Lauren J. Chapman
Professor, Department of Biology, McGill University
Honorary Lecturer, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Associate Scientist, Wildlife Conservation Society
e-mail: lauren.chapman@mcgill.ca

Canada Research Chair in Respiratory Ecology and Aquatic Conservation

Suzanne M. Gray
NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biology, McGill University
Topic: The influence of turbidity on the maintenance of aquatic biodiversity.

Emilie Saulnier-Talbot
FQRNT-funded PDF fellow in collaboration with Dr. Irene Gregory-Eaves
Topic: Impacts of 20th century deforestation, climate change and fish introductions on the ecological integrity of Western Ugandan crater lakes.

Diana Sharpe
Ph.D. student, Department of Biology, McGill University
Topic: Phenotypic response to anthropogenic stressors in the African cyprinid (Rastrineobola argentea)

Nkalubo Winnie Nalukenge
Ph.D. student, Department of Zoology, Makerere University, Uganda
Topic: Temporal Dynamics of Reproduction and Recruitment Patterns in Nile Perch, Lates niloticus (L.), in Lake Victoria, Uganda.

Vincent Fugère
Ph.D. student, Department of Biology, McGill University
Topic: Phenotypic changes associated with deforestation in an African cyprinid fish and their implications for stream ecosystem function

Elizabeth Nyboer
M.Sc. student, Department of Biology, McGill University
Topic: Fishing-induced ecological change in the Nile perch of Lake Nabugabo, Uganda

Georgia McNeil
M.Sc. student, Department of Biology, McGill University
Topic: Hypoxia, carotenoids and colour expression in a eurytopic African cichlid

Andrew Byekwaso
M.Sc. student, Department of Zoology, Makerere University, Uganda
Topic: Dietary specialization in haplochromine cichlids of the Lake Nabugabo region, Uganda

Caitlin N. Friesen
M.Sc. student, Department of Biology, McGill University
Topic: The effect of different dissolved oxygen regimes on reproductive processes in the African cichlid, Pseudocrenilabrus multicolor victoriae

Andrea Reid
M.Sc. student, Department of Biology, McGill University
Topic: Patterning native fish species use of wetland refugia in the face of the introduced Nile perch (Lates niloticus)

Baguma Jackson
M.Sc. student, Deparment of Zoology, Makerere University, Uganda
Topic: Bioenergetics of Nile perch in Lake Nabugabo Uganda

Igor Mitrofanov
Ichtyologist and collaborator on the evolutionary ecology of haplochromine cichlids.

Alumni - Previous Posdoctoral Fellows

Erin Reardon (in collaboration with Dr. R. Krahe)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biology, McGill University
Topic: Metabolic costs of communication in two species of weakly electric South American fishes.

Inke van der Sluijs
Topic: The reversibility and heritability of phenotypic plasticity in African cichlid fishes.

Dr. Katja Rasanen (in collaboration with Dr. Andrew Hendry)
Project: “Ecological speciation: Mechanisms of reproductive isolation in fishes”. July 2005 – December 2005.

Erika Crispo – Ph.D. in Biology, Department of Biology, McGill University.
Dissertation Title: Interplay among phenotypic plasticity, local adaptation, and gene flow. (2010).

Akisoferi Owori-Wadunde – Ph.D. in Zoology, Department of Zoology, Makerere University, Uganda
Dissertation Title: The Feeding Ecology, Ontogeny and Larval Feeding in Labeo victorianus Boulenger 1901. (Pisces: Cyprinidae) (2009)

Erin Reardon – Ph.D. in Biology, Department of Biology, McGill University.
Dissertation Title: Fish in Extreme Environments: Reproduction and Energetics under Hypoxia. (2009).

Sandra Binning – M.Sc. in Biology, McGill University.
Thesis Title: Specialized Morphology for a Generalist Diet: Spatial and Seasonal Surveys Reveal Liem’s Paradox in an African Cichlid Fish. (2008)
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Jaclyn Paterson – M.Sc. in Biology, McGill University.
Thesis Title: Response of an Introduced Aquatic Predator, the Nile Perch, to Environmental Change. (2008).

Jackson Efitre – Ph.D. in Zoology, Department of Zoology, University of Florida.
Dissertation Title: Life History Variation in Tilapia Populations within the Crater Lakes of Western Uganda: The Role of Size-Selective Predation. (2007).

Aventino Kasangaki – Ph.D. in Zoology, Mbarara University of Science and Technology
Dissertation Title: Fish Fauna of the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park along a Deforestation Gradient. (2007).

Gladys Namuswe Bwanika - Ph.D. in Zoology, Makerere University, Uganda.
Dissertation Title: Foraging Ecology and Bioenergetics of the Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) in the Lake Victoria Basin. (2005).

Ashley Seifert – M.S. in Zoology, Department of Zoology, University of Florida.
Thesis Title: Respiratory Allocation and Resting Rate of Metabolism in the African Lungfish Protopterus aethiopicus. (2004).

Jennifer Davies – M.A. in Latin American Studies, University of Florida.
Thesis Title: Population Ecology of the Vicuna (Vicugna vicugna) at the Salinas y Aguada Blanca National Reserve, Arequipa, Peru: Baseline Data for Sustainable Management. (2003).

