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