Interested in joining the Toxopeus lab? Please see our Opportunities page for more details, and our Research page information on current projects.
Dr. Jantina Toxopeus
Principal Investigator
Funding: NSERC Discovery Grant, NRCan (Natural Resources Canada)
I am an associate professor at St. FX, where I love researching how insects survive winter and teaching biology. I take an integrative approach to research, explaining whole animal phenotypes (like being able to survive freezing) at many levels of biological organization (genes, cells, tissues, physiological systems).
Graduate Students
Kenechukwu Ojukwu, MSc
PhD Candidate
Project: Overwintering of the eastern spruce budworm, co-supervised with Dr. Andrew Lang at Memorial University
Joined the lab: June 2024
Mélina Chicoine, BSc Honours
MSc student
Project: Parasitoids of the beech leaf-mining weevil, co-supervised with Dr. Jen Perry
Joined the lab: May 2026
Funding: Mitacs Accelerate
Lab Manager
Teresa Keenan, BSc Honours
Post-BSc Research Technician/Lab Manager (Summer 2026 – Winter 2027), Honours Student (Fall 2025/Winter 2026), Undergraduate Research Assistant (Summer 2024, 2025)
Project: Genetic identification of overwintering pond bugs, and cytoskeletal biology of freeze tolerance
Joined the lab: May 2024
Funding: StFX Biology Chiasson Award (2024), StFX Biology McLachlan Award (2025)
Undergraduate Students
This could be you! 🙂 See Opportunities.
Lab alumni
Lab alumni can be viewed here!
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