Alumni

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Natalie Bakker

NSERC USRA Student (2024), Honours Thesis Student (2024-2025)
Research Topic: Thermal Biology and Behaviour of Bearded Dragons

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Danilo Giacometti

PhD Student (2021-2025)
Research Topic: Thermal Biology and Physiology of Reptiles and
Amphibians

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Margaret Kitney


Honours Thesis Student (2024-2025)
Research Topic: Thermal biology and behaviour of guppies

JaneOleksiw.png Jane Oleksiw

NSERC USRA Student (2022)
Research Topic: Lizard personality

 

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NSERC USRA Student (2019)
Research Topic: Control of evaporative water loss

 

AnneYagi_s Anne Yagi

BSc Hons (Guelph), MSc (Brock)
Conservation Biologist, President 8Trees Inc, Collaborator
Research Interests: Assessing the survivability of overwintering snakes

 

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NSERC USRA Student 2019
Honours Thesis Student 2020
Research Topic: Repeatability of thermal preference

 

KatYagi.jpg Katharine Yagi

BSc Hons, (University of Guelph)
MSc (Laurentian University)
PhD (McGill University)
Research Associate and Post-Doctoral Fellow
Personal Website

 

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Nick Sakich

BSc Hons (Brock University)
MSc, Brock University
Thesis Topic: Water conservation and thermoregulatory responses in bearded dragons

 

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Justin Bridgeman

BSc Hons (Brock University)
MSc, Brock University
Thesis Topic: Thermal biology and behaviour of Round Gobies

 

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Curtis Abney

BSc Hons (Trinity Western University)
MSc, Brock University
Thesis Topic: Thermal biology of snakes

 

OmarEspino_sOmar Espino

Biological Sciences Honours Research Student
BSc Hons, Biological Sciences Student (Brock Univ)
Research Topic: Behavioural and metabolic responses of bumblebees to phermonal signals

 

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Philip Bartel

NSERC Undergraduate Research Student
BSc Hons, Biological Sciences Student (Brock Univ)
Research Topics: Thermal biology of emersion behaviour in the mangrove rivulus / Thermal personalities of hermit crabs

 

Swang_sSusan Wang

BSc Hons (University of Toronto)
MSc Student, Brock University
Thesis Topic: Effects of parasitism on the energetics of amphibians

 

Viviana_sViviana Cadena

BSc Hons (Andes)
MSc (Brock): Thermoregulatory Behaviour in lizards
PhD Thesis: Thermoregulatory Acclimation to Simulated Altitude

 

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Katlyn Dundas

BSc Hons Student (Brock University)
Thesis Topic: Thermoregulatory behaviours of the mangrove rivulus

 

IanBlack_sIan Black

BSc Hons (Mount Allison)
MSc, Brock University
Topic: Thermoregulatory Behaviour in Bearded Dragons

 

Carolina_sCarolina Scarpellini

PhD Exchange Student, UNESP – Jaboticabal, SP, Brasil
Science without Borders – Ciência sem fronteiras
Thermoregulatory and water conservation trade-offs in reptiles

 

TatianaKummer_sTatiana Kummer

Undergraduate Student, Major: Biological Sciences
Science Without Borders Exchange Student – Brasil
Research: ThermoTRP channel expression patterns in ectotherms

 

LailaFrancisco_sLaila Francisco

Undergraduate Student, Major: Biological Sciences
Science Without Borders Exchange Student – Brasil
Research: ThermoTRP channel expression patterns in ectotherms

 

OliviaLepine_sOlivia LePine

Undergraduate Student, Major: Biological Sciences
Mentorship Student: Thermal Agonism in Crayfish
NSERC USRA Student: Behavioural plasticity in Drosophila

 

KendraRoss_sKendra Ross

Undergraduate Student, Major: Biological Sciences
Honours Thesis Research: Cold hardiness in over carpenter bees

 

Jacob_sJacob Berman

BSc Hons(Guelph)
MSc Thesis: Themosensory influences on thermoregulation
Graduated 2013

 

Qian_sQian Long

‘International Man of Mystery’
BSc Hons(Toronto)
MSc Thesis: Oxygen exchange inside insect galls
Graduated 2012

 

Cheryl_smallCheryl Dobell

Undergraduate Student, Major: Biological Sciences
Honours Thesis: Thermoregulatory role of hydrogen sulfide
Graduated 2012

