Alastair Simpson was recently awarded the Faculty of Science Killam Professorship. The award is effective July 2022 and will be held for five years. The Professorship recognizes researchers “who have made outstanding contributions to their fields” –...
Dr. Robyn Wright, a postdoctoral fellow in the Langille Lab, and Archibald Lab Ph.D. student Cedric Blais have agreed to serve two-year terms as ICG Seminar and Social Media Coordinators. Their job will be to run the ICG seminar series and to build and maintain a...
ICG Ph.D. student Shannon Sibbald has been awarded the 2022 Faculty of Medicine Excellence in Research Award for her research proposal entitled “Patterns and process of genome evolution in harmful algal bloom-forming protists”. Shannon is co-supervised by ICG Members...
The Gray-Doolittle Awards acknowledge the outstanding scientific contributions of emeritus professors Michael W. Gray and W. Ford Doolittle of the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. This year’s junior award (a $50 book prize) goes to Emma Fennessy, an...
Biology graduate students and ICG trainees Loay Jabre, Catherine Bannon, Scott McCain and Yana Eglit have published a guide to help prospective doctoral students choose a supervisor. Their article is published in PLOS Computational...
ICG Member Julie LaRoche of the Department of Biology has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Dr. LaRoche, a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Marine Biogeochemistry and Microbial Genomics, is recognized internationally for her research — her RSC...
