Experience

University of Ottawa

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Mitacs Accelerate Intern

  • Jun 2022 - Present

  - Developing a plant fertilizer from distillery waste in collaboration with industry partners- Assessing impact of distillery stillage on soil microbial community

• Research Technician III

  • Sep 2020 - Jul 2022

  Research project 1: Developing an intra-nasal vaccine against SARS-CoV2 through the expression of viral antigen in Nicotiana benthamianaResearch project 2: Screen putative effectors in the plant-arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosisResearch project 3: Developing a plant fertilizer from nutrient-rich distillery waste products in collaboration with industry partners

• Teaching Assistant

  • Sep 2018 - Sep 2020

  •Demonstrate experiments to undergraduate students in plant science lab•Explain concepts and interact with students in a professional, friendly manner•Supervise students to ensure laboratory safety

• Research Technician

  • May 2018 - Sep 2018

  •Extracted high-quality plant DNA for whole-genome sequencing•Genotyped mutant and wildtype plants via PCR•Harvested plant roots and stain to quantify colonization•Sterilized seeds, planted seedlings, fertilized and watered plants•Maintained chemical stocks



University of Guelph

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Work-Study Research Assistant

  • Sep 2016 - Apr 2018

  • Subcultured and maintained hundreds of fungal cultures • Assisted in applying chemical field treatments• Prepared sterile growth media with antibiotics• Responsible for general lab maintenance

• Fungal Molecular Ecology Research Assistant

  • May 2017 - Aug 2017

  • Set up, and carried out experiments such as fungal pathogenicity tests to identify candidate effector proteins• Entered and analyzed research data • Compose reports regarding research findings and their significance