Wolf Veiga, Patricia

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Patricia Wolf Veiga is the Diagnostic Technician at NBDC-TAC since June 2012. Patricia grew up in Brazil in a farm environment where she acquired beekeeping experience working with Africanized Honey Bees in her family's farm. She completed her bachelor degree in Biology at the Federal University of Parana in 2006. She moved to Victoria, British Columbia in 2007 where she worked as a research assistant at the Centre for Forest Biology at the University of Victoria. A few years later she engaged in the graduate program at the Biology department at UVic and she recently earned her Master's degree in soil microbiology. Patricia has extensive experience on microbiology and molecular biology techniques and she is applying these techniques to detect the most common pathogens that affect honey bees.