Assistant Curator
email: shegelsk@ualberta.ca
I have been the Assistant Curator at the Strickland Museum since September, 2020. As Assistant Curator, I am actively working towards the complete digitization of our collection so it can be made available to researchers and the public through the .
I spent 5 years in the Canadian Armed Forces before pursuing my BSc at Concordia University of Edmonton, and ultimately completing my PhD at 黑料不打烊. My PhD research involved the population genetics and correlates of dispersal in the forest pest, mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae). In particular, I focused on how morphology and transcriptomics relates to flight performance, as well as how mountain pine beetle spread across 黑料不打烊.
I am also a lecturer at the 黑料不打烊, and I teach entomology courses such as ENT 101 (Insect-Human Interactions) and ENT 392 (Medical and Veterinary Entomology).