Profiles

Title: Scientist - Functional agroecology
Role: The overarching theme of my research is to identify different ways of helping soil microorganisms to help us. These microorganisms perform a myriad of processes essential to the sustainable functioning of agroecosystems. A detailed understanding of these...
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Title: Research Scientist
Role: Dr. Wen Chen is a Research Scientist at the Ottawa Research & Development Centre (ORDC), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC). She specializes in Bioinformatics, Biodiversity and Environmental Health. Her lab focuses on (meta)genomics-based...
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Location: Ottawa
Title: Research Scientist
Role: Dr. Phillips is a microbial ecologist who investigates the soil biological processes that maintain and enhance agro-ecosystem productivity and sustainability. 
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Location: Harrow, Ontario
Title: Research Scientist
Role: I am a botanist with a background in systematics, ecology, and conservation biology. My research at AAFC focuses on the diversity of uncultivated plants in agricultural ecosystems, including crop wild relatives, weeds and invasive species.
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Title: Manager, Division of Biological Collections
Role: Manager of the Division of Biological Collections.
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Title: Research Biologist
Role: soil microbial ecology research plant-soil-microbe systematic ecology research molecular microbial community research functional microbe identification and purification bioinformatic and megagenome analysis
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Location: Swift Current, SK
Title: Collections Manager
Role: Tara is responsible for the preservation and provision of fungal cultures from the Canadian Collection of Fungal Cultures. This collection acts as a repository including strains of significance to agriculture and the environment. Clients include...
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Location: KW Neatby Building, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, ON
Title: Research Scientist
Role: Agro-ecosystems Researcher
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Title: Research Scientist
Role: Dr. Tambong's research is focussed on molecular bacterial taxonomy, phylogenomics, identification, detection, phylogenetics and biodiversity of plant pathogenic and agricultural beneficial (biocontrol) bacteria.
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Title: Field Crop Entomologist
Role: I am involved in insect pest monitoring, integrated pest management, biodiversity surveying, and development of novel tools for insect biocontrol. I have a background in insect physiology, particularly in relation to cold tolerance and diapause (...
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada