Janet Hill
Professor
Department of Veterinary Microbiology
University of Saskatchewan
Canada
Biography
Dr. Hill has a background in Biology and Microbiology. Her PhD research was in baculovirus (insect virus) pathogenesis. She did postdoctoral work in plant virology (geminivirus movement) and molecular parasitology (Trypanosoma cruzi pathogenesis) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Hill's next step was to work as a research scientist at the National Research Council of Canada Plant Biotechnology Institute, developing cpnDB and cpn60 sequence-based methods for microbial ecology and diagnostics. She became a faculty member in Veterinary Microbiology at the University of Saskatchewan in January 2006.
Research Interest
Research interests include microbial ecology, livestock and human disease, phylogenetics and taxonomy, molecular diagnostics, and the development of cpnDB, a chaperonin sequence database.
Publications
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Schellenberg JJ, Oh AY, Hill JE. Microbial profiling of cpn60 universal target sequences in artificial mixtures of vaginal bacteria sampled by nylon swabs or self-sampling devices under different storage conditions. Journal of Microbiological Methods. 2017 May 31;136:57-64.
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Freitas AC, Chaban B, Bocking A, Rocco M, Yang S, Hill JE, Money DM, VOGUE Research Group. The vaginal microbiome of pregnant women is less rich and diverse, with lower prevalence of Mollicutes, compared to non-pregnant women. Scientific Reports. 2017;7.
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Subudhi S, Rapin N, Bollinger TK, Hill JE, Donaldson ME, Davy CM, Warnecke L, Turner JM, Kyle CJ, Willis CK, Misra V. A persistently infecting coronavirus in hibernating Myotis lucifugus, the North American little brown bat. Journal of General Virology. 2017 Aug 25.
