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Dr. Rees Kassen is Full
Professor and University Research Chair in Experimental Evolution at the
University of Ottawa 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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Dr. Felipe Dargent Felipe is an evolutionary ecologist interested in how evolution in complex communities influences adaptation. He is particularly interested in how host-parasite interactions change in the context of other species. Felipe’s work is currently funded through a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship (NSERC). |
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Dr. Sonal Shewaramani (Postdoctoral Researcher)
Sonal is currently investigating the role of oxidative stress in the adaptation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to the cystic fibrosis lung. |
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Partha Chakraborty (Ph.D. Student)
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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Bridget Price-Roberts (4th Year Honours Student)
Bridget is studying the fitness of Pseudomonas fluorescens in the presence of soil. |
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Roxanne Theresa Garaszczuk (4th Year Honours Student)
Roxanne is studying the metabolic diversification of Pseudomonas aeruginosa evolved in environments that mimic the nutritional composition of the cystic fibrosis (CF) lung. This study aims to examine the potential for nutritional composition of the CF lung to act as a driving force for resource-based diversification in the development of chronic infections. |
Lab Alumni
Susan Bailey - Postdoctoral Fellow, Aarhus University, Denmark
Lindsey Cameron-Dermann
Jonathan Dench
Jeremy Dettman
Danna Gifford - Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Susanne Kraemer - Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Edinburgh
Barbara Kubica - Ph.D. Candidate, University of Calgary
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
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
