| October 2009 Dr. Steve Perry is the 2010 recipient of the Award of Excellence from the Physiology Section of the American Fisheries Society. Congratulations! This marks a "double" for the comparative physiology group, as Dr. Pat Walsh was the 2006 recipient of the same award. | |
 | September 2009 Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Johanne Lewis of the Walsh lab has been selected to participate in the course "Integrative Biology and Adaptation of Antarctic Marine Organisms" at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, January 4-February 1, 2010. Johanne will be part of a select group of 25 trainees chosen from among hundreds of applicants worldwide. She hopes to benefit greatly from this logical extension of her studies of the effects of temperature on aquatic organisms. We wish Johanne a great adventure! Details of the course can be found at http://antarctica.usc.edu/ |
| July 2009 Dr. Katie Gilmour was appointed Co-editor in chief of Physiological and Biochemical Zoology together with Dr. Patricia Schulte of UBC. This appointment brings to three the editors of comparative physiology journals that call uOttawa home... Gilmour (Physiological and Biochemical Zoology), Perry (Journal of Experimental Biology) and Walsh (Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology). |
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| March 2009 Recent work by Dr. Jean-Michel Weber and his student Simba Nagahuedi has demonstrated that feeding n-3 fatty acids to "couch potato" quails significantly increased the activities of key oxidative enzymes in flight muscle in a way that is normally achieved only through extreme endurance training. This work was featured in Science, Scientific American and the Journal of Experimental Biology's Inside JEB. |
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| January 2009 Dr. Pat Walsh and colleagues published a paper in Science on the contribution of fish to the marine inorganic carbon cycle (see also the "Perspectives" piece that accompanied the article). The paper received a great deal of media attention. As an example, see this article in New Scientist, or google "gut rocks" for a fine selection of articles! |
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| November 2008 Dr. Steve Perry was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Congratulations! |
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 | May 2007 Zhaohong Qin, a MSc student co-supervised by Dr. Steve Perry and Dr. John Lewis, won the George Holeton Award at the Canadian Society of Zoologists' Annual Meeting at McGill University (May 21st to 25th, 2007) for her poster "CO2 peripheral chemosensitivity in zebrafish gills". The George Holeton Award is presented for the most outstanding poster within the Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry section. Congratulations Zhaohong! |
| May 2007 Read about the lungfish work carried out in the labs of Dr. Katie Gilmour and Dr. Steve Perry in the Journal of Experimental Biology. |
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| November 2006 Find out about Dr. Pat Walsh’s work on urea excretion in toadfish through Science Now or Quirks and Quarks. |
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| November 2006 Dr. Jean-Michel Weber’s work on long-distance migration in the semi-palmated sandpiper was featured on Quirks and Quarks. |
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