Bridget is an incoming PhD student in the Cell and Systems Biology stream at the University of Toronto Mississauga. In her honour’s thesis and master’s, she studied the physiological responses of Canadian boreal conifers, specifically black spruce and tamarack, to climate change in the Way lab at the University of Western Ontario. During her master’s, she also worked on campaigns for the SPRUCE project (Spruce and Peatland Responses Under Changing Environments) to model carbon fluxes using an old growth forest site in North Minnesota. More recently, she has joined the Ensminger lab to examine the physiological, molecular and genetic responses of different white spruce (Picea glauca) families to future climatic stressors, i.e. droughts and heat waves. Outside of her studies, Bridget is a mom to an energetic toddler and wife to a fellow academic.