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I am a molecular ecologist and a registered professional biologist (RPBio) in 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 Liber Ero Postdoctoral Fellow in the Helbing Laboratory at the University of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada). I handle projects for the Alberta Oil Sands Monitoring Program and iTrackDNA, where we focus on developing environmental DNA (eDNA) tools and implementing them into environmental 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). |
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