Principal Investigator

Glenn Tattersall


Glenn J Tattersall

Professor, Biological Sciences

BSc Hons (Guelph)
PhD (Cambridge)
PDF (Kent State)
NSERC PDF (British Columbia)

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Awards/Honours

NSERC Howard Alper Award Recipient
Bob Boutilier Young Investigator Award -Canadian Society of Zoologists
Visiting Professor, Yale University
Visiting Professor, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, Brasil
Visiting Professor, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Visiting Professor, University of Tasmania
Visiting Professor, Univeristé de Lyon
Afiliate of Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia em Fisiologia Comparada
Chancellor’s Chair for Research Excellence, Brock University


Primary Research Interests

  • Mechanisms and Patterns of Thermoregulation and Metabolism in Hypoxia
  • Neural Control of Body Temperature
  • Comparative Thermoregulatory Physiology
  • Metabolic Suppression, Aestivation, Overwintering, Hibernation
  • Thermal Windows and Control of Heat Loss in Endotherms
  • Environmental Physiology
  • Physiology of Extremophiles
  • ‘Thermal Dynamics’ of Heat Exchange in Animals
  • Proximate and Ultimate Causes of Allen’s Rule in Endotherms
  • Physiology and Climate Change: Constraints, Acclimation, Adaptation
  • Infrared Thermal Imaging and Non-invasive Approaches to Physiology

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