Beth MacDougall-ShackletonWestern Science

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(Left to right): Justin To, Scout Thompson, Christina Belthune, Jude Niroshan, Garth Casbourn

 

Current Lab Members

Scout Thompson

 PhD student Heterozygote advantage as a predictor of mate selection

Justin To

 PhD student TBD

Jude Dunukumara Udumullage

 MSc student Bird migration and the evolution of immune genes

AJ Randolph-Westerhof

 MSc student Evolution of immune-related loci in divergent population

Christina Belthune

 BSc honours thesis student TBD

Beloved Alumni

Ryan Conklin MSc 2024 Migration distance and pace of life
Jackie Lac BSc 2023 TLR3 diversity and survivorship
Sydney Doucette BSc    2022 Assortative mating at TLR3
Rebecca Howe MSc  2022 Effects of malarial infection on migratory timing and restlessness 
Bonnie Foo BSc    2021 Candidate genes for individual variation in migration and exploration
Leticia De Souza Soares PostDoc 2021 Traveling whilst diseased: examining effects of malarial infection on flight performance
Chris Posliff MSc  2020 Correlations in movement behaviour over large and small geographic scales in song sparrows Melospiza melodia
Leanne Grieves PhD  2020 Chemical communication in songbirds
Melanie DeNomme BSc    2019 Geographic variation in innate immune loci
Rachel Boyd BSc    2019 Evolutionary genetics of innate immune loci
Tosha Kelly PhD  2019 Hitchhiker's guide to migration: effects of experimental parasitic infection and other immune challenges on migratory traits of sparrows
Joel Slade PhD  2018 The major histocompatibility complex in song sparrows: immunity, signals, and mate choice
Matthew Watson MSc  2016 MHC diversity, neutral-locus heterozygosity, and overwinter survivorship
Yanina Sarquis-Adamson PhD  2016 Ecological and evolutionary interactions between song sparrows and parasites
Erica Lovett MSc  2016 Evolutionary genetics and parasite communities in nomadic songbirds