Education

2011 - Present           University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.

                                   Doctor of Philosophy, Zoology

                                   Supervisor Dr Dolph Schluter

2008 - 2010               University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C.

                                   Master of Science, Biology

                                   Supervisor Dr John S. Taylor

2004 - 2008               University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C.

                                   Bachelor of Science (with distinction)

                                   Honours Biology, Microbiology Minor

                                   Supervisor Dr John S. Taylor

Fellowships, Scholarships and Awards

2014 University of Washington Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics Scholarship

2014 University of British Columbia, Department of Zoology Graduate Fellowship

2013 University of British Columbia, Department of Zoology Graduate Student Travel Award

2011 University of British Columbia Four Year Fellowship

2011 PGS-D3 National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada Fellowship

2010 International Max Plank Research School for Organismal Biology Fellowship (*Declined)

2009 University of Victoria Graduate Student Fellowship

2009 King-Platt Memorial Award for Research

2008 University of Victoria Graduate Student Fellowship

Research Grants

2014 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Grants-In-Aid of Research Award

2011 Rosemary Grant Award for Graduate Student Research, from the Society for the Study of Evolution

Contributed Presentations

2014

1. 1)SSE, Am Nat and SSB Joint Meeting on Evolutionary Biology, Raleigh, USA.
   

2013

1. 1)FROSpects Genetics and Genomics of Speciation Workshop, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland.
   

2. 2)Okinawa Workshop on Frontiers in Integrative Biology, Okinawa, Japan.
   

3. 3)European Society for Evolutionary Biology. Lisbon, Portugal. Link to video of talk
   

4. 4)UBC, SFU, UVic Ecology and Evolution Retreat, Squamish, Canada.
   

2012

1. 1)Joint Congress for Evolutionary Biology, Ottawa, Canada.
   

2. 2)Seventh International Conference on Stickleback Behaviour and Evolution, Seattle, USA.
   

3. 3)UBC, SFU, UVic Ecology and Evolution Retreat, Squamish, Canada.
   

2011

1. 1)Meeting of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution, Banff, Canada.
   

2. 2)UBC Zoology Graduate Student Symposium, Vancouver, Canada.
   

3. 3)UK 3rd annual RAD meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland.
   

4. 4)UBC, SFU, UVic Ecology and Evolution Retreat, Squamish, Canada.
   

2010

1. 1)Meeting of the Society for integrative & Comparative Biology, Seattle, USA.
   

2. 2)IMPRS symposium, Max Plank Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany.
   

3. 3)Ecological and Evolutionary Ethology of Fishes meeting, Vancouver, Canada.
   

4. 4)UBC, SFU, UVic Ecology and Evolution Retreat, Squamish, Canada.
   

5. 5)UVic Biology Graduate Student Symposium, Victoria, Canada.
   

2009

1. 1)Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, Iowa City, USA.
   

2. 2)SSE, Am Nat and SSB Joint Meeting on Evolutionary Biology, Moscow, USA.
   

3. 3)UBC, SFU, UVic Ecology and Evolution Retreat, Squamish, Canada.
   

4. 4)UVic Biology Graduate Student Symposium, Victoria, Canada.
   

2008

1. 1)UBC, SFU, UVic Annual Ecology and Evolution Retreat, Squamish, Canada.
   

Teaching

2014     Guest Lecturer UBC, Genetics, Evolution and Ecology (Biol 121)

2014     Teaching Assistant UBC, Evolutionary Ecology (Biol 418)

2012     Teaching Assistant UBC, Integrative Biology Laboratory (Biol 342)

2011     Teaching Assistant UBC, Integrative Biology Laboratory (Biol 342)

2010     Teaching Assistant UVic, Animal Behaviour (Biol 345)

2010     Guest Lecturer UVic, Molecular Techniques (Biol 362)

2009     Teaching Assistant UVic, Animal Behaviour (Biol 345)

2009     Teaching Assistant UVic, General Biology (Biol 190B)

2008     Teaching Assistant UVic, Animal Behaviour (Biol 345)