Past Members

Post-doc

• Dr. Ryan Franckowiak – Adaptive landscape genomics of Arctic seabirds
• Dr. Becky Taylor – Parallel divergence by allochrony and cryptic speciation in two highly pelagic seabird species complexes (Hydrobates spp.)
• Dr. Deborah Leigh – Genomics of adaptation in Arctic seabirds
• Dr. Anna Tigano – Local adaptation and adaptive potential of the Thick-billed and Common Murre
• Dr. Gabriela Ibarguchi – Phylogeography of South American Seed Snipes
• Dr. Theresa Burg – Population differentiation of birds in Haida Gwaii
• Dr. Karen McCoy– Co-evolution of kittiwakes and thier ticks
• Dr. Brad Congdon – Evolutionary genetics and conservation of marbled murrelets

PhD

• Drew Sauve – Ecological and evolutionary impacts of climate change on early life growth in seabirds
• Becky Taylor – Parallel divergence by allochrony and cryptic speciation in two highly pelagic seabird species complexes (Hydrobates spp.)
• Anna Tigano – Local adaptation and adaptive potential of the thick-billed and common murre
• Raphael Lavoie – Mercury biotransport via migratory birds and food web biomagnification influenced by geospatial patterns (co-supervisor: Linda Campbell)
• James Andrew Morris-Pocock – Phylogeography of Brown (Sula leucogaster) and Red-Footed Boobies (S. sula)
• Scott Anthony Taylor – Speciation with gene flow in Blue-Footed and Peruvian Boobies
  Andrea Smith – Evolutionary genetics of storm petrels (Oceanodroma castro)
• Tammy Steeves – Evolutionary genetics of boobies (Sula spp.)
• Karen Holder – Evolutionary genetics of rock ptarmigan (Co-supervised with Bob Montgomerie)

MSc

• Heather Lounder – Machine Learning and Genomics: Using a Novel Neural Network for Population Assignment of Threatened Seabird the Leach’s Storm-Petrel
• Gihyun Yoo – Genomic basis of parallel allochronic divergence in band-rumped storm-petrels (Hydrobates spp.)
• Heather Vanderlip – Assessing the effects of international bans on trends of persistent flame retardants in herring gulls
• Maleeka Thaker – Assessing and reducing bird-window collision risk on the Queen’s University main campus
• Emma Lachance-Linklater –
• Lila Colston-Nepali – Can genomic tools aid conservation of an arctic seabird, the northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis)?
• Katie Birchard – Using population genomics to disentangle the evolutionary history and conservation of the Leach’s Storm-petrel species complex (Hydrobates spp.)
• Russell Turner – Getting one’s ducks in a row: conservation units of common eiders (Somateria mollissima) throughout North America
• Drew Sauve – Phenotypic plasticity drives phenological change in an arctic seabird(Cepphus Grylle Mandtii)
• Nate Clark – Patterns of genetic differentiation and trans-Atlantic migration in a temperate seabird (Morus Bassanus)
• Bronwyn Harkness – An assessment of population genetic structure in Guillemots (Cepphus)
• Sarah Wallace – Characterizing the population genetic structure of Cassin’s auklet
• Petra Deane – Evolution of sympatric seasonal populations among colonies of the band-rumped storm petrel
• Roger Bull – Population differentiation of birds in the Queen Charlotte Islands
• Joseph Brown – Population differentation in North American peregrine falcons
• Anoma Patirana – Evolutionary genetics of kittiwakes
• Lisa Veit – A test of the source/sink model of migration in cerulean warblers
• Hollie Walsh – Mechanisms of speciation in least and crested auklets (Aethia spp.)
• Gabriela Ibarguchi – Kin groups and genetic structure in thick-billed murres
• Monica Kidd – Population genetic variation in guillemots

