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Michelle Tseng is an asian woman in biology. She is a researcher and assistant professor currently working at UBC with interests in Environmental Variation, Evolution, Natural Selection, Adaptation, Temperature. She has various accreditations as a Research Associate at UBC from 2014-2016, Founding and Managing Editor of Evolutionary Applications from 2007-2013. She achieved her Ph.D. in 2005 from Indiana University in the US and lastly her Postdoctoral Fellow at UBC from 2006-2008. She is currently working at UBC and has an ongoing lab focused on understanding and predicting responses of aquatic and insect communities to warming with a strong grounding in ecological and evolutionary theory.The Tsang lab askes and researches questions such as, How does temperature warming affect community-level nutrient availability, biomass, productivity, and adaptation? How do aquatic communities 'adapt' to warming? What is the relative importance of evolutionary adaptation vs. species turnover?(UBC, nd). She has 26 publications covering various topics in insects and evolution (research gate, 2021) . She has published research such as Species interactions mediate thermal evolution, Predators modify the evolutionary response of prey to temperature change and The effect of parasitism and interpopulation hybridization on Aedes albopictus fitness (UBC, nd). She continues to put her future work into her lab and research at UBC.