Austin Hammond embraces teamwork and technology at GIFS to accelerate research

Austin Hammond brings diverse research experience to the Global Institute for Food Security (GIFS) at the University of Saskatchewan (USask) — and he’s putting it all to use as the Platform Lead for GIFS’ Omics and Precision Analytics Laboratory (OPAL).In his role, Hammond oversees one of the largest high-throughput sequencing facilities in Canada — a world-class laboratory that provides genomics, transcriptomics, and bioinformatics services to researchers in the agri-foo