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Professional Experience
Publications
Academic Service and Volunteering
Teaching Experience and Invited Lectures
Training and Conferences

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Professional Experience

2025 Research Librarian (HM-STEM)
University of Ottawa

  • Provide research support for graduate students and in Postgraduate Medical Education, Anatomical Sciences Education, and Pharmacy.
  • Conduct instructional sessions for research techniques including literature searching and knowledge synthesis.
  • Participate as team member in knowledge synthesis and other research projects.

2025 Replacement Research Librarian (Geography and GIS)
University of Ottawa

  • Provide research support for students in the Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics
  • Conduct instructional sessions on general library information and available GIS resources
  • Contribute to division-wide initiatives and projects.

2024 Replacement Research Librarian (HM-STEM)
University of Ottawa

  • Provide research support for graduate students and faculty in the School of Human Kinetics and Post Graduate Medical program.
  • Conduct instructional sessions for research techniques including literature and data analysis.
  • Design searches for systematic reviews.

2024 Research Assistant
McGill University School of Information Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Joan Bartlett

  • Assist in qualitative analysis looking and undergraduates’ information behaviour.
  • Transcript validation and statistical analysis of demographic data.

2024 Research Data Management Intern
McGIll University Library
Supervisor: Dr. Alisa Beth Rod

  • Review current standards on research data management (RDM) in Canadian academic institutions.
  • Create RDM toolkit and instruct liaison librarians on best practices for their disciplines.

2019-2022 Research Assistant
Simon Fraser University
Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Supervisor: Dr. Fiona Brinkman

  • Conducted and designed original bioinformatic analyses for the CHILD Cohort Study.
  • Facilitated and participated in database testing for the CHILD Cohort Study.

2020 Bioinformatics Intern
BC Centres for Disease Control
Supervisor: Dr. Natalie Prystajecky

  • Conducted original research looking at phylodynamic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 sequences.
  • Designed original tools for SARS-CoV-2 genome visualization in order to enhance public health responses.

2018 ISRG Summer Research Student
Mount Allison University
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Supervisor: Dr. K Fraser Clark

  • Worked independently performing bioinformatic analysis of lobster pathogen Aerococcus viridans var. homari
  • Participated in collaborative field work collecting samples for crustacean microbiome and parasite analysis

Education

2022-2024 Master of Information Studies
 McGill University
 Non-Thesis Program-Specialization Library Studies

2019-2022 MSc Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
 Simon Fraser University
 UBC/SFU Graduate Studies in Bioinformatics Program
 Supervisor: Dr. Fiona Brinkman
 Thesis: Impacts of Medication Use on Child Gut Microbiome Outcomes in the CHILD Cohort Study

2015-2019 BSc (Honours) Biochemistry with minor in Biology
 Mount Allison University  Supervisor: Dr. K Fraser Clark
 Thesis: Identification of Virulence Factors and Phylogenetic Analysis of Aerococcus viridans var. homari

Publications

Journal Articles-Peer Reviewed:

Garlock ES, Bartlett JC. (2026). Making sense of the MeSH: The influence of automatic indexing on chemistry and genetics MEDLINE citations. Submitted to the Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association.

Y Soliman, U Yakandawala, C Leong, ES Garlock, FSL Brinkman, GL Winsor, AL Kozyrskyj, PJ Mandhane, SE Turvey, TJ Moraes, P Subbarao , NC Nickel, K Thiessen, MB Azad, LE Kelly. (2024) The use of prescription medications and non-prescription medications during lactation in a prospective Canadian cohort study. International Breastfeeding Journal. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13006-024-00628-x

Arab M, Woods N, Garlock ES, Winsor GL, Parks JP, Jia B, Doiron D, Takaro T, Brook JR, Brinkman FSL. (2023). GlobeCorr: Interactive globe-based visualization for correlation Datasets. Bioinformatic Advances. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbac099

Bédard P, Winsor GL, Garlock ES, Azad MB, Becker AB, Mandhane PJ, Moraes TJ , Sears MR, Turvey SE, Subbarao P, Brinkman FSL, Kozyrskyj AL. (2022). From prescription drugs to natural health products: Medication use in Canadian infants. Children. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/children9101475

