Mark Hanson
Associate Professor
Biology
University of Waterloo
Canada
Biography
Dr. Mark Hanson, received his Ph.D. University of Guelph. Curretly, He is working as a Associate Professor From the University of Waterloo. He completed his Administrative Duties as Associate Department Head / Acting Department Head for Department of Environment and Geography. Dr. Hanson’s research focuses on the response of freshwater organisms to various types of stressors, with a special emphasis on aquatic plants and invertebrates. The interactions between organisms and the way in which these can influence the stress response are studied at the laboratory and field-level. This helps in our understanding and ability to predict the risk an exposure to a toxicant or change in water quality can provoke at the ecosystem-level. The use of microcosms, large-scale model freshwater ecosystems, is emphasized along with developing new methodologies to assess changes in water quality in a rapid and effective manner.
Research Interest
The interactions between organisms and the way in which these can influence the stress response are studied at the laboratory and field-level.
Publications
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Gluckman PD, Hanson MA. Living with the past: evolution, development, and patterns of disease. Science. 2004 Sep 17;305(5691):1733-6.
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Gluckman PD, Hanson MA, Cooper C, Thornburg KL. Effect of in utero and early-life conditions on adult health and disease. New England Journal of Medicine. 2008 Jul 3;359(1):61-73.
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Fraser CM, Casjens S, Huang WM, Sutton GG. Genomic sequence of a Lyme disease spirochaete, Borrelia burgdorferi. Nature. 1997 Dec 11;390(6660):580.
