Haripriya Shadasivan,
February 2021 - March 2023
Haripriya completed her Masters degree in veterinary parasitology from Rajasthan University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, India. Her research interest includes studies on zoonotic pathogens, food- borne illnesses and One Health. Haripriya now work in Department of Pharmacology, NUS.
Aw Zhi Jie Vanessa
August 2021 - July 2022
Vanessa’s project focus on human microbiome pipeline development to grow anerobic bacteria from human stool. Vanessa continues to do Medicine programme as her postgraduate study in July 2022 at Duke-NUS.
Nora Hussain
September 2017 - April 2020
Nora’s MSc project investigated type VI secretion system interactions within an environmental population of Vibrio cholerae. Nora begins her PhD in Fall 2020 with Dr. James Stafford at the University of Alberta.
Kevin Liang
September 2017 - December 2019
Kevin established a core genome multilocus sequence typing scheme for Vibrio cholerae by analyzing over 900 whole-genome sequences. He also phylogenomically reevaluated the taxonomy of the Rhodobacteraceae family during his MSc. Kevin begins his PhD doing rotations in the Quantitative Life Sciences Department at McGill in Fall 2020.
Tania Nasreen
September 2012 - July 2019
Tania’s PhD thesis involved quantifying toxigenic and non-toxigenic Vibrio cholerae and Vibrio metoecus through qPCR. She is now working as a Research Associate in Dr. Nicholas Ashbolt’s lab at the University of Alberta.
William Booth
May 2018 - April 2019
Will’s BIOL 398 and 498 projects consisted of competing environmental Vibrio cholerae strains against the clinical V. cholerae V52 strain.
Ben Jones
July 2017 - April 2018
For his BIOL 398 and 499 projects, Ben explored salt tolerance ranges of globally-isolated Vibrio cholerae on a strain level.
Fabini Orata
September 2012 - December 2017
Fabini studied the extent of gene exchange by horizontal gene transfer in closely-related bacteria, Vibrio cholerae and Vibrio metoecus, in addition to defining boundaries for the circumscription of higher taxonomic ranks (i.e., family and genus) using genomics. After finishing with a PhD from the Boucher Lab, Fabini has gone on to work with Dr. Lisa Stein and Dr. Dominic Sauvageau as a Postdoc at the University of Alberta.
Paul Kirchberger
May 2012 - April 2017
Paul studied the diversity and niche adaptation of non-clinical strains of Vibrio cholerae. After being the first PhD candidate to graduate from the Boucher Lab, Paul is now a Postdoc fellow in the lab of Dr. Howard Ochman at the University of Texas in Austin.
Sarim Mirza
July 2016 - April 2017
Sarim was a BIOL 498 and 499 student in the Boucher Lab, where he worked on the molecular characterization of environmental strains of Vibrio vulnificus isolated from various regions of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Imogen Sellman
September 2014 - April 2015
Imogen helped characterize the diversity of Vibrio cholerae strains isolated from the Ganges Delta of Bangladesh for her BIOL 499 project.
Jed Barlow
June 2011 - December 2014
Jed completed his BIOL 299, 398, and 498 projects in the Boucher Lab, where he developed various plugins for DNA sequence analyses for Geneious and the CLC Genomics Workbench.
Malcena Stalker
September 2013 - April 2014
Malcena completed her BIOL 499 project in the Boucher Lab, conducting molecular analysis of Vibrio cholerae and Vibrio metoecus in natural populations.
Guang Wei Xu
May 2013 - April 2014
Guang Wei worked on the identification, culturing, and preservation of marine bacteria for his BIOL 398 and 499 projects.
Chantal Magnan
January 2012 - April 2013
For her BIOL 498 project, Chantal worked on the phylogenetic comparisons of several Vibrio cholerae strains. She then sequenced and analyzed the whole genome of a hypermutator V. cholerae strain from Bangladesh for her BIOL 499 project.
Lauren Bradford
May 2011 - August 2011
As an undergraduate researcher in the Boucher Lab, Lauren performed high-throughput PCR and sequencing of various genes from multiple environmental Vibrio cholerae strains to study horizontal gene transfer.
Lauryn Pounder
May 2011 - August 2011
Lauryn worked on developing a screening protocol for hypermutator strains of Vibrio cholerae using antibiotics during her summer stint in the lab.
Alexis Fischer
September 2010 - May 2011
Alexis was vital in the establishment of the Boucher Lab. She came to the University of Alberta as a Research Technician after working with Yan at MIT.
