Nisha Ajmani

Nisha Ajmani (MSc 2017) wrote her thesis on Transcriptomic analysis of ovarian development in parasitic Ichthyomyzon castaneus (chestnut lamprey) and non-parasitic Ichthyomyzon fossor (northern brook lamprey), co-supervised by Dr. Sara Good.

She is a Bioinformatician and has been working on various genomics and bioinformatics projects with Fisheries and Oceans Canada, the University of Manitoba, and the University of Winnipeg. She has experience in academic research, data analysis, teaching, and project management. She is a key organizer of Soapbox Science Winnipeg, where researchers from different areas of STEM participate and talk about their research projects in a public event, and she has been working on this project with a core vision to ignite a passion for science and motivate young students to take up STEM areas of study. She is passionate about science and strongly believes that sciences are powerfully contributing to shaping a better world.