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CurioCity19 August 2016

I am a 3rd year PhD student in Environmental Health

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CurioCity25 July 2016

I am a 4th year PhD Candidate in Biological Sciences at the University of Calgary and I study group-living in animals.

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CurioCity11 July 2016

I am a 2nd year MSc. student in physics, at Simon Fraser University. I study molecular motors.

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CurioCity15 April 2016

DNA barcoding is a genetic approach to species identification. Once a barcode sequence has been obtained for a species, it is placed in a database that can be used to assign identities to unknown specimens. This ever growing library of DNA sequences also allows us to look into how species are related and how they came to be. This is what I am most interested in.

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CurioCity14 April 2016

I use DNA-based tools to identify species. We use them for many applications in both basic and applied research. My work has a special focus on using these tools to support Food Security.

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CurioCity12 February 2016

I am a third year PhD student in Microbiology. My research is about bacteria (maybe you’d call them “germs”), and how they stick to surfaces in communities called biofilms.

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CurioCity26 January 2016

I am a second year research coordinator that makes games to help kids move better.

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CurioCity19 January 2016

I study the parasites that are found in wild animals and how these parasites affect the behavior and biology of their animal hosts. In more detail I am interested in finding out how stressful situations impact on an animal's ability to defend itself against infection by parasites.

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CurioCity24 November 2015

I'm a 3rd year PhD student in Microbiology and Immunology. I study the biology of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus. Staphylococcus aureus creates tremendous burden on health care systems in Canada and around the world.

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CurioCity11 November 2015

I am currently working on a novel rat model of Fragile X Syndrome (FXS). FXS is the most common form of inherited mental retardation, and the most common known genetic cause of autism.

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