Dr. Hull is a Full Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences. She teaches courses in Animal/Human Physiology, Human Anatomy, Exercise Physiology, and the History of Biology.   She earned her Bachelor's degree in Biology and her PhD in Endocrinology at University of Alberta, and has also undertaken research projects at universities in Delaware, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Her research interests focus on the involvement of hormones in growth and reproduction.  She has recently co-authored an Anatomy and Physiology textbook entitled “Human Form, Human Function” and is also involved in the preparation of pedagogical material, lab manuals and study guides.

My teaching interests are focused on cell biology and molecular biology related to human health and diseases. Firstly educated in France for undergraduate and MSc degrees, I then earned my PhD in cell biology at Sherbrooke's University, with a specialization in gland development in early human life. Since then, I continued with a Post-doctoral fellowship in immunology at Laval University. I'm now part of Dr Roux's laboratory in Sherbrooke's hospital, where I'm working on skeletal diseases. My studies are particularly concentrated on discovering how bone-notching cells (osteoclasts) become out of control in several pathologies. My best motivation is to help students to realize their dreams...

Jeffrey MacDonald holds a technical degree in Applied Ecology from Vanier College as well as a Bachelor's in biology from Bishop`s University. He has previously worked for the Saint Lawrence Valley Natural History Society (Ecomuseum). Most recently he worked in the Eastern Townships as the Conservation Coordinator and Interim Executive Director for the Non-profit Société de Conservation du Corridor Naturel de la Rivière au Saumon (SCCNRS) and now sits on their board of directors. Jeff also coaches the Champlain Regional College Men`s Lacrosse team and has an interest in wildlife photography.

Dr. Michael Richardson is Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences. He teaches a variety of courses including Introductory Biology, Vertebrate Zoology, Freshwater Biology, Evolution, The Life of Fishes, Animal Behavior, and Field Biology. (add link to Academic Calendar) He received both his undergraduate and graduate training in Wildlife Biology from the Macdonald Campus of McGill University. His Master's and Doctoral research involved using the common goldfish (Carassius auratus) as a model for better understanding how exotic fish become established and the impacts they have on small lakes and ponds.

He has supervised a number of undergraduate honours projects involved in behavioral ecology, including studies in testicular adduction in Howler monkeys, anti-predator vigilance in Harbour seals, age related fecundity in Tree Swallows, and the factors affecting the reproductive performance of Red-breasted Mergansers.

Dr. Jade Savage completed her bachelor's degree in Biology in 1998 and her PhD in Entomology in 2004 at McGill University. She joined the Department of Biological Sciences at Bishop's University in July 2004. She has traveled extensively, throughout North America and abroad, to take part in conferences and research field expeditions in Canada, the United States, Costa Rica, Australia, and Sweden. Dr. Savage was recently awarded four grants from NSERC and FQRNT totaling $108,485 to pursue her work on the systematics and biodiversity of Diptera (true flies).

She is an adjunct professor at the University of Manitoba and an emeritus curator at the Lyman Museum of McGill University and is currently co-supervising two M.Sc. projects through these institutions. The first, by Amy Moores, investigates the impact of patch size on the Diptera fauna of peat bogs of southern Quebec and northern Vermont. The second project, by Anais Renaud, is looking at changes in the distribution and composition of the Diptera fauna of Churchill (Manitoba) over the last century.

Dr. Stroeher is a Full Professor in the Biology Department at Bishop's University. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Zoology at Montana State University and completed her graduate work at the University of Washington, studying the role of Hox genes in early development of Drosophila melanogaster. She continued her research development as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Calgary, studying the genetic regulation of early cell lineage decisions in Caenorhabditis elegans, and subsequently worked as a Research Associate at the University of Alberta, examining the molecular mechanisms of metabolic changes associated with abiotic stress in plants.

Dr. van Hulst is Full Professor in the Department of Biological Studies. He was trained in the Netherlands and in Canada. He obtained his PhD in mathematical ecology from the University of Western Ontario. He has extensive field experience in a wide range of habitats, from the Arctic tundra to the wet tropics. Dr. van Hulst has collaborated with Dr. Colette Ansseau (Université de Sherbrooke) and other researchers in the study of maple dieback, the massive mortality that occurred in the late 1980s and the 1990s in North American sugar maple forests. His passion is the use of mathematical models to better understand natural ecologies.

Dr. Marylène Boulet’s main expertise is in molecular ecology of vertebrates. She completed her PhD in Biology in 2005 at McMaster University. For her doctoral thesis, she studied the evolutionary history and migration patterns of yellow warbler populations in North America. She then pursued postdoctoral studies at the Université Laval, in the laboratory of Dr. Louis Bernatchez, where she carried on projects in conservation genetics of horned grebes, gene flow patterns of caribou herds, and genomics of brook charr ecotypes. Driven by curiosity and enjoying taking up challenges, Dr. Boulet moved to Duke University in spring 2006 and immersed herself into a new field: chemical ecology. More precisely, she studied, in Dr. Christine Drea’s laboratory, the olfactory communication of ring-tailed lemurs. She returned to Canada in fall 2009 to teach at Bishop’s University. She is currently Part-time, Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Biology and she teaches courses in zoology, evolution, and genetics. She also works at the Université de Sherbrooke, where she coordinates a training programme on research skills specifically designed for PhD students.

My teaching interests are in behavioural ecology and the interaction between animal behaviour and conservation issues, particularly as it relates to field studies. I completed my BSc in Biology at Acadia University and then a MSc in Zoology at the University of Alberta.  My early research centered on determinants of reproductive success in Columbian ground squirrels and Alpine marmots and the influence of female kin groups. I have since been involved in research at l'Université de Sherbrooke, mainly on life history strategies of large mammals such as bighorn sheep and mountain goats. I have also worked at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (Lennoxville) on the behaviour of dairy cows.  At present, I am pursuing a PhD at the University of Queensland on kinship and sociability in eastern grey kangaroos.

I recently supervised an Honours student, who studied the development of sexual dimorphism in eastern grey kangaroos in southeastern Australia. Her work was presented at the 10th International Mammalogical Congress in Argentina.

When he is not engaged as contract faculty in the Department of Biological Sciences at Bishop’s, Bill Parsons works as a staff  research professional across town at the Université de Sherbrooke. Subsequent to receiving a doctorate in ecosystem ecology from the University of Wyoming, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Rutgers University, the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Wisconsin Madison, and attaché de recherche at Université Laval. In addition to conducting field studies in Canada and the United States, Dr. Parsons also has tropical research experience in Costa Rica.