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MCGILL UNIVERSITY
ANNUAL REPORT
PAUL F. LASKO
CHAIR
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................................................. 6
REVIEW OF PROGRESS AND PLANS OBJECTIVES AND THEIR ATTAINMENT .....................................7 HIGHLIGHTS.. ............................................................................ ..8 UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE TEACHING...................8 RESEARCH............................................................................................ 8 COLLABORATION WITHIN McGILL................................................ 9 COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT ....................................................... 10 PHYTOTRON SUMMARY 2008/09.................................................. 11 DEPARTMENTAL SAFETY COMMITTEE..13
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REQUIRED INFORMATION LIST OF STAFF ................................................................................... 15 AND THEIR RESEARCH INTERESTS ............................................. 15
B.1.a. FULL-TIME ACADEMIC STAFF B.1.b. ASSOCIATE MEMBERS, ADJUNCT PROFESSORS AND THEIR RESEARCH INTERESTS ............................................. 21 B.1.c. FULL TIME ADMINISTRATIVE AND CLERICAL STAFF............ 25 B.1.d. TECHNICAL STAFF ........................................................................... 25 B.1.e. FULL-TIME RESEARCH ASSISTANTS ........................................... 26 B.2. B.3. B.4. B.5. B.6. COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS 2008/0927 POST-DOCTORAL SCHOLARS ........................................................ 29 PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATES, RESEARCH ASSOCIATES ........ 30 HONOURS, AWARDS AND POSITIONS IN LEARNED AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES................................................... 31 CONSULTING BY FULL-TIME ACADEMIC STAFF ..................... 36
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION COURSES TAUGHT IN 2008/09 ............................................. 38 ENROLLMENT IN THREE-CREDIT COURSES IN 2004/05 - 2008/09 ....................................................................... 40 UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ENROLLMENT IN BIOLOGY PROGRAMS 2004/05 - 2008/09 ............................ 40 UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE WEIGHTED STUDENT UNITS (WSU) IN RELATION TO NUMBER OF FULL TIME FACULTY MEMBERS. . ............................. 41
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TOTAL NUMBER OF BIOLOGY B.Sc. DEGREES AWARDED IN EACH ACADEMIC YEAR AND THE PERCENTAGE OF BIOLOGY AND FACULTY OF SCIENCE UNDERGRADUATES AWARDED HONOURS AT JUNE CONVOCATION........... 42
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS 2008/09 ............ 43 APPLICATIONS FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS 2004/05-2008/09 ........................................................................ 44 CITIZENSHIP OF GRADUATE APPLICANTS 2006/07 2008/09 ..................................................................... 45 GRADUATE STUDENTS ENROLLED IN BIOLOGY 2003/04 2008/09 .................................................. 46
TABLE 10 - GRADUATE STUDENT ENROLLMENT BY AREA OF SPECIALIZATION FOR 2008/09 ...................................... 47 TABLE 11 - AWARDS TO GRADUATE STUDENTS (RECEIVED IN 2008/09) .......................................................... 48 TABLE 12 - SUMMARY OF GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS ............ 53 TABLE 13 - SUMMARY OF GRADUATE STUDENT FUNDING ............ 55 TABLE 14 - TOTAL INCOMES OF GRADUATE STUDENTS ENROLLED IN BIOLOGY 2004/05 2008/09 ........................ 56 TABLE 15 - LIST OF POST-GRADUATE STUDENTS RECEIVING DEGREES ........................................................... 57 TABLE 16 - DEGREES GRANTED TO GRADUATE STUDENTS IN BIOLOGY 2004/05-2008/09 ................................................ 61 TABLE 17 - CURRENT POSTIONS OF RECENT GRADUATES ............. 62
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TABLE 18 - POSITIONS OF STUDENTS AFTER GRADUATION 2004-2009 .................................................................................. 65 TABLE 19 - NUMBER OF RESEARCH ASSOCIATES AND POST-DOCTORAL SCHOLARS 2004/05-2008/09 ................ 66 TABLE 20 - RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS PER PROFESSOR - 2008/09 ............................................................. 67 TABLE 21 - RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS 2008/09 ............. 75 TABLE 22 - TOTAL VALUE OF RESEARCH GRANTS RECEIVED BY THE BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT STAFF DURING THE PAST FIVE YEARS .................................................................. 76 TABLE 23 - CONSULTATION TABLE 2008/09 ......................................... 77
RELATED DOCUMENTS SUBMITTED SEPARATELY THESIS TITLES OF CURRENT GRADUATE STUDENTS ............ 78 INVITED SEMINAR SPEAKERS 2008/09.87 PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS, BOOKS AND CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS IN 2008.......................................... 96
D.3.1. PUBLICATIONS BY FULL-TIME ACADEMIC STAFF .................. 96 D.3.2. AFFILIATION OF CO-AUTHORS ................................................... 105 D.3.3. REFEREED PUBLICATIONS IN 2008 BY STUDENTS AND POST-DOCTORAL SCHOLARS SUPERVISED BY FACULTY MEMBERS WHO WERE NOT CO-AUTHORS .............................. 112 D.4. INVITED LECTURES, PAPERS PRESENTED AT MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES IN 2008 ........................................................ 113
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I thank Maria Colonna, Anne Comeau, Anna McNicoll, Mark Romer, Luisa Sabaz, Susan Bocti, Ancil Gittens, Susan Gabe, and Zabrina Kadkhodayan for their dedicated assistance in compiling and organizing the information contained in this report.
