Aleeza Gerstein, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor)
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 evolving Saccharomyces cerevisiae in test tubes and the ability 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 evolving Saccharomyces cerevisiae in test tubes and the ability 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 (Co-op student, Statistics)
Margot is an undergrad student in Statistics who's taken some courses in Biology and Genetics. For her co-op term she's learning R and putting through data from mostly supplementary tables to measure genetic parallelism in evolve-and-resequence experiments. Thanks to all the authors that publish their full data in
.txt/.csv/.xls tables!
Margot is an undergrad student in Statistics who's taken some courses in Biology and Genetics. For her co-op term she's learning R and putting through data from mostly supplementary tables to measure genetic parallelism in evolve-and-resequence experiments. Thanks to all the authors that publish their full data in
.txt/.csv/.xls tables!
Rebekah Kukurudz
Rebekah is a Genetics major with an interest in genetic counselling. She's going to be instrumental to the initiation of the lab as we start doing empirical work in (hopefully!) early 2019. Until then she'll be looking
at hydrogen cyanide production in white clover collected throughout Winnipeg as part of a global study
of parallel adaptation.
Rebekah is a Genetics major with an interest in genetic counselling. She's going to be instrumental to the initiation of the lab as we start doing empirical work in (hopefully!) early 2019. Until then she'll be looking
at hydrogen cyanide production in white clover collected throughout Winnipeg as part of a global study
of parallel adaptation.