Biodiversity Research Centre
There are more than sixty members of the Centre. We carry out research on a wide range of topics, including evolution, systematics and phylogeny, population and community ecology, fisheries management, conservation biology, and theoretical modeling.
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Affiliated UBC Faculty & Postdocs
| Name | Role | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Adams, Keith | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Molecular evolution, genome evolution, and gene expression |
| Aitken, Sally | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | forest genetics, climate change, Climate change, conservation, ecology, genetics, genomics |
| Angert, Amy | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Plant biology; Zoology; Biodiversity and Biocomplexity; biogeography; biological responses to climate change; Conservation Biology; Ecological and Ecophysiological Processes; evolutionary ecology; population biology |
| Arcese, Peter | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Global change biology; Ecology; Conservation Biology; Evolutionary Biology; conservation finance |
| Auger-Methe, Marie | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Fisheries sciences; Statistics; Zoology; Animal movement; Polar ecology; Statistical Ecology |
| Aviles, Leticia | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Community ecology (except invasive species ecology); Animal behaviour |
| Berbee, Mary | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Plant biology; Evolution and Phylogenesis; Microorganisms; Taxonomy and Systematics; fungi; molecular phylogenetics; mycology; systematics |
| Brauner, Colin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Gas exchange, ion regulation and acid-base balance in fish, Evolution and comparative physiology |
| Burton, Cole | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Forestry sciences; Ecology and Quality of the Environment; Ecological Trends; Animal; Biodiversity and Biocomplexity; Landscape and Restoration; Environment Management and Protection; Biodiversity conservation; Ecological Monitoring; Landscape ecology; Mammal Ecology; Population and Community Ecology; Wildlife Management |
| Carrillo, Juli | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Plant-insect interactions; Agroecology; Invasive species; evolution; Ecology; community ecology; Environmental Change; Plant evolution; Population Ecology |
| Chan, Kai | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Natural environment sciences; Human Ecology; Ecology and Quality of the Environment; Social and Cultural Factors of Environmental Protection; Applied Ethics; Values and Lifestyles; Sustainable Development; conservation finance; Conservation science; cultural ecosystem services; Ecosystem services; environmental assessment; environmental values; incentive programs; payments for ecosystem services; resilience; social-ecological systems; sustainability science |
| Christensen, Villy | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Fisheries management; Global change biology; Ecosystem function |
| Coops, Nicholas Charles | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Forestry sciences; Telemetry (Remote Sensing, Radar); Space Techniques; Forestry Technology and Equipment; Plants and Forests |
| Cronk, Quentin Charles | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Comparative genomics, molecular developmental biology and evolutionary biology to study plant form |
| Davies, Jonathan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Phylogenetics & Biodiversity. Development and application of phylogenetic methods in ecology and conservation biology |
| Dempsey, Jessica | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | wrestle with the theoretical and historical-geographical complexities of environmental politics as it shapes and is shaped by the entanglement of state, economy, science, and culture |
| Doebeli, Michael Walter | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Mathematical ecology and evolution, evolution of diversity, adaptive speciation, evolution of cooperation, game theory, experimental evolution in microorganisms |
| Donner, Simon | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Atmospheric sciences; Oceanography; Other media and communication; Climate Changes and Impacts; Climate change science; Climate policy; Coastal Ecosystems; Marine Environment; Prediction and Climatic Modeling; Science communication; Net-zero emissions policy |
| Fast, Naomi | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Genomics, single-celled organisms |
| Gergel, Sarah | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Aboriginal forestry, biodiversity, climate change, communities and livelihoods, conservation, ecology, remote sensing, sustainability |
| Germain, Rachel | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Ecology; evolution |
| Graham, Sean | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Plant phylogenetics; Plant systematics; Plant evolution; Organelles; Phylogenomics; Land plants; Mycoheterotrophs |
| Haney, Cara | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | genetic and metabolic factors that regulate assembly of host-associated microbial communities ( |
| Hardisty, David | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Social sciences; consumer behaviour; sustainability; decisions about the future; product attribute framing; pricing |
| Harley, Christopher | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Fisheries sciences; Zoology; climate change; community ecology; Ecology and Quality of the Environment; marine algae; marine invertebrates |
