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From our 2025–2026 Season
On March 7, 2026
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Hamilton Harbour's Invasive Round Goby

Sigal Balshine, PhD

Professor, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, and Associate Member, Department of Biology, both at McMaster University

 
 

Educational Background

  • Post-doctoral fellowships at Tel Aviv University (IL), the Konrad Lorenz Insitute for Ethology (Vienna, AT), and the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK)
  • PhD 1995, Zoology, from the University of Cambridge (UK)
  • BSc 1989, Zoology, from the University of Toronto

Visit Professor Balshine's laboratory, the Aquatic Behavioural Ecology Lab (ABEL), at https://abel.mcmaster.ca.

The photo of Professor Balshine was not found.
The photo of a Round Goby was not found.
A Round Goby on the harbour floor; about 9cm long.

Watch Sigal Balshine's Presentation

Our speaker's presentation was followed by a ques­tion-and-answer (Q&A) ses­sion hosted by HAALSA Councillor Wade Hemsworth and some closing words of thanks, also from Councillor Hemsworth. (1h 9m 57s)

Concerning Our Recordings

  • The video stream is limited to what was dis­play­ed to the audience on the large screen at the front of the lecture venue. We have no picture-in-picture video of our speaker at the podium.
  • The audio was captured by the microphone at the podium and a lapel mike worn by our speaker.
  • You will find that during the Q&A session the questions asked by audience members are invariably too faint to be heard, even when your device's audio volume is set to maximum. For that reason we always ask our speaker, or the Q&A host), to repeat the question before the speaker begins their answer.