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A.1. Objectives and their Attainment
The Department of Biology takes responsibility for undergraduate teaching, graduate teaching and research in the life sciences. It is concerned with the fundamental processes common to all living organisms - reproduction, development and evolution - and how these processes influence and are influenced by the physical environment and by other organisms. Unlike life science departments in the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences whose mandate is ultimately applied, members of the Biology Department discover and teach the fundamental principles of the field. Nevertheless, many researchers are involved in practical applications as well. Research and advanced teaching in the Department revolves around several areas, notably, conservation biology, aquatic science, evolutionary ecology, neuroethology, plant biology, molecular evolution, cell biology, developmental genetics, and genomics. Since its foundation, the Department has considered as its mandate to undertake fundamental research of the highest standard, to train graduate students who will continue that tradition of research, and to teach undergraduates to understand the discoveries of modern biology, to appreciate their excitement and the intellectual processes by which those discoveries are made, and to be quantitatively sophisticated and effective communicators in speaking and writing. Our advantages in this pursuit are many. The reputation of McGill and this Department continues to attract, from Quebec and around the world, undergraduate and graduate students that are among the best. We have excellent, committed and productive faculty, many of whom are international leaders in their fields. We also have highly qualified and dedicated administrative and support staff. Teaching loads remain reasonable enough that we can revise our lectures to keep up with our fast moving disciplines and we can engage students in the process of research, especially through smaller upper level lab courses, field courses, seminars, and individual directed research projects. The Department continued to build its network of research collaborations and to attract major funding for its initiatives. Prof. Gonzalez now leads a multi-institutional team that attracted funding ($300,000/yr) from the rgroupement strategique program of FQRNT for a new Centre of Biodiversity Science. This unprecendented collaboration brings together 64 researchers from seven Qubec universities (McGill, Concordia, Laval, Sherbrooke, UQAM, UQAR, Bishops) and one from the Canadian Forestry Service, who will address common research questions fundamental to biodiversity. Funds from this grant will mostly be used to augment our graduate program and provide needed administrative support to the research team. The DBRI has taken occupancy of its new space on the second floor of the Bellini Life Sciences Research Building, with six research groups fully settled there. Two recruitment offers (to Rafael Carazo-Salas and Isaac Edery) remain pending. Prof. Lasko spearheaded an application to the CFI Leading Edge Fund in partnership with the McGill Cancer Centre, the Montreal Neurological Institute, and the Institut de la recherche clinique de Montral (IRCM). This application was successful, and will provide $10.7M for additional cutting-edge imaging, computing, and molecular biology infrastructure for developmental biologists at these four institutions. Biology will deepen its interactions with these institutions through a joint PhD program in Developmental Biology that it will host, and it has appointed several new adjunct and associate members from IRCM, MNI, and MCC to bring this about. While the recruitment packages we can provide are far superior to those of 10 years ago, competition is difficult, especially against research institutes in the US and Europe that can provide substantial ongoing operating funding to their scientists. A peer institution in the US (Baylor College of Medicine) routinely offers start-up packages of $7M in unrestricted funds to mid-career scientists they are attempting to
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recruit. European institutions have also become much more aggressive in their recruiting, and we have lost candidates in recent DBRI searches to ETH Zurich and a new research institute in Barcelona as well as to Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. Also, the increased centralization of the hiring process to the Provosts office has made us much less timely in our responses when negotiating with candidates. Thanks to our success with CFI we are now highly competitive on a worldwide scale in terms of large-scale scientific infrastructure. However, unless compensation and research support policies are derived that are in consonance with the reality elsewhere, and unless we can aggressively sell them in real time, the risk of unsuccessful job searches is substantial.
A.2. Highlights
Many awards were received this year by members of the Biology Department. Prof. Bell was elected President of the Canadian Academy of Science. Prof. Chase was named Professor Emeritus. Prof. Gonzalez was successful in renewing his Canada Research Chair award for another five years. Prof. Hendry won the E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship, Canadas most prestigious award for junior scientists.
authors in 2008 on seven other research articles in journals with Science Citation Index impact factors greater than 10: Developmental Cell (Zetka), Current Biology (Loreau), Journal of Cell Biology (Lasko); Plant Cell (Bureau, Western); and PNAS (Abouheif, Schoen). Many other articles were in other topranked journals such as Development, Ecology, PLoS Genetics, and American Naturalist. The total value of grants from the major funding agencies (NSERC, FQRNT, and CIHR) to the Department increased to $4.07M versus $3.99M in 2007/08 (Table 22). Contract income remained at zero. Total research support fell to $6.84M from $7.18M in 2007/08 reflecting the loss of the contract income and a reduction of CFI funding consequent to a slower pace of hiring. On average, each faculty member held $179,903 in grant and contract support.
Committee on Student Standing. Prof. Schoeck served twice as a pro-Dean and also served as a judge for the 6th Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Symposium. Prof. Western served once as pro-Dean. Prof. Zheng was the host of 15 high school students in the Lets Talk Science program.
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Achievements for this year 1. Laboratories Self-inspections The Department Safety Officer inspected the teaching and research laboratories in Biology during the summer of 2008 and sent a report to each principal investigator who was asked to correct problems that were encountered. Wayne Wood, Manager of the Environmental Health and Safety Office, Gerald Pollack, Building Director, Paul Lasko, Chair, and all the Committee members received a copy of the summary report. 2. Safety Training During the past year, the Department Safety Officer organized and gave three Biology Department Safety Sessions for the newcomers in our department; these sessions do not include WHMIS: a total of 76 people attended. These sessions were given on the following dates: -October 15, 2008 -Speaker: Anna McNicoll -6 participants (2 graduates, 3 undergraduates, 1 principal investigator) -February 04, 2009 -Speaker: Anna McNicoll -36 participants (16 graduates, 14 undergraduates, 2 post-doctoral fellows, 2 research assistants, 1 teaching assistant and 1 principal investigator) -May 13, 2009 -Speaker: Anna McNicoll -34 participants (4 graduates, 26 undergraduates, 2 research assistant, 1 lab assistant and 1 volunteer) 3. Department Safety Committee Meetings The Biology Department Safety Committee met twice during the past year, on the following dates: -November 19, 2008 -April 13, 2009 The minutes of the Committee meetings are available through our Department Safety Officer. At these meetings, the Committee reviewed the latest incident/accident reports; discussed about the most recent EHS lab inspections report and the latest Biology Safety Training Sessions. The Committee also discussed about our past achievements and future objectives and evaluated concerns/enquiries from our department members.
