Dr. Eynck joined Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada as a Research Scientist in spring of 2017. She took over the breeding programs previously managed by Dr. Kevin Falk and now works on genetics, genomics, phenomics and variety development in camelina (Camelina sativa) and carinata (Brassica carinata). Dr. Eynck studied Biology and Agricultural Sciences at the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel, Germany and received her Ph.D. in Plant Pathology from the Georg-August-University in Göttingen, Germany in 2008. Subsequently, until 2011, Dr. Eynck worked at AAFC-SRDC as a NSERC Visiting postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Ginette Séguin-Swartz and later that of Dr. Isobel Parkin. Before joining AAFC-SRDC again as a Research Scientist, Dr. Eynck worked for six years as a camelina breeder for Linnaeus Plant Sciences (now Smart Earth Camelina Corporation).
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Saskatoon Research and Development Center