My PhD research focused on the sublethal effects of predation risk in snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus), a keystone herbivore species whose predictable 8-11 year population cycle dominates terrestrial community dynamics throughout Canada and Alaska's boreal forest. I am interested in the impact of predator-induced chronic stress on maternal effects, epigenetic programming, offspring brain organization and function, as well as downstream impacts on behaviour and survival.
This research is based out of the Centre for Environmental Epigenetics and Development at the University of Toronto Scarborough, and the Kluane Lake Research Station, in the southwestern Yukon Territory.
I am broadly interested in stress endocrinology, the drivers of individual variation in behaviour and stress susceptibility, predator-prey dynamics, and the impacts of early life adversity.
This research is based out of the Centre for Environmental Epigenetics and Development at the University of Toronto Scarborough, and the Kluane Lake Research Station, in the southwestern Yukon Territory.
I am broadly interested in stress endocrinology, the drivers of individual variation in behaviour and stress susceptibility, predator-prey dynamics, and the impacts of early life adversity.