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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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.
Marita El Kadi (Undergraduate Student)
Marita is a fourth-year undergraduate student in the Biomedical Science program at uOttawa. She is working alongside Aaron Hinz to contrast positive and negative SARS-CoV-2 samples, taken overtime from two separate tertiary care hospitals, to determine their differences in microbial community composition structure between COVID versus non-COVID wards. |
Abby Ralalage (Undergraduate Student)
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