Geraldine (Gerry) Ryan is a PhD student. Gerry grew up in Ireland and came to Canada to pursue her undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto, where she received an Honors Bachelor degree in biology. During her undergraduate degree she worked on a number of projects ranging from vertebrate neurophysiology to insect feeding physiology to plant ecology. From April 2007 - October 2007 she work as a research assistant in AgResearch in Palmerston North, on the north island of New Zealand, on a joint research project between Jonathan Newman, Tony Parsons (AgResearch), Susanne Rasmussen (AgResearch) and Joy Bergelson (University of Chicago). Gerry came to Guelph in the autumn of 2007 where her research is focused on establishing a mechanistic link between the effects of climate change on plant physiology and the impacts of these changes on aphid performance and population dynamics. Her work involves the extraction and analysis of phloem sap using the aphid stylectomy technique.
email: gryan@uoguelph.ca
Recent Publications
E.A. Robinson*, G.D. Ryan* & J.A. Newman (2012). Tansley Review: A meta-analytical review of the effects of elevated CO2 on plant-arthropod interactions highlights the importance of interacting environmental and biological variables. The New Phytologist, in press. *Co-first authorship
Liu, Q., A.J. Parsons, H. Xue, Y. Min, G.D. Ryan, J.A. Newman & S. Rasmussen. 2011. Competition between foliar Neotyphodium lolii endophytes and mycorrhizal Glomus spp. fungi in Lolium perenne depends on resource supply and host carbohydrate content. Functional Ecology, 25:910-920.
G.D. Ryan, S. Rasmussen & J.A. Newman. 2010. Global Atmospheric Change and Trophic Interactions: Are there any General Responses? In: Plant Communication from an Ecological Perspective (eds Baluška, František; Ninkovic, Velemir). Springer. Pages 179-214.
G.D. Ryan, S. Rasmussen, A.J. Parsons & J.A. Newman. 2009. Can optimality models and an ‘optimality research program’ help us understand some plant-fungus relationships? Fungal Ecology, 1:115-123.
N. Mrosovsky, G.D. Ryan and M.C. James. 2009. Leatherback turtles: the menace of plastic. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 58:287-289.
G.D. Ryan & J.A. Newman. 2008. The Hot Topic: What we can do about Global Warming, Gabrielle Walker and Sir David King. Douglas and McIntyre (Greystone Books), Vancouver/Toronto, 2008. The Environmentalist, 28:496–497.