• Graduate student scholarship

    April 2024

    Congratulations to Emma Byers (MSc candidate) on being awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship for her work on butterflies!

  • Successul MSc defense

    Feb 2024

    Congratulations to Michael Campbell, on the successful defence of his MSc thesis on the interacting effects of diet and temperature on zebra finch physiology

  • Successful PhD candidacy exam

    Feb 2024

    Congratulations to Megan Heft, on successfully passing her PhD candidacy exam!

  • New lab publication

    Nov 2023

    New paper in Proceedings of Royal Society B by former students Josh Tabh and Mariah Hartjes shows that birds and mammals forgo thermoregulation when faced with a stressor.

    Read it here

  • Successful PhD defence

    Sept 2023

    Congratulations to Chantelle Penney, who successfully defended her PhD thesis: Within-generation and transgenerational plasticity in cold-adapted salmonids

  • Students present their research

    August 2023

    Graduate students Megan Heft and Kayla Martin present their research at the joint meeting of the American Ornithological Society - Canadian Society for Ornithologists, in London, Ontario

  • New lab publication

    January 2023

    PhD candidate Taylor Brown publishes her review in Conservation Science and Practice on the various causes of nocturnal seabird stranding.

    Read it here

  • Chantelle Penney's research gets journal cover

    December 2022

    PhD candidate Chantelle Penney’s publication on trans-generation plasticity in cold-water fish is the cover article for Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

    Read it here

  • Simon Tapper's research makes journal cover article

    May 2020

    PhD candidate Simon Tapper’s research on thermal limits to exercise in tree swallows is co er article for Journal of Experimental Biology, and is featured in “Inside JEB.”

    See it here

  • Josh Robertson's research is journal cover article

    February 2020

    PhD candidate Josh Robertson’s research on stress in chickadees gets the cover of the Journal of Experimental Biology and is featured in “Inside JEB”

    See it here