Rachelle Szymkiewicz

Research assistant

Rachelle Szymkiewicz completed her undergraduate degree in Engineering Technology at McMaster University specializing in Biotechnology. Her final year technical report focused on the creation of biosynthetic silver nanoparticles using dry-active yeast as a source. In September 2016 she joined the Surette lab seeking to explore the fields of comparative genomics and metagenomics research. Rachelle is using her computational and wet-laboratory skills to investigate population dynamics and evolution of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Cystic Fibrosis airways.