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Research Groups
Applied Biology
Environmental Toxicology is an evolving field concerned with the impact of pollutants on biological systems. Research within this group ranges from molecular and biochemical studies, through physiological and behavioural approaches, to comprehensive modeling and mathematical studies.
Pest Management is an applied research area, which concentrates on the management of pests in agricultural, forest and urban environments. Research areas for this group include apiculture, behavioural ecology, biological control, biotechnology, chemical ecology & toxicology, insect biochemistry and molecular biology, disease vectors, vertebrate pests, and the pathology, stress physiology and ecology of plants.
Environmental Toxicology Group Members
Group Leader
Chris J. Kennedy (Aquatic Toxicology)
Associated Faculty
- Tanya Brown (Marine Ecotoxicology)
- Timothy Beischlag (FHS - signaling in carcinogenesis and toxicology)
- Jane Fowler (Environmental Microbiology)
- Frank Gobas (REM - Toxicology)
- Vicki Marlatt (Environmental Toxicology)
Pest Management Group Members
Group Leader
Associated Faculty
- Gerhard J. Gries (Animal Communication Ecology)
- Zamir K. Punja (Plant Biotechnology)
Cell And Molecular Biology, Developmental Biology And Physiology
We have 15+ faculty whose research primarily focuses on cell and molecular biology, developmental biology and physiology including neuroscience, genetics, immunology, microbiology, plant cell and developmental biology, parasitology, and insect, fish and bird physiology. There is close collaboration between BISC neuroscientists and faculty in other Departments, with a weekly journal club and through the Centre for Cell Biology, Development and Disease (C2D2). Several other faculty have organismal function or physiology components to their primarily ecological, evolutionary, or even conservation-focused research programs, e.g. gas exchange and metabolic scaling in ; temperature and hydric physiology in ; evolutionary physiology of reproduction in and .
Neuroscience Faculty
- Harald Hutter (Developmental Neurobiology)
- Lisa Julian (Stem Cell Biology)
- Gordon Rintoul (Cellular Neurophysiology)
- Michael Silverman (Cellular Neuroscience)
Other Cell, Molecular, Development and Physiology Faculty
- Sherryl Bisgrove (Plant Cell & Developmental Biology)
- Julian Christians (Physiology and Genetics, Reproduction)
- Jane Fowler (Microbiology)
- Julian Guttman (Cellular Microbiology)
- Norbert H. Haunerland (Molecular Physiology, Insects)
- Chris Kennedy (Fish Physiology)
- Jim Mattsson (Plant Functional Genomics)
- Inigo Novales Flamarique (Neuroanatomy & Physiology, Fish)
- Eirikur Palsson (Mathematical Biology)
- Zamir K. Punja (Plant Biotechnology)
- Tony D. Williams (Evolutionary Physiology, Reproduction, Birds)
Ecology, Evolution and Conservation
Research interests in the Ecology, Evolution and Conservation group include organic evolution, behavioural, population, community, and landscape ecology, conservation ecology (with a particular strength in aquatic environments), paleoecology, and ecotoxicology.
Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Group Members
- Leah Bendell (Marine Ecology & Ecotoxicology)
- Felix Breden (Population Genetics & Genomics)
- Jenny Cory (Insect & Pathogen Ecology) Host-Parasite co-evolution
- Isabelle Côté (Marine Ecology and Conservation)
- Bernie J. Crespi (Evolution, Genetics and Human Health)
- Nicholas K. Dulvy (Marine Biodiversity & Conservation)
- Elizabeth Elle (Community and Evolutionary Ecology)
- David J. Green (Avian Ecology)
- Gerhard Gries (Animal Communication Ecology)
- Michael Hart (Evolutionary genetics of speciation)
- David Hik (Terrestrial Ecology)
- Lance Lesack (Limnology)
- Chelsea Little (Community and Meta-Ecosystem Ecology)
- Leithen M'Gonigle (Terrestrial Ecology)
- Rolf Mathewes (Paleoecology & Palynology)
- Arne Mooers (Biodiversity, Phylogeny & Evolution)
- Jonathan Moore (Aquatic Ecology and Conservation)
- Wendy J. Palen (Ecology of Aquatic Communities)
- John D. Reynolds (Aquatic Ecology & Conservation)
- Tony D. Williams (Ecological, Evolutionary Physiology)
- Ronald C. Ydenberg (Behavioural Ecology)