Graduate Studies
Graduate Contacts
- Ms. Sarah Abbas
biogradrequests@uwo.ca - Dr. James Staples,
Graduate Chair
bgec@uwo.ca - Mrs. Carol Curtis
clcurtis@uwo.ca
Faculty Affiliations - Graduates
The Graduate Program is divided into three general streams, reflecting the basic areas of research emphasis within the Department of Biology: Cell & Molecular Biology; Ecology & Evolution; and Physiology & Biochemistry. New students identify the stream to which they belong at their first advisory committee meeting. As outlined in the Graduate Handbook, proposal assessments and thesis defenses have particular stream requirements for participating faculty. Stream affiliations of Biology faculty (including adjunct and cross-appointed faculty) are indicated below.
Note: * represents Adjunct Faculty, # represents Cross-Appointed Faculty
Ecology and Evolution
| Simon Bonner, PhD # |
Ecological Statistics and Modelling |
| Carrie Branch, PhD# | Communication and cognition in avian systems |
| Brian Branfireun, PhD | Ecohydrology, Biogeochemistry and Wetland Ecosystem Science |
| David Coltman, PhD | Conservation Genetics and Ecological Genomics in Wildlife |
| Irena Creed, PhD | Terrestrial & Aquatic Ecology, Hydrology, Biogeochemistry, Ecosystem Services |
| Hugh Henry, PhD | Plant ecology, Biogeochemistry and Global Change Biology |
| Keith Hobson, PhD | Biological Conservation, Isotope Ecology |
| Nusha Keyghobadi, PhD | Molecular Ecology and Landscape Genetics |
| George Lazarovits, PhD * |
Plant Pathology and Soil Ecology |
| Zoë Lindo, PhD | Community ecology, Soil ecology |
| Fred Longstaffe, PhD # |
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| Natasha MacBean, PhD | Climate-Carbon-Vegetation Interactions and Global Change |
| Beth MacDougall-Shackleton, PhD | Behavioural Ecology and Population Genetics of Songbirds |
| Scott MacDougall-Shackleton, PhD # |
Animal Cognition; Behavioural & Cognitive Neuroscience |
| Jeremy McNeil, PhD | Behavioural and Chemical Ecology of Insects |
| Paul Mensink, PhD | Marine Ecology |
| Amanda Moehring, PhD | Genetics of behaviour and species formation |
| Yolanda Morbey, PhD | Evolutionary ecology of life history timing; Great Lakes fisheries |
| Bryan Neff, PhD | Molecular and Behavioural Ecology |
| Robert Nurse, PhD * |
Weed Management and Ecology |
| Scott Petrie, PhD * |
Waterfowl and Wetlands |
| Ben Rubin, PhD | Forest Ecology and Landscape Pathology |
| Ian Scott, PhD * |
Biochemical Measures of Insect Metabolism |
| Vera Tai, PhD | Microbial Ecology |
| Graeme Taylor, PhD | Evolution, Ecology and the Biomechanics of Animal Design |
| Philip Taylor, PhD * |
Avian Ecology |
| Graham Thompson, PhD | Behavioural Genetics and Sociobiology |
| Greg Thorn, PhD | Fungal Ecology and Systematics |
| Edward Topp, PhD * |
Soil Microbiology |
| Liana Zanette, PhD | Wildlife Population, Conservation, and Behavioural Ecology |
Cell and Molecular Biology
| Ryan Austin, PhD * | Plant Genomics and Bioinformatics |
| Yuhai Cui, PhD * | Plant Molecular Biology; Seed Development |
| Robert Cumming, PhD | Redox Proteomics and Cell Biology |
| Mark Daley, PhD # |
Natural Computing; Mathematical and Computational Modelling of Genetic Systems |
| Sashko Damjanovski, PhD | Extracellular Matrix Remodelling |
| Thomas DeFalco, PhD | Plant molecular biology and cell signalling |
| Sangeeta Dhaubhadel, PhD * |
Plant Molecular Biology, Secondary Metabolism, Transcription Factors |
| Cam Donly, PhD * |
Molecular Biology, Insects |
| Thomas Drysdale, PhD # |
Developmental Biology, Organogenesis |
| Martin Duennwald, PhD# |
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| Mark Gijzen, PhD * |
Soybean Molecular Genetics |
| Miodrag Grbic, PhD | Developmental Bio., Evolution of Developmental Mechanisms |
| Vojislava Grbic, PhD | Arabidopsis Developmental Genetics |
| Abdelali Hannoufa, PhD * |
Functional Genomics, Secondary Metabolism and Metabolic Engineering |
| Kathleen Hill, PhD | Mutation Analysis, Genome Organisation and Integrity |
| Jim Karagiannis, PhD | Molecular Biology and Genetics of Cell Division |
| Bogumil Karas, PhD# | Synthetic biology, genome engineering |
| Greg Kelly, PhD | Cell Signaling in Vertebrate Embryos |
| Susanne Kohalmi, PhD | Gene Families and Regulation |
| Shengwu Ma, PhD * |
Production of Edible Vaccines from Plants for Immunotherapy |
| Rima Menassa, PhD * |
Plant Molecular Biology |
| Joshua Pemberton | Eukaryotic Cell Biology– Organelle Dynamics, Membrane Trafficking, and Lipid Metabolism |
| Anthony Percival-Smith, PhD | Molecular Mechanisms of Morphogenesis |
| Michael Pyne, PhD | Synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, natural products |
| Anne Simon, PhD | Genetics of Social Behaviour |
| David Smith, PhD | Genome evolution and genetic diversity of microbial eukaryotes |
| Krzysztof Szczyglowski, PhD * |
Plant Genomics & Symbiotic Development in Legumes |
| Lining Tian, PhD * |
Plant Molecular Biology and Plant Biotechnology |
| Alexander Timoshenko, PhD | Cell Biology, Glycobiology, and Galectins |
| Aiming Wang, PhD * |
Plant Genomics, Plant Molecular Biology & Plant Molecular Virology |
Physiology and Biochemistry
| Mark Bernards, PhD | Plant Secondary Metabolism |
| Peter Chidiac, PhD # |
Regualtion and Function of Heterotrimeric G Proteins |
| Christopher Guglielmo, PhD | Animal Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology |
| Sheila Macfie, PhD | Mechanisms of Metal Tolerance |
| Frederic Marsolais, PhD * |
Protein Chemistry |
| Natasha Mhatre, PhD | Biophysics of Sound and Vibration Communication |
| Timothy Regnault, PhD |
Impact of oxygenation across the life course |
| Brent Sinclair, PhD | Insects at Low Temperatures |
| Jim Staples, PhD | Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry |
| Raymond Thomas, PhD | Lipid metabolism and food systems |
| Danielle Way, PhD | Global Change Biology, Plant Physiology and Ecology |
