Former Lab Members

Former Graduate Students

Daphne Chevalier, M.Sc. 2025
Lights, camera, attraction? : effects of artificial light at night on arthropods
Currently Computational Entomology 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.)
Currently Project Manager at Ontario Farmland Trust

Kelly Wang, M.Sc, 2024
Historical trends in cranberry pest abundances and their dependence on temperature
Currently a Research Project Lead 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
Currently a Ph.D. Student in the Cahill Lab at the University of Alberta

César Cabra, M.Sc. 2020
Toxicity across food webs: Effects of plant botanical extracts on tri-trophic interactions in tomato
Currently a Ph.D. Candidate 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
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Quentin Geissmann, Ph.D.
2019 to 2022, now Assistant Professor leading the DARSA Group at Aarhus University

Di Wu, Ph.D.
2019 to 2022

Former Visiting Scholars

Tianzi Gu, Ph.D.
Visiting Scholar from July 2024 to July 2025
Lecturer at Anhui Agricultural University

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

Grace Wang
Field & Lab Research Technician (2022-2025)
Currently a Master’s Student at Purdue University College of Agriculture

Nisa Chavez
Computational Entomology Technician (2023-2024)
Currently Project Coordinator at BC Agricultural Climate Action Research Network

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

Martina Clausen
Lab Manager (2020-2022)
Currently Project Manager at DLG Research & Innovation

Former Undergraduate Students