Lab update - COVID edition!

May 2021

  • Doriana has been awarded an NSERC UGRA to work on fire-mountain pine beetle interactions. Congrats Doriana!

April 2021

  • Clara attends the virtual 2021-IALE North American Annual Meeting

  • Patrick presents at the Fire in MN Ecosystem Symposium! Watch a recording of his presentation here

  • JP’s paper in Biogeography is featured on The New Scientist – read it here. Congrats JP!

  • Patrick is involved in a new paper on insect-fire interactions - read it here

March 2021

  • JP’s paper in the Journal of Biogeography is published. Congrats JP!

Fontenelle, João Pedro & Marques, Fernando & Kolmann, Matthew & Lovejoy, Nathan. (2021). Biogeography of the neotropical freshwater stingrays (Myliobatiformes: Potamotrygoninae) reveals effects of continent‐scale paleogeographic change and drainage evolution. Journal of Biogeography. 10.1111/jbi.14086.

  • Jack’s paper in Current Zoology is published. Congrats Jack!

Goldman, Jack & Crane, Adam & Feyten, Laurence & Collins, Emily & Brown, Grant. (2021). Disturbance cue communication is shaped by emitter diet and receiver background risk in Trinidadian guppies. Current Zoology. 10.1093/cz/zoab025.

February 2021

  • Franck successfully defends his PhD on February 19th! Congratulations Franck!

January 2021

  • Morgane Henry joins the lab as a PhD student, co-supervised by Brian Leung at McGill University. Welcome Morgane!

December 2020

  • Julia presents her MFC capstone project: The Spatial Genetic Structure of a Spruce Budworm Outbreak. Congrats Julia!

  • JP is invited to give an online lecture on the use of molecular data for phylogeography, biogeography and diversity at Universidade do Estadual Paulista (UNESP)/ Brazil

November 2020

  • João Pedro Fontenelle joins the lab as a PDF after defending his PhD in September. Welcome JP!

September 2020

  • The James Lab gets much bigger:

  • Doriana Romualdi joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher

  • Kennedy Korkola joins the lab as a MScF student

  • Clara Risk, Jack Goldman and Jared Haney join the lab as PhD students

  • Franck Gandiaga joins the lab as a Post Doctoral Fellow

June 2020

  • Jonas Hamberg joins the lab as a PDF. Welcome Jonas!

April 2020

  • Niamh and Julian attend the (virtual) 2020-IALE North American Annual Meeting

  • Julia Fang begins an internship in the lab as a Masters in Forest Conservation student. Her research will focus on looking at the genetic structure of a spruce budworm outbreak

September 2019

  • Niamh Wall joins the lab as a PhD student, co-supervised by Marie-Josée Fortin (EEB)