Alyssa Turnbull

Biography

Alyssa is a MSc student who began her research in July, 2019 in the School of Public Health, at the University of Alberta under the supervision of Dr. Hanington.

Alyssa completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Alberta majoring in the Biological Sciences. During this time, she worked in the Proctor lab assisting a MSc student focusing on invertebrate ecology/biology. Alyssa was also fortunate to complete a research project with the Hanington Lab mapping T. tubifex worms in Alberta, a host to M. cerebralis the causative parasite of Whirling Disease. It was this time that it inspired her to begin her current research around Whirling Disease.