An associate professor in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, Allison Shaw is building collaborations with researchers at l’Université de Montréal, thanks to the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
Shaw models animal movements and seeks to understand how these movements impact other processes in their community. Animals move for a variety of reasons — including food availability, predation risks and mating prospects. In recent years another driver of movement has risen to the forefront of research — parasites. Understanding how parasites drive animal movement is important for tracking infections.
For Shaw, collaborating with Sandra Binning at l’Université de Montréal gives her the opportunity to explore lakes in Quebec’s Laurentian region and learn more about the biology of pumpkinseed sunfish and their parasites, a system Binning has worked on since 2018.
