Olesia North, Ph.D.
Position: Post Doctoral Fellow
About: Ukrainian made, Canadian trained. Olesia obtained her PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Toronto where she studied the determinants of phage specificity and the mechanism of phage tail fibre assembly. Ever since the beginning of her PhD she has been infected with phage enthusiasm, which has multiplied, exploded and is infecting everyone around her. Now with the help of the Brown lab (which is slowly getting infected with phage enthusiasm) she plans on expanding our knowledge of phage/bacteria interactions, or just learning something useful along the way. When not spreading phage passion, she enjoys a million things (hiking, painting, knitting, sewing, attempting to beat her husband at basketball, and trying new things even though she may be terrified by them). One day she will learn to play flag football.
