Former Lab Members

Former Graduate Students

Daphne Chevalier, M.Sc. 2025
Lights, camera, attraction? : effects of artificial light at night on arthropods
Currently a research technician in the PIEE lab

Chelsea Gowton, M.Sc. 2019, Ph.D. 2024
Abiotic and biotic drivers of indirect defense allocation in Vicia faba (Ph.D.)
Exposure to volatile organic compounds from peppermint as a management strategy for Drosophila suzukii (M.Sc.)

Kelly Wang, M.Sc, 2024
Historical trends in cranberry pest abundances and their dependence on temperature
Now a biologist with ES Crop Consult

하규백 Jimmy Kyu Baik Ha, Ph.D. 2024
The impacts of elevated CO₂ on plant-insect interactions across multiple insect species

Isaac Peetoom Heida, M.Sc. 2023
Ecological and genetic drivers of silicon accumulation in cereal crops
Now completing a PhD in the Cahill Lab at the University of Alberta
Personal website

César Cabra, M.Sc. 2020
Toxicity across food webs: Effects of plant botanical extracts on tri-trophic interactions in tomato
Now completing a PhD in the Avilés Lab at the University of British Columbia

Visiting Students

Taylor Weishaar, M.Sc. 2021
Audrey Debonnel, M.Sc. 2018
Li Xiao, Ph.D. 2017

Former Postdoctoral Fellows

Daria Reshetniak, Ph.D.
2022 to 2023, now a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Forestry

Pierre Girod, Ph.D.
2020 to 2022
Research Gate Profile

Quentin Geissmann, Ph.D.
2019 to 2022, now leading the DARSA Group at Aarhus University

Di Wu, Ph.D.
2019 to 2022

Former Visiting Scholars

Katarzyna Patejuk, Ph.D.
Dekaban Scholar from July to November 2023
Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Plant Protection at Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Science

Kinga Treder
Dekaban Scholar (summers of 2022 and 2023)
Research Technician in the Dept. of Agroecosystems at University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Former Lab Technicians & Research Associates

Nisa Chavez
Computational Entomology Technician (2023-2024)

Matthew Mitchell
CSFS Research Associate
currently Assistant Professor in Forestry and Land and Food Systems

Martina Clausen
Lab Manager (2020-2022)

Sadie Garcia

Aldona Czajewska

Former Undergraduate Students

2024 Undergraduate Students
Wenwen Wang (NSERC USRA)
Emma Pflanz (NSERC USRA)
Ray Fort
Jenna Clowes
Eva Burghardt (current M.Sc. student)
Katie Pryer

2023 Undergraduate Students
Julia Taylor
Paul Fisher (current M.Sc. student)
Nisa Chavez
Shawn Fang
Lucas Friesen
Dennis Chiu
Hannah Levit
Jamie Peacock

2022 Undergraduate Students
Grace Wang (current technician)
Asha Wareham
Georgia Sainas
Wei Xie
Tony Chunqing Liang
Damara Featherstone
Allison Gacad (NSERC USRA)
Naeem Valiani
Sara Salad
Tina Friesen

2021 Undergraduate Students
Katherine Buchanan
Rémy Altasserre
Savi Raghuraman
Yulia Shcherbakova
Ebba Hooft Toomey
Joyce Liang

2020 Undergraduate Students
Sadie Larter H.
Yuma Baker
Sara Ng
Melody Fu

2019 Undergraduate Students
Jordan Tam

2018 Undergraduate Students
Kathy Ma (NSERC USRA)
Carmen Wong
Derrick Chong