Present

Graduate Students

• Megan Snetsinger (M.Sc. Candidate) Working Thesis Title: Landscape genetics of the Butler’s gartersnake.
• Wenxi Feng (M.Sc. Candidate) Working Thesis Title: eDNA approaches to quantifying species distributions.
• Leslie Holmes (Ph.D. started 2012) Provisional thesis title: Evolution of the cowpea weevil, Callosobruchus maculates, in response to stress in the face of predation and competition. Co-supervised with Bill Nelson.
• Michael Patrikeev (Ph.D. started 2012) Provisional thesis title: Diversification of anurans in the Atlantic Coastal Forests of Brazil.
• Michael Colley (M.Sc. started 2013) Provisional thesis title: The influence of mitigation structures on Sistrurus catenatus in Killbear Provincial Park. Co-supervised with Jackie Litzgis.
• Nick Cairns (Ph.D. started 2013) Provisional thesis title: Phylogenomics of temperate frogs.
• Hayley Roberts (M.Sc. started 2013) Provisional thesis title: Female breeding phenology of temperate frogs in Eastern Ontario.

Research Associates

• Zhengxin Sun (works with many other EEB faculty and students as well). He mans our EEB Core Lab.

Undergraduate Thesis Students

• Austeja Vaskeviciute (B.Sc. Honours candidate. 2014) Provisional thesis title: Secondary contact and introgression between previously isolated populations of the spring peeper.
• Amanda Cicchino (B.Sc. Honours candidate. 2014) Provisional thesis title: Call evolution in the spring peeper.

Past

Postdoctoral Fellows

• Frances Bonier (at Virginia Tech with Ignacio Moore. 2007-2009). Now an Assistant Professor in Biology, Queen's University. | web site |
• Leonardo Campagna (Senate Advisory Research Committee Postdoctoral Fellowship. Working on an array of topics related to genetic bases of speciation, particularly in Neotropical birds). Now a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
• Rute Clemente-Carvalho (Government of Canada Postodctoral Fellow. 2011-12) Research focus: landscape genetics of Storeria snakes. Diversification of Melanophryniscus toads of Northwestern Argentina. Now at the Departamento de Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
• Paul Martin (2006-07). Research focus: latitudinal diversity gradients in the Americas. (Co-supervised with P. Boag). Now an Assistant Professor in Biology at Queen's University. | web site |

