Associate Professor

B.S. (Trinity University, San Antonio, TX, USA)
M.A./Ph.D. (University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA)

E-mail: kwelch@utsc.utoronto.ca

Download Dr. Welch’s curriculum vitae here.

Postdoctoral Researcher

B.S. (University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada)
M.Sc. (Dalhousie University and Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Halifax, NS, Canada)
Ph.D. (2017; University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada)

E-mail: morag.dick@utoronto.ca

Selected Publications

PhD student – Cell & Systems Biology
Thesis title: TBD

B.S. (Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada)
M.Sc. (University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada)

E-mail:

Selected Publications

PhD student – Cell & Systems Biology
Thesis title: TBD

B.S. (University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA)

E-mail: jerrica.jamison@mail.utoronto.ca

Selected Publications

PhD student – Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Thesis title: Energy store facultative hypothermia thresholds in ruby-throated hummingbirds

B.S. (Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, USA)

E-mail: erich.eberts@mail.utoronto.ca

MSc Student – Cell & Systems Biology

Thesis title: TBD

B.S. Hon. (University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2017)

E-mail: saad.muhammad@mail.utoronto.ca

Selected Publications

MSc student – Cell & Systems Biology

Thesis title: An integrative analysis of the effects of imidacloprid, a prominent neonicotinoid, on the ruby-throated hummingbird (Archilochus colubris)

B.S. (Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada)

E-mail: simon.english@mail.utoronto.ca

Publications

English, S. G., Hadj-Moussa, H. and Storey, K. B. (2018). MicroRNAs regulate survival in oxygen-deprived environments. J. Exp. Biol. 221, jeb190579.MicroRNAs regulate survival in oxygen-deprived environments.

Zhang, Y., English, S. G. and Storey, K. B. (2018). Regulation of nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT) and downstream myogenic proteins during dehydration in the African clawed frog. Mol. Biol. Rep. 45, 751–761.

PhD – Cell & Systems Biology – 2016

Thesis title: “Hummingbird Hovering Energetics and Flight Capacities Across Elevational Gradients.”

Ph.D. (University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada)

B.S. (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada)

Currently a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Dr. Alex Gerson at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

E-mail: dgroom@umass.edu

Selected Publications

Ph.D. – Cell & Systems Biology, 2016

Thesis title: “Comparative Identification and Characterization of Myosin Heavy Chain Isoforms in Avian Skeletal Muscle”

E-mail: br.velten@gmail.com

Selected Publications

M.Sc. – Cell & Systems Biology, 2012

Thesis title: “Neuromuscular control of hummingbird flight kinematics.”

E-mail: mahals4@mcmaster.ca

Selected Publications

M.Sc. – Cell & Systems Biology, 2012

Thesis title: “Measuring metabolic fuel use and metabolic rate during flight in Archilochus colubris.”

Ph.D., 2017 (York University, Toronto, ON, Canada) in the lab of Dr. David Hood.

M.Sc., 2012 (University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada)

B.S., 2010 (University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, ON, Canada)

Currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Sunnybrook Research Institute

E-mail: cwchen@yorku.ca

Selected Publications

MSc – Cell & Systems Biology – 2015

Thesis title: “Sweet GLUTs: Quantitative Analysis of Glucose Transporter and Fructolytic Enzyme Transcript Densities in Ruby-throated Hummingbirds (Archilochus colubris)”

M.Sc. (University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada)

B.S. (University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, ON, Canada)

Currently a PhD student in the lab of Dr. Les Buck at the University of Toronto.

E-mail: alex.myrka@mail.utoronto.ca

Selected Publications

MSc – Ecology & Evolutionary Biology – 2015

Thesis title: “Automated Serial Sampling in Hummingbirds Obviates Laborious Ecological Studies of Behaviourally Induced Rises in Departure Stores”

B.S. (University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada)

E-mail: lily.hou@mail.utoronto.ca

Selected Publications

MSc student – Cell & Systems Biology

Thesis title: “Plasma Membrane Recruitment Patterns of Glucose Transporters (GLUT) 1, 2, 3, and 5 in Response to Feeding in the Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Archilochus colubris.“

B.S. (University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, ON, Canada)

E-mail: raafay.ali@mail.utoronto.ca

Selected Publications