Professor and Concordia University Research Chair in Microbial Engineering and Synthetic Biology, Biology

Biography    Teaching activities    Selected publications   

Education

PhD (Boston University)
Postdoctoral Fellow (University of Massachusetts-Boston)
Izaak W. Killam Postdoctoral Fellow (University of Alberta)

Research interests

Evolutionary Genomics, Microbiomics, Molecular Systematics, Population Genetics, Phylogeography, Biodiversity Conservation

My research program is aimed at gaining insights into the processes underlying the evolutionary origin and maintenance of biological diversity with specific focus on the ecology, evolution and genomics of forest trees. Understanding these processes provides the necessary basis for the development of sound conservation and sustainable management strategies for forest and agricultural areas. Current research projects in my laboratory include studies in forest tree community assembly, population genetics and microbiomics of tropical and temperate forest trees and crop plants.

Associate editor

BOTANY (Formerly Canadian Journal of Botany)

Council Member

Shastri Indo Canadian Institute
http://www.shastriinstitute.org/

Member

Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Sciences

Global Forest Biodiversity Initiative

2020 -

Chair (H.O.D.), Biology Department

Board of Governors, Concordia University

Senate, Concordia University

2017-2018

Chair -Interim, Biology Department

2010-2016

Director, Graduate Program in Biology

2008-2010

Director, Graduate Diploma in Biotechnology and Genomics

2006-2008

Honors Program Advisor, Biology Department

Current

BIOL225  Form and Function of Organisms
 
BIOL340  Plant Biology

BIOL452  Population and Conservation Genetics

Past

BIOL208 Environmental Biology

BIOL466 Advanced Techniques in Molecular Biology

BIOL490 Independent Study

BIOL508 Ecology for Environmentalists

BIOL511 Structural Genomics

BIOL516 Projects in Biotechnology

BIOL602 Molecular Phylogenetics

BIOL670 Scientific Communication