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Welcome to the Welch Lab in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Toronto Scarborough.
What
we do
Our lab adopts a comparative
and integrative approach to the study of exercise, metabolism and
muscle function. Much of our work focuses on animals with unique or
extreme metabolic and locomotor capabilities. Examination of these
organisms, informed by ecological and evolutionary context, has the
power to reveal what features of design and physiology enable their
extreme energetic and physical performance as well as what the limits
are to such performance.
Interested in joining the lab? Click here.
Courses taught/Co-Supervised
Supervised Introductory Research (BIOB98 and BIOB99)
(co-supervised with Professor Marc Cadotte)
Animal Physiology: Lab (BIOB32)
Exercise Physiology (BIOD43)
November 22, 2010
Congratulations to lab members Amina Allalou and Prateek Sehgal for begin named to the UTSC Honours List. Amina and Prateek will be honoured at the Academic Awards Night, Nov. 22 at 7 PM in the Meeting Place.
November 11, 2010
Dr. Welch will be presenting a talk titled, "Exploring animal energetics at the extremes" as part of the New Frontiers Seminar Series at UT Scarborough (Room AA160) from 12-1PM.
November 9, 2010
Dr.Welch will be giving a talk to the Dept. of Integrative Biology at the University of Guelph.
August 14, 2010
New lab publication: "The power of feeder-mask respirometry as a method for examining hummingbird energetics" in Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A.
June 30, 2010
New lab publcation: "Neuromuscular control of wingbeat kinematics in Anna's hummingbirds (Calypte anna)" in the Journal of Experimental Biology.
June 30-July 3, 2010
Dr. Welch will attend the 2010 Society for Experimental Biology annual meeting in Prague, Czech Republic.
June 2, 2010
The recent success enjoyed by Dr. Welch and other UTSC researchers in securing research funding was highlighted in this press release. Congratulations to the many excellent UTSC researchers.
May 17-21, 2010
Dr. Welch will attend the 2010 Canadian Society of Zoologists meeting on the campus of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
May 11, 2010
All our excellent UTSC undergraduate researchers are encouraged to apply to the Rising Stars of Research poster competition here.
May 5, 2010
UTSC
Staff Photo- grapher
Ken Jones won 2nd place in the March
2010 University Photographer's Association of America Monthly Image
Competition
for his photograph of one of the Welch Lab hummingbirds.
Apr. 27, 2010
Dr. Welch was awarded a Canada Foundation for Innovation - Leadership Opportunity Fund grant.
Mar. 25, 2010
Dr. Welch was awarded a 5 year Discovery Grant from NSERC.
Mar. 3, 2010
Dr. Welch will be giving a talk to the Human Biology Course (HMB471H) at the UofT St. George Campus.
Feb. 9, 2010
Dr. Welch will be giving a talk to the Dept. of Biology at McMaster University.
Feb. 5, 2010
Dr. Welch will be giving a talk to the Dept. of Biology at UWO.
Jan. 10, 2010
Dr. Welch
appeared in a recent episode of
Nature on PBS. See the clip here.
