I am a biologist in National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, Canada. I obtained my Ph.D from Heidelberg University and Max-Planck-Institute fur Medicine, Heidelberg, Germany in 1997. I worked as a postdoc in University of Florida for three year. I joined Laboratory for Foodborne Zoonosis / National Microbiology Laboratory in 2003 to study E. coli O157:H7. My research focuses on Comparative genomics of E. coliO157:H7, shiga toxin and shiga toxin phage production, virulence factors and mechanisms involoved in the hypervirulence of some E. coli O157:H7 and the German 2011 E. coli O104:H4 outbreak strain.