| Hunt, Brian | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Marine ecology (including marine ichthyology); Biological oceanography; marine food webs; ecosystem oceanography; plankton dynamics; open ocean; Coastal Ecosystems; climate change impacts on the ocean; salmon ecology; food web nutrition; microplastics; stable isotopes; forage fish; zooplankton |
| Irwin, Darren | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Zoology; evolutionary genetics; genomic differentiation; hybridization; ornithology; seasonal migration; speciation |
| Jankowski, Jill | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Ecology |
| Keeling, Patrick John | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Molecular evolution and cell biology of eukaryotes |
| Kremen, Claire | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Natural environment sciences; Zoology; agroecological farming systems; Reconciliation of agricultural land use with biodiversity conservation; sustainable landscapes |
| Leander, Brian | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Plant biology; Zoology; Comparative organismal biology; Evolutionary morphology; Evolutionary protistology; Marine biodiversity; Marine invertebrate zoology; Phylogenetic biology; Species discovery |
| Maddison, Wayne | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Arachnology, Biodiversity, Spiders, Phylogenetic Theory and Programming |
| Mank, Judith | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | evolution; How selection acts on males and females within a species; How the genome responds to contradictory selection to encode sexually dimorphic traits; Sex chromosomes; Gene regulation; Sexual conflict |
| Mansfield, Shawn | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | plant metabolism, cellulose biosynthesis, lignin biosynthesis, wood formation, wood quality, cell wall biochemistry, tree biotechnology, transgenics, Tree biotechnology |
| Marshall, Katie | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Animal physiology, environmental stress; Environmental Change; Marine biodiversity; Population Ecology; invertebrates and temperature adaptation |
| Martone, Patrick | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Plant biology; Protist; Plants; Physiology; Taxonomy and Systematics; Ecology and Quality of the Environment; Evolution and Phylogenesis; Biomaterials; Solid Mechanics; Fluid mechanics; biomechanics; Ecology; evolution; Intertidal Zone; Macroalgae; Phycology |
| Matthews, Benjamin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Genomics; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Zoology; Aedes aeygpti mosquitoes; Arboviral pathogens; Chikungunya; Comparative Physiology; Dengue fever; Genome of mosquitoes; Yellow fever; Zika |
| O'Connor, Mary | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | climate change, ocean, seafood, seagrass, eelgrass, invertebrate, ecology, environment, |
| Otto, Sarah | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | evolution, mathematical modeling, population genetics, genomic evolution, evolution of sex, yeast experimental evolution, Population genetics and evolutionary biology, yeast |
| Parfrey, Laura | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Microbial ecology, microbial diversity, microbiome, protists |
| Pauly, Daniel | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | World fisheries; Marine life; Global catch; Management of fisheries; Fish growth and ecophysiology |
| Richards, Jeffrey | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Adaptive significance of the mechanisms coordinating cellular responses to stress |
| Richardson, John | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Natural sciences; Ecology; freshwater biology; food webs; streams; forest |
| Rieseberg, Loren | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Bioinformatics; Genomics; Plant biology; adaptation; crops; invasive plants; plant evolutionary biology; speciation; weeds |
| Sayer, Jeffrey | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Forestry sciences; biodiversity; Communities and Livelihoods; Forest policy; Forest conservation in Indonesia; Land-use Change; Reconciling conservation and development in tropical forest landscapes; sustainability; Tropical Landscapes and Livelihoods; Tropical forest conservation |
| Schluter, Dolph | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Biological adaptation; Speciation (evolutionary processes); Natural selection and sexual selection; evolution; Origin of species; evolutionary genetics; Adaptive radiation |
| Schwartz, Naomi Beth | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Social and economic geography; community ecology; Ecosystem Services and Conservation Policy; Environmental Change; GIS; remote sensing; Tropical forest landscapes |
| Srivastava, Diane | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | biodiversity, tropics, Costa Rica, insects, mites, food webs, habitat loss, Community ecology, conservation, how species loss from food webs can affect the way ecosystems function |
| Suttle, Curtis | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Bioinformatics; Fisheries sciences; Immunology; Microbiology; Oceanography; Plant biology; Biological Oceanography; Environmental Virology; Marine Environment; Marine Microbiology; Microbial Diversity; Phage; Viral Discovery; Viruses |
| Trites, Andrew | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | marine mammals, seals, sea lions, whales, dolphins, fisheries competition, population biology, ecology, Marine mamals research centre, biology of marine mammals, population dynamics, bioenergetics, fisheries |