We Love Marine Microbes!
Welcome to the LaRoche Lab website. Here you'll find info regarding lab personnel, as well as research being conducted by the LaRoche Lab group. We are located in the Department of Biology at Dalhousie University. Our research primarily focuses on Marine Microbial Genomics & Biogeochemistry. We are always interested in hearing from potential collaborators, graduate students, and post-docs. Also, if you are a Dal undergraduate student wondering about biology honours research in our lab, please feel free to contact us.
Lab News
Nov 2024: Cand. Thalassolituus haligoni featured in Dal News article "Naming rights: Dal researchers christen new locally discovered microbe after Halifax."
Jul 2024: Big Congrats to Sonja Rose on publishing her first thesis chapter in Science Advances on the newly isolated Cand. Thalassolituus haligoni. You can also learn more about this microbe via CBC's coverage of the publication.
Feb 2024: Several lab members (Sonja, Ella, Becca, and Julie) attend the Ocean Sciences Meeting in New Orleans.
Nov 2023: OAE in the Bedford Basin featured in Science News: An Alkaline Solution
Sept 2023: New lab research published in Science Advances on UCYN-A microdiversity based on Bedford Basin Time Series sampling. Read more about this research here: Researchers are uncovering microbial ecology in the Bedford Basin by Dani Silberman (OFI Youth Ambassador).
Feb 2023: Ocean research in Bedford Basin reported on by NBC News. Can giving the ocean an antacid help curb climate change?