Lab photo Fall 2020—— Standing (left to right): Anthony, Marta, Loïc, Laura, JC, Sandrine ——Sitting (left to right): Philip, Aurélie, Dennis. Absent: Adriel —– Credit: Loren Leport

Despite the global and local uncertainty and distress, we have an exciting beginning of the fall session. We have some very good news to share: We have a new graduate student in our lab: Laura Hjartarson. Laura will be starting her master's degree under the supervision of Dr. Line Rochefort  and co-supervised by J.C. Villarreal. She'll be working under our newly funded grant on Restauration of northern mines, with emphasis on the metagenomics of damaged and recovered soils. Laura is intereste...