Mads Andersen joined the MacMillan Lab this month to start a postdoctoral fellowship on the effects of chilling on the nervous system of insects. Mads joins us after completing an outrageously productive PhD in the Overgaard lab in Aarhus, Denmark. Mads is supported by a prestigious fellowship from the Carlsberg Foundation. Welcome Mads!
MacMillan Lab PhD student Hannah Davis has been awarded an NSERC CGS-D doctoral scholarship. This scholarship is extremely challenging to secure, and Hannah very much deserves it for her hard work. Congrats Hannah!
Heath has been awarded funding from the CFI and ORF to buy essential equipment to our work in the lab. These funds will be used to by a Scanning Ion-Selective Electrode Technique setup, a full Western blotting suite, a spectrophotometer, and incubators and cooling baths! With this support we will have the capacity to do even more cutting edge science on thermal performance!
MacMillan Lab member Alexandra Cheslock has been awarded an NSERC USRA to stay in the lab this summer and work on thermal plasticity of the sodium pump. Congrats to Alex!
With support from an NSERC Engage grant awarded to the lab, we welcome Genevieve Ferguson as the first postdoc in the MacMillan Lab. Genevieve will be working in the MacMillan and Bertram labs along with our partners at Entomo Farms and undergrads Mahmoud El Saadi and Alexandra Cheslock on a 6-month project on edible insects.
Congratulations to MSc student Kaylen Brzezinski, who won the Holeton Award for best student poster at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Zoologists in St. Johns, Noufoundland. Kaylen's poster detailed the effects of chilling on the paracellular barriers of the locust gut epithelia.
