2020 Recipient of:

Heather Jamniczky, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Anatomy, Cumming School of Medicine
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Academic Lead, Teaching and Learning Research, Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning

 A zoologist by training, my research takes two directions. I am interested in the evolution and development of complex phenotypes, with a particular focus on the skeleton. I work with a variety of vertebrates, from turtles to mice to fish, and my lab is situated in the Cumming School of Medicine.

​My teaching responsibilities include human gross anatomy across the undergraduate, medical, and graduate curricula, and I focus my research on teaching and learning around visual representation of three-dimensional structures, spatial learning, and equity, diversity and inclusion in health professions education. I am seconded to the Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning. 

I am on Google Scholar here.

Meet our group...

Jolene McLeod

PhD Candidate​
Jolene is a PhD student examining representations of human skeletal material in Roman funerary art. Jolene is co-supervised by Dr. Lisa Hughes.

Sara Perry

BSc (Hons) Student
Sara is an undergraduate student working towards a Bachelor of Science - Honours in Zoology. Her primary interests are conservation biology, evolutionary biology, morphometrics and biomechanics. She is currently working to investigate the form and function of the epipleural ribs in three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).

Michael Chung

MSc Student
Michael is primarily interested in the functional morphology and biomechanics of fishes, and how these incredibly diverse organisms interact with the physical world around us. His research interests have led him to the complex evolutionary story of unique piscine structures such as the armoured plating dynamics in the threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Other research interests of his include fish ecology, physiology, and energetics, and how they can not only survive, but even thrive, in extreme environments like the deep-sea or polar regions.

Kevin Duclos

PhD Candidate
Kevin is a PhD student studying epigenetic mechanisms of evolution in dace.

Jonah Santos

BSc (Hons) Student
Jonah is interested in developmental biology, evolution and genetics. His current work focuses on Bmp4 gene expression in the stickleback jaw.

Bergen Galts

MSc Student
Bergen is interested in thermal tolerance in threespine stickleback, and is using CRISPR-Cas9 tools to study implicated genes. Bergen is co-supervised by Dr Sean Rogers.

You!

Undergraduate or Graduate Student
The Jamniczky Lab is looking for new members. Contact Dr. Jamniczky for more information!

Alumni

Aspen Kozak, MSc (2021)
Sara Hall, BSc Hons (2021)
Amanda Neves, Research Assistant (2020-2021)
Tegan Barry, PhD (2019)
Hanna Thai, BSc Hons (2019)
Alex Pistore, MD/MSc (2019)
Sarah Anderson, PhD (2018)
Chelsey Zurowski, MSc (2016)
Amie Le, BSc (2016)
Ekaterina Petrovich, BSc (2014)
Stephen Campeau, BHSc (2013)
Ruchika Sharma, BSc (2013)