Research Associate

Nicolas Feau          

Braham Dhillon                  

Post-Doctoral Fellow

Marie-Claude Gagnon

Monique Sakalidis

Scientists

Angela Dale

Research Assistants

Marie-Josée Bergeron                        

Josyanne Lamarche                

Marie-Josée Morency

Gervais Pelletier                     

Don Stewart

Technician

Avneet Brar

Padmini Herath                                              

Nicole Lecours                     

Miranda Newton

Amélie Potvin                         

Debbie Shearlaw

Graduate Students

Angela Dale

Ting Pu

 Past Team Members

Clement Tsui

Ben Lai

Ranga Nandanavanam        

Chunling Liu

 

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• Nicolas Feau, Ph.D.
  Email: feaunico@mail.ubc.ca
  Help TAIGA's postdocs and students bridge the gap between genomics, bioinformatics and biology.
• Braham Dhillon, Ph.D.
  Email: dhillonb@mail.ubc.ca
  Analyze genomics data in collaboration with other researchers.

• Marie-Claude Gagnon, Ph.D.
  Email: Marie-Claude.Gagnon@inspection.gc.ca
  Develop SNPs and microsatellite markers for population genetic studies of Phytophthora ramorum
• Monique Sakalidis, Ph.D.
  Email: monique@sakalidis.com
  Genome sequencing of selected Dothideomycetes and population genomic study of Mycosphaerella populorum ( Septoria musiva).

Angela Dale, M.Sc. (Molecular Microbiology Scientist - FP Innovations)

Email: Angela.Dale@fpinnovations.ca

Development of Phytophthora culture collection, and natural and inoculated sample collection. PhD student working on Phytophthora genomics (see link).

• Marie-Josée Bergeron, M.Sc.
  Email: Marie-Josee.Bergeron@RNCan-NRCan.gc.ca
  Development of the Pucciniales collection and population genetic analyses.
• Josyanne Lamarche, M.Sc.
  Email: Josyanne.Lamarche@RNCan-NRCan.gc.ca
  Development of the Top 50 most unwanted forest pathogen collection; assay development.
• Gervais Pelletier, M.Sc.
  Email: Gervais.Pelletier@RNCan-NRCan.gc.ca
  Assay development: primer and TaqMan design.
• Don Stewart, M.Sc.
  Email: Don.Stewart@RNCan-NRCan.gc.ca
  Assay development: primer and TaqMan design.

• Avneet Brar, M.Sc.
  Email: Avneet.Brar@inspection.gc.ca
  Culture growth and storage, DNA extraction and PCR work on Mycosphaerella samples.
• Padmini Herath, M.Sc.
  Email: pch112@gmail.com
  DNA extraction and Real Time PCR work on Septoria field samples.

• Nicole Lecours
  Email: Nicole.Lecours@RNCan-NRCan.gc.ca
  Primer and TaqMan testing; protocol validation
• Miranda Newton, BSc
  Email: miranda.newton@inspection.gc.ca
  Phytophthora cultures, DNA extraction, PCR, Genotyping using real-time PCR.

   

• Amélie Potvin, BSc
  Email: Amelie.Potvin@rncan.gc.ca
  Assay development: Gene sequencing, primer and TaqMan validation
• Debbie Shearlaw, BSc
  Email: Debbie.Shearlaw@inspection.gc.ca
  Phytophthora cultures, DNA extraction, PCR,Genotyping using real-time PCR.

• Angela Dale, M.Sc.
  Email: Angela.Dale@fpinnovations.ca
  PhD Candidate
  Conduct comparative genome analysis of Phytophthora pathogens to find conserved and unique sets of genes specific to the genus or groups within the genus. Determine migration routes and direction for Phytophthora ramorum.
• Ting Pu, BSc
  Email: tingpu89@gmail.com
  Master Student
  Evolution and adaptation of White Pine Blister Rust by genome re-sequencing analyses.

• Clement Tsui
  Research Associate


• Ben Lai
  Research Technician


• Ranganayaki Nandanavanam
  Research Technician


• Chunling Liu
  Research Technician