Graduate Students

• Anastasia Savrova (B.Sc. Honours candidate. 2014) Provisional thesis title: Variation in development among wetland types of different temperate anurans.
• Mark Szenteczki (B.Sc. Honours candidate. 2014) Provisional thesis title: Using Approximate Bayesian computation to understand the distribution of genetic diversity in massasauga rattlesnakes.
• Melissa Lucas (B.Sc. Honours candidate. 2014) Provisional thesis title: Landscape genetics of spring peepers: The scale of evolutionary equilibrium in a heterogenous environment.
• James Austin (Ph.D. 2003). Thesis Title: Multi-scale perspectives on the genetic structure of a widespread amphibian, the North American Bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana. (Co-supervised with P. Boag). Now an Associate Professor in Wildlife Ecology & Conservation at the University of Florida (Gainseville). | web site |
• Nicola Banger (M.Sc. 2012 - Co-supervised with Gabriel Blouin-Demers). Thesis Title: Consequences of multiple paternity for female fitness in an Ontario population of northern map turtles, Graptemys geographica.
• Leonardo Campagna (Ph.D. 2012. Principle Supervisor Pablo Tubaro. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernadino Rivadavia", Buenos Aires). Thesis title: Evolución de una radiación reciente en el género Sporophila (Aves, Passeriformes). Now a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
• Amy Chabot (Ph.D. 2010) Thesis title: The Impact of Migration on the Evolution and Conservation of an Endemic North American Passerine: Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus). Now a self-employed environmental consultant.
• Emily Croteau (M.Sc. 2002). Thesis Title: Conservation genetics of northern populations of a declining songbird, the Brewer's Sparrow (Spizella breweri breweri) in a fragmented landscape. (Co-supervised with P. Boag). Now an Assistant Professor at Valdosta State University. | web site |
• Anne Dalziel (M.Sc. 2003). Thesis Title: Evolution of aerobic energy metabolism in high performance fish: origins of variation in mitochondrial content. (Co-supervised with C. Moyes). Now a postdoctoral fellow at Laval University.
• Markus Dyck (Ph.D. candidate - co-supervised with W. Nelson) Research focus: foraging ecology and bioenergetics in temporally and spatially heterogeneous landscapes. Temporarily withdrawn to serve as the primary polar bear biologist for Nunavut.
• Michelle DiLeo (M.Sc. candidate. 2010. NSERC Scholar) Thesis title: The influence of landscape on genetic structure of a threatened reptile. The eastern massasauga rattlesnake. Now a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Toronto. Mississauga. | web site |
• Kathryn Elmer (Ph.D. 2006). Thesis Title: Genetic diversity across spatial and evolutionary scales in some neotropical amphibians. Now a lecturer at the University of Glasgow. | web site |
• Briar Howes (Ph.D. 2006). Thesis Title: Genetic and ecological analysis of a species' range. Now a Critical Habitat Biologist with Parks Canada (Gatineau, Quebec).
• Gabriela Ibarguchi (Ph.D. 2011 - co-supervised with Vicki Friesen). Thesis title: Biogeography and diversification of Andean seedsnipes (Thinocoridae): An Antarctic avian lineage?.
• Samantha Klaus (M.Sc. 2012). Thesis title: Correlates and temporal variation in call phenology of Eastern Ontario frogs. Now an analyst with Health Canada.
• Daria Koscinski (M.Sc. 2003) Thesis Title: The relative importance of geographic isolation vs. ecological gradients in diversification of an Andean treefrog, Hyla andina. Now a conservation biologist with Carolinean Canada | web site |
• Alex Little (M.Sc. 2009 - co-supervised with C. Moyes) Research focus: molecular evolution of cytochrome oxidaxes in sharks and tunas. Now a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Sydney, Australia.
• Laura Nagel (Ph.D. 2006) Thesis Title: Evolutionary divergence in a common ectoparasite of coral reef fishes. (Co-supervised with Bob Montgomerie). Now a postdoctoral fellow at Queen's University.
• Jeff Row (Ph.D. 2011) Thesis title: Testing for the imprint of historical and contemporary processes on genetic and ecological diversity of eastern foxsnakes across multiple spatial scales. Now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo. | web site |
• Kat Stewart (Ph.D. 2012) Thesis title: Contact zone dynamics and the evolution of reproductive isolation in a North American treefrog, the spring peeper (Pseudacris crucifer). Starting as an Assistant Professor at Tongji University, Shanghai.
• Mary Vallianatos (M.Sc. 1999). Thesis Title: Conservation genetics and population structure of the Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus) in Central and Eastern North America. (Co-supervised with P. Boag). Executive Assistant to the Senior Vice-President of Health Affairs, University of Florida.
• Amanda Xuereb (M.Sc. 2012) Thesis title: Characterizing population genetic structure and inferring the influence of landscape features on gene flow in a temperate snake species. Now a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Toronto.

