Being an Assistant Professor in Biology at McMaster means I get to do what I love most - ask cool questions and work with a team to answer them. Science is fun!
Hamilton, ON, Canada
Joined March 2019
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So proud of my graduate student @VShivnauth for giving her award winning talk at this year's Graduate Research Day #GRD2023 @McMasterScience The graduate students did an excellent job presenting their research and organizing such an awesome event!!! @MacBGSS
Little late posting, but we had an absolute blast @cspbscbv #CSPB_ERM2022 #CSPB2022. Mithusha and @VShivnauth did an excellent job presenting their work, and we received such positive and helpful feedback. Who knew plant biologists were such kind, friendly folks ;)
Happy Halloween!!! Featuring our favorite nitrogen fixing microbe, "The Fixer", carved by @VShivnauth. #nitrogenfixation #symbiosis @MacBGSS @bio_mcmaster
Antibiotics tend to get all the credit when an infection is cleared, but we might be neglecting one of our closest allies - phage, the keystone predator of the bacterial world. @APHage_ convincingly argues at yesterdays @bio_mcmaster seminar @McMasterScience #antibiotics #phage
What an inspiring talk! Just like plants, none of us live in a vacuum. We both shape and are shaped by our environment. Understanding the impacts of warming on plants can point to how we can bolster resiliency in a rapidly changing environment. @DanveC @bio_mcmaster
Who is missing? You are! I'm looking to recruiting two graduate students for the fall of 2023 who are hyped about beneficial plant-microbe interactions. Official lab website will be up soon - DM me if you're interested! @CanBlackSci @EEB_POC @CSEE_SCEE @bio_mcmaster
One of the most critical purchases for the lab to date: keycrobes - microbes on key chains with shared keys (so no one goes off with keys in their pocket). Got the idea from @RobinKCameron1 and pretty happy with the result. @bio_mcmaster
It was a hole in the ground for months (pic from mid July) - seems like all the development has happened within the past few weeks. Exciting!
In other "microbiome news", I just discovered this: Borderlands 3 - Borderlands Science Official Trailer youtu.be/L_mH6Ak_Ny0 via @YouTube. I wonder if I could get gamers to figure out cool stuff about rhizobium genomes?