Jia B, Garlock ES, Lo R, Allison MJ, Round JM, Helbing C, Verreault J, Brinkman FSL. (2022). Characterizing the Relationship Between the Skin Microbiome and Flame Retardant Exposure of the Endangered St. Lawrence Estuary Beluga. Frontiers in Environmental Science. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.954060

Tindale, L., Stockdale, J.E., Coombe, M., Garlock, ES., Lau, W.Y.V., Saraswat, M., Zhang, L., Chen, D., Wallinga, J., Colijn, C. (2020). Evidence for transmission of COVID-19 prior to symptom onset. eLife. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.57149

Oral Presentations

ES Garlock, A Amar-Zifkin (2026). Data-Driven Characterization of MEDLINE Indexing Practices Using Open-Source and Publicly Available Tools. International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology Conference 2026.

A Amar-Zifkin, R Le Faive, ES Garlock , T Ekmekjian, V Paquet, TLandry (2026). Assessing the performance of the National Library of Medicine’s Medical Text Indexer - neXt-generation (MTIX) MEDLINE indexing algorithm. Canadian Health Libraries Conference. June 2nd-5th, 2026. Quebec City, QC, Canada.

ES Garlock, A Amar-Zifkin. (2026). Characterizing curation : creating a readily-accessible changelog of MEDLINE indexing. Canadian Health Libraries Conference. June 2nd-5th, 2026. Quebec City, QC, Canada. [Presentation]. June 2nd-5th. Virtual.

ES Garlock (2026). Considerations for the use of Artificial Intelligence for Medical Education. International Congress of Academic Medicine. April 16th, 2026. Ottawa, ON, Canada.

ES Garlock, JC Bartlett (2025). Investigating the Impact of the NLM Automatic Indexer on Information Retrieval using citation metadata. Canadian Health Libraries Conference, June 3-6, 2025. Vancouver, BC, Canada.

ES Garlock(2025). Pirates vs Paywalls: Preliminary Investigation into the Utility of Sci-Hub Download Logs for Identifying Trends in User Behaviour. Canadian Health Libraries Conference, June 3-6, 2025. Vancouver, BC, Canada.

ES Garlock, JC Bartlett. (2024). Using Citation Metadata to Investigate the Implications of Automatic Indexing Algorithms on Information Retrieval. Concordia Library Research Forum, April 16th, 2024. Montreal QC, Canada. LINK

M Monosky, ES Garlock, C Turp, K Howard, C Pecoskie, AB Rod. (2023). Building a literacy-informed technology training program for MLIS students with MLIS students. ABQLA Conferece, May 26th, 2023. Montreal QC, Canada.

ES Garlock, S Greenwood, KF Clark. (2018). A pathogenomic comparison of virulent and avirulent Aerococcus viridans var. homari. Atlantic Canadian Association of Parasitologists Conference, October 20th, 2018. Pictou NS, Canada

ES Garlock, KF Clark. (2018). Genotypic and phenotypic basis of virulence in a pathogenic marine bacterium. Mount Allison University Summer Undergraduate Research Fair, September 13, 2018. Sackville NB, Canada

Abstracts-Published
All abstracts published as posters unless otherwise indicated

M Peeva, ES Garlock, S Dufour. Peripheral Precocious Puberty Secondary to Ovarian Cysts in Prepubertal Girls-A Scoping Review and Case report. World Congress Pediatric Gynecology, April 23rd-25th, 2026. San Francisco, CA, USA.

ES Garlock, JC Bartlett (2024). MeSHing Around with Citation Metadata to Explore Patterns in Automatic Indexing: Preliminary Results. Canadian Health Libraries Conference, June 11-14, 2024. Winnipeg, MB, Canada. LINK

ES Garlock, GL Winsor, V Jin, N Kumpula, T Matthews, M Azad, AKozyrskyj ,P Mandhane, T Moraes, M Sears, E Simons, P Subbarao, S Turvey, FSL Brinkman (2021) Using Ontologies to Enhance Large Scale Analyses of Patterns in Microbiome and Medication Use. BIGX Research Day, March 31st, 2021. Vancouver BC, Canada.

