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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.

Lab News

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February 16th, 2024
MSc graduate, Megan Roberts (current lab manager) measures Rubisco across phytoplankton taxa in an Arctic region influenced by tidewater glaciers.

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December 14th, 2023
PhD student Catherine Bannon highlights the importance of making accurate measurements of cobalamin in the ocean.

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Congratulations, Dr. Loay Jabre!

October 4th, 2023
Loay has officially graduated from his PhD and is off to WHOI to work as a post doc! We will all miss him but are very proud.

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Congratulations to Lena Beckley for defending her MSc thesis! You can read it here

August 18th, 2023

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Erin awarded 2023 CNC-SCOR Early Career Ocean Scientist Award

June 1st, 2023

This award recognizes outstanding contribution to the marine sciences (in the broadest sense) within Canada.

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New Paper! The first chapter from Maria Soto, MSc graduate is out now!

March 15th 2023

Cobalamin producers and prokaryotic consumers in the Northwest Atlantic. Read the paper here!

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Pi Day Sweep!

March 14th 2023

Bertrand lab members once again take the cake (or pie...) at this year's deapartmenal Pi day competition. Congrats to Megan and Scott!

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Our seafarers are back on land after completing their research cruises and the office is buzzing with activity!

June 20, 2022

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Planky the Planktoscope is on the move! Planky joined PhD candidates Loay Jabre and Scott Pollara on the RV Celtic Explorer to take some snapshots of all of the photo-ready critters in the NW Atlantic Ocean. Say photosynthesis! Here is a phaeocystis colony (top right) and a Chaetoceros chain (bottom right) captured by Loay. Read more about his time at sea here

June 6, 2022

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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

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

April 20, 2022

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

March 30, 2022

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

December 10, 2021

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New Paper: Fe and temperature interactions in diatom growth

May 25, 2020
PhD student Loay Jabre leads this new work- We found that temperature and iron interactively influence growth in an important polar diatom - warming alleviated Fe demand, allowing cells to maximize growth under low Fe availability

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Feb 11, 2020

If I can see her, I can be her. Developed by Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and the Canadian Museum of Nature, #MySTEMjob tells the stories of twenty inspiring women from across Canada through video shorts designed to spark curiosity in young women and inspire them to pursue STEM careers.

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

September 6, 2019
Congratulations PhD student Scott McCain- first thesis chapter published. Metaproteomics, almost by definition, is more complex than single-organism proteomics. One of the consequences of this complexity is messy spectra - when two peptides are selected together and produce overlapping 'fingerprints' (MS/MS spectra). This paper empowers proteomics researchers to understand biases arising from this complexity.

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

September 2019
Exciting times in the lab- we're growing!

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August 9, 2019
In a new paper led by postdoctoral scholar Miao Wu and PhD student Scott McCain, our lab has led a collaboration that identifies manganese as a key micronutrient for shaping primary productivity in the Southern Ocean

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

May 31, 2019

Thankfully, they aren't going too far!

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

April 5, 2019
Loay's been busy growing diatoms and perfecting his baking skills! He's won first place in our Departmental Pi Day Pie contest (winning pie shown on right) and one of three prizes for best research talk at the Dalhousie Biology Graduate student-led 2019 Lett Symposium. Congratulations Loay!

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January 31, 2019
An exciting collaboration between many researchers working in the new field of marine microbial proteomics

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Erin wins a Nova Scotia Discovery Award for Emerging Professional 

November 2018

The Discovery Centre does important work towards building a culture of curiosity in our province, and Erin is honoured to accept this award from them

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