Sometime on April 24th, 2025, from the Lamanai Outpost Lodge where he is working with an international team to trap and study bats at the moment, Phil Oelbaum uploaded the corrected version of his PhD thesis to the University of Toronto School of Graduate Studies. Upon doing this, and the iminment publication of the thesis […]
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Congratulations to Welch lab PhD student Phillip Oelbaum on being named a 2024 Student Scholar by Bat Conservation International for his project, entitled “Foraging and roosting ecology of Phyllonycteris aphylla in Jamaica.” More about Phil’s project (from the BCI page): The Jamaican flower bat, Phyllonycteris aphylla, is listed as critically endangered and until now was […]
Read More Following a successful first field-trip in early 2023 resulting in a publication on two new breeding populations of the endangered Jamaican flower bat (Phyllonycteris aphylla), Phil Oelbaum and Jerrica Jamison, joined collaborator Damian Whyte and the Jamaica Caves Organization for more censusing of Jamaican “rat bats”!
Read MoreThe Welch lab is actively recruiting graduate students for the coming year (Fall 2023 start). I anticipate recruiting up to 1 MSc student and 1 or 2 PhD students (i.e. student already has MSc or is a BSc graduate that is especially competitive). In particular, I am looking for students interested in studying a) ecotoxicology […]
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A newly published paper led by recent MSc graduate Raafay Syed Ali has been featured in “Inside the JEB” It seems there is no limit to hummingbird superpowers. Blessed with the manoeuvrability of insects and high-speed vision, the nimble birds fuel their whirlwind lifestyle with a diet of sugar-charged nectar. Yet, by night, the animals […]
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Congratulations to Ph.D. Candidate Natalia Sandoval Herrera on being awarded a 2020 “Latin American Student Field Research Award” from the American Society of Mammalogists. This US$1500 grant will support her work in Belize, Mexico, and Costa Rica. Thank you, ASM! Want to know more about her research? See her World Bat Twitter Conference presentation below!
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The following highlighted post features our paper “Metabolic fates of evening crop-stored sugar in ruby-throated hummingbirds (Archilochus colubris)” Read this post in its entirety here. At Picarro, we enjoy seeing how research groups at the forefront of Science are using our systems in their research. We’d like to thank Erich R. Eberts, Dr. Morag F. […]
Read MoreCongratulations to Welch Lab alumnus Jessica Phillips on winning a prestigious 2016 Rhodes Scholarship! Jessica will be heading off to Oxford in the UK to conduct her graduate studies. Jessica was an undergraduate field researcher under the direct supervision of former Welch Lab postdoc Dr. Laura McKinnon. Jessica travelled to Churchill, Manitoba to study the […]
Read MoreCongratulations to lab member Alex Myrka on the successful defense of his MSc thesis! Alex has produced a fine quantitative examination of glucose transporter and fructolytic enzyme gene expression in hummingbirds in multiple tissues. He worked long and hard on this non-model organism to develop novel new Welch lab research tools. Readers can look forward […]
Read MoreMaster Lily Hou and a proud supervisor at UofT’s fall graduation. Congratulations to lab member Lily Hou on the successful defense of her MSc thesis! Exam committee members unanimously agreed she did a stellar job and has amassed an impressive amount of data. Lily will be looking to publish her second paper shortly!
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