• New lab publication

    April 2025

    Recent MSc graduate Michael Campbell published his first paper on zebra finches in Journal of Experimental Zoology A - Ecological and Integrative Physiology.

    Read it here

    Photo by: Angelo Casto

    Zebra finch on branch
  • Successful PhD conversion exam

    Feb 2025

    Congratulations to Emma Byers, who successfully passed her conversion exam, allowing her to transfer from the MSc to PhD program

    Emma Byers
  • Successful MSc defence

    Nov 2024

    Congratulations to Kayla Martin, on the successful defence of her MSc thesis on factors affecting survival in wild turkey

    Kayla Martin
  • 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

    Michael Cambell
  • Successful PhD candidacy exam

    Feb 2024

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

    Megan Heft
  • 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.

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  • Successful PhD defence

    Sept 2023

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

    Chantelle Penney
  • 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

    Journal cover image of brook trout
  • 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

    Journal cover image of female tree swallow feeding nestlings
  • 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

    Chickadee on a branch