**if you are interested in doing undergraduate research in the Proctor Lab, please check the Prospective Students page to see if there are openings available**

Research in the Proctor Lab is diverse! There are only two rules: you have to work on more than one species at the same time, and at least one of your focal taxa has to be too small to see without using a dissecting scope. Recent research questions include:

• how do symbiotic annelids affect their freshwater snail and crayfish hosts?
• what do feather mites eat?
• does type of vertebrate carrion affect the assemblage of carrion-feeding arthropods?
• how many species of sowbugs are there in Alberta, and how did they get here?

Proctor Lab folks in Hallowe’en costumes. From left to right: Bennett the head louse, Lynne and Ratatouille, Hannah the Monarch, Rowan as Gigantiops destructor, and Heather the Creepy Mime Lab Tech

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