Dr. Kenneth Jeffries
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Manitoba
Phone: (204) 474-6429
Email: Ken.Jeffries@umanitoba.ca
Website: Kenneth Jeffries
Dr. Jeffries is an expert of fish physiology and comparative transcriptomics. The Jeffries Lab uses these approaches to examine how environmental stressors (such as temperature and habitat degradation) affect the cellular stress response and overall health of fishes.
With the help of two graduate students funded by the GEN-FISH program, Dr. Jeffries will apply his extensive expertise in transcriptomics to the development and validation of the Fish Health Toolkit. This Toolkit will allow organizations to determine whether Canada’s wild fish populations can successfully cope with environmental stressors like those related to climate change, for example.