The Tick Clique
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Moving on from her work on native fungal species last summer, Hannah is now conducting a molecular analysis of soft bodied ticks collected from the nests of puffins to ascertain the presence of Borrelia.
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Juan David is an exchange MSc student through an international partnership between Dr. Lloyd and Universidad de Caldas, Colombia. His recent research has included the discovery of a novel Borrelia species in argasides found in the department of Arauca and is now working on describing it genetically.
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Epigenetics
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Dr. Vett Lloyd has been working on epigenetics for more decades than she chooses to say.
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Anne Berthold is looking at epigenetic changes and energy production in human cells infected with Borrelia.
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Alexandra Nuyens is looking at epigenetic mechanisms of how the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi causes behavioural and physiological changes to Ixodes scapularis (black-legged tick).
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Health
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During his time as an honours student in the lab, Chris focused on the creation of transgenic ticks but has moved towards human-health related tick-vectored diseases during his MSc.
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Keeley's honours research will focus on the role of DNA damage response genes and related genes in colorectal cancer. Keeley previously worked as a health intern with Dr. Gurpreet Singh-Ranger (Chief of the Department of Surgery) at the Upper River Valley Hospital in Waterville, New Brunswick.
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Wildlife
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Joining the lab back in the summer of 2019, Samantha has been researching the incidence rate of Leptospira spp. and Borrelia bissettii in New Brunswick wildlife and water sources, to determine the potential threat to humans and their family pets.
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Riley is working on tracking the population distribution of nocturnal wildlife in rural and urban areas of the Sackville region. In particular, studying the prevalence of the racoon roundworm (Baylisascaris procyonis) in Maritime Canada and it's potential threat to human populations.
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Geneticks
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After recent completion of an Independent Study focusing on leptospirosis in ticks found in the Maritime provinces, we were excited to keep Mackenzie in the lab while upgrading her position to laboratory technician in the Geneticks/Lloyd tick testing center for the Atlantic Canada branch. |
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