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2024

Sam Meraj, ,

Claire Gooding accepts her Student Scholarship at the 2024 National Conference on Urban Entomology

Claire Gooding, National Conference on Urban Entomology Student Scholarship,

Gerhard Gries accepts his Distinguished Academic Award at the 2024 National Conference on Urban Entomology.

Gerhard Gries, Distinguished Academic Award,

Gerhard Gries, Thelma Finlayson Lifetime Achievement Award, Professional Pest Management Association of British Columbia

2023

Emmanuel Hung, Faculty of Science Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching Award,

Emmanuel Hung, Department of Biological Sciences Graduate Teaching Award,

Kendal Singleton, ,

Kendal Singleton, ,

Asim Renyard, Graduate Student Showcase Participant, for ""

Saif Nayani, Graduate Student Showcase Participant, for ""

Claire Gooding and Emmanuel Hung accept their President's Prize awards at the 2023 Joint Annual Meeting of the Entomological Societies of Canada and Ontario.

Claire Gooding, : Behaviour, for ""

Emmanuel Hung, : Behaviour, for "

Sophie Hennig, , ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV

Charlotte Pinard, , ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV

Saif Nayani, ,

Sam Meraj, , for "Functional insights into Prolixicin: Its expression and efficacy as an antimicrobial peptide in bed bugs"

Claire Gooding, , for "Ticks utilize a saprophytic fungus to identify suitable resting sites"

Saif Nayani, , for "Bovine mastitis, Staphylococcus aureus and stable flies: Evidence for a (not so positive) positive feedback loop"

Charlotte Pinard, , for "Blacklegged ticks, Ixodes scapularis, reduce predation risk by eavesdropping on ant alarm communication"

Saif Nayani delivering his award winning 3MT presentation at the University of Saskatchewan.

Saif Nayani, , First Place and People's Choice, (¶¡ÏãÔ°AV), First Place, (Western Canada - Regional Competition), Second Place, (Canada - National Competition), for ""

Charlotte Pinard, Nick Rice, Layla Gould, Calla Pickett, Augustus Negraeff, Miele McGowan & Melissa van Veen, ,

Emmanuel Hung, ,

Sam Meraj, ,

Saif Nayani, Department of Biological Sciences Graduate Teaching Award,

Claire Gooding, Department of Biological Sciences Graduate Teaching Award,

2022

Group photo of the Gries lab at the 2022 Joint Annual Meeting of the Entomological Societies of America, Canada and British Columbia. Gries lab members delivered 16 talks, 6 of which were awarded President's Prizes!

Asim Renyard, President’s Prize (Graduate); Plant-Insect Ecosystem: Behavior and Chemical Ecology, for ""

Claire Gooding, President’s Prize (Graduate); Medical, Urban and Veterinary Entomology & Physiology, Biochemistry and Toxicology: Behavior and Ecology, for ""

Emmanuel Hung, President’s Prize (Graduate); Medical, Urban and Veterinary Entomology, for ""

Eve Meyer, President’s Prize (Undergraduate); Medical, Urban and Veterinary Entomology: Behavior and Ecology, for ""

Miele McGowan, President’s Prize (Undergraduate) Runner-up; Medical, Urban and Veterinary Entomology: Behavior and Ecology, for ""

Jenelle Breen, President’s Prize (Undergraduate); Plant-Insect Ecosystem: Behavior and Ecology, for ""

Jaime Chalissery, ,

Asim Renyard, ,

Emmanuel Hung, ,

Jaime Chalissery, Claire Gooding & Kendal Singleton, Faculty of Science Excellence in Course Team Award ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV

Keiran Maskell, , ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV

Justin Wong, Kelvin Lau & Jenelle Breen, ,

Sam Meraj delivering her winning 3MT presentation.

Sam Meraj, , First Place, (¶¡ÏãÔ°AV), for ""

Kendal Singleton delivering her award winning 3MT presentation.

Kendal Singleton, , for ""

Emmanuel Hung, Best Student Presentation, Professional Pest Management Association of BC for "Sexually dimorphic flicker fusion and wing flash frequencies in biting flies: A potential basis for augmenting light traps."

Kendal Singleton, Department of Biological Sciences Graduate Teaching Award,

Elana Varner, Faculty of Science Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching Award,

2021

Group photo of award winners at the 2021 Entomological Society of Canada meeting including Andreas Fischer (middle left) and Emmanuel Hung (top center).

Andreas Fischer, : Ecology and Evolution, for "Intrasexual conflict - female false black widow spiders sense, and behaviorally and physically respond to, female conspecific sex pheromones"

Emmanuel Hung, : Pest Management II, for "Conductive and convective heat, but not infrared radiation, mediates stable fly alighting and probing response on thermally different targets"

Emily Lemke with her certificates for the Postgraduate and the John H. Borden Scholarships from the Entomological Society of Canada.

Emily Lemke, ,

Emily Lemke, ,

Elana Varner delivering her winning 3MT presentation.

