Bertrand Lab
Marine Microbial Proteomics and Trace Nutrient Biogeochemistry
Department of Biology, Dalhousie University
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
Our seafarers are back on land after completing their research cruises and the office is buzzing with activity!
June 20, 2022
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
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
Just Accepted! Journal of Proteome Research- Prediction and consequences of cofragmentation in metaproteomics
September 6, 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
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