Microstats Lab v2.3 (January 2021)
Abdul-Rahman Adamu Bukari, MSc. - Ph.D. student, Microbiology (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!
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
Margot Henry, BSc. (Hons) - MSc. student, Statistics
Margot just completed her honours degree in statistics at the University of Manitoba. She was the first co-op student for MicroStats lab and is now back to do her masters. Her research is based on developing an R (Bioconductor) package to measure the population-level distribution of genome sizes in samples that contain multiple sub-populations of fungal cells. Margot is currently a trainee in the VADA program.
Margot just completed her honours degree in statistics at the University of Manitoba. She was the first co-op student for MicroStats lab and is now back to do her masters. Her research is based on developing an R (Bioconductor) package to measure the population-level distribution of genome sizes in samples that contain multiple sub-populations of fungal cells. Margot is currently a trainee in the VADA program.
Rebekah Kukurudz, BSc. (email) - Research Technician
Rebekah completing the final year of her B.Sc majoring in Genetics in 2020. She was instrumental to the
initiation of the lab (our first official student!), and is now acting in both administrative and investigative
capacities. On the science side, she's leading our nascent studies on vulvovaginal candidiasis.
Rebekah completing the final year of her B.Sc majoring in Genetics in 2020. She was instrumental to the
initiation of the lab (our first official student!), and is now acting in both administrative and investigative
capacities. On the science side, she's leading our nascent studies on vulvovaginal candidiasis.
Ola Salama, BSc. (Hons) (email) - MSc. student, Microbiology
Ola did her Honours degree in Biomedical Science at York University in Toronto. As the first (!) MSc (& graduate) 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 (& graduate) 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.
Brooke Sidney - Honours project student
Brooke is in her final year of a Microbiology Honours degree. She received the Summer Faculty of Science award to work in the lab during the summer of 2020 and is now continuing with with her honours project studying Candida glabrata genomics.
Brooke is in her final year of a Microbiology Honours degree. She received the Summer Faculty of Science award to work in the lab during the summer of 2020 and is now continuing with with her honours project studying Candida glabrata genomics.
ALUMNI
Madison Chapel (Honours project student, Microbiology), September 2019- April 2020.
Currently a Laboratory Biology at the National Microbiology Laboratory
Tri Le (Manitoba Undergraduate Summer Research Award, Research Assistant), May 2019 - April 2020
Daniel Peter-Salawu (Manitoba Undergraduate Summer Research Award), Summer 2019
Riley Sierhuis (NSERC Undergraduate Research Award), Summer 2020
Yana Syvolos (University of Manitoba Undergraduate Research Award), Summer 2020
Quinn Wonitowy (Co-op student, NSERC Undergraduate Research Award), Summer 2019
Madison Chapel (Honours project student, Microbiology), September 2019- April 2020.
Currently a Laboratory Biology at the National Microbiology Laboratory
Tri Le (Manitoba Undergraduate Summer Research Award, Research Assistant), May 2019 - April 2020
Daniel Peter-Salawu (Manitoba Undergraduate Summer Research Award), Summer 2019
Riley Sierhuis (NSERC Undergraduate Research Award), Summer 2020
Yana Syvolos (University of Manitoba Undergraduate Research Award), Summer 2020
Quinn Wonitowy (Co-op student, NSERC Undergraduate Research Award), Summer 2019