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I am from the small town Douglas in the heart of the Ottawa Valley, Ontario, Canada. It was here in the rivers, streams and marshes of Renfrew County that I first thought I wanted to be a biologist - it was as a volunteer in Costa Rica in 1991 with Youth Challenge International that I knew. My research today is informed by, and about, each place. I obtained a B.Sc. (Hons) and an M.Sc. (1998) in Biology from Trent University in Peterborough Ontario, and then moved to Montreal, Quebec for my Ph.D. (2004) at McGill University. I received an FQAR Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the Quebec provincial government that I took to the University of Guelph, and in 2008 was hired as an assistant professor in Molecular Ecology at the University of Guelph. As a biologist, it is important to me to work in both the field and laboratory to integrate field and molecular biology into questions of ecological and evolutionary importance to conservation. I am currently working on multiple projects that examine how biodiversity and phylogenetic community structure are changed across natural and anthropogenic gradients, the co-evolutionary ecology of host/parasitoid/symbiont relationships and the phylogeography of both insects and amphibians.
EDUCATION
PhD McGill University 2004 (David M. Green) "Spatial Ecology of Bufo fowleri"
MSc Trent University 1998 (Michael Berrill and Carolyn Kapron) "Estimating photolyase activity for seven amphibian species from south-central Ontario"
BSc Trent University 1996 "Bacterial fitness and plasmid loss: the importance of culture conditions and plasmid size"
I am from the small town Douglas in the heart of the Ottawa Valley, Ontario, Canada. It was here in the rivers, streams and marshes of Renfrew County that I first thought I wanted to be a biologist - it was as a volunteer in Costa Rica in 1991 with Youth Challenge International that I knew. My research today is informed by, and about, each place. I obtained a B.Sc. (Hons) and an M.Sc. (1998) in Biology from Trent University in Peterborough Ontario, and then moved to Montreal, Quebec for my Ph.D. (2004) at McGill University. I received an FQAR Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the Quebec provincial government that I took to the University of Guelph, and in 2008 was hired as an assistant professor in Molecular Ecology at the University of Guelph. As a biologist, it is important to me to work in both the field and laboratory to integrate field and molecular biology into questions of ecological and evolutionary importance to conservation. I am currently working on multiple projects that examine how biodiversity and phylogenetic community structure are changed across natural and anthropogenic gradients, the co-evolutionary ecology of host/parasitoid/symbiont relationships and the phylogeography of both insects and amphibians.
EDUCATION
PhD McGill University 2004 (David M. Green) "Spatial Ecology of Bufo fowleri"
MSc Trent University 1998 (Michael Berrill and Carolyn Kapron) "Estimating photolyase activity for seven amphibian species from south-central Ontario"
BSc Trent University 1996 "Bacterial fitness and plasmid loss: the importance of culture conditions and plasmid size"
