Connor Burbridge was born and raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He is currently finishing up his honours thesis while working as a bioinformatics technician for the GIFS root, soil microbiome interactions group. His work includes providing assistance to anyone looking for a helping hand in the area of bioinformatics and investigating new programs and topics of interest to the group. Connor’s past work experience includes working with genotyping by sequencing pipelines and investigation of genome-wide expression analysis programs.