Ph.D. candidate Emily Chenery reports on detecting winter ticks, Dermacentor albipictus , in Yukon by flagging in the journal Parasites and Vectors.… Read More
A new study led by PhD candidate Stephanie Penk reveals the most likely pathway of transmission of Trichinella nativa, a parasite found at high prevalence in polar bears. The article, published in Oikos, used mathematical models informed with data from existing literature to compare different plausible mechanisms of transmission. It shows that infection acquired from… Read More
Read the article here, the University of Toronto News release here, and some media coverage here.… Read More
https://www.pnas.org/content/117/20/10897… Read More
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1529285699807… Read More
Read about how mathematics helps us to understand climate change impacts on polar bears https://polarbearsinternational.org/news/article-research/math-and-polar-bears… Read More
https://www.wcscanada.org/Fellowships/2019.aspx… Read More
Emily Chenery’s research on winter ticks is making news… Read More