Congratulations to the Scott Lab’s fantastic undergrad thesis students – Ben, Jessica, Mei Le, and Robin – for their excellent thesis presentations in the 2025 McMaster Biology Undergraduate Symposium! Awesome job everyone!

The Scott Lab was well represented at the 37th annual Ontario Biology Day conference at Carleton University! Thesis students Jessica Yemen, Robin Brown, and Ben Winchester presented their thesis research among undergrad students from across the province. Congrats on jobs well done!

Extra congrats to Jessica for winning the Canadian Society of Zoologists Best Poster award! Well done Jess!!

Research in the Scott Lab was well received at this year’s International Hypoxia Symposium in Lake Louise! It was an excellent and inspiring meeting filled with great research on hypoxia from physiological, molecular and cellular, comparative, and clinical perspectives. Thanks to the organizers, Rob Roach and Peter Hackett, for a great event and for running the meeting for so many years!

Congratulations to Kayla Garvey for successfully defending her MSc today! Kayla’s excellent thesis made several new and interesting findings, and her oral defence was excellent. Well done Kayla!!

Ranim, Till, Derek, and Graham are taking part in an exciting research expedition to Chile to study the world’s highest dwelling animal, the Punta de Vacas leaf-eared mouse (Phyllotis vaccarum). This amazing species can be found throughout the Andean mountains, recorded as high as 6739 m elevation on the summit of Llullaillaco volcano in the Puna de Atacama, where food is scarce and the air is extremely cold and low in oxygen. How they can live in such a hostile place is a complete mystery!

The Scott Lab is helping figure out how this species can live at such high altitudes. Working with our great Chilean hosts – Pablo Sabat and his student Francisco (Pancho) Del Basto – along with collaborators Jay Storz, Naim Bautista, Zac Cheviron, Jeff Good, Grant McClelland, Marcial Quiroga-Carmona, and others, the project is sure to make many exciting discoveries in the future. Stay tuned!

Congratulations to our undergrad thesis students – Evelyn, Joyce, Mya, and Sonia – for making the Scott Lab proud at the 2024 McMaster Biology Undergraduate Symposium! Great work everyone!

Extra shout out to Evelyn (right at right) for winning a best presentation in physiology award!

The Scott Lab had a great week at the American Physiology Summit in Long Beach. There was so much impressive and inspiring physiology research on display. Huge congrats to Kayla for winning the Scholander Award for best student poster, and to Till for winning a Research Recognition Award!

The 2024 Biology Grad Research Day was a resounding success! Lab alumnus Brittney Borowiec gave the keynote presentation to start the day on a high note, and the rest of the day was full of great talks and posters by grad students from across the Department of Biology. Congrats to Kayla, who won an oral presentation award for her excellent talk, and congrats to Ranim and Caileigh for their great posters! Thanks to the organizers for a fantastic event!