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Rebecca Shapiro is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair at the College of Biological Science at the University of Guelph. She earned her BSc in Biology from McGill University, where she worked in laboratories studying cancer genetics and Drosophila developmental biology. During her PhD at the University of Toronto in Molecular Genetics, she developed a keen interest in fungal pathogens, focusing her research on temperature stress and cellular morphogenesis in the pathogenic fungus Candida albicans. After completing her doctoral studies, she joined the lab of Dr. Jim Collins at the Broad Institute of MIT as a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow. Her postdoctoral training involved learning techniques in CRISPR-based technologies and functional genomics. Shapiro's current research focuses on understanding microbial fungal pathogens through CRISPR-based genomic technologies, studying the mechanisms that drive virulence and antifungal drug resistance in these organisms.
Department of Clinical Studies. Offers MSc by thesis (2 years) and MSc by coursework (1 year).