Current Students
Rebecca Pacholuk (BIOL-498 Independent Research, MacEwan U., Jan. 2024)
-Project title: "Digestion of styrofoam by larvae of the yellow mealworm beetle (Tenebrio molitor)"
Zoe Carlyle (BIOL-498 Independent Research, MacEwan U., Sep. 2023)
-Project title: "Male-male competition in the great grig (Cyphoderris monstrosa)"
Amy-Leigh Peterson (BIOL-498 Independent Research, MacEwan U., Sep. 2023)
-Project title: "Condition dependence of courtship song in the taciturn wood cricket (Gryllus ovisopis)"
Alexandra Liber (Honours, MacEwan U., 2023-2024)
-Thesis title: "Courtship song in the decorated cricket, Gryllodes sigillatus"
* Inquiries from interested students are most welcome! Please contact me at judgek3[at]macewan.ca.
Past Students
Terrence Chang (PhD Student Advisory Committee Member, U. of Toronto Scarborough, 2014-2023)
-Thesis title: "The metabolic costs of singing and fighting in Cyphoderris monstrosa" (main advisor Prof. Andrew Mason, U. of Toronto Scarborough)
Kyle Blacher (BIOL-498 Independent Research, MacEwan U., Jan. 2021)
-Project title: "Investigating Roeseliana roeselii colonization pathways through microsatellite analysis" (co-supervised with Prof. David McFadyen)
Kevin Wight (BIOL-498 Independent Research, MacEwan U., Jan. 2021)
-Project title: "Geographic variation in morphology of Buckell’s grig (Cyphoderris buckelli)"
Janine Van Der Linden (BIOL-498 Independent Research, MacEwan U., Sep. 2020)
-Project title: "Parasites of Cyphoderris monstrosa"
Parker Wengryn (BIOL-498 Independent Research, MacEwan U., Sep. 2020)
-Project title: "Population genetics of Roeseliana roeselii" (co-supervised with Prof. David McFadyen)
Alexandre Caouette (Honours, MacEwan U., 2019-2020)
-Thesis title: "Elucidating the distribution of a non-native species of katydid in Alberta using bioacoustics"
-Alex's honours thesis is published in Ecological Entomology.
(Caouette et al. 2023)
Miranda Dennis (BIOL-498 Independent Research, MacEwan U., Jan. 2020)
-Project title: "Behavioural and mechanical isolation in the great grig, Cyphoderris monstrosa"
Tyler MacLean (BIOL-498 Independent Research, MacEwan U., Jan. 2020)
-Project title: "Evidence for social experience having no influence on female mating behaviour in Gryllus ovisopis"
Nicole Humeniuk (BIOL-498 Independent Research, MacEwan U., Sep. 2019)
-Project title: "The effect of the gregarine parasite Blabericola migrator on aggression in Madagascar hissing
cockroaches (Gromphadorhina portentosa)"
Erin Gaydosh (BIOL-498 Independent Research, MacEwan U., Jan. 2019)
-Project title: "Aggression and morphology in Cyphoderris monstrosa"
-Erin won first prize for her presentation at the 2019 Undergraduate Research in Science Conference of Alberta.
Jordan Lesyk (BIOL-498 Independent Research, MacEwan U., Sep. 2018)
-Project title: "Behavioural effects of eugregarines on hissing cockroaches" (co-supervised with Prof. Mike Stock)
Julie Mitchell (BIOL 498 Independent Research, MacEwan U., Jan. 2018)
-Project title: "Parasites in Madagascar hissing cockroaches" (co-supervised with Prof. Mike Stock)
Ashley Easingwood (BIOL 498 Independent Research, MacEwan U., Sep. 2016)
-Project title: "Why did the cricket cross the stream? Swimming behaviour in the sand field cricket, Gryllus firmus"
Esperance Madera (BIOL-498 Independent Research, MacEwan U., Jan. 2016)
-Project title: "Sexual dimorphism in the badlands cricket, Gryllus personatus"
-Esperance's independent study is published in Journal of Orthoptera Research.
