Faculty members
Department Chair
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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
Full-time
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Isabelle Benoit Gelber- Associate Professor, Biology
Research areas: Filamentous fungi; Genomics; Molecular Microbiology; Microbial interactions; Natural Products/Secondary Metabolites -
Christopher L Brett- Professor, Biology
- Director, Centre for Microscopy and Cellular Imaging
Research areas: Applied Synthetic Biology, Biotechnology, Exosomes, Drug Delivery, BioFoundry, Bioprocessing, Extracellular Vesicles for Health Applications, Applied Biosciences -
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- Teaching Professor, 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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Rassim Khelifa- Assistant Professor, Biology
Research areas: Global change ecology, Life history evolution, Conservation Biology, Behavioural Ecology, Community Ecology, Environmental Sustainability -
Elena Kuzmin- Associate 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: Plant development, Molecular genetics and biochemistry, Functional genomics, Abiotic stress tolerance, Biotechnology -
Jean-Philippe Lessard- Professor, Biology
Research areas: Community ecology and biogeography, Macroecology, Biodiversity, Global Change, Entomology -
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 -
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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. -
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. -
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
Cross-appointees
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Anan Chen- Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research areas: Virology and Cell Biology, RNA Virus Replication Organelles, Double-Membrane Vesicles, Molecular Pores -
Brandon Findlay- Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research areas: Antibiotics, antimicrobial resistance, drug discovery, natural products, directed evolution, biochemistry, microbiology. -
Jochen A. G. Jaeger- Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: Landscape ecology, including road ecology, Quantification and assessment of landscape structure and landscape change, Urban sprawl, Ecological modelling, Impact assessment. -
Paul Joyce- Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research areas: Biochemistry, Genomics, Proteomics, Molecular/Cell Biology. -
Nawwaf Kharma- Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research areas: Evolutionary Algorithms (for search & optimization); Machine Learning (for prediction & design); Synthetic Biology (particularly, ribozyme design for gene silencing and RNA circularization). -
Steve C. C. Shih- Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research areas: microfluidics, synthetic biology, automation, energy, health
Affiliated faculty
Ehab Abouheif
- Qiushi Chair Professor from Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China)
Research areas: Abouheif’s research played a role laying the foundations for the interdisciplinary field of eco-evo-devo (ecological evolutionary developmental biology). By uncovering the rules through which genes, development, and environment interact to influence evolutionary change, Abouheif is leading a paradigm shift in the biological sciences that has important implications for medicine, biodiversity conservation and animal/plant breeding.
Tonia De Bellis
- Professor, Program Coordinator of Environmental Science, Dawson College
Research areas: Community ecology; plant–fungal interactions; effects of environmental change on soil microbial communities; and the application of eDNA and bioinformatics approaches to characterise biological communities.
Louis Lazure
- Scientific Coordinator, Zoo de Granby
Research areas: Animal cognition and behaviour; mammal ecology and conservation; welfare of captive wildlife; human-wildlife coexistence.
James Grace
- Affiliate professor
Research areas: ecosystem, ecology, causal methods, plant ecology, wetland ecology
Part-time
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Catherine Calogeropoulos
- Part-time Faculty, Biology
- Part-time Faculty, Geography, Planning and Environment
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Andrew Wieczorek
- Part-time Faculty, Biology
- Course Coordinator UNSS201 Student Success Center
Technical staff
Emeritus
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Patrick Gulick- Professor, Biology
Research areas: Genomic analysis of environmental stress-tolerance in plants. -
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Vincent Martin- Emeritus Professor, Biology
Status: No longer accepting studentsResearch areas: Metabolic engineering and synthetic biology -
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. -
Malcolm Whiteway- Professor Emeritus (retired), Biology
Research areas: Genetics and genomics of the fungal pathogen Candida albicans
