Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies

Spotlight on Faculty

Janet Beeler-Marfisi

Janet Beeler-Marfisi

My lab studies lung disease in horses, cats, and dogs. We look for relationships between air pollution and the incidence of asthma. As well, we are developing more detailed ways of understanding how lung diseases arise, and finding more accurate methods for diagnosing them.

Samuel Workenhe

Research in my lab aims to understand the fundamental aspects of programmed cell death and its role in immunobiology.

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Ross McKitrick

My research is in the area of Environmental Economics, ranging from typical economics topics like taxes and policy analysis, to more interdisciplinary work such as...

Robert Corry

Robert Corry

I am engaged in questions of applied landscape ecology in rural and agricultural landscapes, including changes in landscape patterns and the consequences of those changes on biodiversity, water quality, and culture.

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Wendy Pearson

My research program seeks to understand the underlying physiology of diseases common in horses, and how these diseases can be modified with targeted nutrition, with a focus on cartilage biology.

Email: wpearson@uoguelph.ca

University of Guelph Biomedical Sciences Professor Laura A. Favetta

Laura Favetta

The research that we conduct in my laboratory aims to understand the causes of infertility at the gene level and pinpoint the mechanisms through which toxicants affect fertility both in humans and farm animals. Understanding how things happen will help in finding ways of overcoming it.​

Email: lfavetta@uoguelph.ca