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 […]
Read MoreLab News
As an annual tradition, The Royal Society, publishers of such journals as Proceedings B and Biology Letters, names the 10 most popular papers they publish each year. The Welch Lab paper led by Dr. Giulia Rossi is #9 on that list! From the announcement: 9. Vampire bats get their energy from an unusual source This Biology […]
Read More
Lab alum Dr. Natalia Sandoval Herrera was awarded a prestigious FORMAS Career Grant for Early-Career Researchers. This funding, totalling over SEK$6.2 Million (≈CAD$840,000 or USD$585,000), will support Dr. Sandoval Herrera as a staff researcher at SLU (the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) where she has been working as a postdoctoral fellow. With this funding, Dr. […]
Read MoreLab alum Dr. Natalia Sandoval Herrera was recently named the winner of the University of Toronto Scarborough Department of Biological Sciences Best EEB Paper. This prize celebrates the best paper led by a UTSC, Biological Sciences-based graduate student within the broad fields of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. Natalia’s paper, entitled, “Non-destructive methods to assess pesticide […]
Read More
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 […]
Read More
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 […]
Read More 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!
Read More