Department Members by Research Area

J. Anderson, Professor
Pathophysiology of muscular dystrophy and the processes of satellite cell activation and muscle regeneration (repair) in animal models of disease and aging.

M. Belmonte, Assistant Professor
Molecular, physiological and genomic dissection of embryogenesis and seed development in plants.

W. Diehl-Jones, Associate Professor
Neonatal gut cell biology and physiology; oxidative stress in preterm infants.

E. Huebner, Professor
Invertebrate oogenesis and germ cell biology, microscopy and imaging, bioelectric phenomena.

J. Marcus, Associate Professor
Phylogenomics, evolutionary developmental genetics, and computational biology, with emphass on butterfly colour patterns.

D. Schroeder, Associate Professor
Plant development and environmental response, molecular and biochemical basis of plant response to light.

M. Sumner, Associate Professor
Developmental plant anatomy with emphasis on the reproductive systems of seed plants.

S. Whyard, Assistant Professor
Molecular mechanisms of development, RNAi, host-insect interactions.

Biodiversity, Ecological and Environmental Biological Research:

T. Booth, Professor
The biology of fungi in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems; responses of fungi to environmental factors.

M. Docker, Associate Professor
Evolutionary biology, molecular systematics and biogeography, and conservation genetics of fish (particularly lampreys and salmonids) and other aquatic organisms (microsporean parasites and dreissenid mussels).

G. K. Davoren, Associate Professor
prey interactions of fish, birds and mammals in Canadian Arctic marine ecosystems. Food web interactions, foraging ecology, habitat selection and conservation biology. Impacts of climate change and industrial development on the ecology of species, species interactions and biodiversity in Low and High Arctic marine ecosystems in Canada.

T. A. Dick, Professor, NSERC Northern Research Chair
Aquatic northern ecosystems: freshwater and marine. Long term trends in fish and other biota, fisheries resource management, acoustic technologies.

B. Ford, Professor
Vascular plant systematics, particularly of the large and complex genus Carex (Cyperaceae); a multidisciplinary approach, combining evidence from micro- and macromorphology, isozyme genetic divergence, ecological studies, and phytogeography, is used to gain an understanding of systematic relationships.

D.Gillis, Associate Professor
Fleet dynamics, fisheries management, fish population dynamics, interaction between behaviour and population processes; emphasis on quantitative analysis, mathematical and simulation modeling based upon historical data and field work when appropriate. Studies currently focus on the commercial fisheries of Manitoba and Atlantic Canada.

G. Goldsborough, Associate Professor
Ecosystem structure and function in fresh water wetlands, ecology of benthic and planktonic, lake paleolimnology, ecophysiology and ecotoxicology of benthic and planktonic algae and aquatic macrophytes.

L. C. Graham, Associate Professor
Metazoan parasites of invertebrates, Life history strategies of free-living triclad flatworms. Zoogeography and community ecology of freshwater clams.

B. J. Hann, Professor
Ecology of littoral invertebrate communities. Wetland foodweb structure and dynamics, invertebrate grazer-algal interactions; Cladocera ecology, palaeoecology of communities in the littoral zone of lakes, systematics

J. F. Hare, Professor
Evolution and maintenance of sociality. Social behaviour, costs and benefits of group living, sociality, social parasitism; kin, neighbour and individual recognition, proximate mechanisms of recognition; antipredator behaviour, alarm-calling, vocal communication, chemical defense; emphasis on field studies of ground-dwelling squirrels and laboratory studies of slave-making ants.

N. Kenkel, Professor
Applied and theoretical terrestrial plant population and community ecology; forest ecology; studies of marsh, grassland and inland saline ecosystems; mathematical and statistical ecology; ecological modeling; landscape ecology and vegetation mapping.

J. Markham, Associate Professor
Interactions of plants with the biotic environment. Evolution of mutualisms; ecology and evolution of symbiosis between actinorhizal plants and Frankia.

M. Piercey-Normore, Professor
Systematics and evolution in the algal and fungal partners of lichen associations; fungal selection of lichen algae; natural products of lichen fungi; gene flow among populations of symbionts; mating systems of lichen fungi; and conservation genetics.

R. R. Riewe, Professor
Ecology and management of carnivores, ungulates, and small mammals; Circumpolar Aboriginal peoples and their domestic economies, hunting and trapping, land use, land claims, and impacts of northern development on their life styles.

G. Robinson, Professor
Eco-physiology of planktonic and benthic freshwater algae, wetland ecology, inorganic carbon assimilation by algae, assessment of algal productivity. Science education (CRYSTAL).

J. Roth, Assistant Professor
Food web dynamics, predator-prey interactions, population cycles; spatial subsidies and indirect effects in food webs; applications of stable isotope analysis.

S. G. Sealy, Professor
Behavioural and evolutionary interactions between the parasitic cowbirds and their passerine hosts. Cowbird selection of host nests; host quality; nest defense; host tolerance of parasitism; nest placement; consequences of parasitism.

J. Waterman, Associate Professor
Evolution of sociality and mating systems; influence of sexual selelction on morphology, behaviour, diseases & parasites; evolution of cooperative breeding.

A. Worley, Assistant Professor
Evolution of plant reproduction; floral biology of animal-pollinated plants, flower shape and arrangement as examples of plant adaptation to diverse pollination environments.

Physiological Research:

W. G. Anderson, Associate Professor
Physiological and endocrine mechanisms in primitive fish (the little skate, Raja erinacea and the lake sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens); endocrine regulation of key life essential physiological processes such as renal, extra-renal and cardiovascular function and their role in regulating volume and solute homeostasis.

K. L. Campbell, Associate Professor
Evolutionary, molecular and environmental physiology of mammals. Evolutionary physiology of fossorial and semi-aquatic insectivores, particularly that relating to hypoxia (low oxygen) and hypercapnia (high carbon dioxide); phylogeny and molecular evolution of hemoglobin oxygen-affinity in talpid moles and paenungulates.

M. Fry, Assistant Professor
Regulation of energy homeostatsis by the central nervous system.  In particular, the lab is interested in understanding patterns of electrical activity and gene expression in neurons that control food intake and appetite.  Pathophysiology of the CNS associated with muscular dystrophy.

J. M. McLeese, Senior Instructor
Physiology of thyroid hormones

P. Messing, Instructor

S. Renault, Associate Professor
Stress physiology of plant species in forest ecosystems; effects of salts, pollution and other environmental stresses on woody plants, mechanisms of stress resistance; plant adaptation to land disturbance (mining, forestry).

K. G-E. Scott, Senior Instructor
Pathophysiology of digestive systems

J. R. Treberg, Assistant Professor
Comparative metabolic biochemistry; mitochondrial metabolism and function; nutritional modulation of physiology and energy balance; reactive oxygen species; envrionmental influences on metabolism.  Representative experimental species include:  teleost and elasmobranch fishes, rodent models of nutritional biochemistry, molluscs (freshwater, marine and terrestrial).

I. Waters,Senior Instructor
Stress physiology in relation to forest & wetland ecology

D. Weihrauch, Assistant Professor
Integrative and comparative physiology of transepithelial transport. Ammonia transport in changing environmental salinities. Physiological and molecular approaches.

M. Shaw, Senior Instructor
Use of technology, including the web, in teaching.  Models of inclusive education at the post secondary level.