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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

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).

Will Jarvis, PhD candidate (e-mail)
Will 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), and is also exploring how CHCs evolved in an evolution experiment testing reinforcement that was performed in Kelly Dyer's lab (UGA).

Tristan Ducharme, MSc candidate (e-mail)
Tristan came to us from a undergraduate degree at the Univerity of Toronto. For his MSc, he is studying the quantiative genetics of behaviour in Drosophila. In particular, he studying indirect genetic effects in male terrirotiality, and is working on designing a high-throughput phenotyping system that will allow him to quantify the effect of varying resource size on the magnitude and nature of IGEs. It's a cool project! Tristan is co-supervised by Vincent Careau (uOttawa).

Cameron Kendrick, MSc candidate (e-mail)
Cameron did his undergraduate degree here at uOttawa and decided to stay for a MSc, which we're very happy about! His project is addresses the alignment of natural and sexual selection, testing whether adaptation to abiotic environments confers greater reproductive success on males. He is taking advantage of some of the populations from a long-term evolution experiment we have been running in D. melanogaster.

Howard Rundle IV, Principal investigator (he/him; 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.

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Current undergraduates
Tia Chen (part-time lab assistant)
Angelina Chiha (honours)
Tom Lorenz (honours)
Shikshita Singh & Spurgeon Matta (work-study students)
​Christopher Junop (Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program)

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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
Chris Angell (PhD, 2016-2021)
Kevin Kwok (PhD, 2015-2021)
Mathieu Videlier (PhD, 2016-2021; joint with V. Careau)
Li Yun (MSc 2014-2016; joint with A. Agrawal)
Amardeep Singh (MSc. 2014-2015; joint with A. Agrawal)
Corey Grodfrey (MSc, 2013-2017)
Julie Colpitts (MSc, 2013-2015)
Mathieu Oudin (MSc, 2012-14)
Alison White (MSc, 2011-13)
Devin Arbuthnott (PhD, 2009-14)
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)