Announcements
May 2023 – Congratulations to Katrina Audet for being awarded an NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master (CGS-M). Great work, Katrina!
May 2023 – Congratulations to Morgan Penner for being awarded a University of Manitoba Undergraduate Research Award. We look forward to working with you this summer, Morgan!
March 2023 – Congratulations to Tamanna Yasmin for completing her PhD thesis entitled “Analysis of sea lamprey gonadal transcriptomes to investigate the genetic basis of sex determination, differentiation, and sexual maturation.” Great work, Tamanna, and best of luck in your postdoctoral position at UBC.
December 2021 – Congratulations to Katrina Audet (MSc student) and Brooklynne Litke (MSc student) on being accepted to FishCAST’s Graduate Trainee Program (NSERC CREATE). They join Morgan Anderson (MSc student), who was accepted into the program in Fall 2021. Read more.
November 2021 – Congratulations to Dr. Margaret Docker on being named a Fellow of the American Fisheries Society at the 2021 Annual Meeting in November. Read more.
Upcoming Events
Check back for dates of defences, events, and information about student publications!
Docker Lab in the News
- Documentary Portrait of Cameron Brown. Cam talks about his MSc research working on a Great Lakes Fishery Commission-funded project entitled “Field-ready environmental DNA (eDNA) protocols and tools for sea lamprey assessment.”
- “In the Great Lakes, the Pandemic Disrupted Sea Lamprey Control,” Undark (September 2022)
- “The battle against invasive sea lamprey in the Great Lakes rages on,” Cottage Life (June 2022)
- “They’re ancient bloodsuckers that resemble Star Wars creatures. And they live right here in Lake Ontario,” Toronto Star (June 2022)
- “The blood-hungry parasite that threatens a $7 billion economy in the Great Lakes,” Vox (May 2022)
- “Twelve AFS Members Honored as Fellows of the Society,” American Fisheries Society (November 2021)
- “Meet Phil Grayson, a new Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at UM,” UM Today (July 2021)
- “These fossilized lamprey hatchlings disprove an age-old evolutionary theory,” Popular Science (March 2021)
- “Bloodsucking-fish fossils overturn once-popular theory about our evolution,” CBC (March 2021)
- “GEN-FISH harnesses environmental DNA to manage Canada’s freshwater fish,” Genome Prairie (April 2020)
- “Biologist Margaret Docker co-lead on four-year eDNA Genome Canada project,” UM Today (May 2020)
- “’Game changer:’ Largest DNA survey of fish launched at UWindsor,” Windsor Star (December 2019)
- “Biological Scientist Margaret Docker Awarded FOS Life Sciences Chair for Work with “Vampires of the Deep,” University of Manitoba Faculty of Science (July 2019)
- “The amazing ancient lamprey,” Columbia Insight (February 2018)
- “Being a vampire can be brutal. Here’s how bloodsuckers get by,” Science News (September 2017)
- “Beware of Manitoba’s ‘vampire,” University of Manitoba (September 2017)
- “Growth spurts may determine a lamprey’s sex,” Scientific American (March 2017)
- “Scientists hope to track sea lampreys by their DNA,” Michigan Radio (September 2016)
- “New detection method could halt Great Lakes killer,” Great Lakes Echo (September 2016)
- “Manitoba ramps up zebra mussel fight, pledging to spend $1M in coming year,” CBC (October 2015)