Profiles
Title: Section Head, Plant Pathology
Role: Section Head for the Plant Pathology dividion of the Pest Management Centre's Minor Use Program
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Location: 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario
Title: Research scientist
Role: Curator of the Canadian Collection of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (CCAMF)
Soil microbiome and numerical ecology
Taxonomy, systematics and genetics of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
In vivo and in vitro cultures of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Title: Manager, National Collection of Vascular Plants (DAO) and Canadian National Mycological Herbarium (DAOM)
Role: Shannon is responsible for the preservation of and access to herbarium collection materials. These collections are made available for use by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada research staff, as well as other professional partners including government...
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Location: Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa
Title: Research Scientist
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Location: 960 Carling Ave. Ottawa, Ontario.
Title: Collection Manager, CNC
Role: Collection Manager for the Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids & Nematodes; Manager of the National Identification Service (Invertebrates).
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Location: Ottawa Research & Development Centre
Title: Research Scientist, Mycologist
Role: Fungal systematics (Taxonomy and nomenclature, molecular phylogenetics)
Fungal population biology (Population evolution and speciation)
Molecular detection of plant pathogens
Gene evolution and comparative genomics
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Location: 960 Carling Ave., Ottawa, Ontario
Title: Research Scientist
Role: Elucidating insect-plant interactions to validate economic thresholds for prairie crop pests
Development and integration of biological and cultural control approaches with chemical control to improve the sustainability of crop production
Biodiversity...
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Title: Research Scientist, Mycologist
Role: Areas of Expertise:
• Systematic studies of rust and smut fungi on crop and weed hosts to improve identification systems and add to biodiversity records
• Development of DNA sequence databases for rust and smut fungi from new collections and from...
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Title: Biodiversity Data Manager
Role: Heather is actively involved in promoting and supporting the digitization of all of AAFC’s collections and bio-resources, including developing and implementing standards for image and data capture, storage, and sharing. As the contact person for the...
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Location: Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa