Faculty Supervision List
The table below lists faculty members’ supervision availability for the upcoming academic year. BIOL 4907 and BIOL 4908 are 4th-year undergraduate thesis courses that require a supervisor for registration and run across the Fall and Winter terms or during the Summer term. Please review faculty research profiles to ensure their research areas align with your interests before contacting potential supervisors.
| FACULTY | RESEARCH AREA | AVAILABILITY |
|---|---|---|
| Joe Bennett | Conservation Prioritization, Threatened Species, Invasion Ecology, Environmental Policy and Spatial Statistics | Not Available |
| Sue Bertram | Behavioural Ecology, Integrative Biology, Diet, Insects | Fall & Winter/Summer |
| Kyle Biggar | Functional Proteomics, Therapeutic Peptide Development | Not Available |
| Allyson Brady | Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemistry | Fall & Winter/Summer |
| Jenny Bruin | Pathogenesis of Diabetes | Fall & Winter |
| Grégory Bulté | Animal Ecology and Behaviour | Not Available |
| Rachel Buxton | Nature-based Solutions, Conservation Science, Urban Ecology, Ornithology, Nature-Health | Fall & Winter/Summer |
| James Cheetham | Computational Biology and Simulations | Fall & Winter/Summer |
| Steve Cooke | Fish Ecology; Aquatic Science; Evidence Synthesis; Conservation Science; Resource Management; Environmental Policy | Fall & Winter/Summer |
| Cathy Cullingham | Population Genetics, Conservation Genetics, and Landscape Genetics on a broad array of species | Not Available |
| Roz Dakin | Animal Behaviour, Social Evolution, Birds | Fall & Winter |
| Christina Davy | Conservation Science and Behavioural Ecology | Not Available |
| Jeff Dawson | Physiology & Insect Flight | Fall & Winter/Summer |
| Lenore Fahrig | Landscape Structure & Organisms | Fall & Winter/Summer |
| Eugene Fletcher | Microbial Biotechnology; Synthetic Biology | Fall & Winter |
| Dalal Hanna | Freshwater stewardship and conservation; Ecosystem services and nature’s contributions to people; Nature-based solutions; Sustainable and equitable social-ecological system governance | Fall & Winter |
| Ashkan Golshani | Functional Genomics/Proteomics | Fall & Winter/Summer |
| Root Gorelick | Evolution of sex; Cactus Biology; Philosophy of Science | Fall & Winter |
| Shelley Hepworth | Plant Development, Genetics, and Molecular Biology; Cannabis Breeding | Fall & Winter |
| Heath MacMillan | Integrative and Comparative Physiology; Thermal biology; Microplastics; Insects | Fall & Winter/Summer |
| Bruce Mckay | Cellular and Molecular Biology of Cancer | Fall & Winter/Summer |
| Iain McKinnell | Embryology and Developmental Biology; Exercise Physiology; Human Physiology; EDI in Science | Fall & Winter |
| Martha Mullally | Biology education, Science education in higher education, diversity, equity and inclusion in science education | Fall & Winter/Summer |
| Vivian Nguyen | Human Dimensions of Fisheries, Natural Resource Management, and Environmental Change; Conservation Social Sciences; Social-Ecological Research, and; Food Insecurity | Fall & Winter/Summer |
| Federico Riva | Biodiversity conservation, landscape and spatial ecology, quantitative ecological data analysis and GIS modeling, and field-based conservation research. | Fall & Winter/Summer |
| Nicolas Rodrigue | Modeling of Molecular Evolution; Phylogenetics; Comparative Genomics | Fall & Winter/Summer |
| Owen Rowland | Plant Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | Fall & Winter |
| Kama Szereszewski | Research to Biotechnology Feasibility (Stress-testing the commercial feasibility of Science, Tech, Engineering research.) | Fall & Winter/Summer |
| Tom Sherratt | Behavioural Evolution & Morphological traits, Spatio-temporal dynamics of populations | Fall & Winter/Summer |
| Andrew Simons | Evolutionary Ecology; Adaptation to environmental change; plant life-history evolution. | Fall & Winter/Summer |
| Myron Smith | Molecular Biology of Fungi, Microbial and Plant Biotechnology | Fall & Winter/Summer |
| Nigel Waltho | Underwater Scientific Research | Not Available |
| Bill Willmore | Oxidative Stress | Fall & Winter/Summer |
| Alex Wong | Genetics of Adaptation | Fall & Winter/Summer |
| Tim Xing | Plant molecular biology and cell signaling | Fall & Winter |
| Jayne Yack | Bioacoustics, Insect communication, Neuroethology | Fall & Winter |