Alia Sanger (she/her) 

Role: Science Education Fellow, Science Communication

Email: alia.sanger [at] mcgill.ca

Biography: Alia Sanger is a PhD candidate in the Earth and Planetary Sciences department at McGill University. Her research uses genomic data to study microbial extracellular enzymes, their evolution, and the impact on the early Earth carbon and phosphorus cycle. Alia completed her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at the University of British Columbia, where she worked in research labs studying bacteria in the human gut and viruses in the ocean. At OSE she is interested in communicating science -- big and small.