Research
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Latest papers
Nanoscale plastic pollution: sources, identification and potential mitigation.
Nanotechnology · 2025
DNA metabarcoding analyses reveal fine-scale microbiome structures on Western Canadian bat wings
Microbiology Spectrum · 2024
Understanding Your Own Inner Landscape as a Pathway to Becoming a More Skillful Science Educator.
Journal of microbiology & biology education · 2023 · first author
Latest funding
- $234,990
Multidisciplinary Microanalysis and Micro-imaging Lab
CFI · 2020 · Co-investigator
15 publications.
Nanoscale plastic pollution: sources, identification and potential mitigation.
Boakye GA, Trotta E, Ambagahawatta N, Venkataraman A, Cheeptham N, Papadopoulos C
DNA metabarcoding analyses reveal fine-scale microbiome structures on Western Canadian bat wings
Insuk C, Cheeptham N, Lausen C, Xu J
Understanding Your Own Inner Landscape as a Pathway to Becoming a More Skillful Science Educator.
Cheeptham N
Making It Matter: Increasing Student-Perceived Value of Microbiology through Reflective and Critical News Story Analysis.
Rholl DA, Cheeptham N, Lal A, Kleinschmit AJ, Parks ST, Mestrovic T
Biomineralization in Cave Bacteria—Popcorn and Soda Straw Crystal Formations, Morphologies, and Potential Metabolic Pathways
Keegan Koning, Richenda McFarlane, Jessica T. Gosse, Sara Lawrence, Lynnea Carr, Derrick Horne, Nancy Van Wagoner, Christopher N. C. Boddy, Naowarat Cheeptham
Microbial isolates with Anti-Pseudogymnoascus destructans activities from Western Canadian bat wings
Forsythe A, Fontaine N, Bissonnette J, Hayashi B, Insuk C, Ghosh S, Kam G, Wong A, Lausen C, Xu J
Taxonomic and Metabolite Diversities of Moss-Associated Actinobacteria from Thailand
Insuk C, Pongpamorn P, Forsythe A, Matsumoto A, Ōmura S, Pathom-aree W, Cheeptham N, Xu J
Fundamental research questions in subterranean biology.
Mammola S, Amorim IR, Bichuette ME, Borges PAV, Cheeptham N, Cooper SJB, Culver DC, Deharveng L, Eme D, Ferreira RL, Fišer C, Fišer Ž, Fong DW, Griebler C, Jeffery WR, Jugovic J, Kowalko JE, Lilley TM, Malard F, Manenti R, Martínez A, Meierhofer MB, Niemiller ML, Northup DE, Pellegrini TG, Pipan T, Protas M, Reboleira ASPS, Venarsky MP, Wynne JJ, Zagmajster M, Cardoso P
Bryophytes Harbor Cultivable Actinobacteria With Plant Growth Promoting Potential.
Insuk C, Kuncharoen N, Cheeptham N, Tanasupawat S, Pathom-Aree W
Whole Genome Sequencing and Metabolomic Study of Cave Streptomyces Isolates ICC1 and ICC4
Jessica T. Gosse, Soumya Bikash Ghosh, Amanda Sproule, David P. Overy, Naowarat Cheeptham, Christopher N. C. Boddy
Multidisciplinary Microanalysis and Micro-imaging Lab
Principal investigators: Fraser, Lauchlan
Keywords: Environmental analytical chemistry, micro-imagining, restoration ecology, mine tailings, soil amendments, fly ash, microbial communities, metal bioavailability ICP-mass spectrometer, desktop SEM, Energy Dispersive Spectrometer, microscopy
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Chris Papadopoulos and Anusha Venkataraman: 9 shared papers
- Jianping Xu and Naowarat Cheeptham: 4 shared papers
- Christopher Boddy and Naowarat Cheeptham: 2 shared papers
- Jianping Xu and Kingsley Donkor: 1 shared paper
- Christopher Boddy and Nancy Van Wagoner: 1 shared paper
- Chris Papadopoulos and Naowarat Cheeptham: 1 shared paper
- Kingsley Donkor and Naowarat Cheeptham: 1 shared paper
- Anusha Venkataraman and Naowarat Cheeptham: 1 shared paper
- Naowarat Cheeptham and Nancy Van Wagoner: 1 shared paper
- Science
- Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Department of Biology
- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences
- Chemistry
Co-authors at Thompson Rivers University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Jianping Xu
Department of Biology
4 shared papers, latest 2024
Christopher Boddy
Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences
2 shared papers, latest 2022
Nancy Van Wagoner
Science
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Chris Papadopoulos
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Kingsley Donkor
Chemistry
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Anusha Venkataraman
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
1 shared papers, latest 2025
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