YACK LAB
Welcome
We study animal sensory systems and communication, with a focus on insect bioacoustics. Our research addresses three main questions: 1) How do insects sense, and generate sounds and vibrations? 2) What are the functions of acoustic communication? 3) How do ears and communication signals evolve?
In our neuroethology lab we use a variety of methods and techniques such as sound recording and analysis, laser vibrometry, neurophysiology, high-speed video, phylogenetics, microscopy, and behavioural genetics to form an integrated view of animal behaviour and communication. We work primarily with the insect orders Lepidoptera (moths, butterflies, caterpillars) and Coleoptera (mostly bark beetles), but have ongoing projects with earthworms, birds, and bats as well.
Professor Jayne E. Yack
Department of Biology
Nesbitt Biology Building, Room 250
Carleton University
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
K1S 5B6
Office: 613 520-2600 ext.3887
Lab: 613 520-2600 ext.1513 or 1912
Fax: 613 520-3539
email: jayneyack@cunet.carleton.ca
Lab news
March 1, 2016
New member in the lab
Welcome to Melanie Scallion who recently joined the lab as a Master’s student. Melanie is working on the evolutionary origins of defense sounds in hawkmoth caterpillars.
November 30, 2015
Congratulations
Congratulations to Amanda Lindeman for winning a prize for Best poster at the Entomological Society of Canada meetings in Montreal (November 2015). Great work Amanda!
September 1, 2015
New member in the lab
Welcome to Andras Dobai, who joined the lab in September 2015 as a Master’s student. Andras is studying acoustic communication and sensory organs in bark beetles.
July 31, 2015
Congratulations
Congratulations to Conrado Denadai, Amanda Lindeman and Amanda Dookie for winning talk and poster prizes at the International Meeting for Invertebrate Sound & Vibration (2015).
October 31, 2015
Our lab in the Media
Check out Amanda Lindeman’s interview with CBC television on the Carleton Butterfly Show in October 2015. (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/butterfly-show-carleton-university-1.3254121)
Insect Sensory Systems
Butterfly Hearing
Research Interests
Bark Beetle Acoustics
Caterpillar Acoustics
