LABORATORY OF EVOLUTIONARY & POPULATION GENOMICS

We work on the population and evolutionary genomics of animals (lamprey, fish, mouse and humans) and plants, and, more recently, within the field of human genetic epidemiology. My primary research interest is in how genomes evolve, and how we can use genomic information to infer what is happening to individuals and populations. The current focus of the lab is to understand how gonadal sex determination and differentiation occur in sea lamprey in an effort to contribute to our understanding of the evolution of the HPG axis in an ancient vertebrate and to help develop new biocontrol strategies for this invasive species in the upper great lakes. I do this work both at my home institution (UofW), as well as in collaboration with researchers at the University of Manitoba, the University of Toronto, the Hospital for Sick Children, and others