People

Current Students:

Sarah Young, MSc Student (2023 – present). Project – Evolutionary variation in freshwater tolerance among populations and species of stickleback fishes.

Abby Brouwer, NSERC URSA (2021- present). Project – Effects of high salinity on killifish metabolic rate.

Connor Douglas, SMUworks Student (2021 – present). Project – Salinity tolerance in stickleback and killifish

Past Graduate Students:

Anna Bernhardsson, MSc Student (2019 – 2021). Project – Are the mechanisms leading to freshwater adaptation among species of stickleback similar?

Nathalie MacPherson, MSc Student (2019 – 2021, co-supervised with Dr. Laura Weir). Project – Mechanisms affecting rates and directions of hybridization in killifish species producing asexual hybrids.

Lauren Jonah, MSc Student (2017 – 2019). Project – Adaptation and acclimation to high salinities in Killifishes

Anne Haley, MSc Student (2016 – 2018, co-supervised with Dr. Laura Weir). Project – Nuptial coloration and breeding behaviour in an endemic stickleback.

Past Undergraduate Students:

Sarah Tufts, SMUworks & Dean of Science Award Student (2021 – 2022). Project – Genetic identification of killifish species and hybrid clonal lineages

Chloe Champion, SMUworks Student & NSERC URSA Summer Student (2020-2021). Project – Mechanisms affecting rates and directions of hybridization in killifish species producing asexual hybrids.

Sophia Newcombe, BScH Student (2019 – 2020, co-supervised with Dr. Laura Weir). Project – Salinity preference of Banded, Common and hybrid killifishes.

Morgan Lindsey MacDonald, NSERC URSA & BScH Student (2019 – 2020). Project – What makes the ‘white’ stickleback white? Histological comparison of melanophores and irodophores in the skin of ‘white’ and ‘common’ Threespine Stickleback.

Alyssa Densmore, BScH Student (2019 – 2020). Project – Is there variation in freshwater tolerance among Fourspine Sticklebacks populations (Apeltes quadracus)?

Hayley Drapeau, SMUworks Student (2019-2020). Project – Stability and identification of Killifish hybrid asexual clonal lineages

Adelaide von Kursell, BScH Student (2018 – 2019). Project – Evolution of claudin 10 isoforms in Killifishes

Svetlana Tirbhowan, BScH Student (2018 – 2019). Project – Stability of Killifish hybrid asexual clonal lineages

Reha Purdasy, SMUworks Student (2018-2019). Project – Molecular identification of Killifish species

Maggie Redden, NSERC URSA Summer Student (2018). Project – Hyper-salinity tolerance evolution in Killfishes

Nathalie MacPherson, SMUworks & BScH Student (2017 – 2018). Project – Molecular differentiation of Nova Scotian Threespine Stickleback populations

Yayra Gbotsyo, SMUworks Student (2017 – 2018). Project – Molecular identification of Killifish species

Rachel Corney, NSERC URSA Summer Student (2017). Project – Salinity tolerance evolution in Killifishes