The Love Lab is very proud to report that our very own Amanda Rilett won third place in the Ecology and Evolution section of the Biology Department’s annual Undergraduate Honours Colloquium on Friday. Amanda’s project examined whether the interaction between early-life maternal stress and rearing environment interact to shape the behavioural and physiological outcome of offspring in Chinook salmon. As expected, Amanda’s results confirmed that rearing environment has a strong effect, but that maternal stress may alter the phenotype of fish depending on which environment they are raised. The next step will be to work with fellow collaborators Pauline Capelle (MSc in our lab) and Dr. Natalie Sopinka (PDF in our lab) to submit Amanda’s work for publication. Excellent work Amanda and congratulations!