Current graduate students
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Cameron Hodinka
MSc student 2022-present hodinkac_at_myumanitoba.ca My research focuses on whether trematode parasites change the behaviour of their snail hosts to promote transmission. I am recording several aspects of behaviour to determine if parasitism alters attraction between snail hosts. I am also investigating if parasitism affects the chemical profiles of hosts and whether these changes are of host or parasite origin. My research will improve our understanding of the role that chemical ecology has in parasite-modified behaviour. |
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Sidney Mann
MSc student 2022-present manns5_at_myumanitoba.ca I study the transmission of parasitic nematodes from gastropods to moose. To predict where moose are most at risk of parasitism, I am determining whether the diversity and abundance of snail hosts can be predicted by abiotic factors such as temperature and soil chemistry. My results can be used by wildlife managers to estimate where moose are at highest risk of nematode parasitism (i.e., where they are most likely to consume infected snail hosts). |
Current undergraduate students
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Kael Steuart
Honours, 2022-2023 Undergraduate Research Award 2022 My research focuses on how aquatic snails are affected by infection with two larval stages of parasitic trematodes. I am assessing whether life history traits (growth, reproduction and survival) of snail hosts differ based on infection status and dose, and age of host. Further, I am determining if these effects vary among different snail species. My research tests a key, but often untested assumption underlying many hypotheses in parasite evolutionary - that parasites are costly to hosts. |
Former postdocs and graduate students
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Dr. Olwyn Friesen
Weston Postdoc 2019-2021, Postdoc, 2022 NOW: Aquatic Science Technician, Department of Fisheries and Oceans |
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Ashley Pidwerbesky
MSc 2019-2022 USRA research award, 2019 NOW: Conservation Intern, Assiniboine Park Conservancy |
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Emma Rempel
MSc 2019-2021 NSERC research award, 2019 NOW: Research Technician-4, Cadham Labs |
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Lauren Wiens
MSc 2016 - 2018, Honours, 2014 - 2015 NOW: Biologist II, Dept of Fisheries & Oceans |
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Demi Gagnon
MSc 2017 - 2019 Co-op Research Assistant 2016 - 2017 NOW: Biodiversity and Reclamation Specialist, Ktunaxa Nation Council Lands and Resources Sector |
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Asma Sultana
MSc student 2016 - 2018 NOW: PhD student, University of Manitoba |
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Chenhua Li
MSc student 2015 - 2017 NOW: PhD candidate, University of Calgary |
Former undergraduate students
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Elias Bowman
Summer research assistant, 2022 |
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Ellyse Olafson
Summer co-op research assistant, 2022 |
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Caitlyn Friesen
Summer research assistant, 2022 |
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Carly Gair
Co-op Research Assistant, Summer 2020, Winter 2021, Summer 2021 |
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Angela Rasmussen-Berrington
Summer Research Assistant, 2021 Undergraduate Student Research Award, 2021 NOW: MSc student, University of Guelph |
Naomi Derksen
Summer Research Assistant, 2021 |
Mackenzie Medeiros
Summer Research Assistant 2021 NSERC Indigenous Undergraduate Student Research Award, 2021 |
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Emily Slicer
Summer Research Assistant, 2021 Undergraduate Student Research Award, 2021 |
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Ali Kandil
Summer Research Assistant, 2020 Undergraduate Student Research Award, 2020; Mick Burt Award for Outstanding Poster Presentation in the PIE section, Canadian Society of Zoologists, 2021; William C. Marquardt Award for Best Paper Presentation by an Undergraduate Student, Rocky Mountain Conference of Parasitologists, 2020 |
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Charith Karunatilake
Summer Research Assistant, 2020 Undergraduate Student Research Award, 2020 NOW: University of Manitoba Medical School |
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Josh Kowalchuk
Summer Research Assistant, 2020 NOW: Field Breeding Research Assistant, Bayer |
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Min Xian Ngae
Summer Research Assistant, 2019 NOW: Lab Analyst, ALS Environmental |
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Catherine Unrau
Summer Research Assistant, 2018 |
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Mark Kristian Jovero
Summer Research Assistant, 2018 |
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Jia Ming Tan
Summer Research Assistant, 2016 - 2017 Undergraduate Research Award, 2017; Faculty of Science Undergraduate Student Research Award, 2016 NOW: PharmD program, College of Pharmacy, University of Manitoba |
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Osasumwen (Osy) Osifo
Summer Research Assistant, 2017 Faculty of Science Undergraduate Student Research award, 2017 NOW: Admissions Counselor, Booth University |
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Laura Eliuk
Honours student, 2015 - 2016 NSERC Research Award, 2016; Faculty of Science Undergraduate Student Research Award, 2015 NOW: MSc, University of Victoria |
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Carmen Tse
Summer Research Assistant, 2015 NSERC Research Award, 2015 NOW: MD, (U of Manitoba Medical School) |
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Kate Parkinson
Co-op Research Assistant, 2015 Faculty of Science Undergraduate Student Research award, 2015 NOW: MD (U of Manitoba Medical School) |
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Yuya Miyashita
Research Assistant and Skills student, 2015 |
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Tamaghna Chakraborty
Research Assistant, 2015 - 2016 |
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Parisa Selseleh
Summer Research Assistant, 2015 - 2016 NSERC Research Award, 2016; Marc Dresden Student Travel grant, American Society of Parasitologists, 2016; Undergraduate Travel Support, 2016; ICAN-WISE scholarship, 2015 NOW: MD (U of Manitoba Medical School) |
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David Almeida
Research Assistant, 2015 Science Without Borders student, 2015 NOW: Health agent, Maceió municipal government, Brazil |
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Rachel Donnelly
Honours student, 2014 - 2015 Marc Dresden Student Travel grant, American Society of Parasitologists, 2015; Undergraduate Travel Support, University of Manitoba, 2015 |
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Nikola Svitlica
Honours student, 2014 - 2015 Undergraduate Travel Support, University of Manitoba, 2015 NOW: University of Manitoba Medical School |
Collaborators
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Dr. Harold Aukema
Fatty acid analysis/signaling molecules University of Manitoba |
Dr. Jim Roth
Stable isotopes University of Manitoba |
Drs. Charles Criscione & Isabel Caballero - parasite mating systems and pentastomes
Texas A&M University |
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Dr. Lisa Belden - ecology of trematodes
Virginia Tech |
Dr. Russell Wyeth - snail behaviour analysis
St. Francis Xavier University |
Drs. Charlene Berkvens and Trent Bollinger - parelaphostrongylid parasites in deer and moose
Assiniboine Park Conservancy; Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative |
