TESS GRAINGER
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor
Current CV
Department of Integrative Biology
University of Guelph
tess.grainger@uoguelph.ca
Tess joined the University of Guelph as an Assistant Professor in fall 2024. Before that she was a postdoc at UBC, where she conducted experiments with flour beetles testing the effect of temperature on species’ ability to adapt to degraded environments. Prior to that she was a postdoc at Princeton, where she used field experiments with fruit flies to understand species’ rapid evolutionary responses to competition and climate. She completed her PhD at the University of Toronto, where she used the insects that specialize on milkweed plants to look at the effects of climate change on species that live in patchy habitats.
GRAD STUDENTS
SYDNEY CHONG-KING
MSc
Sydney will be conducting experiments with flour beetles that track the evolution of life history traits in response to a changing climate.
KATE ROBINSON
MSc
Kate will be conducing field experiments with milkweed insects that test the effects of habitat fragmentation and degredation on population persistence.
UNDERGRADS
LAINA WEISS
Undergraduate research project
Laina is conducting an experiment with flour beetles that tests theory on the effect of resource quality on temperature responses.
KAYLEY BRESLIN
USRA
Kayley is conducting an experiment with flour beetles investigating the effects of climate change on range expansions.
NICOLE BYRNE
Work study student
Nicole is working as a research assistant on flour beetle experiments and helping to set up a milkweed field site.
EMMA GRUNTZ
4th year thesis project
Emma will be conducting experiments with flour beetles looking at the effects of heat waves on population dynamics.
THE GRAINGER LAB 