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About Marianne

Marianne M. Stanford hails from the small town of Blaketown, Newfoundland and is currently working as a manager in the biotechnology industry. She received her BSc (Biology) and MSc (Medicine) from Memorial University of Newfoundland and her PhD in 2004 from Dalhousie University, studying the role of chemokine receptors in leukocyte recruitment in inflammation. In her postdoctoral training she has worked with Dr. Grant McFadden (http://www.mgm.ufl.edu/faculty/GMcFadden.htm) at the Robarts Research Institute and Dr. John Bell (http://www.ohri.ca/profiles/bell.asp) at the OHRI, investigating poxviruses as novel oncolytic viruses. In her spare time, she is involved in science outreach and policy, volunteering with programs such as Let’s Talk Science (http://www.letstalkscience.ca/), the CIHR Synapse program (http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/22973.html), Science M@tters (http://www.mun.ca/cdel/sciencematters/) and the National Science and Technology Museam biotechnology lecture series(http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/english/schoolzone/biotech.cfm). She is the former Chair of the Canadian Association of Postdoctoral Scholars (http://sites.google.com/site/canadapostdoc/). She is also an avid singer and budding triathelete.