I worked from home doing genetics and bioinformatics research with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. I helped to create a list of Brassica napus genes that are homologous to genes in Nicotiana tabacum that are known to be involved in the plant’s hypersensitive response. This work was done to aid research into how the necrotrophic fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is able to trigger this response in Brassica napus and cause stem rot. At this job I gained experience using CLC Genomics Workbench, NCBI Blast, and several plant genome databases, interpreting and gathering data from many published scientific papers, and adapting to working effectively from home during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Filing, data entry, basic office tasks