Robyn Wright

Background

About Robyn Wright

Marine/micro/molecular ecologist / Postdoc in the Langille Lab at Dalhousie University. I finished my PhD at the University of Warwick, UK, in Biological Sciences (microbial ecology) in October 2019 and have since held several different postdoctoral research fellow positions, primarily in the Langille Lab at Dalhousie University. My research interests lie in understanding the roles that microbial communities play in human and ecosystem health. This includes specific interests in:(i) evaluating the association between the microbiome and human health and disease;(ii) assessing and benchmarking the methods that we use to study microbial interactions between microbial community members and how the undulations between cooperation and competition drive microbial community organisation and niche specialisation;(iv) isolating and characterising bacterial strains that are potentially able to remediate human or ecosystem health threats; and (v) understanding the evolution of mechanisms for microbial growth and persistence.