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B.1. LIST OF STAFF B.1.a. Full Time Academic Staff and their Research Interests
PROFESSORS EMERITUS Bussey, Howard, BSc PhD Bristol Yeast genomics. Molecular biology of protein secretion and cell surface assembly in yeast. Chase, Ronald, AB Stanford, PhD MIT Neurobiology, behaviour and reproduction studied in hermaphroditic snails. Neural mechanisms that govern sexual motivation and the movement of gametes. Strategies associated with use of the 'love' dart, and mechanisms responsible for its consequences. Carroll, Robert L., BSc Michigan State, MA PhD Harvard Vertebrate palaeontology. Origin and early evolution of reptiles and amphibians; anatomy and natural history of Paleozoic tetrapods. Long-term evolutionary processes. Kalff, Jacob, MSA Toronto, PhD Indiana Limnology; nutrient and toxin dynamics, macrophyte, microbial, and sediment ecology; predictive limnology; littoral zone-open water, land-water interactions. Lewis, John B., BSc MSc PhD McGill Ecology of corals and coral reefs. Mukherjee, Barid B., BSc MSc Calcutta, MS Brigham Young, PhD Utah Molecular biology of osteopontin, an extracellular matrix cell adhesion protein. Its roles in bone development and oncogenic cell transformation.
PROFESSORS Bell, Graham A.C., BA Phil Oxford Experimental studies of adaptation using yeast, Chlamydomonas and bacteria as model systems. The rate and effect of mutations and the dynamics of selection. Genetic variation and species diversity in environments that vary in space and time, and the evolution of specialists and generalists. Field experiments using genetically well known model organisms. Brown, Gregory G., BSc Notre Dame, PhD City University of New York Organization and expression of plant mitochondrial DNA; cytoplasmic male sterility in plants.
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PROFESSORS (contd) Chapman, Lauren J., BSc University of Alberta, PhD McGill University Aquatic ecology and conservation, evolutionary and ecological consequences of respiratory strategies in fishes, ecophysiology, ecomorphology, adaptive divergence, tropical inland waters, Africa. Recent work focuses on divergent selection across oxygen gradients in fishes, the interaction of hypoxia with other environmental stressors (e.g., introduced species). and value of tropical wetlands in the maintenance of fish faunal structure and diversity. Dhindsa, Rajinder S., BSc MSc Punjab, PhD Washington Molecular stress biology of plants. Low temperature signal transduction, protein phosphorylation, calcium channels, cold-regulated gene expression and freezing tolerance. Hekimi, Siegfried, BA PhD Geneva, Switzerland Molecular genetics of aging. To understand the mechanisms that govern the life span of animals, we use the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as well as mice and human cells in culture to identify and characterize genes that affect physiological rates, including the rate of aging. Kramer, Donald L., BSc Boston, PhD UBC Behavioural ecology in general, including spatial distribution and habitat selection of fishes, foraging and anti-predator behaviour of chipmunks, conservation applications of behavioural ecology. Lasko, Paul, AB Harvard, PhD MIT (Chair) The vasa and Bicaudal-C genes and their functions in establishing polarity in the Drosophila oocyte. The role of RNA helicases in gene regulation. Translation initiation in Drosophila melanogaster. Lechowicz, Martin J., BSc Michigan State, MSc PhD Wisconsin Comparative ecology of temperate and boreal trees, functional ecology of tree growth. Roles of dispersal and adaptation in the assembly of forest understory communities. Impacts of glaze ice on the dynamics of forest tree and herb communities. Physiological ecology of plant fitness, interactions among traits determining plant growth and reproductive success in forest trees, ferns and sedges. Community outreach and forest conservation in settled landscapes. Lefebvre, Louis, BSc MA PhD Montreal Animal behaviour, feeding strategies of flock-feeding birds, social learning. Loreau, Michel, MA, PhD, Free University of Brussels Theory and modelling linking community ecology, evolutionary ecology and ecosystem ecology, in interaction with experimental work on diversified systems. Main research topics include the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, metacommunity dynamics, and evolution of ecosystems Pollack, Gerald, BSc SUNY, MA PhD Princeton Neurophysiological, developmental and anatomical studies of the neural basis for behaviour. Acoustic communication.
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PROFESSORS (contd) Potvin, Catherine, BSc MSc Montreal, PhD Duke Physiological ecology; global change; photosynthesis and productivity; experimental design and biostatistics; conservation biology; tropical ecology. Schoen, Daniel J., BSc MSc Michigan, PhD California Evolution, ecology, and population genetics of plants. Conservation genetics. Application of theory and molecular genetic data to studies in plant evolution.
POST-RETIREMENT PROFESSORS Pasztor, Valerie B.Sc. Birmingham University, Ph.D. McMaster University Neurobiology. Mechanoreceptors in crustacea. Neuropeptides and bioamines. Neuromodulation of sensory receptors. Mechano-sensitive ion channels.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS Bureau, Thomas, BSc California (Irvine), PhD Texas Molecular evolution of genes and genomes, with an emphasis on the involvement of mobile elements in the evolution of developmentally important genes. Determination of the transposition mechanisms of novel mobile elements, including MITEs (miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements). Development of genomics-based approaches to study genome evolution. Examination of the role of retroelement-mediated cellular gene transduction in the evolution of retroviruses. Dent, Joseph, BSc University of Michigan, PhD University of Colorado Molecular genetics of behaviour in C. elegans. Understanding the structure and function of ligand-gated chloride channels, how they are integrated into the synapse, and how they contribute to behavioural circuits. Evolution of channel subunit diversity. Developing new tools for the analysis of nervous systems. Fagotto, Franois, PhD Institute of Zoology, University of Neuchtel, Switzerland Interested in two related subjects. Firstly, the mechanisms regulating signal transduction by catenin, focusing in particular on the role of subcellular localization and trafficking of the various components. Secondly, the integration of cell signaling and regulation of cell adhesion/cytoskeleton during morphogenetic movements, using gastrulating Xenopus embryos as a model system. One of our candidate integrators is catenin, which has a dual function in signaling and cell-cell adhesion. Fussmann, Gregor, PhD Max-Planck-Institute for Limnology, Pln, Germany and University of Kiel, Germany Community ecology. Population and community dynamics; stability and complexity of food webs; the interplay of ecological and evolutionary dynamics; clonal structure of populations. Approach: both theoretical and empirical (laboratory and field experiments with aquatic organisms).
