Principal Investigator
Dr. Dennis M. Higgs (dhiggs@uwindsor.ca)
Dr. Higgs is currently an associate professor and head of the Department of Biology at the University of Windsor. Before coming to Windsor, he worked in collaboration with Dr. Arthur N. Popper at the University of Maryland. Before Maryland, he was at the University of Arizona for a postdoc on olfaction in Xenopus laevis with Dr. Gail Burd and before that was at the University of Texas, Marine Science Institute for his Ph.D. in Marine Science with Dr. Lee A. Fuiman.
Dr. Higgs is currently an associate professor and head of the Department of Biology at the University of Windsor. Before coming to Windsor, he worked in collaboration with Dr. Arthur N. Popper at the University of Maryland. Before Maryland, he was at the University of Arizona for a postdoc on olfaction in Xenopus laevis with Dr. Gail Burd and before that was at the University of Texas, Marine Science Institute for his Ph.D. in Marine Science with Dr. Lee A. Fuiman.
Adjunct Investigator
Dr. Kirsten Poling (kpoling@uwindsor.ca)
Dr. Poling is an assistant professor and biology tutor at the University of Windsor.
Dr. Poling is an assistant professor and biology tutor at the University of Windsor.
Lab Manager
Megan Mickle
I have been a happy member of the Higgs lab for over seven years where I have completed both my undergraduate and graduate thesis under Dr. Higgs' supervision. My passion for aquatic life drew me to the Higgs lab, where I have studied noise pollution effects on local Great Lakes fish species. I am currently serving as lab manager and also studying the impacts of noise on the invasive sea lamprey.
I have been a happy member of the Higgs lab for over seven years where I have completed both my undergraduate and graduate thesis under Dr. Higgs' supervision. My passion for aquatic life drew me to the Higgs lab, where I have studied noise pollution effects on local Great Lakes fish species. I am currently serving as lab manager and also studying the impacts of noise on the invasive sea lamprey.
Graduate Students
Mallory Wiper, H.B.A., M.Sc.
I completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Psychology at the University of Windsor, followed shortly by a Master of Science in Evolution and Behaviour from the University of Stirling, in Stirling, Scotland. While in Scotland, I was afforded the opportunity of working with a handful of non-fish species including chimpanzees, sea lions, red-ruffed and ring-tailed lemurs -- with my dissertation focusing on the latter two species. By the time January 2012 hit, I found myself starting grad school for the second time around in the Higgs lab, with my work now focusing on the drivers behind morphological and behavioural laterality and expensive tissue trade-offs in Chinook salmon.
I completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Psychology at the University of Windsor, followed shortly by a Master of Science in Evolution and Behaviour from the University of Stirling, in Stirling, Scotland. While in Scotland, I was afforded the opportunity of working with a handful of non-fish species including chimpanzees, sea lions, red-ruffed and ring-tailed lemurs -- with my dissertation focusing on the latter two species. By the time January 2012 hit, I found myself starting grad school for the second time around in the Higgs lab, with my work now focusing on the drivers behind morphological and behavioural laterality and expensive tissue trade-offs in Chinook salmon.
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Melissa Macksoud
I am pursuing a MSc. degree in Behaviour and Neuroscience. I received my BSc. in Behaviour, Cognition, and Neuroscience from the University of Windsor. My research interests include acoustic stimulus processing and effects of acoustic experience in the brains of fish. Christian Ieraci My name is Christian Ieraci and I joined the Higgs lab at the end of my second year as an undergraduate volunteer. I then continued on to complete my undergraduate thesis during my fourth year. Presently, I am working towards a master's degree, with my research focusing on the impact of anthropogenic noise on Great Lake species of fish. |
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Undergraduate Students
Undergraduate thesis students
- Victoria Heath
- Rachel Pieniazek
- Roselia Ayala-Osorio
- Adian Okutinyang
Previous Students
Graduate Students
- Eugene Cheung - M.Sc. Student
- Meghan Donovan - M.S.c Student
- Brennen Corristine -- M.Sc. Student
- Britney Fallica – M.Sc. Student
- Lisa Isabella-Valenzi – M.Sc. Student
- Jeff Zeyl – M.Sc. Student
- Sarah Humphrey – M.Sc. Student
- Jennifer Bronnehuber – M.Sc. student with Daniel Heath
- Ashley Kasurak – M.Sc. student
- Bianca Mancini – M.Sc. student
- Jennifer Low – M.Sc. student
- Patricia Speares – M.Sc. student
- Andrea Belanger – PhD student
- Audrey Rollo – M.Sc. student
