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Jose Chiriboga (he/him)
Career Profiles
Senior Scientific Support Associate
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Carbon Dioxide: Outdoors and Indoors
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Learn about the importance of carbon dioxide, its sources and how people control it indoors.
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Design your own bacteria!
Hands-on Activities
How could you design a new type of bacteria that helps people?
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Colouring Clothing with Bacteria
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Learn about using bacteria to colour clothing.
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Plastic-Eating Bacteria: Nature's Recyclers
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Learn how bacteria can help solve the world’s plastic problem.
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Sara Matthews
Career Profiles
Researcher - Environmental Microbiology
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Using Plants to Make Medicines
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Learn how plants can be used to make vaccines.
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Dr. Harpreet Kochhar
Career Profiles
President, Public Health Agency of Canada
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Yetong Dong
Career Profiles
Research Assistant/Graduate Student
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Allison Guitor
Career Profiles
Researcher - Antibiotic Resistance
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Plant Pigments
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Why are there so many colours of plants? Learn about plant pigments and their role in plants.
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Tropisms in Plants
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Learn about the different ways that plants move in response to their environments.
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Specialized Cells of the Leaf System
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Learn about the structure and function of the cells in leaves.
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Light & Plants
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Learn about the process of photosynthesis and how it is affected by light levels.
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Dr. Rod Russell
Professor of Virology and Immunology