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I am a molecular ecologist and a registered professional biologist (RPBio) in the province of British Columbia, Canada. As a freshwater biologist by training, I use metatranscriptomics, DNA metabarcoding, and qPCR-based environmental DNA analysis to study population and community dynamics in freshwater ecosystems. Using the genes-to-ecosystem approach, I hope to understand how freshwater populations respond to natural and anthropogenic disturbances.
I am a postdoctoral fellow in the Helbing Laboratory at the University of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada). I handle projects for iTrackDNA, where we focus on developing environmental DNA (eDNA) tools and implementing them into ecological monitoring in collaboration with First Nations communities. I design and validate species-targeted qPCR-based eDNA tools that our partners can use to monitor key species (species at risk and invasive taxa). As part of my Liber Ero Fellowship, I manage a work plan under Alberta's Oil Sands Monitoring Program's Indigenous Community-based Monitoring Projects Integrated with Core Aquatic Ecosystem Health Monitoring, where we integrate Indigenous Knowledge with sedimentary DNA analysis to reconstruct the historical community composition of aquatic species in select lakes across the Oil Sands region, helping to establish ecological baselines for long-term environmental monitoring. |
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PARTNERS AND COLLABORATORS
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