Biodiversity Institute for Conservation Synthesis
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Members

Sally Adamowicz

Sally Adamowicz

Diversity of life; biological traits, speciation, molecular evolution; DNA sequence data; aquatic invertebrates; biodiversity of the Arctic.

Sarah Alderman

Effects of environmental stressors on neural, endocrine, and cardiac systems; mechanisms and consequences of stress; fish physiology, morphology, and performance; quantitative proteomics.

Joey Bernhardt

Joey Bernhardt

Seafood biodiversity and human health; metabolic trait evolution, species coexistence; life in fluctuating environments; populations and communities.

Nicholas Bernier

Nicholas Bernier

Environmental and social stressors; neuroendocrine response; corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) system; pathways that regulate stress and appetite and growth.

Sherri Cox

Sherri Cox

Wildlife rehabilitation; sick and injured wildlife; anthropogenic effects on wildlife; free-ranging wildlife; lead toxicosis; morbidities in wild animals.

Steve Crawford

Steve Crawford

Population dynamics of fish, disturbances in the Great Lakes basin; management of natural resources; Indigenous-Western Science Knowledge Systems.

Todd Gillis

Todd Gillis

Fish physiology, toxicology; vertebrate heart; cardiovascular disease and fitness; responses to stress; regulation of function of the striated muscle.

Ryan Gregory

Ryan Gregory

Large-scale genome evolution; DNA quantification methods; DNA-based methods for species ID; integrative genomics, evolutionary biology.

Robert Hanner

Robert Hanner

Assembly and curation of genetic resource collections; bioinformatics; sampling biodiversity; genetic and genomic research.

Andreas Heyland

Andreas Heyland

Functional genomics approaches; endocrine and neuroendocrine systems of aquatic invertebrates; hormonal and neurotransmitter signaling systems; development and metamorphosis.

Shoshanah Jacobs

Shoshanah Jacobs

Experiential and transdisciplinary education; teaching and learning; biomimetics; environmental ecology; avian ecology.

Frederic Laberge

Animal cognition; neuroecology; evolution and plasticity of the nervous system; ecophysiology; stress in aquatic wildlife; indicators of ecological performance and chronic stress in wild fish.

Andrew MacDougall

Andrew MacDougall

Human-based global change; ecological processes; managed farm landscapes; climate change in the Arctic; diversity decline in North America.

Liz Mandeville

Liz Mandeville

Hybridization, speciation, genetic structure; fish conservation genomics; fisheries management; computational biology.

Kevin McCann

Kevin McCann

Biodiversity; ecosystem structure and function; food webs; microbiome and disease and human health; “systems” view to disease dynamics.

Amy Newman

Amy Newman

Ecology, physiology, and neuroendocrinology; avian ecology; animal stress; host’s environment, microbiome, and physiology.

Ryan Norris

Ecology and conservation of wild animal populations; threatened species; protected areas; seasonal environments; songbirds, butterflies.

Beren Robinson

Beren Robinson

Canada’s freshwater environments; impacts of environmental change; phenotypic plasticity, adaptive biodiversity formation; fish populations.

Alex Smith

Alex Smith

Biodiversity; neotropics; insects, entomology; elevational gradients; forestry; ecology; evolution; climate.

Dirk Steinke

Dirk Steinke

Biodiversity genomics; mitonuclear coevolution; DNA barcoding; mitochondrial genome sequences of fish; niche differentiation.

Glen Van Der Kraak

Glen Van Der Kraak

Reproductive physiology and toxicology of fish; ovarian follicle development and spawning success; impact of endocrine disrupting compounds and environmental effluents.

Quinn Webber

Quinn Webber

Parasites and pathogens; behaviour as driver of infection; animal species of conservation concern; bats; One Health.

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