Exit? What a strange name.

Congratulations to Kirsten for checking with brio another box on her to-do list before becoming a Doctor! It is hard to keep-up, and I cannot wait to see Kirsten defend her thesis. Soon.

Spring is just around the corner, finally. It is also the time to remember about protecting ourselves and pets from tick bites.

​Nice piece for the McGill Tribune here

And there she goes! Only a couple of weeks after landing in Panama, Kelsey is busy with field work, collecting tadpoles for her experiment, checking for Bd in the water of streams in a Park...and swabbing adults for Bd. So much done is so little time!

​Photos by Henk van der Meulen

First information session today for a September 2023 departure! More here.

Lea presented her poster at the Fall 2022 honours symposium of the Bieler School of Environment. I quote: "All went comme sur des roulettes! Attendance was good and got some great questions and insights from my peers." Congratulations!

Stolen from my colleague Andrew Hendry. It is no news, but oh so important.

​Grammar tips/rules for scientific writing

Kirsten's paper is out, congratulations! Read more here:
​https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/tick-borne-pathogens-increasingly-widespread-central-canada-343574

In her paper, Kirsten reports the occurrence of two pathogens carried by ticks, outside of their known distribution range in Southern Canada. Link to the publication here.
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