The Benefit Project

Principal Investigators

Photo credit: George diCenzo

Principal Investigators

Ivan Oresnik

Project Co-Lead; Activity 2 Lead

Title: Professor

Affiliation: University of Manitoba - Department of Microbiology

Email: ivan.oresnik@umanitoba.ca

Phone: 204-474-7587

Activities: 1, 2

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George diCenzo

Project Co-Lead; Activity 1 Co-Lead

Title: Assistant Professor

Affiliation: Queen's University - Department of Biology

Email: george.dicenzo@queensu.ca

Phone: 613-533-6000 ext. 78529

Activities: 1, 23

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Matthew Bakker

Activity 1 Co-Lead

Title: Assistant Professor

Affiliation: University of Manitoba - Department of Microbiology

Email: Matthew.Bakker@umanitoba.ca

Phone: 204-451-6232

Activities: 1, 4

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Terrence Bell

Activity 3 Lead

Title: Assistant Professor

Affiliation: University of Toronto Scarborough - Department of Physical & Environmental Science

Email: terrence.bell@utoronto.ca

Phone: 416-287-7221

Activities: 1, 3

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Olivia Wilkins

Activity 4 Lead

Title: Assistant Professor

Affiliation: University of Manitoba - Department of Biological Sciences

Email: olivia.wilkins@umanitoba.ca

Phone: 204-474-8040

Activities: 1, 4

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Derek G. Brewin

Activity 5 Lead

Title: Professor/Head

Affiliation: University of Manitoba - Department of Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics

Email: Derek.Brewin@umanitoba.ca

Phone: 204-474-8702

Activities: 5

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Nicolas Corradi

Title: Professor, Research Chair

Affiliation: University of Ottawa - Department of Biology

Email: ncorradi@uottawa.ca

Phone: 613-5625800-6563

Activities: 1, 3

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Marina Cvetkovska

Title: Assistant Professor

Affiliation: University of Ottawa - Department of Biology

Email: mcvetkov@uottawa.ca

Phone: 613-562-5800

Activities: 4

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Rebecca Doyle

Title: Assistant Professor

Affiliation: McMaster University - Department of Biology 

Email: sym3lab@gmail.com

Phone: 905-525-9140 ext. 23539

Activities: 1, 23

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Jill Hobbs

Title: Professor

Affiliation: University of Saskatchewan - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Email: jill.hobbs@usask.ca

Phone: 306-966-2445

Activities: 5

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Yvonne Lawley

Title: Associate Professor

Affiliation: University of Manitoba - Department of Plant Science

Email: yvonne.lawley@umanitoba.ca

Phone: 204-474-6504

Activities: 4, 5

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Sabine Liebenehm

Title: Assistant Professor 

Affiliation: University of Saskatchewan – Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Department of Economics

Email: sabine.liebenehm@usask.ca

Phone: 306-966-4072

Activities: 5

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Warren Mabee

Title: Professor 

Affiliation: Queen's University - Geography and Planning

Email: warren.mabee@queensu.ca

Phone: 613-533-3020

Activities: 5

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Allyson MacLean

Title: Associate Professor

Affiliation: University of Ottawa - Department of Biology

Email: amaclea3@uottawa.ca

Phone: 613-562-5800 ext. 6822

Activities: 4

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Neal Scott

Title: Associate Professor

Affiliation: Queen’s University – Department of Geography and Planning

Email: neal.scott@queensu.ca

Phone: 613-533-6000 ext. 75915

Activities: 1, 4, 5

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Ana Vargas

Title: Assistant Professor

Affiliation: University of Saskatchewan - Department of Plant Sciences

Email: a.vargas@usask.ca

Phone: +1 (306) 966-8373

Activities: 2

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Yang Yang

Title: Assistant Professor 

Affiliation: University of Saskatchewan - Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy

Email: yang.yang@usask.ca

Phone: 306-966-1748

Activities: 5

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