ES Garlock, KF Clark (2018) Genotypic and phenotypic basis of virulence in a pathogenic marine bacterium. Mount Allison University Summer Undergraduate Research Fair, September 13, 2018. Sackville NB, Canada

ES Garlock, M Corkum, DA Campbell (2018) Evaluation of Parlee and Murray Beach Microbial Water Quality. Coastal Protection and Restoration on the Northumberland Strait Conference, April 23rd, 2018. Shediac NB, Canada

Blog Posts
ES Garlock, Intro to Academic Literature., February 3rd, 2025.
ES Garlock, Connect With CINECA-Emma Garlock, June 5th, 2020.

Scholarships and Awards

Grants and Funded Research
 2024 McGill School of Information Studies Travel Funding
 2024 CHLA Conference Grant
 2022 Graduate Fellowship Funding, value: $7,000
 2021 Weyerhaeuser Grad Scholarship, value: $7,000
 2020-2021 NSERC-Create in Bioinformatics, value: $24,500.
 2019-2020 CIHR-GSM Grant, value: $17,500
 2018 Independent Student Research Grant, value: $7,000

Merit Awards
 2024 People’s Choice Award for Best Poster Presentation-CHLA 2024
 2023 Lucille M Wert Fellowship, value: $1,500 USD.
 2018-2019 Harold E Bigelow Undergraduate Scholarship in Chemistry, value: $1,325
 2015-2019 Dean’s List Academic Standing Mount Allison University
 2016-2017 Murray Sears Award in Chemistry

Service and Volunteering

2025-2026 Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association. Peer Reviewer.

2025-2026 uOttawa Library Training Committee. Committee Member.

2024-2025 uOttawa Library Research Grants Selection Committee. Committee Member

2024 McGill SIS ALA reaccreditation Committee on Standard III: Faculty, Student Representative

2022 Montreal Children’s Hospital Family Resource Centre, Volunteer

2022 BiblioTECH, Volunteer

Shinerama Canada
2022 Regional Director for British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba
2021 Regional Director for British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba
2020 Campaign Advisor for Manitoba and Saskatchewan
2019 Campaign Advisor for British Columbia and Alberta

MBB Graduate Caucus
2021 Caucus Secretary
2020 Caucus President
2020 Student Representative on Graduate Student Recruitment Committee
2019 GSS Representative

2020 Simon Fraser Student Undergraduate Research Journal, Graduate Student Peer Reviewer

2020 Simon Fraser Graduate Student Society, COVID-19 Task Force Member

Additional Teaching Experience and Invited Lectures

2026 Guest Lecturer. Title: Automatic Indexing at the NLM. McGill School of Information Studies-INFS 671: Health Sciences Information.
2026 Guest Lecturer. Title: Application of AI to Subject Heading Indexing. UOttawa School of Information Studies-ISI 6314 The Publishing Business.
2026 Guest Lecturer. Title: Application of AI to Subject Heading Indexing. UOttawa School of Information Studies-ISI 6300 AI and Information Policy.
2025 Guest Lecturer. Title: Automatic Indexing at the NLM.McGill School of Information Studies. INFS 673.
2025 Invited Panelist. CAPAL McGill Student Chapter. New Grad Panel: Advice on the acaedmic job hunt.

2021 Guest Teaching Assistant
Simon Fraser University

  • Created a new assignment for the molecular biology and biochemistry class to facilitate engagement with current scientific research and help them analyze and understand the phylodynamics of SARS-CoV-2.

2019-2020 Workshop Leader
RLadies Vancouver

  • Created original educational content to teach basic data visualization using RStudio. Two workshops completed on November 18th, 2019 and March 5th, 2020

  • Course materials can be viewed here

Skills and Interests

Languages: Bilingual, English and holding B2 Level Diplôme D’études en Langue Français (DELF)
Computing: Expert with R programming language, Python and, Bash Scripts for high performance computing
Leadership: Strong work ethic and organizational skills for both individual and group settings
Interests: Loves reading fantasy novels and has been an avid knitter since 2016.