Alessi joined the RIU team as a Microbiome Sequencing Technician in 2018. She works in connection with the Integrated Microbiome Resource (IMR) to receive, organize and store samples for microbiome profiling, prepare DNA sequencing libraries, load and monitor sequencing runs and retrieve files for researchers from the Ocean Frontier Institute (OFI) on multiple projects. She holds a Master’s degree in Animal Science (Microbiome Studies) from the University of Manitoba.