Honours BSc

• Eva Burguete-Innocente – Is there a genomic basis to cholera resistance vs. susceptibility in eider ducks?
• Kerry Roe – Major Histocompatibility Complex Class II diversity and hatchling survival in the Eastern loggerhead shrike (Lanius ludovicianus migrans)
• Molly Langabeer – Demographic Reconstruction of High- and Low-latitude Populations of Black Guillemots
• Alyssa Green – Is there a genetic basis for ‘pace of life’ in kittiwakes?
• Dominique Charland – 
• Kaitlyn Liew – 
• Jordan Rutherford – 
• Miriam John –
• Haley Turcotte –
• Ferris Nowlan –
• Jameel Premji –
• Emma Lachance Linklater – Variation in genes related to immunity black guillemots
• Samantha McCaul – Variation in genes related to immunity black-legged kittiwakes
• Spencer Kalan – Variation in genes related to immunity in thick-billed murres
• Katie Birchard – Latitudinal variation of BMAL1 in band-rumped storm-petrel
• Lila Colston-Nepali – Hybridization between thick-billed and common murres in the Atlantic
• Hannah Driver – Latitudinal variation of BMAL1 in leach’s storm-petrel
• Dami Ademidun – Period variation in Leach’s storm-petrels
• Bronwyn Harkness – Period variation in band-rumped storm-petrels
• Eric Saulnier – Hemoglobin evolution in the Alcidae
• Drew Sauve – Variation in candidate genes associated with migration and aggression in bluebirds
• Shima Shakory – Population genomics of razorbills
• Ian Burns – Variation in genes related to immunity in thick-billed murres
• Danielle Rusheleau – Variation in genes related to immunity in black-legged kittiwakes
• Vanessa Hrvatin – Variation in genes related to immunity in herring gulls
• Austin Morrin – Clock gene variation in Leach’s storm-petrel
• Erin Chown – Clock gene variation in the band-rumped storm-petrel
• Sarah Wallace – Phylogenetics of the Hydrobatinae
• Kimberley Lemmen – Haida Gwaii as a galcial refugia
• Samantha Patterson – Phylogenetics of the Sulidae
• Laura Maclagan – Population genetics of blue-footed boobies
• Petra Deane – Conservation genetics of cerulean warblers
• Anna Baillie – Population differentation in Leach’s storm-petrels
• Andre McCracken – Phylogeography of orange-crowned warblers
• Previn Gulavita – Phylogeography of Leach’s storm-petrels
• Anne MacDonald – Conservation genetics of Xantu’s murrelets
• Jaclyn Bowen – Phylogeography of gannets
• Chris Lorenz – Conservation genetics of Kittlitz’s murrelets
• Ryan Germain – Plumage variation and parenting in American red-starts
• Katherine Lafranier – Hybridization in sunfish
• Daniel MacKinnon – Population differentation in Kittlitz’s murrelets
• Shawn Garner – Population genetics of African lungfish
• Sandeep Girn – Population differentiation in brown creepers
• Matthew Atkey – Population differentiation in Leach’s storm petrels
• Alice Wan – Population differentiation in blue-eyed shags
• Joseph Brown – Molecular systematics of parrots
• Michael Kim – Population differentiation in red-footed boobies
• Sherri Leung – Hybridization and introgression in murres
• Heather McNally – Population differentiation in brown boobies
• Sarah Corbett – Population genetics of blue-eyed shags
• Nicholas Pacheco – Hybridization and introgression in Brachyamphus murrletes
• Veronica Poland – Population genetics of pigeon guillemots
• Emily Croteau – Heterozygosity and disease resistance in tree swallows
• Susanne Millard – Morphological variation among cerulean warblers
• Rebecca Pearce – Population differentiation in ancient murrelets
• Anoma Patirana – Population differentiation in common murres
• Jesse Wood – Population differentiation in ancient murrelets
• Vinay Lodha – A test of sympatric speciation in Maderian storm-petrels
• Hollie Walsh – A phylogenetic analysis of the auklets
• Sylva Donaldson – A phylogenetic analysis of Amazon parrots
• Shane Doran – Population differentiation in blue-eyed shags