Alessi Kwawukume
Microbiome Sequencing Technician
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.
Dalhousie University is located in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq. We are all Treaty people.
We acknowledge that the lands on which Memorial University’s campuses are situated are in the traditional territories of diverse Indigenous groups, and we acknowledge with respect the diverse histories and cultures of the Beothuk, Mi’kmaq, Innu, and Inuit of this province.
