Principal Investigator
Darren Irwin (email) (download CV)
Graduate Students
Rashika Ranasinghe (PhD candidate)
Caleigh Charlebois (PhD candidate)
Claudie Pageau (PhD candidate)
Finola Fogarty (PhD student)
Lab Alumni
Postdoc alumni:
Dr. Armando Geraldes (now Research Scientist, UBC Zoology)
Dr. Christine Grossen (postdoctoral researcher, 2013-2014; now Independent Group Leader, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Dr. Miguel Alcaide (postdoctoral researcher, 2011-2014; now Senior Molecular Diagnostics Scientist, SAGA Diagnostics, Lund, Sweden)
Dr. Sampath Seneviratne (postdoctoral researcher, 2009-2012; now Professor, Department of Zoology & Environment Sciences, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka)
Dr. Alex Rubtsov (visiting postdoctoral researcher, 2005-2006; now Head of Research Department, State Darwin Museum, Moscow, Russia)
PhD alumni:
Kenny Askelson (PhD 2024, now a postdoc in the Michael Smith Labs, UBC)
Libby Natola (PhD 2023, now Research Scientist with the Hakai Institute)
Dr. Saminda Fernando (PhD 2020; co-advised with Dr. Sampath Seneviratne; now
Senior Lecturer, The Open University of Sri Lanka)
Dr. Silu Wang (PhD 2019; now starting as Assistant Professor at the University at Buffalo)
Dr. Kira Delmore (PhD 2015; now Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University) **Received Faculty of Science Graduate Prize for Best PhD Dissertation in UBC Science, and Milsom Prize for Best PhD Dissertation in UBC Zoology
Dr. David Toews (PhD, 2014; now Assistant Professor at Pennsylvania State University)
Dr. Julie Lee-Yaw (PhD, 2013; now Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa)
Dr. Alan Brelsford (PhD, 2010; now Assistant Professor at Univ. of California Riverside)
Dr. Andrew Rush (graduate student, 2005-2007; completed PhD program at UC Berkeley; now Continuing Lecturer, UC Berkeley)
MSc alumni:
Ellen Nikelski (MSc, 2021; now in PhD program at University of Toronto Scarborough)
Maddie Ore (MSc, 2019; and now in PhD program at Cornell University)
Kenny Askelson (MSc, 2018; continued to a PhD–see above)
Alison Porter (MSc, 2015; now in law school at University of Ottawa)
Cheng Chen (MSc, 2017; co-advised by Jedediah Brodie and Darren Irwin)
Haley Kenyon (MSc, 2013; now PhD student at Queen’s Univ.)
Katie Kuker (MSc, 2008; co-advised by Lance Barrett-Lennard; now a Senior Consultant at Environmental Resources Management)
Dr. David Toews (MSc, 2007; went on to do PhD–see above)
BSc alumni
Quinn McCallum (NSERC USRA, 2019; Honours project, 2019-2021; now a PhD student at Louisiana State University)
Annegret Liederbach (Honours project, 2016-2018; now a postdoc at Kyoto City Zoo)
Else Mikkelsen (Honours Project, 2016-2018; now PhD student at University of Toronto Scarborough)
Stephanie Cavaghan
Michelle Chen (Honours project, 2012-2014)
Jamie Clarke
Alana Demko
Julian Heavyside
Haley Kenyon (Honours project, 2009-2010; continued as MSc student–see above)
Kristen Haakans
Mehdi Khadraoui
Nina Lobo
Christie Macdonald
Jacqueline Mackenzie
Matthew Osmond
Margarita Pacis
Thomas Pierce
Matt Robinson
Talia Sechley