Current Graduate Students
	Erin Reardon Ph.D. student, Department of Biology, McGill University Topic: Fish in Extreme Environments: Reproduction and Energetics under Hypoxia.
	Erika Crispo Ph.D. student, Department of Biology, McGill University Topic: The role of phenotypic plasticity and gene flow in the evolution of biological diversity.
	Akisoferi Owori-Wadunde Ph.D. student, Department of Zoology, Makerere University, Uganda Topic: The Feeding Biology and Development of the Digestive System of Labeo victorianus (B) (Pisces:  Cyprinidae).
	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.
	Diana Sharpe Ph.D. student, Department of Biology, McGill University Topic: Phenotypic response to anthropogenic stressors in the African cyprinid (Rastrineobola argentea)
	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
	Baguma Jackson M.Sc. student, Deparment of Zoology, Makerere University, Uganda Topic:  Bioenergetics of Nile perch in Lake Nabugabo Uganda
Post-doctoral Fellows
	Suzanne M. Gray NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biology, McGill University Topic: The influence of turbidity on the maintenance of aquatic biodiversity.
	Inke van der Sluijs Topic: The reversibility and heritability of phenotypic plasticity in African cichlid fishes.
	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.
Current Undergraduates
Other Current Lab Members
	Igor Mitrofanov Ichtyologist and collaborator on the evolutionary ecology of haplochromine cichlids.
Alumni - Previous Postdoctoral Fellows
	Dr. Katja Rasanen (in collaboration with Dr. Andrew Hendry) Project: “Ecological speciation:  Mechanisms of reproductive isolation in fishes”.             July 2005 – December 2005.

Previous Graduate Students

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).

Undergraduate USRA Students

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 Honors 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).

[Last Update: Aug. 25, 2009]