Recent Happenings - van den Heuvel Lab

Jennifer van der Lee, former lab technician in the van den Heuvel lab, was accepted into first year of the DVM program at the Atlantic Veterinary College and began her studies in Sept 2008.

Dr. Natacha Hogan, former post-doctoral fellow with M. van den Heuvel and D. MacLatchy, has started a 3-year term position as an Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at UPEI. She has also been recently appointed as an Associate Fellow of the CRI. Her research interests centre around the physiology and aquatic toxicology of amphibians and fishes. Her work aims to better understand the mechanisms by which molecular and cellular responses contribute to contaminant effects at the organ, organism and population levels. She is currently teaching two upper-level courses, Wildlife Biology and Endocrinology. www.upei.ca/biology/hogan