The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) annual meeting of members of the Integrated Microbial Biodiversity (IMB) Program was held in Whistler, British Columbia on May 14-17, 2013. As IMB Fellow, Yan could bring one student to the conference. Tania attended the conference with Yan this year, and she presented a poster entitled "Environmental multilocus sequence typing of natural Vibrio cholerae populations."
2013 R.E. Peter Biology Conference
The 2013 Dr. Richard E. Peter Biology Conference was held at the Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, University of Alberta on March 7-8. 2013. This annual student-run conference is organized by the Biological Sciences Graduate Student Association of the Department of Biological Sciences to showcase life sciences research conducted by students at the University of Alberta and institutions across the province.
Research projects from the Microbiology 492 class (Environmental Microbiology Laboratory) of Dr. Rebecca Case were presented at the conference. Paul co-authored the poster "Influence of vertically inherited symbionts and environmental bacteria on microbial communities in glass sponges." Both Tania and Fabini co-authored the poster "Microbial community analysis of wastewater tertiary effluent using 16S rRNA PCR-DGGE." These were presented by fellow graduate students, Anna Bramucci and Albert Rosana, respectively.
This year's internal keynote speaker was Dr. Heather Proctor (Department of Biological Sciences). Dr. Lenore Fahrig from Carleton University was the external keynote speaker.
ISME14: The Power of the Small – Copenhagen, Denmark
Yan recently attended and presented a poster at the 14th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology (ISME), which took place in the Bella Center, Copenhagen, Denmark on August 19-24, 2012. The theme for this year is "The Power of the Small." Yan's poster title is "The ecology of Vibrio metecus, Vibrio cholerae's cryptic sister taxa."
The 15th ISME will be held in Seoul, South Korea on August 24-29, 2014.
Paul Joins the Lab
Paul Kirchberger joins the Boucher Lab as the first graduate student. He is originally from Graz, Austria. He holds a B.Sc. in Molecular Biology and an M.Sc. in Molecular Microbiology from the University of Graz.
Paul, together with Yan, will attend the annual meeting of the Integrated Microbial Biodiversity Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research on May 8-12, 2012 in Québec City, Québec. He will present a poster entitled "Exploring integron evolution in coral reefs."
Paul with a Dunkleosteus skull