Isaac Mezza

Isaac is an international Honourss Biology student from the Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP). He has been carrying out research on microalgal biotech and applied symbioses for wastewater treatment since 2019. He developed an immediate interest for viral ecology and evolution from his very first Biology course. In the summer of 2022, after winning a Mitacs Globalink Research Internship Award, he joined Dr. Nissimov’s lab to work on the isolation of new cyanophages from Canadian lakes, assisting with the preparation of samples from the field for molecular work and flow cytometry, and the quantification of some of our existing virus isolates.

He likes reading about viruses from all three cellular domains, origins of life research, siphonous algae, and open thermodynamic systems that make imperfect copies of themselves. He enjoys food, beer, working out and walking in forests.