Welch Lab PhD student Brandy Velten’s paper, “Myosin heavy chain isoforms in the flight and leg muscles of hummingbirds and zebra finches” was accepted for publication in the American Journal of Physiology – Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology! This will be Brandy’s first Welch Lab publication, and second publication overall. An early online version of […]

Congratulations to lab member Tobias Mankis on being awarded a prestigious University of Toronto Undergraduate Excellence Award in the Natural Sciences & Engineering! Tobias will take part in the study of arctic nestling breeding behaviour ecology and physiology led by Welch Lab postdoc Dr. Laura McKinnon this summer.

Congratulations to Dr. Laura McKinnon, a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Welch Lab, on winning both a 2014 National Geographic Society (NGS) Research and Exploration grant as well as a 2014 Churchill Northern Studies Centre (CNSC) Northern Research Fund (NRF) award! These awards will be used to support Dr. McKinnon’s research on the ecology and […]