Our Team

The Microbial Market Lab trains the next generation of leaders in Microbiome Science and Biotech. We strive toward excellence in knowledge and skills (read more about our training objectives), have a strong culture of equity, diversity, and inclusion (read more about our code) and are dedicated to get Science done (read more about our expectations).

Marc Strous

Canada Research Chair in Geomicrobiology

mstrous@ucalgary.ca

Gama Cabria

Postdoctoral Researcher

gamaliellysandergl.c@ucalgary.ca

Damon Mosier

PhD Student

damon.mosier@ucalgary.ca

Shokoufeh Manouchehr

PhD student

shokoufeh.manouchehr@ucalgary.ca

Miranda Moll

PhD Student

miranda.moll@ucalgary.ca

Ruchita Solanki

PhD Student

ruchita.solanki@ucalgary.ca

Lianchun Yi

PhD Student

lianchun.yi1@ucalgary.ca

Alumni

Alex Paquette (PhD, 2025), Varada Khot (PhD, 2023), Marianne Haines (PhD, 2023), Angela Kouris (research associate, 2022), Stan Pankratz (research associate, 2022), Muhe Diao (research associate, 2022), Maryam Ataeian (PhD, 2022), Agast Vadlamani (research associate, 2022), Will Richardson (research associate, 2022), Dan Liu (research associate, 2021), Alyse Kiesser (research associate, 2021), Jackie Zorz (PhD, 2021), Shengjie Li (PhD, 2020), Yihua Liu (MSc, 2019), Breda Novotnik (research associate, 2019), Kay Kuloyo (PhD, 2019), Lingdong Shi (PhD, 2018), Emil Ruff (research associate, 2018), Isabella Hrabe de Angelis (MSc, 2018), Christine Sharp (research associate, 2018), Tjorven Hinzke (MSc, 2017), Michael Siegert (research associate, 2017), Manuel Kleiner (research associate, 2017), Jianwei Chen (research associate, 2016), and many more...