Michelle joined the Surette lab in 2010 as a research assistant, balancing bench work and administration. She completed her BSc in Biology at the University of Waterloo in the co-op program, allowing her to complete numerous science related co-ops. Her experience led her to a job in the research department at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, where she worked in a breast cancer lab and the clinical microbiology lab. She later moved to Boise, Idaho, furthering her scientific expertise in the fields of breast cancer and asthma. In 2005, Michelle started working in the Elowitz lab at Caltech, where she was involved in projects on single cell gene expression and signalling in Bacillus and mammalian cells. She returned to Canada to join the Surette lab, where she currently collaborates with researchers on various microbiome studies. Despite the extensive list of projects, Michelle’s expert organizational skills keep the Surette lab running smoothly.