Assistant Professor @ Acadia University. Ticks, mosquitoes, parasites, microbiomes, temperature, winter...and more!
Wolfville, Nova Scotia
Joined December 2015
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Abstract submission is now open for the 2023 CSZ_SCZ Meeting, held in Saskatoon from May 15-19, 2023. The deadline for abstract submission is February 28, 2023.
The online abstract submission portal can be accessed on the 2023 CSZ Meeting website: conferences.usask.ca/csz-scz…
Funded MSc positions in a collaborative mosquito surveillance project based in my lab starting this spring! Must love being asked "what are you fishing for?" 5 x daily by friendly strangers :) Please RT or contact me! @AcadianESCanada @AcadiaBio @ESC_Students @csz_scz
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Passionate about plants/algae and field biology? Come join us at the best small Biology department in Canada, in beautiful Wolfville, Nova Scotia www2.acadiau.ca/files/files/… Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in plant biology 🌿 @AcadiaU 🇨🇦 @CanBotanical
A great #EntSoc22 catching up with old friends, sparking new research plans, and being super proud of @TaylorSwanburg @EmmaRand17 for their hard work and for Emma's major ESC postgrad award! 🎉Thanks to the organizers and hope everyone is home safe and healthy!
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Click to read more about Taylor’s MSc research on mosquito populations with @LVFerguson @KirkHillier @EasyLabAcadia
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New pub just dropped: PNAS | Insect cell membranes, not soluble enzymes, are the likely targets of freezing injury. (None of my coauthors use Twitter it seems!) pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.22…
Ento PhD opportunity in a stellar lab (and travel to New Zealand - what's not to love?!) @AcadianESCanada
I'm recruiting a PhD student to partner with colleagues in New Zealand on an exciting project combining insect physiology, evolution, and phytosanitation. Looking for people with a physiology or entomology (or... try me!) background. Please RT! publish.uwo.ca/~bsincla7/pos…
Laura Ferguson retweeted
Two tenure track positions in the Dept of Integrative Biology @UofG, apply to join our supportive & dynamic group. One #AssistantProfessor in comparative animal physiology & one leadership role for #DepartmentChair (associate or full). #facultyjobs info @ uoguelph.ca/facultyjobs/posi…
Laura Ferguson retweeted
A reminder that I am looking for a MSc student to join #RIEL @MTABiology!!! 👩🎓🦎🐢
There is still lots of time to apply. Submit your application by the end of this month!
Your Christmas tree is a stone-"cold" killer of ticks! Our good-news story of the powerful combination of low temperatures and balsam fir essential oils to control black-legged ticks.
Paper is out! Another great collaboration with the Adamo lab and @LVFerguson on the power of essential oils and the effect of temperature at killing ticks! @acadiaresearch @DalhousieU @AcadiaU
nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
Thanks @paulypod and @gchriscutler for a great meeting of the @AcadianESCanada today! Big shout out to the fantastic student talks, and especially @EmmaRand17 who won the President's Prize for best talk and @MarauderMaudry for 2nd place! @acadiaresearch was well-represented :)
Thrilled to be joining the Biology Department at @AcadiaU today as an Assistant Prof! Looking forward to the road ahead with the stellar students, faculty, and staff at this institution!
Congratulations @TaylorSwanburg of the @AcadiaMosquito Team for another year of scholarship from @_researchNS! Well done!
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Interested in helping researchers at @AcadiaUniversity use eDNA technology to identify mosquito habitats across the province? @AcadiaMosquito is looking for volunteers to help collect water samples across the province this summer.
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WISE Acadia Camp’22 registration is open. It’s July 11-15, for girls entering grades 7-9. Cost per camper is $120; they stay on
@AcadiaU campus & participate in hands-on Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Math (STEAM) activities. Register here: oaevents.acadiau.ca/index.ph… – at Wolfville, Nova Scotia
The @AcadiaMosquito team chats mosquito season with CBC! Poor Fredericton is feeling the proboscis pinch in full force this spring. Stay tuned to see what @TaylorSwanburg and the field crew catch this summer in our @GovCanHealth surveillance program in NS! @acadiaresearch
Mosquito numbers have people buzzing in some parts of New Brunswick | CBC News cbc.ca/news/canada/new-bruns…