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ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS (contd) Gonzalez, A., BSc, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK, PhD Imperial College, University of London, UK Community ecology through a blend of experiment (both in the lab and in the field) and theory. Two major themes: 1) The causes and consequences of extinction in fragmented landscapes, and 2) Diversity and persistence in variable environments. Guichard, Frdric, BA Universit de Montral, PhD Universit Laval Theoretical ecology and complex system theory applied to intertidal ecosystems and to marine reserve design. Emergence of large scale patterns and dynamics from local interactions among individuals. Multidisciplinary approach involving mathematical modeling, field experiments and remote sensing. Hendry, Andrew P., BSc University of Victoria, PhD University of Washington The evolution of biological diversity: adaptive radiation, ecological speciation, "rapid" evolution, natural selection, and gene flow. Empirical systems include salmon, sticklebacks, and guppies. Methods include surveys of biological diversity, field and laboratory experiments, molecular genetics, quantitative genetics, and theoretical modeling. Levine, Robert, BA Brooklyn, MSc PhD Yale Regeneration in the visual system of lower vertebrates, with special emphasis on glial cells. Axonal pathway choice and target specificity of growing axons. Nilson, Laura, BA Colgate University, N.Y. PhD Yale Developmental genetics in Drosophila melanogaster. Identification and analysis of genes required in the somatic follicle cells of the ovary for patterning of the future embryo. Genetic and molecular analysis of organization and morphogenesis of the ovarian follicular epithelium. Price, Neil, BSc New Brunswick, PhD British Columbia Biological oceanography. Physiological ecology of nutrient acquisition in marine phytoplankton and bacteria. Trace element essentiality, toxicity and biogeochemical cycling. Resource limitation of plankton growth in natural waters. Roy, Richard, BSc Bishops University, PhD Laval The normal development of an organism depends on the precise orchestration of cell division, differentiation and morphogenesis. Although much is understood about how developmental regulatory genes affect cell differentiation, little is understood about how they control cell proliferation throughout development. Using genetic analysis and molecular approaches in C. elegans, the Roy laboratory is engaged in the identification and characterization of both novel and previously known genes which affect cell division throughout the course of postembryonic development in C. elegans. Vogel, Jacalyn M, BS Eastern Illinois University, PhD University of Kansas Research in the Vogel lab focuses on 1) regulation of microtubule organization and assembly, and 2) kinetochore function and cell cycle control/maintenance.
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ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS (contd) Zetka, Monique, BSc PhD British Columbia Proper chromosome morphogenesis is required for the faithful segregation of chromosomes during meiosis and can be readily studied in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. The research goals of my laboratory are to investigate the function and regulation of meiotic chromosome organization using a combination of genetics, molecular biology, and high-resolution cytogenetics.
ASSISTANT PROFESSORS Abouheif, Ehab, BSc Concordia University, PhD Duke University, NC, USA Evolutionary developmental biology: comparative and functional gene expression studies in ants and other insects are used to study the evolution of developmental regulatory genes and gene networks; the importance of ecological influences on development and evolution; and the relationship between molecular and morphological evolution. Brouhard, Gary J., Ph.D., M.S.E., B.S.E., B.A., University ofMichigan, Ann Arbor Cells adopt a range of shapes and can build an amazing variety of structures from proteins. We are interested in the biophysical mechanisms by which cells engineer these large-scale structures-in other words, the molecular basis of morphology. The subject of our current research is the microtubule cytoskeleton. We investigate the proteins that control the microtubule cytoskeleton, namely microtubule polymerases, motor proteins, and other microtubule-associated proteins. The lab uses the techniques of single-molecule biophysics, which shed light on the fundamental workings of these important enzymes. Dankort, David, Ph.D., B.Sc., McMaster University Cancer represents a failure of built-in protection mechanisms to quell rogue cells that have sustained oncogenic mutations. Paradoxically, many of the same mutated oncogenes that cause cancer also elicit a permanent growth arrest (senescence) or induce apoptotic cell death of primary cells: two such oncogenes are RAS and BRAF. One research goal of my laboratory is to determine mechanistically how a tumour cell subverts these growth restraints leading to unbridled proliferation and ultimately malignancy. We will use the power of mammalian genetics in state-of-the-art genetically engineered mouse model and cell culture systems to define causative roles for RAS and BRAF-cooperating genes involved in lung cancer and melanoma developments and progression. Gregory-Eaves, Irene, BSc University of Victoria, PhD Queens University Aquatic ecology and paleoecology. Understanding the responses of aquatic communities to natural and anthropogenic sources of environmental change. Recent and ongoing work is focused on Pacific salmon, examining how these fish respond to environmental variability and how changes in their abundance impact freshwater ecosystems.
