Insects are found from the tops of the highest mountains to the most northerly and southerly pieces of land on earth. Our goal is to understand how insects survive and thrive at the low temperatures they encounter in those habitats, and how they will be affected by a changing climate.  We address these questions at  levels of organisation from molecular biology to macroevolution and everything in between.  Check out out the research page to learn more.

Lab meetings and happenings...

Lab News...

January 2012 - Brent Sinclair was recently mentioned in an article in the Toronto Star about the weird winter we are currently experiencing, and in an article in Western News about the biotron.

January 2012 - Welcome to Golnaz Salehipour, who joins us to begin an MSc (and hopefully eventually a PhD) about immune responses to cold in Drosophila, and to Julia Ahn, who will be doing an independent study project on localising cold-related gene expression.

January 2012 - Congratulations to Dr. Hiroko Udaka, who was awarded a prestigious JSPS fellowship and will continue her postdoctoral work in the Sinclair lab for another two years.

December 2011 - Congratulations  to Dr. Caroline Williams who successfuly defended her PhD thesis (which you can download here)!  Caroline will be beginning a postdoc in Dan Hahn's lab at University of Florida in January 2012.

October 2011 - Check out this Blog post about Katie Marshall's recent paper in Journal of Experimental Biology.

September 2011 - Farewell to Ruth - thanks for your help! and welcome to our two new honours students, Sarah Lake and Matt Clarke (who is co-supervised by Graham Thompson).

August 2011 - Welcome to Ruth Jakobs, who joins us for a couple of months form Germany on a DAAD RISE fellowship.