Pr. Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe is currently an Assistant Professor at the Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada. She completed her postdoc from 2017-2019 at the Department of Physiology, Pharmacology and Pediatrics, The University of Calgary. Isabelle does research in Microbial Ecology, Microbiology, Genomics, and Ecology. Her current projects include 'Tree Phyllosphere Microbiome: From Natural Forests to Urban Environments' and 'Early-life human gut microbiome dynamics'.