Dr. Ryan Brook is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Animal and Poultry Science and the Indigenous Land Management Institute at USask. Brook is a wildlife ecologist whose research addresses the disconnect that can exist between researchers and stakeholders by incorporating local and traditional knowledge and community-based monitoring into long term research programs.
Dr. Ian Stavness is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at USask and directs the Biological Imaging & Graphics (BIG) lab focused on deep learning, computer vision, and 3D modeling for biological applications. Stavness is a leader in biological imaging and modelling (OpenSim Fellow; founding member and core developer of ArtiSynth, an innovative open source...
Dr. Daniel Fortin is a Professor in the Dépt. de biologie at Université Laval and holds the NSERC-Université Laval Industrial Research Chair in Silviculture and Wildlife. He studies mechanisms underpinning animal distributions in boreal landscapes from trophic interactions, food-web dynamics, and behaviour including resource selection and responses to human disturbance. Fortin maintains a research program...
Dr. Sabine Gilch is an Associate Professor and Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Prion Disease Research at the University of Calgary in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine’s Department of Ecosystem and Public Health. A member of the Alberta Prion Research Institute, her work bridges the molecular biology of prion infection with therapeutics to...
Dr. Emily Jenkins is a Professor in the Dept. of Vet. Micro. at USask’s Western College of Veterinary Medicine and the head of the WCVM Zoonotic Parasite Research Unit. She is a Joint Member of the School of Public Health and Assoc. Member of the Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre. Her research involves the biology...
Dr. Philip McLoughlin is a Professor in Biology at USask whose work focuses broadly on population ecology, wildlife-habitat relationships and population- level ecological genetics. McLoughlin is experienced in leading large-partnership projects in applied wildlife ecology, including a recently completed $2.2M NSERC CRD on boreal caribou ecology that was a forerunner of this project.