Education

• Ph.D. in Water Science, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique - Centre Eau Terre Environnement
• M.Sc. in Biology, Université Laval
• B.Sc. in Biology, Université Laval

Research Interests

Ecology, environmental physiology, ecotoxicology, climate change, multiple stressors

Publications

Couture, P., Fortin, C., Hare, L., Lapointe, D. and Pitre, D. 2011. Critical review of thallium in aquatic ecosystems. INRS - Centre Eau Terre Environnement, rapport de recherche; 1272. (Produced for Environment Canada).

Lapointe, D., Pierron, F., and Couture, P. 2011. Individual and combined effects of heat stress and aqueous or dietary copper exposure in fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas). Aquatic Toxicology. 104: 80-85.

Greco, L., Pellerin, J., Capri, E., Garnerot, F., Louis, S., Fournier, M., Sacchi, A., Fusi, M., Lapointe, D., and Couture, P. 2011. Physiological effects of temperature and a herbicide mixture on the soft-shell clam Mya arenaria (Mollusca, Bivalvia). Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 30(1): 132-141.

Lapointe, D., and Couture, P. 2010. Accumulation and effects of nickel and thallium in early life stages of fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas). Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 73: 572-578.

Lapointe, D., Gentès, S., Ponton, D., Hare, L. and Couture, P. 2009. The influence of prey type on nickel and thallium assimilation, subcellular distribution and effects in juvenile fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas). Environmental Science and Technology. 43(22): 8665-8670.

Lapointe,D.. and Couture, P. 2009. Influence of exposure route on the accumulation and subcellular distribution of nickel and thallium in fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas). Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 57: 571-580.

Sylvestre, E.-L., Lapointe, D., Guderley, H. and Dutil, J.D. 2007. Thermal sensitivity of metabolic rates and swimming performance in two latitudinally separated populations of cod, Gadus morhua L. Journal of Comparative Physiology B. 177: 447-460.

Lapointe, D., Guderley, H. and Dutil, J.D. 2006. Changes in the condition factor have an impact on metabolic rate and swimming performance relationships in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua L). Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. 79(1): 109-119.

Guderley, H., Lapointe, D., Bédard, M. and Dutil, J.D. 2003. Metabolic priorities during starvation: enzyme sparing in liver and white muscle of Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua L. Comparative physiology and biochemistry A.135: 347-356.

Supervisors

Mary C. Fabrizio, Richard W. Brill, Wolfgang K. Vogelbein and David T. Gauthier (Old Dominion University)