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Dr. Rees Kassen is Full Professor and University Research Chair in Experimental Evolution at McGill University and the author of Experimental Evolution and the Nature of Biodiversity, published by Roberts and Company. In addition to his research, Rees has been active in science policy, having served as co-chair of the Global Young Academy, an international academy of early-career researchers based in Berlin and chair of the Partnership Group for Science and Engineering, an association of 26 professional and scientific organizations acting on behalf of over 50,000 members from academia, industry and government in Canada. Dr Kassen completed his PhD at McGill University and went on to an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship and Elizabeth Wordsworth Research Fellowship at St Hugh’s College, Oxford. He was an NSERC Steacie Fellow in 2010 and a World Economic Forum Young Scientist in 2010 and 2011.
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Dr. Aaron Hinz (Research Associate)
Aaron studies the genetic and molecular mechanisms of adaptation.
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Partha Chakraborty, PhD
Partha recently defended his doctoral thesis! Partha is interested in the emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance in a metapopulation network. He holds a Bachelor's and a Master's in Biochemistry from the University of Calcutta, India. Partha briefly worked on the evolution of dispersal in Drosophila at IISER Pune, and it sparked his interest in the role of gene flow in the dissemination of antibiotic resistance. |
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Alex Hicks, MSc (Lab technican)
Alex completed her MSc in the Kassen lab and now works as a lab technician for the CUBE research group. |
Keaton Sinclair (Master's Student)
Keaton is a Biology Master’s student studying parallel evolution in the genotypes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from the populations developed by fellow lab member Alex Hicks. Keaton graduated from Dalhousie University in 2019 with a Hons. BSc in Biology with a certificate in Genetics.
Keaton is a Biology Master’s student studying parallel evolution in the genotypes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from the populations developed by fellow lab member Alex Hicks. Keaton graduated from Dalhousie University in 2019 with a Hons. BSc in Biology with a certificate in Genetics.
Lab Alumni
Noah Houpt - PhD Candidate, Yale University, USA
Samantha Mallon
Caroline Des Ligneris
Catalina Claus
Yara Nasrallah
Susan Bailey - Postdoctoral Fellow, Aarhus University, Denmark
Lindsey Cameron-Dermann
Jonathan Dench
Jeremy Dettman
Roxanne Theresa Garaszczuk
Danna Gifford - Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Susanne Kraemer - Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Edinburgh
Barbara Kubica
Jean-Nicolas Jasmin - Postdoctoral Fellow, CNRS, Montpellier
Anita Melnyk
Justin Meyer - Assistant Professor, UC San Diego, USA
Alexandra Ostaszewski
Gabriel Perron - Assistant Professor, Bard College, NY, USA
Bridget Price-Roberts
Nicolas Rode - Agreenskins Fellow, INRA, Montpellier, France
Nicolas Rodrigue - Assistant Professor, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Alana Schick
Sijmen Schoustra - Assistant Professor, Wageningen University, Netherlands
Gina Schroeder - Physician
Mariam Taha - Ph. D. Candidate, Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, Canada
Oleksiy Teselkin - Toronto, Ontario
Alex Wong - Assistant Professor, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
