Ben Speers-Roesch

Metabolic physiology of fishes; mechanisms of hypoxia tolerance and metabolic depression; energy metabolism; cardiac function and metabolism; biology of sharks, rays, and chimaeras; evolutionary, environmental, and comparative animal physiology

Metabolic and cardiorespiratory physiology of fishes; mechanisms of hypoxia tolerance and metabolic depression; energy metabolism; cardiac function and metabolism; biology of sharks, rays, and chimaeras; evolutionary, environmental, and comparative animal physiology

NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship

2012
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For Research
Ben Speers-Roesch

IODE War Memorial Scholarship

2010
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For Research
Ben Speers-Roesch

Zoology Graduate Fellowship

2010
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For Research
Ben Speers-Roesch

Pacific Century Graduate Scholarship

2008
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For Research
Ben Speers-Roesch

NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship

2006
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For Research
Ben Speers-Roesch
Critical oxygen tensions as predictors of hypoxia tolerance and tissue metabolic responses during hypoxia exposure in fishes
Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 449: 239-249
Speers-Roesch, B., M. Mandic, D.J.E. Groom, J.G. Richards
2013
Effects of fatty acid provision during severe hypoxia on routine and maximal performance of the in situ tilapia heart
Journal of Comparative Physiology B. 183: 773-785
Speers-Roesch, B., S.L. Lague, A. P. Farrell, J.G. Richards
2013
Hypoxia tolerance in sculpins is associated with high anaerobic enzyme activity in brain but not in liver or muscle
Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 86: 92-105
Mandic, M., B. Speers-Roesch, J. G. Richards
2013
A radical approach to beating hypoxia: depressed free radical release from heart fibres of the hypoxia-tolerant epaulette shark (Hemiscyllum ocellatum)
Journal of Comparative Physiology B 182: 91-100
Hickey, A.J., G.M. Renshaw, B. Speers-Roesch, J.G. Richards, Y. Wang, A.P. Farrell, C.J. Brauner
2012
Exceptional cardiac anoxia tolerance in tilapia (Oreochromis hybrid)
Journal of Experimental Biology 215: 1354-1365
Lague, S. L., B. Speers-Roesch, J.G. Richards, A.P. Farrell
2012
Hypoxia tolerance in elasmobranchs. I. Critical oxygen tension as a measure of blood oxygen transport during hypoxia exposure
Journal of Experimental Biology 215: 93-102
Speers-Roesch, B., J.G. Richards, C.J. Brauner, A.P. Farrell, A.J.R. Hickey, Y.S. Wang, and G.M.C. Renshaw
2012
Hypoxia tolerance in elasmobranchs. II. Cardiovascular function and tissue metabolic responses during progressive and relative hypoxia exposures
Journal of Experimental Biology 215: 103-114
Speers-Roesch, B., C.J. Brauner, A.P. Farrell, A.J.R. Hickey, G.M.C. Renshaw, Y.S. Wang, and J.G. Richards
2012
Effects of environmental hypoxia on cardiac energy metabolism and performance in tilapia
American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology 298: R104-R119
Speers-Roesch, B., E. Sandblom, G.Y. Lau, A.P. Farrell, J.G. Richards
2010
The unusual energy metabolism of elasmobranch fishes
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 155: 417-434
Speers-Roesch, B., J.R. Treberg
2010
Plasma non-esterified fatty acids of elasmobranchs: comparisons of temperate and tropical species and effects of environmental salinity
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 149: 209-216
Speers-Roesch, B., Y.K. Ip, J.S. Ballantyne
2008