Team
Hannah ter Hofstede, Assistant ProfessorI have always been fascinated by animals and their behaviour. My research investigates how animal sensory systems filter the information they obtain about their environment and how sensory systems coevolve with behaviour. I started at the University of Windsor in January 2023. I am faculty in the Department of integrative Biology and the Chair of the Behaviour, Cognition and Neuroscience program. I am also an affiliate faculty member in the Ecology, Evolution, Environment and Society Graduate Program at Dartmouth College, NH, USA, where I was a faculty member from 2013-2022. My postdoctoral positions were both in the UK, one at the University of Bristol and the other at Cambridge University. I completed my PhD in the lab of James Fullard at the University of Toronto Mississauga and my MSc in the lab of Brock Fenton at York University.
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Graduate Students
Ciara Kernan, PhD candidate (Dartmouth College, NH, USA)I am interested in sensory ecology, animal communication, and understanding the tradeoffs that signalers face between finding mates and avoiding predation - especially when signals are produced in multiple modalities (e.g., airborne sound and substrate-borne vibrations in Neotropical katydids).
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Mia Phillips, PhD candidate (Dartmouth College, NH, USA)I'm broadly interested in sensory ecology and understanding how animals obtain information from their surroundings. Specifically, I'm interested in the evolution and physiology of acoustic communication systems in crickets. Crickets, like many animals, rely on acoustic signals to find mates and reproduce. From these signals, listening crickets can gain information about the species, quality, and location of the sender. At Dartmouth, I'm investigating a cricket genus that uses both vibrational and acoustic communication within its courtship duet. I want to know how this unusual duet evolved and the underlying mechanisms that make it happen. I'm also generally interested in studying the influence of novel anthropogenic pressures on acoustic communication systems.
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Miranda Zammarelli, PhD student (Dartmouth College, NH, USA)Generally, I am interested in ornithology, bioacoustics, population ecology, and spatial ecology. My research focuses on understanding how territory size and quality influences songbirds’ nest success as well as how often they sing. I conduct my research at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in New Hampshire, USA.
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Hadia Nadeem, MSc student (University of Windsor)My research interests revolve around the captivating interplay between predator-prey interactions and neurobiology. I am driven to delve into the intricate neural mechanisms that underlie prey species' responses to varying predator threats. My curiosity lies in understanding how sensory systems translate predator cues into adaptive behaviors through my work, I aspire to contribute to the understanding of how neurobiology shapes prey survival strategies within complex ecological contexts.
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Lab AlumniPostdocs (Dartmouth College)
Eran Amichai: Principal Scientist, Normandeau Associates Environmental Consultants Laurel Symes: Assistant Director, K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell University Sharon Martinson: Director, Colorado State University Listening Lab Shira Gordon: Science Communicator, SheRocksScience Productions Lab Manager (Dartmouth College) Jess Jones Graduate Students (Dartmouth College) Animakshi Bhushan: MSc on social calls of big brown bats Undergraduate students (Dartmouth College) Helah Snelling '25: WISP Intern Sophie Kylander '22: Research Assistant Kate Singer '24: Research Assistant Caroline Conway '24: WISP Intern Hannah Marr '20: Undergraduate Honors Thesis McKenna Gray '21: Independent Research Project Caitlyn Lee '19: : Independent Research Project Katie Bates '16: Independent Research Project Amy Zhang '17: Sophomore Science Scholar Itzel Castaneda '20: Research Assistant Eva Legge '22: Research Assistant Stanley Rozentsvit '21: Research Assistant Nathanael Gallagher '20: Research Assistant Dana Wieland '17: Research Technician Aboubacar Cherif '19: Research Assistant Kingsley Osei-Karikari '19: Research Assistant Abenezer Dara '20: Research Assistant Sara McElheny '17: Research Assistant Rebecca Novello '15: Research Technician Lars-Olaf Hoeger '15: Research Technician Jessa Fogel '17: Independent Research Project Erika Murillo '13: Research Technician Shane O'Neal '14: Research Assistant Brandon Apoo '16: Research Assistant Robin Costello '13: Research Technician |
Hannah ter Hofstede
Assistant Professor Department of Integrative Biology University of Windsor Windsor, Ontario, Canada |
Contact me:
hannahth(at)uwindsor.ca Office: Biology Building Room 32 Lab: Biology Building Room 33 |