Staff
Peter Dunfield
Principal Investigator.
Associate Head of Research at the University of Calgary.
Microbial Ecologist.
Angela Smirnova
Research Associate.
Our sequencing expert, genetic manipulator, and all around Lab Mom.
Andriy Sheremet
Postdoc.
Our in-lab engineer, master coder, phylo guy, and more. Andriy works with extremophiles.
Current Students
Chantel Furgason
Chantel is a PhD candidate examining the algal community changes in Base Mine Lake, as the lake undergoes reclamation.
Montserrat Villegas
Montse is a PhD candidate studying community compositions of natural and pit lakes across Northern Alberta.
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Sabina Pang
Sabina is a MSc student studying the community of Dewar Creek hot spring, with a focus on DNA-degraders (OP11).
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Gabriel Ramos Stella
Gabriel is a MSc student looking at how methane mono-oxygenases can degrade other compounds, like naphthenic acids.
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Quin Towert
Quintin is a MSc student investigating pit lakes and tailings ponds, with the goal of identifying anaerobic methanotrophs.
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Past Students
Hanna Davidson
Hanna was a MSc student looking at the sediment community of Base Mine Lake, with the goal of identifying anaerobic methanotrophs.
Felix Nwosu
PhD student, now Dr Nwosu. Felix studied methanotrophic bacteria and their potential to degrade naphthenic acids.
Triet Tran
MSc graduate. Triet studied hot springs and uncultured bacterial phyla within them, including the GAL08 group.
Dunfield Microbe Lab 