Koop:Sutherland

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Centre for Biomedical Research University of Victoria, PO Box 3020 STN CSC, Victoria, B.C. V8W 3N5 Canada Phone: 250-472-4072 Fax: 250-472-4075 bens ^at^ uvic ^dot^ ca

I am a MSc student working in Dr. Ben Koop's lab at the University of Victoria

Research

I am currently studying the host-parasite interactions of salmonids and sea lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) at an physiological and molecular level. Mainly using gene expression tools, I am trying to understand what leads to the diverse sensitivity ranges among salmonids (both of different species and of different host development stages). Tools: microarray (oligo and cDNA), qRT-PCR (SYBR) and immunoassays.

In addition, I am using microarrays and other expression technology to investigate the transcriptional response of Lepeophtheirus salmonis to a varying environmental salinity or temperature. This is important to understanding how free-swimming stages are effected by varying oceanic conditions.

Finding new ways to represent large data sets, as well as to pull reliable data from a 'noisy' data set are also of interest to me.