Catalina Costiuc

Catalina is a fourth-year student in the Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour program who joined ABEL in January 2023 as a 2QQ3 project student and is now doing her 3QQ3 project in Fall 2023. Initially she worked with Eli Latchem on research involving social learning in cichlid fish, more specifically taking a look at how dominance rank influences this learning.  She returned to ABEL as a thesis student to examine how stress influences learning and memory in cichlids. Some fun facts about Catalina are that she is on the McMaster Varsity Figure Skating Team and recently published a poetry book.