Ben's Trip to the Poole Lab
November 2015
While visiting the Poole lab at the University of Oxford, Ben applied the Rhizobium-adapted INSeq method he developed during his M.Sc. to attempt to elucidate genetic fitness determinants for the colonization of the pea spermosphere. Read More…
NSERC Project Meeting in Halifax
October 2015
New Student
September 2015
Claire Freeman joins our lab this month as a new master's student. She completed her bachelor's at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO and will be working on the recently funded NSERC funded project that aims to evaluate how wastewater treatment plant environments contribute to the emerging threat of antibiotic resistance.
CSM 2015
June 2015
The University of Regina hosted the Canadian Society of Microbiologists' 65th Annual Conference this week. The conference spanned 3 days and featured talks and poster sessions around the themes of applied & environmental microbiology, infection & immunity, and molecular genetics & cellular microbiology.
Information about the event can be found on the following social media sites:
https://www.facebook.com/CSMRegina2015/?fref=ts
https://twitter.com/CSMRegina2015
Kara's Defense
May 2015
Congratulations to Kara for successfully defending her PhD research on rhizobium. She will be starting as a postdoctoral researcher in July at Dalhousie University in Halifax, NS with our collaborators Dr. Lisbeth Truelstrup Hansen and Dr. Rob Jamieson.
New Students
May 2015
Adeyinka Ajayi recently joined our lab as a PhD student. He joins us from Greenwich, England, where he received his masters. He will be conducting research on plasmid transmission dynamics in wastewater treatment plants.
Andrian Janes is also starting in our lab as a summer student this month. He will be with us through August and will be conducting a survey of pathogens found on produce from the Regina Farmer's Market.
Andrian Janes is also starting in our lab as a summer student this month. He will be with us through August and will be conducting a survey of pathogens found on produce from the Regina Farmer's Market.
Succesful Defense
March 2015
Congratulations to Benjamin Perry, who successfully defended his masters research on rhizobium
New Grant to Support Wastewater Research
March 2015
The Yost Lab recently received funding which will support research on the dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes throughout wastewater treatment plants and the environment.
Details here:
http://www.uregina.ca/external/communications/feature-stories/current/fs-03062015.html
http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=944309
Details here:
http://www.uregina.ca/external/communications/feature-stories/current/fs-03062015.html
http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=944309