The Bertrand Lab at Dalhousie University employs physiological, biochemical, and bioanalytical approaches to improve our understanding of controls on marine microbial activity and how microbes influence major biogeochemical processes in the ocean.

MSc student Lena Beckley is out on the water with the Atlantic Zone Offshore Monitoring Program (AZOMP). Here she's holding a diatom-rich filter collected in the Labrador Sea.

May 12, 2022

Happy spring! We met up outdoors to catch up and chat science this week.

April 20, 2022

Congratulations to Catalina Albury for defending their MSc thesis! You can read it here.

March 30, 2022

Congratulations to Dr. Scott McCain for defending his PhD! Check out Scott's most recent publication in ISME here. 

December 10, 2021

New Paper: Fe and temperature interactions in diatom growth

May 25, 2020

Erin featured in National Film Board Women in STEM video series

Feb 11, 2020

New paper: Canadian Science Meets Parliament: Building relationships between scientists and policymakers

Jan 21, 2020

Just Accepted! Journal of Proteome Research- Prediction and consequences of cofragmentation in metaproteomics

September 6, 2019

New paper in Nature Communications  - Mn as a key Southern Ocean micronutrient

August 9, 2019

Welcome new PDF Insa Rapp, PhD students Cat Bannon and Charvanna Dhoonmoon, and MSc student Megan Roberts!

September 2019

Congratulations on successful honours degrees Catalina Albury and Tor Kitching! We couldn't be prouder

May 31, 2019

New paper in the Journal of Proteome Research

January 31, 2019

Erin wins a Nova Scotia Discovery Award for Emerging Professional 

November 2018

PhD student Loay Jabre wins best Biology Department Pi Day Pie, and a Lett Symposium Research Talk award!

April 5, 2019