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Jan 7, 2026

Mia has a fantas"tick" MSc defence!

Congratulations to Mia Lauzon who breezed through her MSc defence in December! Mia has been studying the overwintering biology of blacklegged ticks...

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Jan 7, 2026

How much should we care about insect-plastic interactions?

Microplastics are a ubiquitous pollutant - and what are they doing to animals such as insects? Post-doc Dr. Jane Allison and PhD candidate Marshall...

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Dec 2, 2025

New paper out! An updated inventory of NS mosquitoes

Congrats to Taylor on the publication of part of her MSc work! You can read all about our update on the mosquitoes of Nova Scotia here https://www....

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Nov 10, 2025

Autumn 2025 in the lab!

Never a dull moment around here - especially in the autumn! Lots of news to cover: Welcome to Jennie Mills, a new MSc student! Welcome also to our ...

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Jun 25, 2025

Congratulations, Nolan!

Nolan is our newly-minted MSc after a very successful thesis defence today! For the last two years Nolan has been working hard to collect and ident...

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Jun 10, 2025

Congratulations, Gemma!

Gemma has just done a fantastic job breezing through her MSc defence! Gemma's work (co-supervised with Dr. Dan Peach at of UGA) centered on arbovir...

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May 30, 2025

A busy spring for the lab

I've fallen a little behind on updates here - mainly because we've got so much on the go! We're welcoming a new group of amazing people into the la...

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Dec 13, 2024

Happy holidays from the lab!

The lab had a great time celebrating a semester of hard work with a delicious (and competitive) cookie/dress-up party! Props to Thomas (Gemma's par...

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Nov 15, 2024

East coast ticks and mossies represented at ESC in Quebec - and way to go, Nolan!

Nolan, Gemma, Mia, and April visited the Entomological Society of Canada's meeting in Quebec in late October to present their research and network ...

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