleeza Gerstein, MSc., Ph.D. (Assistant Professor) (email)
Aleeza did her undergraduate in Ecology & Evolution at the University of Western Ontario (now inexplicably Western University) where she studied things like Desert Ecology and Meadow Sparrows. She then moved to the University of British Columbia for her MSc and PhD, where she became enamoured with coding in R and evolving Saccharomyces cerevisiae in test tubes and the ability to pinpoint specific mutations in many replicate lines through whole genome sequencing. She conducted her postdoctoral work in the human fungal pathogens Candida albicans and Cryptococcus neoformans at Tel Aviv University and The University of Minnesota before migrating back home to start her faculty position in 2018 in her hometown at The University of Manitoba.
Links: google scholar, github, CV
Aleeza did her undergraduate in Ecology & Evolution at the University of Western Ontario (now inexplicably Western University) where she studied things like Desert Ecology and Meadow Sparrows. She then moved to the University of British Columbia for her MSc and PhD, where she became enamoured with coding in R and evolving Saccharomyces cerevisiae in test tubes and the ability to pinpoint specific mutations in many replicate lines through whole genome sequencing. She conducted her postdoctoral work in the human fungal pathogens Candida albicans and Cryptococcus neoformans at Tel Aviv University and The University of Minnesota before migrating back home to start her faculty position in 2018 in her hometown at The University of Manitoba.
Links: google scholar, github, CV
Rebekah Kukurudz (email)
Rebekah is completing her final year of her B.Sc majoring in Genetics. She was instrumental to the initiation of the lab (our first official student!), and is now acting in both administrative and investigative capacities.
Rebekah is completing her final year of her B.Sc majoring in Genetics. She was instrumental to the initiation of the lab (our first official student!), and is now acting in both administrative and investigative capacities.
Tri Le (email)
Tri is pursuing an Honors degree in Genetics (with a Minor in Chemistry). He received the UManitoba
Undergraduate Summer Research Award in to work in the lab over the summer of 2019 and we're glad he
wants to stick around for the school year. He aims to make great contributions to mankind and wants to start
here in the MicroStats lab!
Tri is pursuing an Honors degree in Genetics (with a Minor in Chemistry). He received the UManitoba
Undergraduate Summer Research Award in to work in the lab over the summer of 2019 and we're glad he
wants to stick around for the school year. He aims to make great contributions to mankind and wants to start
here in the MicroStats lab!
Ola Salama (email)
Ola did her Honours degree in Biomedical Science at York University in Toronto. As the first (!) MSc student in the MicroStats lab she is studying how microorganisms develop drug resistance, particularly to drugs that work well but that we don't understand why.
Ola did her Honours degree in Biomedical Science at York University in Toronto. As the first (!) MSc student in the MicroStats lab she is studying how microorganisms develop drug resistance, particularly to drugs that work well but that we don't understand why.
ALUMNI
Margot Henry (Co-op student, Statistics). Winter 2019
Daniel Peter-Salawu (Manitoba Undergraduate Summer Research Award), Summer 2019
Quinn Wonitowy (Co-op student, NSERC Undergraduate Research Award), Summer 2019
Margot Henry (Co-op student, Statistics). Winter 2019
Daniel Peter-Salawu (Manitoba Undergraduate Summer Research Award), Summer 2019
Quinn Wonitowy (Co-op student, NSERC Undergraduate Research Award), Summer 2019