 

PatrickMoldowanPatrick Moldowan

Undergraduate Student (Univ Guelph)
Bat Lake Inventory of Spotted Salamanders (BLISS) Project 2010 – Present
Wildlife Research Station, Algonquin Park, Ontario

 

SeanBoyleSean Boyle

Undergraduate Student (Brock University)
Bat Lake Inventory of Spotted Salamanders (BLISS) Project 2011 – present
Wildlife Research Station, Algonquin Park, Ontario
Honours Student: ‘Skeletochronology of Spotted Salamanders’
Graduated 2012

 

JoshLuebbert_sJoshua Luebbert

Undergraduate Student, Major: Biological Sciences
Honours Thesis: ‘Temperature effects on agonistic behaviours of crayfish’
Graduated 2010

 

LauraAedy_sLaura Aedy

Undergraduate Student, Major: Biological Sciences
NSERC Undergraduate Summer Research Award (USRA) – 2009
Topic: ‘Thermoregulatory responses to environmental stress’

 

DavidLeGrosDavid LeGros

Undergraduate Student (Trent University)
Bat Lake Inventory of Spotted Salamanders (BLISS) Project: 2008 – 2009
Wildlife Research Station, Algonquin Park, Ontario

 

AnnDion_sAnn Dion

Undergraduate Student, Major: Biochemistry
Experience Works Student 2009
Topic: Calorimetry and Energetics

 

TealaTyson_sTeala Tyson

MSc Student – 2008
Visiting from University of Florida
Topic: Temperature effects on limb regeneration in newts

 

Danielle_smallDanielle Levesque

BSc (McGill)
MSc Thesis: Seasonal Energetics and Thermoregulatory Behaviour of Eastern Chipmunks
Graduated 2008

 

Brent_sBrent Wiens

Laboratory Research Technician – 2005
General Handyman
Worm wrangler
Research Project: Thermotactic responses of C. elegans

 

chris_sChristopher Lowen

Experience Works Student
Honours Thesis: The role of stress hormones in the thermoregulation of lizards
Graduated: 2007

 

dallas_sWilliam Dallas Cundick

Honours Thesis: Influence of dietary polyunsaturated fats on thermoregulation in zebrafish
Graduated 2007

 

dimitri_sDimitri “Shiny” Skandalis

Undergraduate Student
Brock Undergraduate Student Research Award Recipient
Honours Student 2007
Low temperature hardiness in Carpenter bees.
Thermogenesis of feeding in snakes
Physiology of Frustrated Systems

 

nicole_sNicole Spiegelaar

Undergraduate Student
NSERC USRA Student
Symbiosis between developing salamander embryos and the
alga, Oophila

 

Josh_sJoshua “Oddjob” Shaw

Undergraduate
Student / Research Technician
Experience Plus Student 2005
Honours Student 2006
Embryonic Development of Salamander Larvae
Thermoregulation of zebrafish -chemical vs. environmental hypoxia

 

Jameel Khan

NSERC USRA Student (Brock University)
Honours Student 2006
Respiratory Mechanisms of Water Conservation in Bearded Dragons
Aggregation behaviour in neonatal bearded dragons

 

Jesse_sJesse Barraza de Velasco

Honours Student (Brock University)
Thermoregulatory control of of dermal chromatophores in bearded dragons
Graduated 2005

 

Eric_smallEric Clendinning

Undergraduate Student
NSERC USRA Student 2005
Physiology of larval Yellow Spotted salamanders.

 

Tonya_sTonya Coplen

BSc Hons (Brock University)
4th Year BSc Hons Student (Brock University) Thesis:
The effects of water temperature and depth on the respiratory behaviour of bullfrogs.

 

RebeccaGerlachRebecca “Becks” Gerlach

BSc (Brock)
NSERC USRA Student 2004
The Effects of Hypoxia on Gaping Behaviour of Bearded Dragons

 

DaveRobertson_sDavid “Sir Isaac” Robertson

BSc Hons (Brock)
4th Year BSc Hons Student (Brock University)
Thesis: Hypoxia Tolerance and Cutaneous Respiration in Frogs

 

SaraStewart_sSara Stewart

BSc Hons (Brock)
Undergraduate Research Technican 2003
Founding Lab Member