Faculty of Science
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA | CANADA B3H 4R2 | +1 (902) 494-3540

Ian Meinterzhagen

Canada Council Killam Research Fellow
University Research Professor

Psychology

Education  

  • 1966,  B.Sc. (Hons.), Physiology, University of Aberdeen
  • 1971,  Ph.D., Zoology,  University of St. Andrews
  • 1997,  D.Sc., Science, University of St. Andrews

Affiliations 

  • 2003-07, Member, NSERC Integrative Animal Biology Grant Selection Committee
  • 2002, Nominator, John D and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
  • 2001-03, Member, College of Reviewers for the Canada Research Chairs program  
  • 2001-04, Member, Selection Committee, Canada Council Killam Fellowships and Prizes
  • 2000-02, Member, NSERC Reallocations Committee for Animal Biology
  • 2000-present, Member, Scientific Committee, International Society for Neuroethology  
  • 1991-95, 1999-02, Interim Director, then Director, Neuroscience Institute, Dalhousie University  
  • 1996-present, Member, Canadian Science Working Group - Insect Habitat , Canadian  Space Agency
  • 1994-95, Member, Program Committee, International Congress of Neuroethology
  • 1993-96, Member, then Chair, NSERC Animal Biology Grant Selection Committee

Societies
Society for Neuroscience; International Society for Neuroethology; International Society for Invertebrate Neurobiology; Corporation Member, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Canadian Association for Neuroscience; IBRO; Society for Experimental Biology; Canadian Society of Zoologists.

Awards and distinctions

  • 2005-2010, University Research Professor, Dalhousie University (the title of University Research Professor is granted to no more than 15 Dalhousie faculty members who have achieved distinction in scholarship)
  • 2004, JFHA Fellow, Kyushu University, Japan.
  • 2004, C. Ladd Prosser Annual Lecture in Comparative Physiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  • 2002-03, Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 
  • 1997-2002, Killam Professorship in Neuroscience, Dalhousie University. 
  • 1996-2001,  Faculty of Science Killam Professor in Psychology, Dalhousie University.   

Editorial responsibilities

  • 2005- ,  Associate Editor, Journal of Comparative Neurology.
  • 1999-  .  Section Editor, Arthropod Structure & Development.
  • 1998-  .  Editorial Board, Journal of Comparative Neurology. 
  • 1996-  .  Member, Flybrain Database Review Board. Flybrain is an on-line atlas and databaseof the Drosophila nervous system. 

Publications
More than 125 refereed papers, published or accepted and 145 abstracts. 

Website
Laboratory of Invertebrate Neurobiology

E-mail: Dr. Ian Meinterzhagen

Dr. Ian Meinertzhagen

The fly on the wall

Dr. Ian Meinterzhagen studies simple invertebrate nervous systems; their structure, synaptic organization, morphogenesis, cell lineage, and evolution.