Lab volunteers

2011

Leah MacLean
Co-op student, Lockview High School

Photo- Coming soon!

 

Michelle Rose Salah

 

Rebecca Watts

 

 

Lydia Fraughton

Lydia is a third year student at Dalhousie University doing her undergraduate degree in Biology. She is planning on doing the honors program at Dal and is interested in working with plants. She is currently a TA for the Diversity of Life 1 class and is really enjoying the opportunity to teach biology. Lydia began volunteering in the Gunawardena lab in the fall of 2011 while taking Arunika’s fourth year plant cell course. She enjoys working with and learning about PCD in the place plant and is continuing her volunteer tissue culturing and lab preparatory work throughout the semester and planning to go throughout the summer. Lydia is the vice president of the Dalhousie Biology Society and has been involved in DABS for the past 2 years. Her future plans involve research and pursuing graduate school to study developmental biology and botany.

Tosin Fashoranti

Grade eleven student at Halifax Grammer School

 

2010-2011

Devin MacDonald

Devin MacDonald just graduated with a Bachelor of Science, Major in Biology from Dalhousie in May 2011. He began volunteering in the Gunawardena lab in the fall of 2010 while taking Arunika's 4th year plant cell course. He enjoyed working with and learning about PCD in the lace plant and is continuing his volunteer tissue culturing and lab preparatory work through the summer. He has hopes to one day attend dental school.

Jillian Obritsch

Jillian was an undergraduate student who recently completed her Bachelor of Science in Biology. She currently continues to volunteer in Dr. Arunika Gunawardena’s lab after doing so since the second semester of the third year of her undergraduate degree. Jill will be going back to Dalhousie this fall to acquire her nursing degree through the accelerated nursing program, after which she will continue applying to the dentistry program. She met Arunika in her second year and has taken four courses with her. Working in the lab has been fulfilling by helping and learning about the other student’s research as well as giving her the opportunity to learn valuable laboratory techniques. She also was given an assignment to discover how to disinfect the lace plant’s corm without damage. She hopes to continue to volunteer in the lab throughout her university career.