Lab Alumni

Folks who have finished up their projects in the Toxopeus lab!

Grace Kaiser, BSc, Honours Student (May 2022 – Apr 2023), catalase expression during acclimation of freeze-tolerant crickets

Erik Bily, BSc, (co-supervised by Dr. Arkadiy Reunov) Directed Study Student (Jan – Apr 2023), electron microscopy of cricket gametogenesis

Lily McIntyre, BSc, Volunteer, Summer Research Student, and Directed Study Student (Sep 2021 – Apr 2023), immunocytochemistry of Hsp70 in freeze-tolerant crickets

Annika Nobbe, BSc, Summer Research Student and Directed Study Student (Aug – Dec 2022), proteins that interact with the actin cytoskeleton in freeze-tolerant crickets

Brynn Webber, BASc, (now doing a Heatlth Honours thesis at StFX with Dr. Kara Thompson) Summer Research Student (May – Aug 2022), cryoprotectants in freeze-tolerant crickets

Jay Turnsek, BSc, (co-supervised with Dr. James Hughes, StFX computer science) Summer Research Student (May – Aug 2021, 2022), classifying CRISPR sequences using machine learning

Robyn Walter, BSc, (now in the Pharmacy Program at Dalhousie University) Directed Study Student and Volunteer (Sep 2021 – Apr 2022), catalase activity during acclimation of freeze-tolerant crickets

Mackenzie Moore, BASc, (now doing a Masters in Global Health Systems at Western University) Volunteer and Directed Study Student (Sep 2021 – Apr 2022), genetics of overwintering apple maggot flies

Paige Brown, BSc, Volunteer and Directed Study Student (Sep 2021 – Apr 2022), genetics of overwintering apple maggot flies

Trinity McIntyre, BSc, (now in the MBA Corporate Residency program at Dalhousie University) Volunteer, Summer Research Assistant, and Directed Student Student (Feb 2021 – Apr 2022), cold tolerance of apple maggot flies and their parasitoid wasps