Rick Byers Lab

@lab.rbyers.ca

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I am a citizen scientist and a molecular biology enthusiast. https://lab.rbyers.ca

PCR amplification curves from 4 wells and 1 channel showing nice s-curves in 3 of them and a flat line in the 4th.
Home lab bench showing a Bio-Rad CFX96 and other equipment.
7 PCR tubes in the p51lab.info fluorescence viewer. The first four look yellow, the last three look orange.
A rapid antigen test with Adeno, RSV and FLU A+B lanes, all three negative.
Table showing all respiratory viruses I've found in myself since starting my lab.
Charts of coverage depth for my 3 new samples
Nextclade phylogenetic chart of SARS-CoV-2 viruses from nextstrain.org, my 7 sequences are highlighted with their Pango lineage designation.
Image of a slide with speaker notes saying: "This is me and my son Oliver when he was about 1 One night he had a cold. His breathing sounded a little rough so we took him to the Doctor. The doctor checked his O2 and called 911! He was whisked away to the hospital in an ambulance where he was hooked up to a ventilator! Oliver had asthma induced by colds and allergies. The advice from his doctor was to avoid exposing him to sick people."
A tree of life dominated by microbes with with viruses as a tiny island on the side.
Me with a wall of bacteria
Positive panbio covid-19 antigen test
Graph of testosterone levels starting medium low in 2022, several points medium low in 2025 then a few very low in late 2025 and early 2026. The two points at the bottom of the good range, the fist labeled "start Zinc".
Photo of lab freezer with 20 tube boxes with labels like "Samples 4" and "Probe assays".