Faculty and Staff Profiles

• Dr. David Sherry AFAR Graduate Award - University of Western Ontario - 2024
• W.S. Hoar Award for best student oral presentation - Canadian Society of Zoologists - 2023
• George Holeton Book Prize for best CPB student poster presentation - Canadian Society of Zoologists - 2022
• Satellite Symposium – 50 Years of Comparative Biochemistry: The Legacy of Peter Hochachka poster award - Canadian Society of Zoologists - 2017

• Animal Physiology - University of Western Ontario
• Conservation Biology - University of Western Ontario
• Organismal Physiology - University of Western Ontario
• Integrative Physiology of Animals - McMaster University
• Animal Physiology: Homeostasis - McMaster University

• University of Memphis - Health Sci LABS - 2025
• University of Memphis - National Science Foundation Research Grant Proposal Reviewer - 2025
• University of Memphis - Canadian Society of Zoologists Annual Meeting Session Co-Chair - 2025
• University of Western Ontario - Centre for Animals on the Move Outreach Committee - 2023-2024
• University of Western Ontario - Ontario Ecology, Ethology & Evolution Conference Organizing Committee - 2023
• University of Western Ontario - Society of Biology Graduate Students - 2020-2022
• University of Western Ontario - Biology Graduate Research Forum Organizing Committee - 2021
• McMaster University - ResearchShop - 2018-2019
• McMaster University - Biology Graduate Student Society - 2017-2019
• McMaster University - Ad Hoc Selection Committee for the Chair of the Department of Biology - 2018

• Coulson, S. Z., Lyons, S. A., Robertson, C. E., Fabello, B., Dessureault, L. M., & McClelland, G. B. (2024). Regulation of muscle pyruvate dehydrogenase activity and fuel use during exercise in high-altitude deer mice. Journal of Experimental Biology, 227(16).
• Coulson, S. Z., Guglielmo, C. G., & Staples, J. F. (2024). Migration increases mitochondrial oxidative capacity without increasing reactive oxygen species emission in a songbird. Journal of Experimental Biology, 227(9).
• Coulson, S. Z., Duffy, B. M., & Staples, J. F. (2024). Mitochondrial techniques for physiologists. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 271, 110947.
• Sanita Lima, M., Lubbe, F. C., Dias dos Santos, S. H., Saruhashi, S., Maglov, J. M., Moreira do Nascimento, J., & Coulson, S. Z. (2024). Ecology, ethology, and evolution in the Anthropocene. Biology Open, 13(3).
• Mahalingam, S., Coulson, S. Z., Scott, G. R., & McClelland, G. B. (2023). Function of left ventricle mitochondria in highland deer mice and lowland mice. Journal of Comparative Physiology B, 193(2), 207-217.
• Coulson, S. Z., Robertson, C. E., Mahalingam, S., & McClelland, G. B. (2021). Plasticity of non-shivering thermogenesis and brown adipose tissue in high-altitude deer mice. Journal of Experimental Biology, 224(10), jeb242279.

• Coulson, SZ*, Eric, R, Ramanathan, C, Talbott, KM, Tillman, F, Pence, BD, Adelman, JS & Zhang, Y. (2026). Mycoplasma gallisepticum suppresses host immune response by inhibiting succinate dehydrogenase. Annual meeting of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology, Portland, OR, USA. Talk. 

• Coulson, SZ*, Staples, JF & Guglielmo, CG. (2025). Effects of migratory strategy on flight muscle mitochondrial physiology in songbirds. The annual meeting of the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, Atlanta, GA, USA. Talk.

• Coulson, SZ *, Thomsen, EJM, Ochala, J & Guglielmo, CG. (2023). Relaxing on the wing: Myosin conformation in migrating birds. The annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Zoologists, Saskatoon, SK, Canada. Poster.

• Coulson, SZ*, Staples, JF & Guglielmo, CG. (2022). Flight muscle mitochondria are seasonally plastic in a migratory songbird. The annual meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology, Montpellier, France. Talk.

• Coulson, SZ*, Staples, JF & Guglielmo, CG. (2021). Seasonal plasticity in mitochondrial function of a migratory songbird. The Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Zoologists, Virtual. Talk.

• Coulson, SZ* & McClelland, GB. (2019). Pyruvate dehydrogenase activation and glucose transporter translocation in muscle of exercising high altitude deer mice. 10^th Meeting of the International Congress of Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Ottawa, ON, Canada. Talk. 

• Coulson, SZ*, Mahalingam, S & McClelland, GB. (2017). Modifications to brown adipose tissue mitochondria for thermoregulation at high altitude. The Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Zoologists, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. Poster. 

• Toomey, M. B., Zhang, Y., Weaver, R. J., Coulson, S. Z., Ramanathan, C., Sin, S., Wade, M. & Hill, G. E. A yellow Rose-breasted Grosbeak provides clue to color transitions in songbirds. In prep
• Saruhashi, S., Coulson, S. Z., Staples, J. F., Jimenez-Padilla, Y., Moos, M. & Sinclair, B. J. When ice is nice: mitochondrial protection in freeze tolerant crickets. In prep 

• Coulson, S. Z., Eric, R., Ramanathan, C., Talbott, K. M., Tillman, F., Pence, B. D., Adelman, J. S. & Zhang, Y. Mycoplasma gallisepticum suppresses host immune response by inhibiting succinate dehydrogenase. In prep 

• Coulson, S. Z., Staples, J. F. & Guglielmo, C. G. Effects of migratory strategy on flight muscle mitochondrial physiology in songbirds. In prep.

• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Post-doctoral fellowship (2025-2026). Application unsuccessful.

• Western Sustainability Impact Fund. (2024). University of Western Ontario. 30,000 CAD
• Journal of Experimental Biology Travelling Fellowship. (2022). Company of Biologists. 2,300 GBP
• Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology. (2022). Government of Ontario. 15,000 CAD
• Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology. (2021). Government of Ontario. 15,000 CAD