{"id":217,"date":"2016-09-26T15:47:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T15:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/julieteichroeb.com\/?page_id=217"},"modified":"2025-10-14T18:19:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:19:26","slug":"lab-members","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/julieteichroeb.com\/?page_id=217","title":{"rendered":"Lab Members"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PI – Julie Teichroeb<\/strong> – BSc, MA, PhD – University of Calgary
Associate Professor, Dept. of Anthropology
University of Toronto Scarborough
1265 Military Trail, Toronto, Ontario M1C 1A4
Office: MW343, Phone: 416-208-8177; Lab: SW223B, 647-601-4492
Email: julie.teichroeb(at)utoronto.ca <\/p>\n\n\n

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Dr. Kaia Tombak<\/strong> – Kaia is funded by a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship and is examining the underlying correlates of egalitarianism in animal societies.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Frances Adams<\/strong> – Frances did her MSc in lab on within-unit social networks in Rwenzori colobus and is now a PhD candidate examing the importance of male bonding in the formation of the colobus multilevel socieities. frances.adams(at)mail.utoronto.ca
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Karyn Anderson<\/strong> – Karyn did her MSc in the lab on infant handling by males in Rwenzori colobus. Karyn is now a PhD candidate studying whether this behavior evolved as a reproductive strategy used by both males and females to improve their reproductive success. karyn.anderson(at)mail.utoronto.ca <\/p>\n\n\n

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Tamara Kumpan<\/strong> – Tamara did her MSc in the lab on vervet monkey foraging and learning strategies. Tamara is now a PhD candidate examining the mechanisms of social buffering in ring-tailed lemurs. tamara.kumpan(at)mail.utoronto.ca <\/p>\n\n\n

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Virendra Mathur<\/strong> – Virendra is a PhD candidate exploring the movement decisions and spatial cognition of Himalayan langurs in an anthropogenic landscape. viren.mathur(at)mail.utoronto.ca<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eve Smeltzer<\/strong> – Eve is a PhD candidate examining movement initiations in vervet monkeys in an anthropogenic landscape, including leadership, consensus, and conflicts of interest. eve.smeltzer(at)mail.utoronto.ca <\/p>\n\n\n

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Ajay Kang<\/strong> – Ajay is a MSc student studying vervet monkey decision-making and social learning. ajay.kang(at)mail.utoronto.ca<\/p>\n\n\n

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Juliana Pantea<\/strong> – Juliana is a MSc student studying how personality impacts problem-solving in vervet monkeys. juliana.pantea(at)mail.utoronto.ca<\/p>\n\n\n

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Mona Nouri<\/strong> – Mona is an undergraduate student in the lab exploring how competition for fruit plays out in the folivorous Rwenzori colobus. mona.nouri(at)mail.utoronto.ca<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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T. Jean Arseneau-Robar, Postdoc<\/strong> – The impact of sociality on decision-making in primates. (Now a government scientist with the province of Nova Scotia) Website: https:\/\/jeanarseneaurobar.com\/<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pengzhen Huang, Postdoc<\/strong> – Higher order movement dynamics in a Rwenzori colobus multilevel society. (Now an Assistant Professor at Hainan University.) maiqi1317(at)163.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keren Klass, PhD<\/strong> – Black howler monkey (Alouatta pigra<\/em>) demography and behaviour in unprotected forest fragments around Palenque National Park, Mexico. (Now a postdoc in the lab of Gili Greenbaum, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, https:\/\/giligreenbaum.wordpress.com\/)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Samantha Stead, MSc & PhD<\/strong> – MSc – Male infant handling in Colobus angolensis ruwenzorri<\/em>; PhD – Social and ecological influences on maternal and infant outcomes in Rwenzori Angolan colobus. (Now a postdoc in the lab of Meghan Azad, University of Manitoba) sam.stead(at)mail.utoronto.ca<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coco Tucker-Gritt, MSc<\/strong> – Exploring the evolution of wellbeing: Evidence of a midlife dip in welfare in wild Rwenzori Angolan colobus. (Pursuing PhD options)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erica Fowler, MSc<\/strong> – Subordinates settle: Route choice depends on competition experienced in a foraging experiment with vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus<\/em>). (Student Supervisor, Oxford Summer Exchange Program)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Florence Landry, MSc<\/strong> – Male and female strategies during interunit interactions in the Rwenzori Angolan colobus (Colobus angolensis ruwenzorii<\/em>) multi-level society at Nabugabo, Uganda. (Completing a PhD with Iulia Badescu at the University of Montreal)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mingfei Li, MSc<\/strong> – Influence of age, sex, and dominance rank on intragroup spatial position, foraging strategies and feeding success in wild vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus<\/em>). (Completing a PhD with David Samson at the University of Toronto)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Samuel Poirier-Poulin, MSc<\/strong> – Cataloging the vocal repertoire of an African colobine, Colobus angolensis ruwenzorii. <\/em>(Completing a PhD in game studies at Universite de Montreal)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eric Vasey, MSc –<\/strong> Causal cognition and competition in wild eastern grey squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis<\/em>) when exposed to a causally clear task. (Completing a PhD in primate cognition at St. Andrews)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Undergraduate Theses Students<\/strong>: Nicole Patacsil-Tesoy, Hafsa Ishaque, Hossein Ghorbani, Megan Joyce, Kian Fallah, Isabel Martins, Evan Turner, Aleena Khwaja, Eric Vasey, Frances Adams, Koda MacLellan, Amtul Changasi, Lucas Findlay, Shallu Prasher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PI – Julie Teichroeb – BSc, MA, PhD – University of Calgary Associate Professor, Dept. of AnthropologyUniversity of Toronto Scarborough1265 Military Trail, Toronto, Ontario M1C 1A4Office: MW343, Phone: 416-208-8177; Lab: SW223B, 647-601-4492Email: julie.teichroeb(at)utoronto.ca Dr. Kaia Tombak – Kaia is funded by a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/julieteichroeb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/217"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/julieteichroeb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/julieteichroeb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/julieteichroeb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/julieteichroeb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":99,"href":"http:\/\/julieteichroeb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":953,"href":"http:\/\/julieteichroeb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/217\/revisions\/953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/julieteichroeb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}