Postdoctoral Training
- Postdoctoral scholar, Innovative Genomics Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA 2024–current
Research focus: Plasmid ecology and evolution in the cow rumen under alternate stable states
Supervised by Dr. Spencer Diamond
Education
- Ph.D. Biology, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada 2018–2023
Thesis: Spatial and temporal perspectives on the Canadian lake microbiome
Supervised by Dr. David Walsh and Dr. Irene Gregory-Eaves
- B.Sc. Honours in Ecology with Distinction, Concordia University 2017
Honours thesis: Unexpected freshwater bacterial diversity in Arctic Ocean metagenomes
Supervised by Dr. David Walsh
Scholarships & Awards
- NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship 2025–2026
- Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies Doctoral Research Scholarship 2021–2023
- Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering Summer Course Scholarship 2023
- Microbial Diversity Course Scholarship, Marine Biological Laboratory 2022
- mSystems Journal Editor’s Pick, doi:10.1128/msystems.00316-22 2022
- Stephen Bronfman Scholarship in Graduate Environmental Studies 2021
- ÉcoLac Scholarship in Lake and Fluvial Ecology 2018–2020
- mSphere Journal Editor’s Pick, doi:10.1128/msphere.00512-20 2020
- BIOS2 Fellowship in Computational Biodiversity Science and Services 2019
- NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master’s 2018–2019
- 1st Place for Best Poster, Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science Symposium 2017
- Shuffle Graduate Award, Concordia University 2017
- NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award 2017
- Levitt Family Foundation Scholarship 2014
- President’s Award for Outstanding Soldiers, President Shimon Peres, Israel 2013
- Blavatnik Family Foundation Scholarship 2013
- Canada Millennium Excellence Award 2007