I run the Salmonella Research Laboratory at the Bureau of Microbial Hazards. My research aims to understand the adaptations Salmonella employs to live on foods and food production environments. Prior to joining Health Canada, I was a Team Leader at a biotechnology company specializing in the use and development of probiotic formulations for metabolic health. My educational background includes a PhD in microbiology from the University of British Columbia where I studied membrane transport proteins in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. My postdoctoral work on the regulation of virulence and antibiotic resistance in Staphylococcus aureus was carried out at Dartmouth College.
Role in Syst-OMICS
My Health Canada colleagues (Alex Gill and Ana Pilar) and I are involved in Activity 3.1. Our aim is to adapt WGS data to improve the specificity of existing commercially available RT-PCR assays for detection of Salmonella.