Profiles

Title: Research scientist
Role: Dr. Julie Brassard has been a research scientist in food virology for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada since 2004. She has multi-disciplinary expertise in biochemistry, microbiology and virology, among others. Her area of expertise is the study of...
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Title: Research Scientist
Role: My research program is directed to study the viral pathogens that threaten crop production in Canada. Extensive research has been done to identify the viral pathogens that cause devastating diseases on soybean, cereals, field horticultural crops, and...
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Title: Research Scientist
Role: Plant virology, particularly potato viruses and viral disease management
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Title: Computational Biologist
Role: Dr. Devon Radford is a Computational Biologist in Dr. Wen Chen's lab at the Ottawa Research & Development Centre (ORDC), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC). He specializes in Virology, Bioinformatics, Biodiversity and Environmental Health. His...
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Title: Research Scientist
Role: Plant Microbiology
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Title: Curator of the Canadian Plant Virus Collection
Role: The Canadian Plant Virus Collection (CPVC) maintains viable virus isolates infecting crops of economic importance in Canada (with a particular emphasis on horticultural crops) and provides access to their genetic information.  The CPVC supports ...
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Title: Research Assistante in Food Virology
Role: Develop methods to detect viruses that cause foodborne illness in different food matrixes, but also to find a way to control them to prevent Canadian consumers from getting sick. Among other things, to determine the origin of these human pathogenic...
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Title: Research Scientist
Role: Development of novel bacteriophage-based techniques to detect and control various bacterial food borne pathogens to enhance food safety
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Title: Research Scientist
Role: Molecular biology of insects and their pathogens.
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada