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Faculty members

  • Christopher L Brett
    • Professor, Biology
    • Co-Director, Centre for Microscopy at Concordia
    • Concordia University Research Chair in Applied Cell Science
    Research areas: Fundamental lysosome biology and its role in aging; Engineered extracellular vesicles for therapeutic applications
  • Grant E Brown
    • Professor , Biology
    Research areas: Behavioural ecology, Chemical ecology, Predator-prey interactions, Cognitive ecology, Trinidadian guppies, Atlantic salmon, Convict cichlids
  • Selvadurai Dayanandan
    • Professor, Department of Biology
    • Associate Dean - Research and Infrastructure, Faculty of Arts and Science
    Research areas: Evolution and maintenance of biodiversity in forest and agricultural landscapes
  • Emma Despland
    • Professor, Biology
    Research areas: Individual behaviour in insect-plant interactions, and its role in population-level processes
  • Marie-Julie FavĂ©
    • Full-time Faculty, Biology
    Research areas: Computational Genomics, Human medical genetics, population genetics, human evolutionary genomics
  • Ian Ferguson
    • Senior Lecturer, Biology
    Research areas: My background is in evolutionary ecology, specifically the evolution of traits constrained by genetic correlations. I currently do not have an active research program, concentrating instead on teaching Introductory Biology (BIOL 201) and some other courses (not accepting graduate students)
  • Dylan Fraser
    • Professor, Biology
    Research areas: Evolutionary applications to conservation biology; climate change adaptation; fisheries and wildlife management; population, conservation and quantitative genetics; fish ecology; interweaving Indigenous knowledge and western science.
  • James W.A. Grant
    • Professor, Biology
    Research areas: The behaviour, ecology and conservation biology of stream-dwelling salmonids.
  • Madoka Gray-Mitsumune
    • Teaching Professor, Biology
    • Co-op Academic Director, Biology
  • Patrick Gulick
    • Professor, Biology
    Research areas: Genomic analysis of environmental stress-tolerance in plants.
  • Brandon Helfield
    • Tier II Canada Research Chair in Molecular Biophysics in Human Health
    • Assistant Professor, Physics
    • Assistant Professor, Biology
  • Rassim Khelifa
    • Assistant Professor, Biology
    Research areas: Global change ecology, Life history evolution, Conservation Biology, Behavioural Ecology, Community Ecology, Environmental Sustainability
  • Elena Kuzmin
    • Assistant Professor, Biology
    • Canada Research Chair Tier 2 in Synthetic and Functional Genomics
    Research areas: Complex Genetic Networks, Cancer Genomics, Large Copy Number Variants, Functional Genomics, Yeast Genetics
  • David H Kwan
    • Professor, Biology
    Research areas: Synthetic biology, chemical biology, enzyme engineering, directed evolution, antimicrobial drug screening
  • Jin Suk Lee
    • Associate Professor , Biology
    Research areas: Signal transduction pathways controlling plant growth and development
  • Jean-Philippe Lessard
    • Professor, Biology
    Research areas: Community ecology and biogeography, Macroecology, Biodiversity, Global Change, Entomology
  • Vincent Martin
    • Emeritus Professor, Biology
    Status: No longer accepting students
    Research areas: Metabolic engineering and synthetic biology
  • Eric Pedersen
    • Associate Professor, Biology
    Research areas: quantitative ecology, fisheries, marine and aquatic community ecology, rapid change in ecosystems, movement ecology, biostatistics
  • Pedro Peres-Neto
    • Professor, Biology
    Research areas: aquatic ecology, fish biology, spatial ecology, community ecology, biodiversity, biostatistics, quantitative ecology
  • Alisa Piekny
    • Professor, Biology
    • Associate Dean Research and Infrastructure, School of Health
    Research areas: cell division, cell migration, gene editing, cancer, drug discovery, nanoparticle uptake
  • Michael Sacher
    • Professor, Biology
    Research areas: Membrane traffic and vesicle recognition in the early secretory pathway, TRAPP-opathies (diseases of TRAPP mutations), TANGO2 function and therapeutics
  • Pascale Sicotte
    • Dean, Faculty of Arts and Science
    • Professor, Biology
  • Nicola S Smith
    Research areas: Marine invasions, climate change effects on marine systems, and their interaction with implications for ocean sustainability. Human-drivers of ecological change on coral reefs.
  • Adrian Tsang
    • Professor and Director, Center for Functional and Structural Genomics, Biology
    Research areas: Structural and functional genomics of filamentous fungi; identification and production of enzymes with biomass conversion or antimicrobial activities; analysis of gut microbiomes of livestock animals to improve gut health; and development of fungal platforms for the biomanufacturing of extracellular enzymes and metabolites.
  • David Walsh
    • Professor, Biology
    Research areas: Microbial ecology of aquatic ecosystems; climate change and the oceans; environmental genomics and proteomics of natural microbial communities; microbial evolution
  • Robert Weladji
    • Professor, Biology
    • Graduate Program Director, Biology
    Research areas: Behavioural ecology of large herbivores, life history strategies and evolutionary ecology, population ecology, population dynamics, terrestrial ecosystems ecology, wildlife conservation and management, wildlife ecology, welfare of captive wildlife.
  • Malcolm Whiteway
    • Professor Emeritus (retired), Biology
    Research areas: Genetics and genomics of the fungal pathogen Candida albicans
  • William Zerges
    • Professor, Biology
    Research areas: Molecular mechanisms underlying the biogenesis of the thylakoid membrane compartment in the eukaryotic alga Chlamydomonas reinhardti
  • Carly Ziter
    • Assistant Professor, Biology
    Research areas: Landscape ecology; ecosystem services; biodiversity science; urban ecology; multifunctional landscapes; forest ecology; land-use legacies; sustainability