Faculty research areas
Our research fields are grouped into two broad areas of biology:
- Ecology and organismal biology
- Cellular or molecular biology
Research is carried out in the department with the support of industry and of the granting agencies of the provincial and federal governments.
Browse profiles for research specializations
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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 -
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. -
Rassim Khelifa- Assistant Professor, Biology
Research areas: Global change ecology, Life history evolution, Conservation Biology, Behavioural Ecology, Community Ecology, Environmental Sustainability -
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 -
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. -
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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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 -
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 -
Marie-Julie Favé- Full-time Faculty, Biology
Research areas: Computational Genomics, Human medical genetics, population genetics, human evolutionary genomics -
Patrick Gulick- Professor, Biology
Research areas: Genomic analysis of environmental stress-tolerance in plants. -
David H Kwan- Professor, Biology
Research areas: Synthetic biology, chemical biology, enzyme engineering, directed evolution, antimicrobial drug screening -
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 -
Jin Suk Lee- Associate Professor , Biology
Research areas: Plant development, Molecular genetics and biochemistry, Functional genomics, Abiotic stress tolerance, Biotechnology -
Vincent Martin- Emeritus Professor, Biology
Status: No longer accepting studentsResearch areas: Metabolic engineering and synthetic biology -
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 -
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 -
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
