Faculty & Staff

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

Elizabeth Schultz
Co-Chair
Professor
Office: SA9214
(403) 329-2318
schultz@uleth.ca

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

John F. Bain
Professor Emeritus
Volunteer Herbarium Director
Email: bain@uleth.ca

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

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

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

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

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

Ashley Curtis
Lab Technician
Office: SA9442
(403) 382-1832
ashley.curtis@uleth.ca

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nehal Thakor
Professor
Office: SA9220
(403) 317-5055
nthakor@uleth.ca
Adjuncts

Wade Abbott PhD
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Research Areas: Group research themes include the discovery of carbohydrate active enzymes and metabolic pathways in sequence datasets, agricultural glycomics, carbohydrate-based innovations for the production of food animals.

Kingsley Amoako PhD
Director, NCAD Lethbridge Laboratory, Science Branch
Canadian Food Inspection Agency / Government of Canada
Dr. Amoako is currently the Director for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) Lethbridge Laboratory. He is the Head of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) Reference Lab for Anthrax at the CFIA Lethbridge Laboratory.
Tel: 403-382-5505

Ali Azizishirazi PhD
Dr. Azizishirazi is an aquatic ecotoxicologist and is currently employed as a water quality guidelines specialist with BC Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy. His work is mainly focused on derivation of water quality guidelines using data produced in ecotoxicology laboratories. Dr. Azizishirazi’s research position with University of Lethbridge provides opportunities for students to become involved in the application of toxicological data to the management of aquatic ecosystems.

Manjula Bandara PhD
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.

Syama Chatterton PhD
Dr. Syama Chatterton leads a number of research projects on root rots of pulse crops, particularly pea and lentil, and associated pathogen complex which includes Aphanomyces euteiches and numerous Fusarium species. Her particular research interests are on the environmental effects that impact the pathogen composition of the root rot complex and how this leads to expression of disease severity, and on the nature of the interaction relationship between multiple soil-borne pathogen species and strains on root rot development. She is also developing molecular quantification tools for soil-borne pathogens as the basis for a decision support system for pulse producers. She also leads projects on epidemiology of white mould of dry bean, and identification and importance of pathogens of faba bean, and the potential interaction between foliar pathogens and insect pests.

Kevin Floate PhD
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.

Sophie Kernéis-Golsteyn PhD
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.

André Laroche PhD
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

Nariman Shahhosseini PhD
Research interests: My research focuses on novel/emerging zoonotic viruses, as well as arboviruses and associated vectors. I integrate virological, entomological and bioinformatics (e.g. state-of-art metagenomics) approaches to better understand virus/vector ecology, and predict spillover events into humans in order to prevent future outbreaks.

Stacey Singer PhD
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.

Waqas Tahir PhD
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