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ASSISTANT PROFESSORS (contd) Harrison, Paul M., BSc National University of Ireland, PhD University of London Bioinformatics and computational biology. Genome evolution and annotation; analysis and annotation of pseudogenes and their implications; protein folding, amyloidgenesis and the prion phenomenon; methods for protein structure prediction. Krahe, Rdiger, PhD Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany Neuroethology. Information transmission in sensory systems. Behavioural, electrophysiological, computational, and neuroanatomical studies of electrosensory processing in weakly electric fish. Leung, Brian, BSc University of British Columbia, PhD Carleton University Biological invasions, ecology of diseases, anthropogenic stressors. Addressing environmental issues through the synthesis of models (mathematical, computational, and statistical) with empirical data (literature, field or lab studies). Creating models for ecological forecasting, given uncertainty and sparse data. Developing decision theory, using risk analysis. Moon, Nam-Sung, Ph.D., B.Sc., McGill University Molecular genetics of cancer genes in Drosophila melanogaster. Multiple genetic changes are responsible for the development of human cancer. Often, genes that are altered in cancers are evolutionarily conserved and their functions can be studied in a model organism such as the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster). My research is focused on studying cancer related genes using Drosophila as a model organism. In particular, I am interested in understanding the in vivo function of RBF1, the Drosophila homologue of the RB (Retinoblastoma) gene, which is functionally inactivated in most types of cancer. Schck, F. PhD Max Planck Institute in Gttingen, Germany Drosophila cell biology, in particular the proteins required for cell shape changes and cell migration during embryogenesis. Transmembrane integrins, for example, are the most important mediators of cell-matrix interactions. We investigate which signals integrins receive and how integrins regulate proteins that execute the cytoskeletal changes needed for migration. Currently we are identifying these proteins using live imaging, cell culture and genetics. Western, T., BSc Dalhousie University, PhD University of British Columbia Cell differentiation in Arabidopsis. Fertilization triggers a complex series events in the differentiation of the mucilage secretory cells of the Arabidopsis seed coat. Using a combination of cell biology and molecular genetics, our lab is dissecting the genes and proteins involved in a sequence of biosynthesis, secretion and intracellular cytoplasmic remodelling. Zheng, Hugo, MSc University of Helsinki, PhD Oxford Brookes University The overall goal of my research is to understand how plant intracellular membrane trafficking is regulated as cell morphology changes during plant development and in response to environmental stresses. We are using a GFP-based living cell imaging technology combined with genetic approaches to study how plant genes control these important processes. Another research we are interested is to use reverse genetic and chemical genomic approaches to study the molecular regulation and function of very-long-chain fatty acid (VLCFA) biosynthesis and secretion in the production of waxes, seed oils, and sphingolipids.
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ASSOCIATE MEMBERS & ADJUNCTS(contd) Dufort, Daniel, BSc Concordia University, PhD McGill University (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, RVH McGill University) Interested in understanding the molecular mechanisms involved in the process of embryo implantation. We have demonstrated that the embryo secertes Wnt proteins which activate Wnt signaling in the uterus. We further demonstrated that inhibition of Wnt signaling impairs the implantation process illustrating the importance of this pathway in embryo implantation (in press, PNAS). This project will be aimed at characterizing the function of Wnt signaling in the uterus during the implantation process. Dunn, Robert, BSc PhD British Columbia (Associate Professor, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Montreal General Hospital Research Institute) Molecular and cellular analysis of brain function with an emphasis on the neural systems for sensation and perception. In collaboration with neurophysiologists, we are working to unravel the molecular biology of ion channels and other neuronal signalling systems. We use molecular cloning in combination with cell biology, electrophysiology and viral expression vectors to understand how neurons encode the maps and sensory codes in the brain. Green, David M., BSc UBC, MSc PhD Guelph (Associate Professor and Curator of Herpetology, Redpath Museum) Evolution, biosystematics and conservation biology. Geographic variation, population biology, cytogenetics, and molecular genetics of amphibians. Guzman, Hector Ph.D. Newcastle University, UK; M.Sc., B.Sc. University of Costa Rica Ecology and population dynamic of coral reefs; sclerochronology; conservation biology; human impacts on marine ecosystems, coastal management and marine pollution. Hastings, Kenneth, BSc PhD McGill (Associate Professor, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute) Muscle gene regulation, evolution of muscle gene families and muscle cell subtypes, evolution and function of SL trans-splicing in the chordates. Herre, Edward Allen, BA, PhD University of Chicago (Staff scientist, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) Figs and their associated organisms, Sex Ratio evolution, Effects of Population Structure, Mycorrhizae, Mutualism, Parasitism, Plant-Insect Interactions. Kaplan, Feige PhD McGill University Respiratory illnesses of both early and late onset often find their origins in very early events, prenatally, in the neonatal intensive care unit or in early childhood, even when there is no manifestation of disease until later in life. Moreover, aberrant expression of developmentally important genes may have different effects in neonatal vs adult lung. The overall goal of our research is to improve our understanding of the cellular and molecular mechanisms whereby steroid-responsive genes regulate aspects of mammalian lung development and influence both neonatal and later-onset lung disease with a special emphasis on asthma.
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ASSOCIATE MEMBERS & ADJUNCTS(contd) Kilfoil, Maria Ph.D., M.Sc., Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland; B.Sc. University of New Brunswick The biophysics projects in my research group all involve advanced microscopy methods to study dynamics as a direct probe of mechanical aspects of the cell. We tackle mitosis by studying how communication between the molecules regulates and coordinates the spindle in budding yeast; how lipid-protein interactions can oversee mechanical gating of a mechanosensitive channel via experiments on prokaryotic spheroplasts; and mechanics of the cytoskeleton via microrheology of in vitro reconstituted actin-microtubule networks. Larsson, Hans, C.E. BSc McGill University, PhD University of Chicago (Assistant Professor, Redpath Museum, McGill University) Vertebrate palaeontology and developmental evolution. Palaeontological work focuses on terrestrial Mesozoic vertebrates in the Canadian arctic and explores signatures of ancient climate shifts in palaeo-faunas. Developmental evolution work addresses what developmental mechanisms (morphological and molecular) are responsible for changes in the evolution of vertebrate morphology. Lessios, Harilaos, M. Phil. Yale University, B.A. Harvard University (Director of Marine Research & Staff Biologist, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) Speciation, evolution of reproductive isolation, rate of protein and mitochondrial DNA evolution, the effects of gene flow in the evolution of marine populations, phylogenetic reconstruction, molecular biogeography, ecology of tropical marine invertebrates, impact of mass mortality on coral reef biota. Mandato, Craig A, BSc University of Waterloo, PhD University of Waterloo (Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, McGill) The in vivo relationship of cytoskeletal systems characterizing the molecular basis of interactions during cell division and cellular wound healing. This work is expected to advance research on the molecular pathology of diseases such as muscular dystrophy, as well as neuronal regeneration following injury. Mendes, Judith, BSc, M. Phil., PhD, University of West Indies, Jamaica (-Director, Bellairs Research Institute of McGill Univ., Barbados -Lecturer, Department of Life Sciences, U.W.I., Jamaica) Coral Reef Ecology Millien, Virginie, Doctorate, D.E.A. University Montpellier II, Magistre Ecole Normale Suprieure, Paris, Matrise: University Paris VI Focuses on island mammals. Islands provide an extreme condition of habitat reduction and isolation. Island species offer an excellent opportunity to study the evolutionary consequences of environmental change, because isolation entails significant changes in climate, resources and community context. To date, mostly worked on rodent species, although more recent research now includes a broader range of terrestrial mammals.
