Research Interests
Rachel graduated from her MSc studying the impacts of wastewater effluent and pharmaceutical exposure on innate cytokine expression of darters in the Grand River (supervised by Dr. Paul Craig; University of Waterloo).
She joined the team in September 2022 to identify SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater and moved on to managing the SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance team in the Servos Lab. She was responsible for supervising the research technicians that conduct the influent sample processing, analysis, and quantification of SARS-CoV-2. She contributed to the data analysis and communication of the results to regional health units (Region of Waterloo, Peel, and York).
Currently, Rachel is back to working with fish again. She has been working on laboratory exposures of local fish like rainbow darter and fantail darter to mixtures of high-risk substances. She hopes to continue in the field of toxicology, investigating how anthropogenic stressors effect physiological aspects of living organisms.
Publications
Visit Rachel's Google Scholar page to view her publications.