• You must have completed BIO120H (St. George campus).
• Priority will be given to students who completed BIO120 in the previous Fall session.
• You must obtain an average of at least 85% in the university courses you are presently taking or have taken (e.g., if you are taking five courses this year, you estimate that your average among these courses will be at least 85%).

Please fill in this online application form (to be updated for 2027) no later than Monday February 23, 2026.
Note: You will be required to login to your UTmail+ to fill in the form.

Supervisor: Professor Micah Freedman

The Freedman Lab studies global environmental change and its impacts on plant-insect interactions. We are especially interested in chemically-mediated interactions between plants and insect herbivores, and much of the lab’s research focuses on monarch butterflies and their milkweed host plants. Our research uses field work, greenhouse experiments, curation of large citizen science databases, and lab-based techniques to address basic and applied questions in ecology and evolutionary biology. The student will work with graduate students and the PI on several projects related to (1) timing of monarch butterfly migration; (2) toxins sequestered by monarchs from their host plants; (3) leaf chemistry of common milkweed and its effects on herbivore community assembly. They will learn how to conduct field-based research at Koffler Scientific Reserve and will gain experience with lab work, especially extracting chemicals from plant and insect tissues. The successful student will be required to take basic lab safety and Biosafety training through EHS and should be comfortable working outdoors.