Individuals interested in graduate school or post-doc opportunities should email me with a statement of their interests and a copy of their CV and unofficial transcripts. Applications for the tri-campus EEB graduate program are open in the fall, however we are not accepting new students this year.
I will post undergraduate Research Opportunity Projects (ROP 299 & 399) and 4th year thesis opportunities (BIO481) here when they are available. Must be a current U of T undergraduate student to apply: https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/experience/ropapp
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Rosalind L Murray
Assistant Professor
Phone: 905-828-3892
Office: DV3051 UTM
Email: rosalind.murray (at) utoronto.ca
Current Lab Members
Tolulope Babalola
PhD student studying the evolution of genitalia and female ornaments in dance flies
Hannah Bodmer
PhD student studying climate change and dragonflies
(co-supervised with Shannon McCauley)
Sherry Du
PhD student studying the effects of road salt on mosquito sex ratios
Dominik Jaworski
PhD student studying evolutionary ecology of dance flies
Dr. Meredith Swartwout
UTM Postdoctoral Fellow studying urbanisation and salamander conservation
Dr. Tharusha Wijewardena
CUE Postdoctoral Fellow studying the role of urban heat islands and turtle conservation
Dan Yang
PhD student studying the evolution of male mate choice
Current Undergrad Lab Members
Rita Henein - ROP399 2025-2026
Jaskaran Khurana - ROP399 2025-2026
Montana MacIntosh - BIO481 2025-2026
Kendrick Tran - BIO481 2025-2026
Zoe Shymkiw - BIO481 2025-2026
Former Lab Members
Graduate Students
Dominik Jaworski - MSc 2025; now a PhD student in the lab
Madeline Schuster - MSc 2023; now working for conservation authority
Bianca Marcellino - MSc 2023; now working in ecological consulting
Visiting Scholars
Dr. Swati Saxena
Undergraduate Students
Ben do Rego - ROP299 summer 2025
Kathy Li - ROP399 summer 2025
Julia Jarmuszewski - ROP299 summer 2025
Nathan Tan - ROP399 summer 2025
Amrit Sandhu - ROP399 summer 2025
Silas Peters - EEB 398 2024-2025; NSERC USRA summer 2024; EEB488 2024-2025
Alex Melana - ROP399 2024-2025
Rita Henein - ROP399 2024-2025
Yasmeen Rojas - ROP399 2024-2025
Lisa Yue - ROP299 summer 2024
Adam Hicken - ROP399 summer 2024
Tara Noble - ROP399 summer 2024
Vivian Dam - ROP399 summer 2024
Roman Tkachuk - ROP399 summer 2024
Jack Wong - ROP399 summer 2024
Zaid Rizwan - ROP399 summer 2024
James Kania - ROP399 summer 2024
Abdulsalam Oladimeji - NSERC USRA summer 2024; BIO481 2024-2025
Ibrahim Ahmad - BIO481 2023-2024
Jana AlFaras - BIO481 2023-2024
Yujie Li - BIO481 2023-2024
Priscilla Prakash - BIO481 2023-2024
Mikayla Wozney - ROP399 2023-2024; UTEA 2025
Fatima Chaudhry - ROP399 summer 2023
Sydney Chong-King - ROP 399 summer 2023
Gurmukh Gidda - BIO481 summer 2023
Jannat Irfan - ROP 399 summer 2023
Dominik Jaworski - CUE Undergraduate Research Award Student
Edward Okengwu - ROP 299 summer 2023
Priscilla Prakash - ROP 399 summer 2023
Rachel Sagar - BIO481 summer 2023
Fatima Chaudhry - ROP299 2022-2023
Ahmed Elsaifi - BIO481 2022-2023
Joshita Sehgal - BIO481 - 2022-2023 (co-supervised by Darryl Gwynne)
Mathilde Tremblay - ROP299 2022-2023
Melody Yazdani - BIO481 2022-2023
Jana AlFaras - ROP299 summer 2022
Yong Lin He - ROP299 2021-2022; ROP399 summer 2022
Gabriel Philippe - ROP299 summer 2022
Peri Yee - ROP299 summer 2022
Rohab Batool - ROP399 2021-2022
Rameen Habibi Babadi - ROP399 2021-2022