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Interested in working with us? We are always on the outlook for new undergraduate honours students, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows. Check out the Opportunities link above for more information.

Former PhD student Matthieu Delcourt. Photo by A. Morin.

Current Personnel

Dr. Howard Rundle IV, Principal Investigator (e-mail)
(Yes, I am the fourth Dr. Howard Rundle in the family, although two were only medical doctors.)
Professor, uOttawa (2016);  Canada Research Chair (Tier 2; 2006-2016); PhD, University of British Columbia (2001); MSc, University of British Columbia (1997); Hon. BSc, University of Toronto (1995)

Check out my departmental webpage here (it's not very interesting though).
If you really want to see my CV, you can find a somewhat up-to-date copy here.

Kevin Kwok, PhD candidate (e-mail)
Kevin came to the lab from an MSc out west working with Rob Laird (U. Lethbridge) on inducible defenses in the sunflower, Helianthus annuus. Now that he has seen the entomological light, his PhD is addressing the contribution of male mate preferences to speciation in the D. recens/D. subquinaria system and the evolution of male seminal fluid proteins under treatments that manipulate the opportunity for mate competition.

Li Yun, PhD candidate (e-mail)
Li received his MSc from the U. Toronto during which he started a long-term evolution experiment in D. melanogaster to test the effect of mate competition on adaptation to three different novel abiotic environments using three different mating treatments that manipulated the opportunity for mate competition (i.e . monogamy vs polygamy) and the environment in which mate competition occurs (a small, structurally simple environment vs a larger, structurally more complex environment). Li is continuing to work on these populations for his PhD with the goal of further characterizing the effects of mate competition. Li is co-supervised by Aneil Agrawal (U. Toronto).

Mathieu Videlier, PhD candidate (e-mail)
Matheiu did his undergraduate and MSc in genetics at the Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7, with research stints at both McGill at the U. Chicago thrown in as well. For his PhD at uOttawa he is undertaking a quantitative genetic investigation of sex-specific selection on metabolic traits in a D. melanogaster population adapted to a structurally 'complex' cage environment. Mat is co-supervised by Vincent Careau (uOttawa).

Chris Angell, PhD candidate (e-mail)
Chris arrived in Sept. 2016 and has begun working on a few projects using male antler flies including a study of potential factors impacting actuarial and reproductive senescence in the lab and field, and quantifying sexual selection (as arising from both intra- and intersexual competition) on contact pheromones.

Tania Barrera, PhD candidate (e-mail)
Tania did a one-semester exchange in our lab as an undergraduate in 2017 and then in Sept. 2018 begin a PhD under the joint supervision of myself and Aneil Agrawal (U. Toronto). She is physically based out of Aneil's lab. Her thesis research addresses the evolution of intersexual genetic correlations using populations from a long-term evolution experiment in D. melanogaster.

Will Jarvis, PhD candidate (e-mail)
Will recently arrived from an MSc with Beren Robinson at Guelph looking at habitat and resource use in sunfish.  He's hoping to use natural populations of D. subquinaria to study G-matrix divergence for CHCs (phermones) within the content of character displacement/reinforcement (i.e. between populations that are sympatric vs allopatric with D. recens).

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Current undergraduates
Imani Badji (honours)
Troy Martin (honours)
Matteo Tremblay (honours co-supervised by V. Careau)
Catherine Sow (work-study)
Erica Vong (work-study)

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Lab alumni
Postdoctoral fellows
Nicolas Rode (2012-2014; joint with R. Kassen)
Brian Mautz (2012-2014)
Susan Gershman (2010-12)
David Punzalan (2007-09)
Alex Wong (2008-10; joint with R. Kassen)

Graduate students
Li Yun (MSc 2014-2016; joint with A. Agrawal at U. Toronto)
Amardeep Singh (MSc. 2014-2015; joint with A. Agrawal at U. Toronto)
Corey Grodfrey (MSc, 2013-2017)
Julie Colpitts (MSc, 2013-2015)
Mathieu Oudin (MSc, 2012-14)
Alison White (MSc, 2011-13)
Devin Arbuthnott (PhD, 2009-13)
Jacqueline Sztepanacz (MSc, 2009-11)
Marc Charette (MSc, 2008-10; joint with S. Perry)
Matthieu Delcourt (PhD, 2007-11)
Lucia Kwan (MSc, 2007-09)
Kelsie MacLellan (MSc, 2007-09)