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ASSOCIATE MEMBERS & ADJUNCTS(contd) Rao, Yong, BSc, Sichuan University, PhD University of Toronto (CRN Investigator, Montreal General Hospital) The molecular mechanism of axonal guidance and target recognition in the fly visual system and the molecular mechanism of neuronal migration. Ricciardi, Anthony, BSc MSc PhD McGill (Assistant Professor, Redpath Museum, McGill School of Environment) Ecology of invasive species. Predicting impacts of introduced fishes and invertebrates using empirical modelling, meta-analysis, and field experiments. Developing risk assessment models for aquatic invasions. Quantifying biodiversity loss in freshwater ecosystems. Rosenblatt, David, BSc MDCM McGill (Chair, Department of Human Genetics; Professor, Pediatrics; Director of Division of Medicine and Genetics, Royal Victoria Hospital and Montreal) Inborn errors of cobalamin (Vitamin B12) and folate metabolism. Phenotype/genotype correlation in methylmalonic aciduria, methylene-tetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) deficiency, methionine synthase deficiency (cblG), methionine synthase reductase deficiency (cblE) and glutamate forminotransferase deficiency. Cloning of genes involved in cobalamin metabolism. Rozen, Rima, BSc PhD McGill (Professor, Pediatrics, Human Genetics; Scientific Director, Montreal Children's Hospital) Molecular genetics of inherited diseases; genetic risk factors for cardiovascular disease and neural tube defects; folic acid metabolism in cancer. Taketo, Teruko, BSc MSc PhD Kyoto (Associate Professor, Urology Research Laboratory, Royal Victoria Hospital) Genetic mechanism of gonadal sex determination and differentiation in mouse models for sex reversal. Cause of infertility in the XY sex-reversed female mouse. Analysis of meiotic chromosomes. Torchin, Mark, B.A. & PhD University of California Santa Barbara, M.S. University of Oregon. (Staff Scientist, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Republic of Panama) Marine population and community ecology, host-parasite interactions, invasion ecology, conservation biology Van Meyel, Don, BSc, University of Western Ontario, PhD University of Western Ontario (Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology & Neurosurgery, Centre for Research in Neuroscience, McGill University Health Centre) Genetic analysis of neuronal diversity and axon guidance.
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Whiteway, Malcolm, BSc Dalhousie, PhD Alberta (Research Officer, NRC Biotechnology Research Institute, Montreal) Molecular biology of the yeast mating response pathway. Investigation of G protein mediated signal transduction.
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B.3.
Name
Post-doctoral Scholars
With Professor: Western Fagotto Whiteway Gregory-Eaves Zheng Loreau Fussmann Chang Lechowicz Bureau Nilson Guichard Schoen Vogel Harrison Harrison Hekimi Gonzalez Loreau Whiteway Whiteway Roy Lechowicz Guichard Brown G-Eaves/ Chapman Loreau Lasko Chapman Hekimi Hekimi Bell Supported by funds from: NSERC- $45,000 Conacyt /NSERC - $28,000 CIHR/UOM - $40,000 Cfas GR -$40,000 Start-Up -$32,000 ANR/CNRS - $37,500 NSERC Fellowship - $40,000 CIHR/MUHC $35,000 NSF- U.S fellowship - $62,500 W. Dawson/NSERC - $32,000 NCIC $38,500 NSERC Fellowship - $40,000 Tomlinson - $30,000 CIHR - $40,000 NSERC/Start-up - $40,000 NSERC/PrioNet - $40,000 Chronogen - $34,000 NSERC Fellowship - $40,000 ANR/CNRS - $39,500 CIHR - $39,000 CIHR - $37,650 CIHR - $36,750 Marie-Curie- $25,128 EU James McD. Fdn. - $38,000 FQRNT - $38,000 FQRNT - $30,000 NSF - $37,500 NIH - $39,000 NSERC -$30,000 CIHR/Heredity Disease. - $ 55,000 NSERC/Chronogen - $40,000 NSERC - $43,000
Abdeen, Ashraf Bastian Hernandez, Yadira Blechert, Oliver Chen, Guangjie Chen, Jun Cherif, Medi Derry, Alison Dorothe, Domenger Flinn, Kathryn Forczek, Ewa Fregoso, Lomas Gravel, Dominique Joly, Simon Kaitna, Susanne Khachane, Amit Neelkanth Kumar, Manish Lapointe, Jerome Lindo, Zo Long, Zachary Mallick, Jaideep Mangos, Maria Mantovani, Julie Morin, Xavier Nguyen, Quang Tri Qin, Xike Saulnier-Talbot, milie Sun, Chengjun Tettweiler, Gritta Van Der Sluijs, Inke Van Raamsdonk, Jeremy Wang, Dantong Yan, Zhun
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HONOURS, AWARDS & POSITIONS(contd) --Kibale Health and Conservation Center Over the 2 years the Kibale Health and Conservation Project that is based in Kibale National Park is developed the location of long-term research efforts. The projects central aim is to work with stakeholders to build and run a community health centre that will improve access to health resources and provide health education for neighboring communities. The idea is being evaluated that provision of health care from within and in collaboration with a national park will assist in promotion of people/parks relations. The Ugandan Wildlife Authority has been enthusiastic and supportive in this collaboration. Since the conception of this project, much work has gone into its development. With the hard work and motivation of many people in Canada, the United States, and Uganda, and a dedicated effort at public fund raising, the health centre was officially opened in February 2009. CHASE, R. Professor Emeritus awarded by McGill University, 25 May 2009. --CIHR Japan-Canada Joint Heath Research Program, standing committee member. DENT, J.A. External Grant Reviewer, National Science Foundation. DHINDSA, R.S. Editorial Assistance to students research journal in Dawson College. FAGOTTO, F. Referee, NSERC discovery grants. FUSSMANN, G.F. Organizer (G.F. Fussmann, E. McCauley & W. Nelson) of the Topical Session Predator-prey interactions - linking mechanism to community dynamics at the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography conference, Nice, France. Jan. 2009. --External examiner. Ville Fridman, Ph.D., University of Helsinki, Finland. Jan. 2009. GONZALEZ, A. Canada