Postdoctoral Fellows

…Fellow, McGill University Google Scholar Baines, Celina Arts & Science PDF, 2021 NSERC PDF McGill, 2021-present Fortin celina.baines@utoronto.ca Barth, Lauren Jackson lauren.barth@utoronto.ca Bartkowska, Maggie Agrawal, Wright Data Scientist, Statistics Canada…

EEB scholars sharing their expertise in the media

Here’s some of what they had to say. November 8, 2023 Chelsea Rochman shares her research on microplastics and the environment. (CTV: The Social) October 26, 2023 Marc Johnson comments…

Congratulations to Dr. Marie-Josée Fortin on the 2025 Konrad Adenauer Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation!

The Humboldt Foundation’s Konrad Adenauer Research Awardhonours researchers from Canada whose fundamental discoveries and insights have had a significant impact on their discipline and beyond, and whose personality and research…

Stephen Wright recipient of the 2023 CSEE President’s Award for Research Excellence

Professor Stephen Wright is the recipient of the 2023 President’s Award for Research Excellence! Stephen is an internationally recognized leader in evolutionary genomics, focused on understanding the processes driving patterns…

In the Media: Researchers discover the oldest species of swimming jellyfish

…million years ago August 2, 2023 | CBC News Oldest adult jellyfish fossil ever found is over 500 million years old. August 2, 2023 | New Scientist Visit: A&S News…

Loss of sharks can have an impact that propagates down the food chain

…as herbivores are critical to the progress and outcome of coral recovery. Media coverage: University of Toronto: www​.news​.utoronto​.ca/​overfishing-​sharks-​harming-​coral-​reefs The Australian (Newspaper): www​.theaustralian​.com​.au/​higher-​education/​shark-​fishers-​deprive-​coral-​of-​an-​ally/​story-​e6frgcjx-​1226722280405 The Guardian: www​.theguardian​.com/​environment/​2013/​sep/​19/​coral-​reefs-​suffer-​hunt-​sharks The Conversation Op-Ed: theconversation​.com/​killing-​sharks-​is-​killing-​coral-​reefs-​too-​18368 Australian…

Continuing in the Darwin tradition – Spencer Barrett and mating-system evolution in a Chinese Primrose

…of South Africa on the evolution of mirror-image flowers funded by the Human Frontiers Scientific Program.   PNAS Profile of Spencer C.H. Barrett (download PDF) PNAS Inaugural Article (download PDF)…

Atwood Colloquium in Ecology & Evolution

…Yale University Learn more Past Keynote Speakers Atwood Lecturer 2024: Mercedes Pascual 2023: Kevin Lafferty 2022: Marlene Zuk 2021: Andrew P. Dobson 2019: Sharon Strauss 2018: Mark Vellend 2017: Butch Brodie…

In the Media: Crawford Lake selected as the Anthropocene Golden Spike candidate 

…July 11, 2023 | THE GLOBE AND MAIL How a lake in Ontario can define our relationship with our planet July 11, 2023 | ROM Canada’s Crawford Lake chosen as…

Art Exhibition: Brazilian Nature

…of one of the first European scientific expeditions to Brazil, led by German botanist Carl von Martius in 1832-1833. It resulted in the largest collection (to this day) of Brazilian…