Elana Varner, People's Choice Winner (2020-2021 National 3MT Showcase), for ""

President Prize announcements for Kendal Singleton and Emmanuel Hung, during the 2021 ESA virtual meeting

Kendal Singleton, President’s Prize (Graduate), P-IE: Behavior and Ecology for ""

Emmanuel Hung, President’s Prize (Graduate), MUVE: Diptera Biology and Control for ""

Group photo of award winners at the 2021 ESBC virtual meeting. (moving left to right) Asim Renyard, Sam Meraj, Jaime Chalissery, Emily Lemke, Kenza Zobaidi, Elton Ko, and Andreas Fischer

Asim Renyard, , for "Bimodal distress signals of western carpenter ants upturn alarm responses of nestmates."

Andreas Fischer, , for "Sexual conflict in false black widow spiders – aging females manipulate mate choice by males"

Jaime Chalissery, , for "Identification of the trail pheromone of the pavement Aat Tetramorium immigrans (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)."

Elton Ko, , for "Long- and short-range bimodal signals mediate mate location and recognition in yellow fever mosquitoes."

Kenza Zobaidi, , for "Strength in numbers: Do European fire ants communicate and forage better in groups than on their own?"

Jaime Chalissery & Emily Lemke, ,

Asim Renyard & Sam Meraj, ,

Gerhard Gries delivering his Silver Medal presentation at the 2021 meeting of the Internation Society of Chemical Ecology.

Gerhard Gries, ,

Andreas Fischer, , for "Sexual signalling in a widow spider – Unravelling contact and airborne pheromone components and the role of an enzyme in their dissemination"

Andreas Fischer, Runner Up Best Student Presentation, for "Sexual conflict in false black widow spiders – Aging females manipulate mate choice by males"

Megan Macgregor, , ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV

Emily Lemke, The William & Ada Isabelle Steel Memorial Scholarship, Simon Fraser University

Emily Lemke, BC Council of Garden Clubs Mildred Wells Graduate Scholarship, Simon Fraser University

Nelson Lee, Ranjot Bhandal, Kinzah Zobaidi & James Qian (left to right) all 2021 NSERC USRA recipients - Credit: Adam Blake

Ranjot Bhandal, Nelson Lee, James Qian & Kinzah Zobaidi, ,

Andreas Fischer, Biological Sciences Outreach Award, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV

Emily Lemke, 1st Place, M.S. Student Ten Minute Paper Competition, for "Limoniic acid as a sex attractant of Limonius spp. (Coleoptera: Elateridae) pests across North America"

Emmanuel Hung, Clements Biological Sciences Independent Study Award, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV

Claire Gooding and Hanna Jackson, , ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV

Emily Lemke, Best Student Presentation, Professional Pest Management Association of BC for "Limoniic acid as a sex attractant of Limonius spp. (Coleoptera: Elateridae) pests across North America"

2020

Asim Renyard, ,

Andreas Fischer, ,

Jaime Chalissery, BC Council of Garden Clubs Mildred Wells Graduate Scholarship, Simon Fraser University

President Prize announcements for Asim Reynard, Warren Wong, Kendal Singleton, and Claire Gooding, during the 2020 ESA virtual meeting

Asim Renyard, President’s Prize (Graduate): MUVE, Hymenoptera, Spiders, for ""

Warren Wong, President’s Prize (Graduate): P-IE, Chemical Ecology 1, for ""

Kendal Singleton, President’s Prize Runner-Up (Graduate): P-IE, Molecular and Novel Tools, for ""

Claire Gooding, President’s Prize Runner-Up (Undergraduate): PBT, General, for ""

Adam Blake, , for ""

Jaime Chalissery, , for ""

Adam Blake (with cameo from Giselle), Kendal Singleton, Elana Varner, Asim Renyard, and Jaime Chalissery, accepting awards during the 2020 ESBC virtual meeting - Credit: Dan Peach

Elana Varner, , for "Do spring queen bumble bees sense, and behaviorally respond to house mouse odorants as nest site location cues?"

Asim Renyard, , for "To the beat of their own drum: The role of vibratory communication in Western carpenter ants"

Jaime Chalissery, , for "We go together! – Groups of European fire ants, Myrmica rubra, distinguish between pheromone blends, and follow pheromone trails for longer distances than individual ants."

Kendal Singleton, ,

Adam Blake, ,

Emily Lemke, First Place Award for an MSc Student Oral Presentation in Entomology,

Negin Ketabchi, Megan MacGregor, James Pickett, Jonathan Petrov, Andrea Romanto, Aubrie Verleur, & Tia Young, ,

Jaime Chalissery, Department of Biological Sciences Teaching Assistant Award, Simon Fraser University

Jaime Chalissery, Dr. H.R. MacCarthy Graduate Bursary, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV

Andreas Fischer, ,

Andreas Fischer, ,

Elana Varner delivering her winning 3MT presentation.

Elana Varner, , First Place, (¶¡ÏãÔ°AV), , for ""

Yonathan Uriel, Omics Data Science Initiative 2020 Graduate Scholarship, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV

Kendal Singleton, , ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV

Emmanuel Hung, ,

Emily Lemke, Thelma Finlayson Graduate Entrance Scholarship, Simon Fraser University