Undergraduate Thesis Students

• Erica Lovett (B.Sc. Honours. 2013) Thesis title: Seasonality of variation in the clock gene in a South American sparrow. Co-supervised with V. Friesen.
• Janet Greenhorn (B.Sc. Honours. 2013) Thesis title: Testing the importance of freshwater islands in differentiation of temperate snakes.
• Emma Bothwell (B.Sc. Honours 2012) Thesis title: Secondary contact and character displacement in body size in birds. Co-supervised with P. Martin.
• Japteg Singh (B.Sc. Honours 2012) Thesis title: Impact of larval competition on life history attributes of the cowpea weevil. Co-supervised with W. Nelson.
• Rachel Wang (B.Sc. Honours 2012) Thesis title: Impact of hybridization on sperm morphology in a contact zone. Co-supervised with R. Montgomerie.
• Jordan Quan (B.Sc. Honours 2012) Thesis title: Gene flow, freshwater islands and genetic distinctiveness of the eastern garter - snake.
• Fiona Munro (B.Sc. Honours ENSC 2011) Thesis Title: A geographical perspective and analysis of research on Queen’s University Biological Station Lands: Past trends and present significance.
• Surbhi Jain (B.Sc. Honours 2011) Thesis Title: A study of male agonistic interactions and competitor recognition between allopatric and secondary contact populations of a temperate frog species: The spring peeper (Pseudacris crucifer).
• Caroline Jamison (B.Sc. Honours 2011) Thesis title: Population structure and connectivity in a small woodland snake.
• Louise Lam (B.Sc. Honours 2011) Thesis title: The effects of food abundance on dispersal of cowpea weevils Callosobruchus maculatus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Co-supervised with W. Nelson.
• Jenna Sui (B.Sc. Honours 2011) Thesis title: Evaluating the population structure and conservation in the northern range of the prairie skink, Plestidon septentrionalis. Co-supervised with P. Rutherford (Brandon University).
• Aarani Sivasekarum (B.Sc. Honours 2011) Thesis title: The use of new Bayesian methods in detecting sex-biased dispersal.
• Cally Toong (B.Sc. Honours 2011) Thesis title: Asymmetrical gene flow at a species range limit.
• Dana Drumm (B.Sc. Honours - Co-supervised with Fran Bonier 2010). Research focus: Long-term population trends in tree swallows.
• Mari Glynn-Morris (B.Sc. Honours 2010) Research focus: the relationship between parasitism, growth rates and habitat fragmentation in eastern foxsnake.
• Jayda Guy (B.Sc. Honours 2010) Research focus: microhabitat selection in small temperate snakes of the genus Storeria.
• Cameron Hudson (B.Sc. Honours 2010) Research focus: Male calling behaviour in spring peepers.
• Georgia Lloyd-Smith (B.Sc. Honours 2010) Research focus: The relationship between parasitism, growth rates and habitat fragmentation in eastern foxsnakes.
• Amanda Xuereb (B.Sc. Honours 2010) Research focus: The relationship between parasitism, growth rates and habitat fragmentation in eastern foxsnakes.
• Lily Zeng (B.Sc. Honours 2010) Research focus: Landscape genetics of red-bellied snakes.
• Roslyn Howell (B.Sc. Honours 2009) Thesis Title: Microclimatic predictors of frog chorusing in southeastern Ontario.
• Stephanie Johnson (B.Sc. Honours 2009) Thesis Title: Partitioning of acoustic resource space in neotropical anuran communities.
• Michelle DiLeo (B.Sc. Honours 2009) Thesis Title: Comparative landscape genetics of two sympatric snake species.
• Krysta Andrews (B.Sc. Honours 2009. Co-supervised with Paul Martin) Thesis Title: Character displacement in the drumming of sympatric species of Campephilus woodpeckers.
• Laura Lockhart (B.Sc. Honours 2009. Co-supervised with Fran Bonier) Thesis Title: Body condition matters: The effects of resource availability on resource allocation patterns in tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor).
• Cam Robertson (B.Sc. Honours 2008) Thesis Title: Sex-biased dispersal patterns of Eastern Foxsnakes (Elaphe gloydi) in Ontario.
• Roz Lougheed (B.Sc. Honours 2008) Thesis Title: The relation between variation in phenotypic fitness proxies and putatively neutral DNA microsatellites in eastern foxsnakes (Elaphe gloydi).
• Laura King (B.Sc. Honours 2008) Thesis Title: Diversification and Phylogeography of a Northwestern Argentine toad, Melanophryniscus rubriventris (Anura: Bufonidae).
• Katherine McKereghan-Dares (B.Sc. Honours 2008) Thesis Title: Diversification and speciation of crowned-sparrows, genus Zonotrichia, in the New World.
• Chris Morrow (B.Sc. Honours 2008) with Dr. Heather Stuart (Community Health & Epidemiology) Thesis Title: Determinants of Underservicing in Southeastern Ontario's Community Mental Health System.
• Katie Geale (B.Sc. Honours 2007) Thesis Title: Molecular phylogeny of sierra-finches (Phrygilus): Diversification among plumage groups in the Andes Mountains.
• Anita Melnyk (B.Sc. Honours 2007) Thesis Title: The effect of data partitioning on Bayesian phylogenetic inference of the Lithobates catesbeiana species group.
• Juliana Agostino (B.Sc. Honours 2006) Thesis Title: Effective population size and temporal changes in genetic diversity in the American bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana.
• Bethany Lindsay (B.Sc. Honours 2004) Thesis Title: Phylogeography of the five-lined skink, Eumeces fasciatus.
• Ramsey Wright (B.Sc. Honours 2004) Thesis Title: Phylogeography, life history and the genetic structure of western Amazonian anurans: A preliminary study.
• Julie Lee-Yaw (B.Sc. Honours 2003) Thesis Title: Habitat use and genetic population structure at fine geographic scales in a northern population of five-lined skink, Eumeces fasciatus.
• Daniel Liadsky (B.Sc. Honours 2003) Thesis Title: Call variation in the Andean treefrog, Hyla andina.
• Sarah Sharp (B.Sc. Honours 2003) Thesis Title: Phylogeographic perspectives and hybrid zone dynamics in two species of the Hyla pulchella Group.
• Tanya Da Sylva (B.Sc. Honours 2002) Queen's Thesis Title: High-resolution DNA markers for the study of microgeographic genetic variation in Pseudacris crucifer (Spring Peeper).
• Liem Vien (B.Sc. Honours 2002) Queen's Thesis Title: Conservation genetics of the Eastern Loggerhead Shrike. A microsatellite study.
• Rob Ness (B.Sc. Honours 2002) Queen's Thesis Title: Evolution of apomictic asexual reproduction in Antennaria parlinii: a phylogenetic investigation. (Co-supervised with C. Eckert)
• Jennifer Gibson (B.Sc. Honours 2001) Queen's. Thesis Title: The patterns of genetic diversity in the hybridizing toad species Bombina bombina and B. variegata.
• Charles Macmichael (B.Sc. Honours 2001) Queen's. Thesis Title: Temporal changes in mitochondrial control region of Lanius ludovicianus migrans: conservation perspectives. (Co-supervised with P. Boag)
• Daria Koscinski (B.Sc. Honours 2000) Queen's. Thesis Title: Historical and ecological correlates of diversification in an Amazonian frog. (Co-supervised with P. Boag)
• Anne Curtner (B.Sc. Honours 1998) Queen's. Thesis Title: Sensitivity analysis for tests of rates of phenotypic change: selection and drift in model systems. (Co-supervised with P. Boag)
• Lindsey Neidrauer (B.Sc. Honours 1998) Queen's. Thesis Title: Phylogeography of a North American tree frog, Pseudacris crucifer. (Co-supervised with P. Boag)
• Cathryn Abbott (B.Sc. Honours 1997) Queen's. Thesis Title: Using microsatellites to determine the population structure of Noisy Miners (Manorina melanocephala). (Co-supervised with P. Boag)
• Bev Bateman (B.Sc. Honours 1996) Queen's. Thesis Title: Phylogeny of anemonefishes inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences: a perspective on the evolution of host specificity. (Co-supervised with P. Boag)
• Kylie Tanner (B.Sc. Honours 1996) Queen's. Thesis Title: An enigmatic neotropical frog: can 16S rRNA gene sequence data resolve evolutionary affinities? (Co-supervised with P. Boag)
• Tanya Shaw (B.Sc. Honours 1995) Queen's. Thesis Title: MtDNA control region sequence variation in two geographically restricted songbirds: a pilot study. (Co-supervised with P. Boag)
• Michael Warbeck (B.Sc. Honours 1995) Queen's. Thesis Title: Postglacial history of a South American songbird as inferred by mitochondrial cytochrome b sequence data. (Co-supervised with P. Boag)
• Azilah Kazim (B.Sc. Honours 1992) Brock. Thesis Title: Strategies for conservation of biodiversity: large versus small reserves.
• Ellen Olsen (B.Sc. Honours 1992) Brock. Thesis Title: Ecological correlates of plumage variation in northwestern Argentine populations of the Rufous-collared Sparrow, Zonotrichia capensis.
• Stephen Yezerinac (B.Sc. Honours 1991) Western Ont. Thesis Title: Measurement error and morphometric studies: an assessment of statistical power and the effect of observer experience using avian skeletons. (Co-supervised with P. Handford)

