I will be giving my first talk at the ESA/CSEE conference in Montreal on Tuesday at 1:45 pm! Come and hear me speak about mate selection in Heliconia tortuosa and how hummingbird pollinators are affecting it.

Meet the person behind the social media! My name is Ferne Kotlyar, I recently transferred from my masters to my PhD in the Wagner Lab and I am super excited to be BGSS's Social Outreach Chair this academic year!

I am incredibly honoured to have been chosen to receive the Alvin Singh Graduate Teaching Assistant Excellence Award. Although I never had the pleasure to meet Alvin, I will do everything in my power to uphold his legacy of awe-inspiring teaching and mentoring. U of T Mississauga UTM Biology

The photo I took made it to the front cover of the #EEBQuarterly! Check it out here: theeebquarterly.github.io!

I took a little bit of an unconventional approach to my poster CSEE_SCEE. Hot take: there's some space in academia for creativity! #BEEPEG2023 #CSEE

Hi! My name is Ferne (she/her), and I am a PhD student University of Toronto. I really love plants! And, while I don’t study ferns, I study Heliconia tortuosa, a tropical beauty that is pollinated by hummingbirds! Learn more about me and my research here: ferne-kotlyar.com / Ferne Kotlyar

Hot Take: Video games are instructive. Even Hotter Take: We need to use them in our teaching. Should video games be used in education? 🌱🎮 #cseefeature Ferne Kotlyar (1/2)

Stay tuned for a game we are working on with a University of Toronto plant morphology class! #cseefeature Ferne Kotlyar (2/2)

Through my research and teaching, I hope that I can help change the doctrine about plants so that more people can see just how incredible, interesting, and maybe even intelligent plants are #cseefeature Ferne Kotlyar 🌿🌺🧠

Currently in the Costa Rican forest - this is why I love being an ecologist! Crowned Woodnymph feeding on a Heliconia torutosa flower at the Las Cruces Biological Station Tropical Studies

Even though the location was absolutely breathtaking - it was really the people that made #SCAPE incredible. It was such an honour to be able to present my work in front of such a talented crowd. SCAPE Pollination Ecology

Did you know that hummingbird tongues unfurl and split in half? Watch as this green hermit hummingbird drinks from a cut-open Heliconia tortuosa flower.