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I'm excited to hopefully connect with fellow grad students and other researchers here, as well as keep up to date on research from my favourite labs and colleagues. Thanks for reading if you've made it this far!

These days, I also help organize the North American Placenta Lab Meeting, a monthly virtual seminar series where placenta researchers can showcase their work to the community (forms.gle/27VExgd2bQCJ...).

I'm now a graduate student with the lab examining placental multi-omic responses to environmental exposures developing non-invasive models to predict pregnancy complications such as preeclampsia and intrauterine growth restriction.

Looking to venture into human genetics and expand my computational skill set, I was lucky to land a co-op and thesis position with Dr. Samantha Wilson (www.wilsonpregnancylab.com). My project looked at the impact of maternal smoking on cell-free placental DNA methylation.

I learned so much about bioinformatics and had such a good time that when my placement officially ended, I stayed on to lead a team of volunteers formalizing glycopeptide resistance cluster curation.

I also managed to land my own short paper for overhauling and standardizing CARD's curation practices and nomenclature for resistance-mofidying agents (doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.02744-23).

My first placement was in the lab of Dr. Andrew McArthur as a junior curator for the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database (CARD, card.mcmaster.ca). I was mainly responsible for systematic curation, which earned me co-authorship on the 2023 CARD update paper (doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkac920).

3 years, 2 co-op placements, and a thesis later, I graduated from the BioPharm program with an Honours Bachelor of Health Science.

Earlier this year I finished my undergrad at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. After completing my first year in Life Science, I ended up transfering from Biochemistry to the Biology & Pharmacology Co-op program.