Meet our People

Co-Chair   
Professor
Office: WE1006 (Alberta Water & Env Science Bldg)
(403) 317-5074
robert.laird@uleth.ca

Co-Chair
Professor
Office: SA9238
(403) 329-2579
igor.kovalchuk@uleth.ca

Administrative Support 
Office: SA9202
(403) 329-2245
catherine.mccord@uleth.ca

Professor Emeritus 
Volunteer Herbarium Director

Email: bain@uleth.ca

Instructor III
Office: SA9224
(403) 329-2708
randall.barley@uleth.ca

Instructor III
Office: SA9234
(403) 329-2664
tegan.barry@uleth.ca

Associate Professor
Office: WE2056 (Alberta Water & Env Science Bldg)
(403) 317-2857
matthew.bogard@uleth.ca

Professor
Office: WE1044 (Alberta Water & Env Science Bldg)
(403) 332-5299
theresa.burg@uleth.ca

Instructor II
Office: SA9230
(403) 329-2321
jennifer.burke2@uleth.ca

Biology Storeroom Manager
Office: SA9442
(403) 382-1832
ashley.curtis@uleth.ca

Professor
Office: WE2064 (Alberta Water & Env Science Bldg)
(403) 380-1858
larry.flanagan@uleth.ca

Professor
Office: WE1048 (Alberta Water & Env Science Bldg)
(403) 329-2752
cam.goater@uleth.ca

Professor
Office: SA9222
(403) 332-4553
roy.golsteyn@uleth.ca

Associate Professor
Office: WE1046 (Alberta Water & Env Science Bldg)
(403) 329-2127
s.hoover@uleth.ca

Lab Manager/Instructor II
Office: SA9440
(403) 329-2348
andy.hudson@uleth.ca

Associate Professor
Office: SA9438
(403) 329-2661
m.konschuh@uleth.ca

Professor
Office: SA9236
(403) 394-3916
olga.kovalchuk@uleth.ca

Associate Professor
Office: WE2062
(403) 317-5035
jl.mccune@uleth.ca

Instructor II
Office: SA9228
(403) 329-2125
katrina.mendez@uleth.ca

Professor 
Office: SA9434
(403) 317-8292
erasmus.okine@uleth.ca

Instructor II
Office: SA9204
(403) 332-4577
pacarynuk@uleth.ca

Professor Emertus
Office: WE2058 (Alberta Water & Env Science Bldg)
(403) 329-2327
rood@uleth.ca

Associate Professor
Office: SA9218
(403) 329-2696
tony.russell@uleth.ca

Professor
Office: SA9214
(403) 329-2318
schultz@uleth.ca
 

Associate Professor
Office: SA9436
(403) 394-3996
kim.stanford@uleth.ca

Assistant Biology Storeroom Manager
Office: SA9440
(403) 329-2348
aleksei.sorokin@uleth.ca

Instructor II
Office: SA9232
(403) 329-2210
steyqj@uleth.ca

Professor   
Office: SA9220
(403) 317-5055
Lab: SA9262
(403) 332-4446
nthakor@uleth.ca

Assistant Professor
Office: SA9212
(403) 329-2320
neha.vaid@uleth.ca

Associate Professor
Office: WE1058 (Alberta Water & Env Science Bldg)
(403) 329-2320
steve.wiseman@uleth.ca

Associate Professor
Office: SA9216
(403) 317-2879
dmytro.yevtushenko@uleth.ca

Professor
Office: SA8144
(403) 332-5288
andrew.iwaniuk@uleth.ca

Professor
Office: WE1012 (Alberta Water & Env Science Bldg) 
(403) 329-2040
dan.johnson@uleth.ca

Associate Professor
Office: SA8380
Lab: SA8304
(403) 329-2781
david.logue@uleth.ca

Dr. Bandara was previously a research scientist at the Crop Diversification Centre (CDCS), Alberta agriculture and Forestry in Brooks, Alberta  from May 1999 until he retired from my position in 2020 December. His research areas are crop physiology and Agronomy. Although retired, he is currently collaborating/ conducting  two research projects, (i) 'Identifying benefits and drawbacks of Brassica crops in pulse and wheat crop rotation', which is the Ph.D. thesis research component, established at CDCS test site in Brooks, and  (ii).'Integrated weed management in soybean' with AFFC.

I am an insect ecologist employed by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada at the Lethbridge Research and Development Centre.  Research in our lab covers a broad range of topics that includes study of insects affecting crops, stored grain products and livestock; insect-microbe (symbiont) interactions; and host-parasitoid interactions. We’ve also done extensive research on dung-dwelling insects and how they are affected by faecal residues of veterinary medicines applied to cattle.

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Dr. Sophie Kernéis directs the Microbiology Research Laboratory at Lethbridge College. Prior to moving to Lethbridge in 2007, Sophie was a tenured Research Scientist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. She developed in 2015, the Antibiotic Prairie Plant Project at Lethbridge College that has the goal of identifying new antibiotics from prairie plants to serve the health and food industries.

Dr. Chad Laing is a Research Scientist for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, at the National Centre for Animal Diseases Lethbridge Laboratory, where he is the head of the bacteriology research and diagnostic units. Current research focuses on improving identification and characterization of bacterial pathogens affecting human and animal health, as well as those pertaining to the safety and security of Canadians. This work utilizes genome and metagenome sequencing, the application of computational and machine learning approaches, and novel software development.

Email: chad.laing@inspection.gc.ca

Argriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Dr. André Laroche is a Research Scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada located in Lethbridge, AB. His research program focus on functional genomics of cereals‎. He is working on the physical organization of stripe rust resistance genes, the identification of new disease resistance genes and regulation of expression during wheat development.

Tel: 403-393-5337

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Dr. Singer's research program at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Lethbridge Research and Development Centre focuses on unraveling the genetic mechanisms behind various performance- and quality-related traits, including abiotic stress tolerance, digestibility, lipid content/composition and photosynthesis. She is also interested in the improvement of these traits using advanced molecular breeding tools such as genome editing, especially in forage crops such as alfalfa.

Dr. Waqas Tahir is a Research Scientist and Head of the TSE unit, NCAD Lethbridge Laboratory at Canadian Food Inspection Agency/ Government of Canada. Dr. Tahir is also the head of the World Organization for Animal Health’s BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) reference lab in Canada. Dr. Tahir’s research focuses on the identification of underlying molecular mechanisms of prion diseases, novel ante-mortem diagnostic biomarkers as well as sensitive detection methods for animal prion diseases. In his research, Dr. Tahir amalgamates various high throughput approaches ranging from genomics, transcript-omics, differential proteomics and spectral confocal imaging using both in-vitro as well as in-vivo models. Ultimate goal of Dr. Tahir’s research is to develop technologies to promptly diagnose animal prion diseases for designing mitigation strategies in a timely manner to protect public health and preserve food chain.

Contact me via email: waqas.tahir@inspection.gc.ca