Research Chair CRC II award , $100,000/year, 2009-2014. GREGORY-EAVES, I. Vice-President (and President-Elect) of the Canadian Quaternary Association (CANQUA), an association with over 200 members dedicated to paleoenvironmental research. HARRISON, P. Reviewed grant applications for: Cancer Research UK; NSERC and the Netherlands Genomics Initiative. HENDRY, A. E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship (NSERC). --Member of the scientific committee of the new DIVERSITAS core project bioGENESIS. DIVERSITAS is an international scientific programme dedicated to the science of biodiversity, under the auspices of ICSU, IUBS, SCOPE and UNESCO. --Council member of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution (January 2008 present) --Member of Ph.D. committee for Dylan Weese in the Dept. of Biological Sciences at the University of Maine (Winter 2005 present) --Member, Society for the Study of Evolution --Member, American Society of Naturalists --Member, Ecological Society of America
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HONOURS, AWARDS & POSITIONS(contd) --Member, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists --Council member, Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution KRAHE, R. Organization of conference: Weakly Electric Fish: From Behaviour to Sensory Processing, held 5-8 May, 2009, at the Gault Nature Reserve at Mont St. Hilaire, QC. Coorganized with Dr. Maurice Chacron (Dept. Physiology, McGill). A total of 35 attendants came from McGill University, University of Ottawa, Washington University St. Louis, MO, and Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. LASKO, P. CFI Leading Edge Infrastructure Grant: MIRGED: McGill/IRCM research group on embryology and disease. Value: C$10,769,273 (total project cost; CFI and MELS contributions $4,307,709 each). Awarded as project leader. --2007-2010: Chair, Council of Scientists, Human Frontiers of Science Program Organization. This is a prestigious organization based in Strasbourg, France that funds international collaborations that take interdisciplinary approaches to problems in life sciences. More information is available on www.hfsp.org. --2007-2009: President, Genetics Society of Canada. --2005-present: Contributor, Faculty of 1000. --2002-present: Member of the Priority and Planning Committee on Developmental Genetics --Member, Model Systems Review Panel, National Cancer Institute of Canada, 2006-2009. --Invitee, DEV1 Initial Review Group, Center for Scientific Review, NIH, 2009. --Panel Evaluator, European Research Council, 2007-present. --Member, Grant Review Panel, Human Frontiers of Science Program Organization, February 2001-present. LECHOWICZ, M.J. Certified Senior Ecologist -- Ecological Society of America, 2006-2011. -- Board member, Mont St. Hilaire Nature Conservation Centre. [Six meetings a year, various email consultations] --Member, Environment Committee, Town of Hudson: [Six meetings a year, various email consultations] --Member, Environment Committee, Town of St-Lazare: [Six meetings a year, frequent email consultations] --Organized three evening lectures for the public (in French, by Qc academics) at the Gault Nature Reserve --Interview with Mike Finnerty on CBC morning show, 10 June 2008 --Field trip to Gault Nature Reserve as part of the 5th World Environmental Education Congress, May 2009, Palais de Congres, Montreal --Working with the town of St-Lazare, I played a key role in securing a $300,000 grant from Fondation Hydro-Quebec to build a boardwalk through a bog that the town had designated a Nature Park. In previous years I had worked with the town to convince a developer to flip the property to the town and to ensure its protection by the Quebec MDDEP. Our effort won wide recognition for the university in the local community. This is the site where I am now working with the Faculty of Education to develop novel curriculum material for the three nearby schools.
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HONOURS, AWARDS & POSITIONS(contd) LEFEBVRE, L. Member of the jury, National Magazine Awards, Science, Technology and Environment category --External evaluator on cyclical review committee, Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, September 2008. LOREAU, M. 2008: Ranked in the Top 10 list of the worlds most highly cited researchers in the field of Ecology/Environment, ISI Web of Knowledge. --2008: Past Chair of the Scientific Committee of DIVERSITAS, the international programme of biodiversity science. --2008: Member of the Terrestrial Ecology Jury of the International Ecology Institute (ECI, Germany). --Since 2000: Member of the Scientific Committee of the Ecotron of the Centre of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology (CEFE), in Montpellier (France). --Since 2003: Member of the International Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics of the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands). --Since 2004: Member of the National French Global Change Committee of the Academy of Sciences (France). --Since 2006: Member of the Scientific Board of the Scientific Interest Group Ile-de-France Research Network on Sustainable Development (France). --Since 2007: Member of the International Scientific Committee of the European Interdisciplinary Graduate School Frontiers in Life Sciences (France). --20072008: Expert evaluation of Canada Research Chair projects. --2008: Invited participation in the coordination meeting between the International Mechanism of Scientific Expertise on Biodiversity and the Millenium Ecosystem Assessment, in Paris (France). --2008: Invited participation in the Ad Hoc Intergovernmental and Multistakeholder Meeting on an Intergovernmental SciencePolicy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, in Putrajaya (Malaysia). NILSON, L. Grant application review: 1)CIHR DEV Panel member, meetings in Dec 08 and May 09 *involves