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Michelle has a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture with a Major in Animal Science and a Minor in Molecular Biology and Genetics from the Dalhousie Agricultural Campus. She worked as an analyst at Maxxam Analytics (now Bureau Veritas Labs) in Bedford for five and a half years, working with GC/MS/FID instrumentation to test water and soil samples.
She spent two years as a Quality Assurance Technician with Breathing Green Solutions, a local cannabis producer, before moving back to a laboratory environment with BloomLabs. Michelle joins BloomLabs as an analytic chemist and is looking forward to the analytical work and continuing to pioneering the rapidly expanding cannabis industry.
Adèle Joyce joins the Bloom Labs team at Perennia as the Quality Assurance Coordinator. Her role includes ensuring regulatory compliance and monitoring the continual improvement of laboratory practices.
Adèle graduated from Saint Mary’s University in 2015 with a BSc (Honours) in Biology with concentrations in Microbiology and Genetics. She worked with the CFIA for two years as a Microbiology Analyst testing food and beverages for microbial contamination. Most recently, Adèle was employed as the Quality Assurance Manager with a local cannabis producer.
She is very excited to be part of the Bloom Labs team and is looking forward to her continued career in a new industry.
Talia’s role at Perennia provides support for protected crop production across the province. Although the majority of her professional experience is in greenhouse tomatoes, she is expanding into all protected commodities that are grown in Nova Scotia
Originally from Southern Ontario, Talia is excited to apply her knowledge of greenhouse growing to Nova Scotia production systems. She graduated from the University of Guelph in 2015 and spent the following five years working at Vineland Research and Innovation Centre. She was able to gain experience in plant pathology, breeding and production, all while working in a newly constructed hydroponic greenhouse. Talia actively identifies risks and appropriate solutions to mitigate them while keeping the realities of production in mind. Understanding the production system and optimizing inputs are the name of the game for a successful crop and play a key role in creating a more efficient future.
Chelsea Meisner has experience in the development, scale-up and commercial production of new food products. She has 12 years of experience in all aspects of product development, from concept to commercialization, manufacturing and quality control. Her areas of interest are beverage development, specifically, craft alcoholic beverages and brewing and Cannabis edibles.
Chelsea completed a B.Sc. in Food Science at Dalhousie University. Her past work experience includes, QC Technician/Product Development for IMO Foods and Comeaus Seafoods before moving to New Hampshire to become the Research and Development Manager for a private co-pack manufacture of vinegar, apple juice and mustard. In this role, Chelsea was involved with all aspects of manufacturing, including QC, inventory, HACCP, developing new products and scale up to commercial production. During her time in New England, Chelsea was also the Food Scientist for a Product Development Consulting Group in Rhode Island. Here, she was able to expand her product portfolio experience by working on value-added products, vegan cheese, energy drinks, coffee beverages, protein bars and dairy-free ice cream.
Once returning to Canada, Chelsea joined the team at Canada’s Smartest Kitchen in Charlottetown, P.E.I. where she continued to develop products from bench to commercial scale level. At Canada’s Smartest Kitchen, she was able to work on several alcoholic beverage projects allowing her to gain experience in that field. Before joining the Perennia team, Chelsea worked in the Cannabis Industry, developing products for the Cannabis 2.0 launch. Her primary focus was developing soft chews and setting up an entire processing line for producing the product. She successfully had the Foray, and Kolab Soft Chew Line developed for Cannabis 2.0 launch in December 2019.
When Chelsea isn’t developing food products, you will find her enjoying her favourite hobby, brewing beer. She has apprenticed at a microbrewery in New Hampshire and won a Maritime wide Homebrew Competition, which allowed her to brew her beer with Gahan Brewery to have it canned and released across the Maritimes.
Dale received a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience with a minor in Biology and a certification in Science Leadership and Communication from Dalhousie University.
Prior to joining BloomLabs, Dale worked for four years in various laboratory and administrative roles across the Quality Control and Operations sectors in the dairy industry.
As BloomLabs’ Microbiologist, Dale is responsible for the operation of the microbiology lab, including the microbiological analysis of cannabis products for detection of pathogens and enumeration of microorganisms. Dale is also responsible for validating methods for new cannabis matrices.
Victoria received a BSc (Honours) in Chemistry from Memorial University of Newfoundland and an MSc in Chemistry from Memorial University in Newfoundland. During her MSc, she studied the capturing of environmental pollutants from the environment utilizing porous materials.
Prior to joining BloomLabs, she worked at Jost Vineyards as the Quality Control Laboratory Technician. During her time there, she was responsible for all laboratory analysis pertaining to the quality assurance of all grapes and wine pre- and post-packaging, instrument maintenance, and new product development.
Victoria joins the team as Analytical Chemist, and she is thrilled for the opportunity to learn and work in the growing cannabis industry. As she originally grew up in Truro, she is also excited to be working back in her hometown.