Profiles
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: 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: 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: 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
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: Research Scientist
Role: Areas of Expertise
Mycorrhizal ecology
Bacterial and fungal soil communities
Current Projects
Rhizosphere health through mycorrhizas: examining soil health impacts of mycorrhizal nutrients uptake and movement through the soil matrix to benefit crops...
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Location: 5403 1st Avenue South, Lethbridge, AB T1J 4B1