Health and Food Employees

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  • Our employees have trained extensively in microbiology, biochemistry and biotechnology.
  • Team members are well-trained in quality procedures, including Good Manufacturing Practices and Good Laboratory Practices.
  • Our team realizes that project management is key to successful projects and we strive to maintain high levels of coordination with colleagues and clients.



Key Personnel

Mike Whiting, Ph.D.
Business Unit Manager
Ph: 306-933-6711
Fx: 306-933-7446
Email: whiting@src.sk.ca

  • Microbiologist in food and agriculture industries
  • Business Management
    
Amy Friesen, M.Sc.
Business Development Scientist
Ph: 306-933-7920
Fx: 306-933-7446
Email: friesen@src.sk.ca
 
  • Business development
  • Fermentation and downstream processing design
  • Project management
  • Production of veterinary biologics
   
Monique Haakensen, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Ph: 306-933-5537
Fx: 306-933-5423
Email: haakensen@src.sk.ca
  • Environmental and industrial microbiology
  • Value-added products through bioconversion
  • Microbial community profiling
  • Bioremediation
     
   

Miguel Providenti, M.Sc., Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Ph: 306-933-7294
Fx: 306-933-5423
Email: providenti@src.sk.ca

  • Environmental microbiology, biochemistry, molecular biology, and regulatory risk assessment of microorganisms
  • Biological processing of biomass for biofuels production
  • Production of biological control agents for agriculture
  • Agricultural applications of biochar
   

Xin-Ming Song, M.D., M.Sc. Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
Ph: 306-933-5499
Fx: 306-933-5423
Email: song@src.sk.ca

  • Microbiology and molecular biology
  • Bacteriology and microbial pathogenesis
  • Vaccine development
  • Functional genomics
   

Robert Ashton, A.Sc.T.
Principal Technologist
Ph: 306-933-5103
Fx: 306-933-5423
Email: ashton@src.sk.ca

  • Large scale fermentation and bioprocessing
  • Vaccine manufacture
  • Equipment and facilities management
  • Instrumentation and data acquisition and AutoCAD design
  • Project management
   

Kimberly Baniulis, B.Sc.
Quality Coordinator
Ph: 306-933-5409
Fx: 306-933-5423
Email: baniulis@src.sk.ca

  • Microbiological and analytical techniques
  • Quality control procedures
  • Biological safety regulations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 
























Corporate Capabilities

Our links with other SRC labs provide a wide range of expertise to our clients and allow additional testing, including organic and mineral assays (Analytical Laboratories) as well as DNA fingerprinting and plasmid DNA purification (GenServe Laboratories™).

Health and Food is supported by SRC’s corporate services, including:  safety, finance, purchasing, legal, facilities and information technology.
 

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Contact us:

health&food@src.sk.ca