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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Guelph, Ontario, Canada

• Interpreted a large selection of scientific literature to determine fly traits for over 900 fly species.
• Created a fly trait dataset and prepared this for publication along with the associated manuscript.
• Researched and gave presentations on data sharing best practices.
• Refined my master’s work, which included developing a 15-module pipeline in R that focused on determining population genetic structure measures for a wide range of species.
• Analyzed and quality checked publicly available DNA barcoding data for Churchill fly species.
• Created summary statistics and high-quality visualizations for a large barcoding dataset in R and wrote the associated manuscript.

Guelph, Ontario, Canada

• Thesis based. Developed a 15-module programming pipeline in R that included all steps to filter and clean the DNA sequencing data, run analyses including population genetic structure measures, analysis of molecular.
• Worked as a teaching assistant for first year and fourth year courses. This included running seminars, grading assignments, and helping students develop projects.

Guelph, Ontario, Canada

• Creating annotated bibliography and doing research on the use of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) in the arts and humanities
• Testing and playing VR/AR games and experiences and documenting the use of VR, benefits, and drawbacks.

Guelph, Ontario, Canada

• Spearheaded a project focusing on the phylogenetic community structure of Arctic insect species that has since been published in Ecology and Evolution.
• Created an analytical pipeline in the R programming language that included steps to import, clean and format data from the Barcode of Life Data System, create phylogenetic trees, calculate nearest taxon index and net.
• Preformed molecular bench research for a collaborative project including qPCR analysis.
• Tested novel R packages and primer design tools created by our research group.
• Photographed crustacean specimens to contribute to a public database.

Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

• Feed animals, clean enclosures
• Prep food for the animals
• Lead tours
• Train and handle birds
• Run guest animal encounters

Master Of Science - Ms, Bioinformatics

Bachelor'S Degree, Wildlife Biology & Theatre Studies