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• MSc scholarship offer: quantification of aphid diversity
Help resolve one of the big challenges in entomology! The damage to our vegetable crops caused by aphids, especially through the transmission of disease, makes them one of the most significant insect pests. Controlling these diverse and abundant pests requires an understanding of their population sizes. We are seeking to quantify the diversity and abundance […]
• MSc or PhD scholarship offer: Integrative aphid taxonomy
PROJECT SUMMARYThe student will conduct an integrative cybertaxonomic revision of a genus of arboreal aphid using biological data such as DNA sequences, morphology, and host plant association. The project is comprehensive, addressing the discovery, delimitation, diagnosis and description of species or subgenera, as well as the preparation of specimen determination tools. It involves fieldwork, molecular […]
• MSc scholarship offer: weevil temporal diversity in Panama
Project description• From 1999 to 2017, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute’s Barro Colorado Island Biodiversity Research Center in Panama, adjacent to a tropical forest plot established in 1982 for the study of forest evolution, ten Malaise traps systematically captured around 15,000 weevil specimens (family Curculionidae) representing 1,350 species. Specimens were identified by a weevil […]
• Recruiting: Master’s student in insect pathology
We’re recruiting a motivated student interested in studying insect pathology and insect production for consumption at the University of Montreal starting in September 2022! SUMMARY OF THE PROJET. Global demand for animal protein is expected to double by 2050. Following an FAO (2013) publication praising the ecological and nutritional merits of edible insects, as compared […]
• Newly minted: Dr Dabré
Many congratulations to the new PhD! Élisée successfully defended his dissertation 28 March 2022 and has since submitted the final version to the university: The effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal and rhizobacterial inoculants on soybean insects. Soil microorganism inoculants are often used in agriculture to boost the growth and hence the yield of various crops, […]
• Adwa receives her master’s
Adwa ABDOU ALI’s thesis has just been formally accepted by the university! Her research, culminating in her thesis titled Insects of the date palm in traditional and modern orchards of Djibouti, compared the abundance of several potential insect pests of date palms in modern, monocultural orchards, and in older, traditional, and polycultural orchards, the kind […]
• Thomas receives his PhD
In April 2018, Thomas Théry successfully defended his doctoral dissertation. Almost a year later, his erstwhile advisor publicly celebrates the completion of his first PhD student’s studies. Entitled “Molecular systematics of the genus Essigella (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha)“, Thomas’s dissertation presented three published chapters. Species of the aphid genus Essigella are found natively only in North America, […]
• The lab is featured by the SEQ
The members of the lab were featured in the spring (2018) issue of Antennae, the Bulletin of the Quebec Entomology Society. Read it here in French.
• Anaïs wins best presentation at the departmental symposium
Best presentation in ecology and evolution at the 17th annual symposium. Congratulations Anaïs!
• Thomas Théry wins excellence in teaching award
Thomas won the University of Montreal’s President’s prize for excellence in teaching by a teaching assistant.