Research

Lab Members

Emma Brown, MSc candidate (ebrow052[at]uottawa.ca)

Anti-predator behaviour in field crickets

Tricia Skelton, MSc candidate (tskel078[at]uottawa.ca)

Social learning in field crickets

Katie Harrington, PhD candidate (kharr111[at]uottawa.ca)

Cognitive ecology of the striated caracara

Ethan Hermer, PhD candidate (eherm041[at]uottawa.ca)

Population and individual differences in learning and memory in birds

Emil Isaksson, PhD candidate (jisak085[at]uottawa.ca)

Individual variation in individual and social learning in great tits

André Cyr, Postdoc

Learning in crickets and neural networks

Matthew Osborne, Cricket lab manager 

Former graduate students and postdocs

Isabelle Devost, MSc Biology

"Dominance, personality and innovation in black-capped chickadees"

Now working as 'Coordinatrice à la conservation' at the Granby zoo 

Teri Jones, MSc Biology

"Social networks and information transmission in black-capped chickadees"

PhD (NSERC-funded) at University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

Now working at Environment Canada

Shannon Whelan, MSc Biology

"The role of temperature in timing of reproduction and reproductive success of gray jays"

Now a PhD candidate (NSERC-funded) at McGill University

Megan Thompson, MSc Biology

''Examining the effect of urbanization on personality, plasticity, and spatial cognition in scatter hoarders''

Now a PhD candidate (NSERC-funded) at UQAM & Montpellier

Sanjay Prasher, MSc Biology 

"Examining the predictors of technical and consumer innovation in black-capped chickadees"

Now a PhD candidate, University of Cincinnati, US

Catherine Jarjour, MSc Biology

"Effect of urbanization on neophobia in black-capped chickadees"

Now working at the Bird Banding Office, Environment Canada

Isabel Rojas-Ferrer, PhD Biology

Now a research associate for the Puerto Rico vervet monkey social network project 

Dr. Maxime Cauchoix, Postdoc

Postdoctoral researcher, CNRS Moulis, France

Dr. Julian Evans, Postdoc

Postdoctoral researcher, Zurich University, Switzerland

Dr. Dovid Kozlovsky, Postdoc

Postdoctoral researcher, Villanova University, US