(Madera and Judge 2023)
Tiffany Maslyk (BIOL-498 Independent Research, MacEwan U., Sep. 2015)
-Project title: "Assaying immunity to gregarine parasites in Gryllus ovisopis" (co-supervised with Prof. Mike Stock)
Heather Stevenson (BIOL-498 Independent Research, MacEwan U., Sep. 2015)
-Project title: "The development of weaponry in a field cricket" (co-supervised with Prof. Kevin Friesen)
Marcus McCann (BIOL-498 Independent Research, MacEwan U., Sep. 2014)
-Project title: "Eugregarines in Gryllus firmus: the host-parasite relationship" (co-supervised with Prof. Mike Stock)
Ashley Shaw (BIOL-498 Independent Research, MacEwan U., Sep. 2014)
-Project title: "Eugregarines in Gryllus firmus: the host immune response" (co-supervised with Prof. Mike Stock)
-Ashley published her final research paper in the MacEwan University Student eJournal.
(Shaw 2016)
Jacob Thalen (BIOL-498 Independent Research, MacEwan U., Sep. 2014)
-Project title: "Weaponry in hatchling North American field crickets"
Peter Whyte (BIOL-498 Independent Research, MacEwan U., Jan. 2014)
-Project title: "Aggression and weaponry in the Japanese burrowing cricket"
Lindsey Horosko (BIOL-498 Independent Research, MacEwan U., Sep. 2013)
-Project title: "Hybridization in sexually cannibalistic insects (Cyphoderris spp.)"
Stephanie Ibsen (BIOL-498 Independent Research, MacEwan U., Jan. 2013)
-Project title: "Measurement of sexual selection on males in wild populations of a sexually cannibalistic insect, Cyphoderris monstrosa (Orthoptera, Prophalangopsidae)"
Shawna Ohlmann (BIOL-498 Independent Research, MacEwan U., Jan. 2013)
-Project title: "Male-male competition in the taciturn wood cricket, Gryllus ovisopis (Orthoptera, Gryllidae)"
Geoff Ower (MSc Advisory Committee Member, Illinois State U., 2009-2012)
-Thesis title: "Attractiveness of male song in the sagebrush cricket, Cyphoderris strepitans" (main advisor Prof. Scott Sakaluk, Illinois State U.)
Briana Smith (BIOL-3990 Independent Study in Animal Behaviour, U. of Lethbridge, Jan. 2011)
-Project title: "The developmental effects of hatchling aggression on adult body size in the spring field cricket (Gryllus veletis)" (co-supervised with Profs. Bill Cade and Rob Laird)
Kevin Kwok (BIOL-4990 Independent Study in Animal Behaviour, U. of Lethbridge, Sep. 2010)
-Project title: "The effects of polyandry on reproductive senescence in the yellow mealworm beetle, Tenebrio molitor" (co-supervised with Prof. Bill Cade)
Jenna Woodman (BIOL-3990 Independent Study in Animal Behaviour, U. of Lethbridge, Jan. 2010)
-Project title: "Male-male competition and female choice in the Pacific field cricket, Teleogryllus oceanicus" (co-supervised with Prof. Bill Cade)
-Jenna won the Luke Stebbins Prize for Undergraduate Research Achievement.
Edyta Piascik (BIO-481 Biology Research Project Course, U. of Toronto, 2008-2009)
-Thesis title: "Polyandry and tibial spur chewing in the Carolina ground cricket, Eunemobius carolinus" (co-supervised with Prof. Darryl Gwynne)
-Edyta's thesis is published in Canadian Journal of Zoology.
(Piascik et al. 2010)
Murray McConnell (BIO-481 Biology Research Project Course, U. of Toronto, 2007-2008)
-Thesis title: "You are what you eat: condition dependence of ejaculate size in the yellow mealworm beetle Tenebrio molitor"
-Murray's thesis is published in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.
(McConnell and Judge 2018)
Janice Ting (BIO-481 Biology Research Project Course, U. of Toronto, 2006-2007)
-Thesis title: "Calling song alone induces differential allocation by female field crickets" (co-supervised with Prof. Darryl Gwynne)
-Janice's thesis is published in Journal of Orthoptera Research.
(Ting et al. 2017)
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