Past Visiting Scientists

• Isabel Bisson (then a Ph.D. student, York University. Supervisor: B. Stutchbury). Thesis Title: Genetic and evolutionary consequences of migration in the Cassin's Kingbird.
• Octavio Soto Rojas (Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo).
• Sesangari Galvan Quesada (Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo).
• Luciano Calderon (Ph.D. candidate. Principla Supervisor Pablo Tubaro. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernadino Rivadavia", Buenos Aires).
• Jose A. Davila (from the Instituto de Investigación en. Recursos Cinegéticos, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain).
• Dario Lijtmaer Now CONICET Investigator at the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales.
• Ester Sanchez-Bermejo (from the Instituto de Investigación en. Recursos Cinegéticos, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain).
• Eduardo Martin (Ph.D. candidate. Principla Supervisor Piter Blendinger. Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, Argentina).
• Rocio Sanchez (Ph.D. candidate. Principla Supervisor Piter Blendinger. Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, Argentina).
• Nicola Banger (University of Ottawa. Supervisor. Gabriel Blouin-Demers).
• Luciano Calderón (Ph.D. canidate. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernadino Rivadavia", Buenos Aires)
• Marcos Vaira (Oct - Dec 2011) Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, Argentina

Work Study Students & Lab Volunteers

• Jonathan Duboff
• Judy Kim
• Venetia Mah
• Natalie Morrill
• Liem Vien
• Sherilee Harper
• Aarani Sivasekarum
• Surbhi Jain
• Jenna Siu
• Kayla Flamenbaum
• Mark Szenteczki
• Cally Toong

International Internship Students

• Zouber Maouze

Research Associates

(from St. Lawrence College)

• Brad Acker
• Anne Curtis
• Jason Kennedy
• Natalie Roy
• Nadine Sharpe