Catherine Reeve is a PhD candidate at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. A childhood love for all animals lead her to the academic study of animal behaviour. She completed her undergraduate degree at Saint Mary’s University, where she studied paternity and provisioning in European Starlings under the supervision of Dr. Colleen Barber and Dr. Maryanne Fisher. She then completed her master’s degree researching perceptual cognition in Sumatran Orangutans with Dr. Suzanne MacDonald at York University. She is now completing her PhD in the Canid Behaviour Research Lab under the supervision of Dr. Simon Gadbois, and her research is focused on whether dogs with no previous sniffer dog training can be trained to detect hypoglycemia in breath samples obtained from individuals with Type 1 Diabetes. Her lecture is: Dogs as Detectors of Disease