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.

**We are looking for a PhD student to start in 2013.  Check out the Vacancies page for more information**

Lab meetings and happenings...

Lab News...

April 2012 - Congratulations to Justin Saindon, who successfully defended his MSc thesis.  Justin's seeking work, so if you are looking for a biologist with outstanding organisational and project management skills, look no further!

April 2012 - Farewell to Matt Clarke and Sarah Lake, our departing honours students.  Both did great work and I'm sure will be names to watch.  Good luck!

April 2012 - Brent Sinclair and Alice Dennis were recently interviewed on Radio New Zealand National's 'Our changing World' about the evolution of cold tolerance in stick insects. You can download the .mp3 here.  

April 2012 - Caroline Williams' work on overwintering Duskywings is out in PLoS ONE.  You can read the press release here, and about butterflies losing their mojo in the London Free Press and Science Daily.

March 2012 - Congratulations to Sarah Lake, who won the best presentation award in the 'Health and Physiology' stream at Ontario Biology Day, and was also voted best speaker in her room at the Department's Honours presentation day.

February 2012 - Brent Sinclair was recently interviewed in Biotechniques about a recent paper on Drosophila cryopreservation.

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.