With a bit of delay, Paul passes his Master's thesis defense in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Graz, Austria. His thesis title is "Evolutionary histories of Lake Tanganyika cichlids differ between habitats: phylogenetic evidence from two deepwater tribes." He now has two Master's degrees (the other in Molecular Microbiology, also from the University of Graz).
Better late than never. Congratulations!
The Boucher Lab welcomes Ph.D students Tania Nasreen and Fabini Orata.
Tania holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Microbiology from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Fabini has a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology from the University of the Philippines. They are both recipients of the University of Alberta Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship.
Paul is glad to have new company in the lab.
Tania (top) and Fabini attracting goats with KFC (bottom)
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 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