Brent Sinclair

Ph.D. University of Otago, New Zealand (2001)

BSc(Hons) University of Otago, New Zealand (1996)

Selected Publications:

• Sinclair, B.J., Saruhashi, S. & Terblanche, J.S. 2024. Integrating water balance mechanisms into predictions of insect responses to climate change. Journal of Experimental Biology 227:jeb247167.
• Turnbull, K.F., McNeil, J.N. & Sinclair, B.J. 2023. Burrowing depth mediates the extent of metabolic suppression in a soil-overwintering insect. Functional Ecology 37: 2718-2733.
• Torson, A.S., Bowman, S., Doucet, D., Roe, A.D. & Sinclair, B.J. 2023. Molecular signatures of diapause in the Asian longhorned beetle: gene expression. Current Research in Insect Science 3: 100054.
• Lebenzon, J.E., Denezis, P.W., Mohammad, L., Mathers, K.E., Turnbull, K.F., Staples, J.F. & Sinclair, B.J. 2022. Reversible mitophagy drives metabolic suppression in diapausing beetles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A. 119: e2201089119.
• Smith, A., Turnbull, K.F., Moulton, J.H. & Sinclair, B.J. 2021. Metabolic cost of freeze-thaw and source of CO2 production in the freeze-tolerant cricket Gryllus veletis. Journal of Experimental Biology 224: jeb234419.
• Toxopeus, J., Koštál, V. & Sinclair, B.J. 2019. Evidence for non-colligative function of small cryoprotectants in a freeze-tolerant insect. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286: 20190050.
• Toxopeus, J. & Sinclair, B.J. 2018. Mechanisms underlying insect freeze tolerance. Biological Reviews 93: 1891-1914.
• Sinclair, B.J., Coello Alvarado, L.E., & Ferguson, L.V. 2015. An invitation to measure insect cold tolerance: methods, approaches, and workflow. Journal of Thermal Biology 53: 180-197.
• Williams, C.M., Henry, H.A.L. & Sinclair, B.J. (2015) Cold truths: how winter drives responses of terrestrial organisms to climate change.  Biological Reviews 90: 214-235.
• MacMillan, H.A., Williams, C.M., Staples, J.F. & Sinclair, B.J. (2012) Reestablishment of ion homeostasis during chill-coma recovery in the cricket Gryllus pennsylvanicus.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 109: 20750-20755.

President, Canadian Society of Zoologists 2018-2019.

C. Gordon Hewitt Award, Entomological Society of Canada 2012.

Bob Boutilier New Investigator Award, Canadian Society of Zoologists 2010

Fellow, Royal Entomological Society, 2008

Dr. Sinclair will teach in the areas of insect physiology and thermal biology.