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Leanne Grieves BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD

Houston Chair in Ornithology

Faculty Member in Biology

Office
CSRB 320.9

Research Area(s)

  • Animal behaviour
  • Animal communication
  • Chemical ecology
  • Microbial ecology
  • Host-microbe interactions
  • Mate choice
  • Sexual selection
  • Ornithology

Publications

Research

Behavioural ecology Communication Olfaction Ornithology

Dr. Leanne Grieves (PhD) is a behavioural ecologist interested in avian mating and social systems, communication, and behaviour. Her research group at USask combines field and laboratory approaches and molecular genetics tools to determine how olfaction and symbiotic microbiota influence avian social and reproductive behaviour.

Education & Training

2025 - Present Houston Chair in Ornithology, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan

2023 - 2025 Rose Postdoctoral Fellow, Macaulay Library, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University

2021 - 2023 NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biology, McMaster University

2020 - 2021 McCall MacBain Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, McMaster University

2016 - 2020 PhD, Department of Biology, Western University

2012 - 2014 MSc, Department of Biology, McMaster University

2005 - 2011 BSc (Hons), Department of Biology, University of Winnipeg