Prof. Cory Bishop, PhD.
Biology Professor, St. Francis Xavier University
Research in my laboratory is concerned with the ecology, development and evolution of aquatic organisms. We apply a wide variety of techniques from molecular phylogenetics, microscopy, organismal culture, pulse amplitude modulated fluorometry and experimental methods in physiology and gene expression. Click here for more details on current research and people.
Dr. Daniel Small, PhD.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
I arrived in the Bishop Lab in March 2014 and am interested in how the algal presence within the egg capsule impacts salamander emrbyonic development, from a physiological point of view. My main interests are the role of photosynthetic oxygen in salamander thermal tolerance, and the effect of fluctuating oxygen concentrations on salamander embryonic development.
PhD - Plymouth University - The effects of elevated pCO2 and temperature on the developmental physiology of the European lobster, Homarus gammarus (L.).
B Sc. Hons. Marine Biology and Oceanography - Plymouth University - The effect of elevated sedawater pCO2 on aspects of the physiology of the Velvet Swimming crab, Necora puber (L.).
Rowan Murphy
Bsc. Honors Student
I'm from Halifax, NS, and moved to Antigonish in 2013 to begin my BSc in Biology at St.FX. Over the summer of 2016 I joined the Bishop Lab to assist in researching the symbiotic relationship that occurs between the unicellular green alga Oophila amblystomatis and egg masses of the yellow spotted salamander Ambystoma maculatum. My honours project is to test the capacity of the alga to invade egg masses of the salamander.
Emil Jurga
Bsc. Honors Student
Masters Students
Kieran Murphy: M.Sc.
Katelyn MacNeil: M.Sc. (Jan, 2012-July, 2014)
Yuan Lin: M.Sc. (Sept, 2011-June 2014)
Stephanie Sorowka: M.Sc. candidate (Sept, 2012-2014; co-supervised with Dr. Edwin DeMont; currently on leave of absence)
Greg McCullagh: M.Sc. (Sept, 2010-2012; Co-supervised with Dr. Russell Wyeth)
Honours Students/Directed Studies/Undergraduate Research Assistants
R. Scott Benett: Research Assistant
Annie Livingstone: Honours student (Sept. 2011-April 2012)
Grant Fitzpatrick: Directed studies student at Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, (June, 2011)
Connor McGuire: Honours Student (May, 2012-April 2013)
Grace Phillips: Honours Student (May, 2012-April 2013; Co-supervised with Russell Wyeth)
Kathleen Grosicki: Honours Student (May, 2013-April 2014; Co-supervised with Russell Wyeth)
Steven Rodenhizer: UG research assistant (January 1,-May 31st, 2014)
Present
Christopher Cameron (Universite de Montreal): Deuterostome biominerals.
Roger Croll (Dalhousie University): Sea urchin larval neuroanatomy.
Andreas Heyland (University of Guelph): Morpholino injection of sea urchin juvenile rudiments.
Jason Hodin (Hopkins Marine Labs, Stanford University): Morpholino injection of sea urchin juvenile rudiments.
Eunsoo Kim (American Museum of Natural History): Phylogeography of Oophila amblystomatis a green algal symbiont of Ambystoma maculatum.
Ryan Kerney (Gettysburg College, PA): Phylogeography of Oophila amblystomatis a green algal symbiont of Ambystoma maculatum.
Tony Miller (StFX Biology; Senior Research Professor): Photosynthetic physiology of Oophila amblystomatis, a green algal symbiont in amphibian egg masses.
Anthony Pires (Dickinson College, PA): NO/cGMP signalling in Phestilla sibogae.
Past
William Bates (University of British Columbia): Ascidian developmental biology.
Robert Burke (University of Victoria): Evolution of sea urchin larval nervous systems.
Patrick Krug (California State University L.A.): NO/cGMP function during metamorphosis of the sea slug Alderia modesta.