Erin Spice

Erin Spice wrote her Honour’s thesis on Population structure of the Pacific lamprey, Entosphenus tridentatus, along the west coast of North America: evidence against natal homing (BSc 2010) and her Master’s thesis on Ovarian differentiation in an ancient vertebrate: timing, candidate gene expression, and global gene expression in parasitic and non-parasitic lampreys (MSc 2013).

Erin now works in the genetics lab at the Freshwater Institute (Fisheries and Oceans Canada), using environmental DNA for the detection of aquatic invasive species and species at risk.