Past Lab News
Nov 2023: New lab publication on published in FEMS Microbiology Ecology! Featuring the thesis research of (now Postdoctoral Scholar听at Clark University, MA, USA).听
May 2023: Congrats to Ella who successfully completed the Admission to Candidacy exam this month!听
April 2023:听Congrats to Brent Robicheau who successfully defended his PhD thesis! This past month Brent was also awarded the 麻豆传媒 Biology Department's 2023 Dr. Thomas MacRae Graduate Prize for authoring the best graduate student publication this past year--bravo!
Mar 2023: Congrats to听Shannon, Sonja, Ella, and Becca who all presented stellar talks/posters at the Department's Annual Lett Research Symposium! Also great job and many thanks to Becca and Shannon who were this year's symposium coordinators.听
Sept 2022:听Excited听to announce another publication on the microbes of the Bedford Basin Monitoring Program, this time focusing on听. Written by former postdoc (now听Research Officer at Minderoo Foundation) Dr. Eric Raes.听
Sept 2022:听Welcome Aboard! New lab members Shannon Myles and Ella Kantor join the LaRoche Lab--both will be starting exciting MSc research projects.
May 2022:听Congrats to Becca who successfully completed the Admission to Candidacy exam!
Apr 2022:听Congrats to Brent Robicheau, who's first thesis chapter on听听is now availalble at ISME Communications. Read more on this project at CBC News:听.
Nov 2021:听LaRoche Lab members, Shannon Myles and Liam MacNeil, win data contest for their听听in Halifax, NS.听听
Sept 2021: Dr. LaRoche and Dr. Worm of the 麻豆传媒 Biology Department are elected as听. 听
July 2021:听罢丑别听Bedford Basin's Oxygen levels听is a hot topic in a听.听
June 2021:听Congratulations to Liam who successfully defended his Master's thesis this month! Read more about Liam's MSc research on听听in his recently published article at BMC Ecology and Evolution. :) 听
June 20, 2021: The LaRoche Lab participates in听!
April 2021: The wonders of听are explored in our latest co-authored PNAS paper featuring sampling from the Bedford Basin Time Series. This research was a collaboration between the LaRoche, Wallace, and Algar labs at 麻豆传媒 and ft. PhD students Sebastian Haas, Brent Robicheau, and听Subhadeep Rakshit.
March 2021:听Congrats to Connor who successfully defended her Master's thesis. Yay! Connor's MSc research was also听听in The Journal of Ocean Technology.听
February 2021:听Congrats to previous lab member, Dr.听Joerg Behnke, who's recent paper on听was published in Scientific Reports.
July 2020:听Congratulations to three of our grad students, Liam, Martha, and Diana who successfully passed their Admission to Candidacy exams in the spring/summer.听
May 2020:听Congratulations听to MSc candidate Liam MacNeil for being awarded an NSERC CGS-M Scholarship.
December 2019:听LaRoche Lab member Joerg Behnke successfully defends his PhD Thesis!!! Well done Joerg.听
Nov/Dec 2019:听MSc Student, Liam, embarks on month long research expedition along coasts & continental shelves of Newfoundland and听Labrador (Northwest Atlantic).听Probing the sunlit layers of the ocean, Liam and Cat (Bertrand Lab PhD Student) collected samples for characterizing听microbes, the macromolecules they generate, the vitamins and nutrients essential for their growth, and took direct observations of cells using holographic imagery. Our research aims to听deepen our understanding of how and why some of the most fascinating microorganism fluctuate in the ocean. We also hope to deepen our understanding of how and why some of the most fascinating microorganism fluctuate in the ocean.
August 2019:听Graduate students Sonja, Connor, Liam, and Brent travel to Fredericton, NB to present at the Canadian Society for Ecology & Evolution yearly meeting.
August 2019:听New LaRoche Lab publication featuring co-authors Ciara Willis (previous honours student) published at FEMS Microbiology Letters. 听https://doi.org/10.1093/femsle/fnz152
May 2019:听MSc Candidates, Sonja Rose and Connor Mackie, successfully pass their Admission to Candidacy Exams! Congrats.听
April 2019:听MSc student Connor Mackie wins best poster at the Biology Department鈥檚 Graduate Student Lett Symposium.
Feb 2019:听New LaRoche Lab publication featuring co-authors Jackie Zorz (previous MSc student) and Ciara Willis (previous honours student) published at Frontiers in Microbiology. 听DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00281
June 2018:听Dr. Julie LaRoche and PhD Student Brent Robicheau facilitate a听Metagenomics Workshop in Mindelo, Cabo Verde (Africa) as part of the听TOSST-HOSST Summer School and at the Universidade de Cabo Verde. Included a hike to the active stratovolcano Pico do Fogo!
July 2018 -听Dr. Julie LaRoche and PhD student Brent Robicheau attend the Gordon Research Conference, Marine Microbes in Tuscany, Italy
June 2018听- LaRoche participates in Ocean Sampling Day 2018
February 2018 -听Dr. Julie LaRoche attends the Reef Microbiome Workshop at the听Bellairs Research Institute in Holetown, Barbados.
November 2017听- Lab members Jennifer Tolman and Ian Luddington participate in the Atlantic Zone Monitoring Program research expedition to the Scotian Shelf aboard the RV Endeavor 听
October 2017听听- Dr. Julie LaRoche is featured on the Canada 150 C3 Facebook page for her contribution to the Science team. You can view the post听
September 2017听- Dr. Julie LaRoche is aboard the Canada 150 C3 Cruise. You can follow their updates on their听
July 4 2017听- Lab visit to the Polar Prince during it's stay in Halifax as part of the Canada 150 C3 Cruise