Research
Thesis: Understanding cholera immunity in common eider (Somateria mollissima) populations in the Canadian Arctic through whole genome analysis
Research interests: conservation genetics, genomics, immunology, wildlife disease, species at risk, reintroduction biology, biodiversity loss
Teaching
Undergraduate Honours Thesis Co-Supervisor (September 2023 – April 2025)
Steele Grasza, thesis title: Assessing genomic health in Common Eiders affected by avian cholera
Eva Innocente-Burguete, thesis title: Immune gene diversity: contributor to avian cholera resistance?
Guest Lecturer (March 2023 & 2024)
Conservation Biology 422
Graduate Teaching Assistant (September 2022 – April 2023)
Conservation Biology 422
Publications
Intra-annual patterns in biofilm communities and cellulose decomposition in a headwater stream network with spatially variable groundwater inputs (2023)
Aquatic Ecology
Authors: Lauren K. Banks, Isabelle Lavoie, Maxime P. Boreux, *Shayla L. Kroeze, Nicole Gotkowski, Clare E. Robinson, James W. Roy, and Adam G. Yates
Microsatellites for the at-risk Mottled Duskywing butterfly, Erynnis martialis (2022)
Conservation Genetics Resources
Authors: *Shayla L. Kroeze, Adrienne Brewster, Jessica E. Linton, D. Ryan Norris, Gard W. Otis, Yvonne Young, and Nusha Keyghobadi
Influence of environmental conditions at spawning sites and migration routes on adaptive variation and population connectivity in Chinook salmon (2021)
Ecology and Evolution
Authors: Yara A. Alshwairikh, *Shayla L. Kroeze, Jenny Olsson, Steve A. Stephens‐Cardenas, William L. Swain, Lisette P. Waits, Rebekah L. Horn, Shawn R. Narum, and Travis Seaborn
Students as partners in collaborative course design and educational research (2020)
International Journal for Students as Partners
Authors: Cortney Hanna-Benson, *Shayla Kroeze, Radhika Gandhi, Tom Haffie, Lindi M. Wahl
Topics
- Conservation genetics
- Ecology
- Evolution
- Evolutionary ecology
- Evolutionary genetics
- Field ecology and conservation
- Genetics
- Genomics
- Population genetics
