Faculty members
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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 Favé
- 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
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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
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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 studentsResearch 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 -
Nicola S SmithResearch 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.
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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
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Ragai Ibrahim
- Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Biology
Research areas: Cloning of flavonol methyltransferases, their biochemical and molecular characterization, as well as sudying their spatial regulation