Sylvie Bardin
PhD

Background

I graduated from the University of Geneva, Switzerland with a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. in Biochemistry. I also obtained a certificate in Environmental Chemistry from the same University.

I graduated with a Ph.D. in biology from McMaster University, Ontario. My thesis investigated plant-microbe interactions and more specifically how phosphate transport in the bacteria Rhizobium meliloti affected the ability of the bacteria to fix atmospheric nitrogen during the symbiotic interaction with alfalfa, its plant host.

After my Ph.D., I spend one year at the University College Cork, Ireland and three years as a Agriculture and Agri-food Canada Visiting Fellow at the Lethbridge Research Centre in Alberta, working on the biocontrol of plant fungal diseases (Pythium damping-off) by soil micro-organisms and soil amendments as an alternative to the use of chemical fungicides.

I then spent one year as an instructor at the Grande Prairie Regional College, teaching biology, microbiology and biochemistry (lecture and laboratory) for first and second year University Transfer Students before joining the team at Ontario Tech.