Sandra Isabel is a clinical researcher and a pediatric microbiologist and infectiologist at the CHU de Québec-Université Laval. Her research focuses on diagnostics and surveillance of infectious diseases based on omics and artificial intelligence technologies. She has carried out a pathogen prioritization exercise for public health genomics.

Dr. Isabel will be involved in part 3a, which focuses on the isolation and culture of antibiotic-resistant strains from air samples. She is taking over from Dr. Bergeron since his retirement, and will support PhD Student Joanie Lemieux until the end of the project.