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How do you follow something you can’t see? Fraser Health’s virus detectives work together to learn how COVID-19 spreads. Take a look at three Fraser Health examples using real data. ow.ly/xP9L50CiakU

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"You didn't just make good choices. You had good choices" I saw this quote a few days ago, and I still can't stop thinking about privilege and disparity in academia. PhD Voice - Independently Run Academic Chatter™

The Canadian Bioinformatics Workshops team (BF Francis Ouellette, Rachade et al) have announced the 2021 workshop program. Lots of great #bioinformatics #workshops from April to Sept, all online. These worked surprisingly well last year over Zoom. bioinformatics.ca/workshops/

Bacteria: evil causes of infection or genius organisms trying their best to survive? 🦠 OpenThink PhD student Jee In Kim @jeeinjeeout explains how bacteria share genes to help overcome hardships. Cool, but makes keeping up with antibiotics hard. blogs.dal.ca/openthink/shar…

Watermelon season in Afghanistan and a man selling varieties of it in Kabul streets. 🍉

Starting Workshop #6 of the Bioinformatics.ca 2021 season in just under 2 hrs. Microbiome Analysis bit.ly/3zzZ6jv CC/ Laura Hug Jacob Nearing @betascience Justin Jia Zohaib Anwar Diana Haider Rob Syme Héctor Gálvez zhblu Aaron Gillmor Rachade

The 2021 Microbiome Analysis MIC #CBW workshop class. Another great Canadian #Bioinformatics workshop | #microbiome #Onlineclass CC/ Rachade Bioinformatics.ca Laura Hug Jacob Nearing @betascience Justin Jia Zohaib Anwar Diana Haider Rob Syme Héctor Gálvez zhblu Aaron Gillmor

New preprint from our lab on the Bedford Basin 🌊

First PhD Chapter Officially Published! 🎉 Phytoplankton Time series in coastal NW Atlantic 🌊🦠 nature.com/articles/s4370… Erin Bertrand, LaRoche Lab, #phytoplankton, #diatoms, #Haptophytes, #Synechococcus

I had a lot of fun teaching a little segment on 16S rRNA analysis at the bioinformatics workshop!

Excited to share our research! Weekly samples at 4 depths & 4 years show strong bacterial seasonality & SUP05 Ecotypes #TimeSeries nature.com/articles/s4159… LaRoche Lab Brent Robicheau Dhwani Desai Jackie Zorz Diana Haider Ocean Frontier Institute Dalhousie Science @DFO_Science @MEOPAR_NCE NSERC / CRSNG

Diana Haider (Dalhousie), Different quality thresholds impact the interpretation of measurements of mock microbial communities birs.ca/events/2022/5-…

I had the opportunity to attend the Blue Science and Technology Summer Training Program at Ghent University in Belgium to learn about the changing ocean economy in Europe and beyond! Thank you Marine@UGent #BlueST23

T. haligoni, a marine microbe named after Halifax and identified by Dal biology researchers, could help scientists better understand the health of the ocean. 🦠🔬 Learn more from PhD candidate Sonja Rose and Dr. Julie LaRoche (LaRoche Lab): bit.ly/3CIFK1S