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 ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥. 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 ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥.
I am also a lecturer at the ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥, and I teach entomology courses such as ENT 101 (Insect-Human Interactions) and ENT 392 (Medical and Veterinary Entomology).