Christine K. Apodaca – M.S. in Zoology, Department of Zoology, University of Florida.
Thesis Title: Damselflies in Extreme Environments: Distribution and Ecophysiology of Proishnura subfurcatum. (2003).

Sarah Schaack – M.S. in Zoology, Department of Zoology, University of Florida
Thesis Title: Functional Morphology and Foraging Ecology of the African Cyprinid, Barbus neumayeri: Implications for Faunal Diversification. (2002).

Cindy Timmerman – Ph.D. in Zoology, Department of Zoology, University of Florida.
Dissertation Title: An Integrative Study of Response to Hypoxia in the Live-bearing Sailfin Molly, Poecilia latipinna (Atherinomorpha; Poeciliidae). (2001).

John Olowo (deceased June 2001, completed candidacy) - Dept. of Zoology, University of Florida.
Title: Predicting the Future of the Benthic (Demersal) Fishes of Lake Victoria under Increased Hypolimnetic Anoxia and Nile Perch Predation.

April Randle – M.S. in Zoology, Department of Zoology, University of Florida
Thesis Title: Respiratory Ecology of the Air-breathing Anabantoid Ctenopoma muriei. (2001)

Efitre Jackson - M.S. in Zoology, Department of Zoology, Makerere University, Uganda.
Thesis Title: Species Composition, Relative Abundance, and Distribution of Benthic Macroinvertebrates in Lake Nabugabo, Uganda. (1999).

John Olowo - M.S. in Zoology, Department of Zoology, University of Florida.
Thesis Title: The Impact of the Introduced Nile perch (Lates niloticus) on the Foraging Ecology of Non-cichlid Predators in the Lake Victoria basin. (1998).

Pamela Schofield - M.S. in Zoology, Department of Zoology, University of Florida.
Thesis Title: Feeding Ecology of the Introduced Nile Perch (Lates niloticus) in lake Nabugabo, Uganda: Implications for Conservation of the Indigenous Fauna. (1997).

Amanda E. Rosenberger - M.S. in Zoology, Department of Zoology, University of Florida.
Thesis Title: Potential of Wetland Tributaries as Refugia for Endangered Fishes from Nonnative Predators: A Case Study of Lake Nabugabo, Uganda. (1997).

Deborah Bayster - M.S. in Zoology, Department of Zoology, University of Florida.
Thesis Title: Respiratory Ecology of Fishes in a Florida Spring. (1996).

Kirsten Wiens, Department of Biology, McGill University
Topic: Plasticity in the gill and brain size of an isolated cichlid population.

Lora Tzaneva, Department of Biology, McGill University
Topic: Hypoxia-induced Reduction in the Brain Size of a Cichlid Fish (2009).

Alana Parasi, Department of Biology, McGill University
Topic: The Metabolic Cost of Electric Signaling in Weakly Electric Fish. (2008)
Co-supervised by Dr. Rudiger Krahe

Lora Tzaneva, Department of Biology, McGill University
Topic: Interdemic Variation in Response to Hypoxia in an African Cichlid: Are Swamp Fish less Compromised? (2008).

Kiyoko Gotanda, Department of Biology, McGill University (Honours in Biology)
Topic: The Effect of Dissolved Oxygen Levels on Critical Swimming Speed in an African Cichlid. (2008).

Etienne Low-Decarie, Department of Biology, McGill University
Topic: Morphological variation in fishes from predator/no-predator environments (2007).

Melany Piette, Department of Biology, McGill University
Topic: Divergence in Host-parasite Relationships across Aquatic Oxygen Gradients (2006).

Completed Undergraduate Honours Students

Kiyoko Gotanda - The effects of hypoxia on critical swimming speed in an African cichlid. (2009).

Kate Hudson - Interpopulational variation in critical swimming speed and morphology in threespine stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus. (2006) (co-supervised with Dr. A. Hendry)

A.J. Patel - Links between Swimming Performance and Whole-body Morphology in African Cichlids. (2004).

Lu Wen-Chi Corrie - Costs of Mouth-brooding under Hypoxia in the African Cichlid Pseudocrenilabrus multicolor. (2003).

Lindy Barrow - Behavioral Response to Hypoxia Acclimation in the Swamp-dwelling African Cyprinid Barbus neumayeri. (2003).

Marshall McCue - African Swamps and Respiratory Tradeoffs: Interdemic Variation in the Air-Breathing Catfish (Clarias liocephalus). (2001).

Kristan Raymond - Host, Macrohabitat, and Microhabitat Specificity in the Gill Parasite Neodiplozoon polycotyleus (Monogenea). (2001).

Kim Schneider - Respiratory Ecology of Benthic Macroinvertebrates in an East African Swamp-River System. (1999).

Jason Shinn - Geographical Variation and Phenotypic Plasticity in the Gill Morphology of an African Cichlid: Implications for Survival in Swamp Refugia. (1997).

Chava Frankl - Observations on the Reproductive Biology of the African Cyprinid Barbus neumayeri. (1996).

Carl Pizzarello - Survey of Shark Denticle Morphology and Pattern in the Genus Etmopterus (Elasmobranchii, Squalidae). (1995).