Animal Biologist Interviews

Ken Jeffries is an Associate Professor at the University of Manitoba, Canada. His lab uses comparative transcriptomic approaches to examine how environmental stressors affect the cellular stress response and overall health of ectotherms.

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Diana King is the Deputy Program Manager for Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future (SAEF), an Australian-based research program dedicated to conserving the Antarctic. She has a passion for equity, diversity and inclusion and works to improve EDI within Antarctic science

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Lisa Komoroske is an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. The Komoroske lab aims to understand the fundamental biology of wildlife and to apply this knowledge to mitigate human impacts and inform conservation management.

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Edward Narayan is a Senior Lecturer of Animal Science at the University of Queensland, Australia.
He leads the Stress Lab which focuses on building resilience in animals to boost animal health, welfare, and productivity.
Edward is an Associate Editor for Conservation Physiology journal.

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Tommy Norin is a Senior Researcher and newly established group leader at the National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark. His research focusses on physiological variation in animals, and the functional, ecological, and evolutionary consequences of this variation.

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Natalie Pilakouta is a Lecturer in Animal Behaviour and Conservation at the University of Aberdeen, UK. She leads a research group which studies the effects of environmental change on animal behaviour and adaptation, particularly in insects and fish.

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Cosima Porteus is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada. The Porteus lab aims to understand how aquatic animals sense and respond to environmental change in order to predict how anthropogenic factors affect their physiology and behaviour. Cosima was awarded the SEB’s 2023 President’s Medal for the Animal Section. She is an Associate Editor for Conservation Physiology journal.

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Karine Salin is a Research Scientist at Ifremer (Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer), the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea.

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Aimee Silla is an amphibian reproductive biologist based at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She works to develop reproductive technologies for the conservation of anurans.

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Sean Tomlinson is a researcher at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He is interested in how physiological traits contribute to a species’ niche and distribution, and is currently focussing on population dynamics and extinction in Australian and New Zealand fauna. Sean is an Associate Editor of Conservation Physiology journal.

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