a large workload; 2)Wellcome Trust operating grant review, external reviewer, May 2008; 3)NSERC Discovery Grant program, external reviewer, January 2009 --Tenure dossier review: Medical college of Georgia, Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy --Invited poster judge: 50th International Drosophila Research Conference, RNA Biology session, Gametogenesis and Organogenesis session, March 2009, Chicago IL POLLACK, G. Member of NSERC GSC 1011, Integrative Animal Biology. Reviewed 53 Discovery Grant applications (22 as first or second reader) and 35 RTI grant applications. This required approximately 80 hours in preparation for the competition, in addition to five full days attending the committee meetings. POTVIN, C. Outstanding Recognition Award, National Authority for the environment, Panama April 2008 --Special Scientific Advisor, National Authority for the Environment, Panama March 2006--Scientific Coordinator, Sardinilla Project, June 199934 | P a g e
HONOURS, AWARDS & POSITIONS(contd) --Associate Research Scientist, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Dec. 1999PRICE, N. Editorial Boards: European Journal of Phycology 1992-present ROY, R. CIHR Panel Member (2009) DEV --CBC/RadioCanada: Quirks and Quarks-Saturday, December 6th, 2008 with Paul McDonald. --Interview- Le Devoir, Tuesday December 9th, 2008. --Interview- with Benoit Dutrizac 98.5 FM --Feature Lead Story- CBC/Radio Canada-les Grands titres- Obsit. Le mtabolisme du gras mieux compris SCHCK, F. 2005 CIHR New Investigator Award: 55,000$ per annum for five years starting July 1st, 2005 --Reviewing Chapter 3 of the 9th edition of Life by Sadava et al. (Sinauer Freeman; textbook for Biol 112) SCHOEN, D. J. Scientific evaluator for Academy Professorships for the Research Council for Biosciences and Environment (RCBE) of the Academy of Finland. VOGEL, J. CIHR panel member (CP), fall competition. 1st: 6 grants, 2nd:4 grants, reader : 3 --NCIC Scientific Officer. For the 08-09 competition, was 1st reviewer on 1 application and 2nd reviewer on 2 applications and acted as SO for ~15 applications. WESTERN, T.L. Membership on Federal Grant Evaluation Committees Member NSERC Grant Selection Committee 03 (Plant Biology and Food Sciences), Fall 2007-present. Duties included selection of external reviewers (October), reviewing of 21 Discovery Grants (DG) as Primary/Secondary reviewer, 25 DG as Reader and 31 Research Tools and Instrument Grants (Dec-Jan), plus attendance at 5 days of meetings in Ottawa in February and full day training session (December) for a total of ~200 hours. --Scholarly Meetings Session Chair: 1) Co-Chair, Development Session and Member of Student Presentation Judging Committee, 6th Canadian Plant Genomics Workshop, Toronto, Canada, June 23-26, 2008. 2) Chair, Session II, 2nd Montreal Plant Meeting, Montreal, November 15, 2008. --External referee for research grants National Science Foundation, USA (1 grant) ZETKA, M. FRSQ, Bourse de chercheur-boursier senior, July 1 2007 June 30 2011 --CIHR Genomics Panel, Scientific Officer 05/07 - present ZHENG, H. Member, the local organizing committee for the joint 2010 Plant Biology meeting, American Society of Plant Biologists and Canadian Society of Plant Physiologists (scheduling the meeting) --Member, the organizing committee of the 19th International conference on Arabidopsis Research, July 2008 (fund-raising, travel award selection, volunteer management)
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BELL, G.A.C.
Past President, member of Council, Canadian Society for Ecology & Evolution President-Elect of Academy of Science, Royal Society of Canada Total time spent on consulting: 25 days Grant review, National Science Foundation. Grant review, Canadian Foundation for Innovation Total time spent on consulting: 3 days Manuscript review, American Soc of Plant Biologists Grant application review, NSERC Undergrad research journal, McGill Biology Dept. Total time spent on consulting: 10 days Subject Editor, Blackwell Publishing Total time spent on consulting: 5 days Grant evaluation, CIHR & FRSQ Comments on scientific news, organizations. Total time spent on consulting: 7 days
BROWN, G.
DHINDSA, R.
FUSSMANN, G.
HEKIMI, S.
various
media
KRAMER, D.
External examiner, Simon Fraser Univ. Promotion/tenure review, Univ. of Montreal, UBC, Okanagan Promotion full professor review, UCLA MSc thesis external review, UQAM Manuscript review, Various Professional Journals Reviewing writing text considered for possible expansion to biological sciences, Oxford University Press Total time spent on consulting: 8.5 days Grant reviewing, Canadian Cancer Society Grant reviewing, Council of Scientists meetings, policy advising, Human Frontiers of Science Program Organization Total time spent on consulting: 13 days Journal editor, Ecological Society of America, Society of American Naturalists. Governing Board Member, Mont St. Hilaire Nature Centre Member, Hudson Environment Committee Member, St-Lazare Environment Committee Total time spent on consulting: 20 days
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LASKO, P.
LECHOWICZ, M. J.
POLLACK, G.
POTVIN, C.
ROY, R.
WESTERN, T.
ZETKA, M.
ZHENG, H.
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D. Kramer/G. Bell/R. Dhindsa/ I. Gregory-Eaves/C. de Mazancourt 0 J. Dent/F. Schoeck 1 D. Kramer/G. Bell/R. Dhindsa/ I. Gregory-Eaves/C. de Mazancourt 604 J. Dent/F. Schoeck 669 G. Brown 207 T. Bureau/R. Roy 589 F. Fagotto/P. Lasko 427 G. Brown/K. Hastings/R. Roy/M. Zetka 547 D. Schoen/T. Western/ M. Chevrette 611 D. Dankourt/R. Dunn (summer) 141 R. Dhindsa/D. Kramer 193 A. Gonzalez/E. Abouheif /M. Cherif L. Chapman/ M. Lechowicz/ E. Maclean 146 L. Lefebvre 65 E. Abouheif/C. Potvin 214 M. Lechowicz/I. Aubin 16 F. Schoeck/L. Nilson/M. Zetka 147 T. Western/H. Zheng/P. Harrison 126 T. Western/H. Zheng/P. Harrison 166 L. Nilson /D. Dufort/Y. Rao 179 G. Bell 142 G. Bell/D. Green/H. Larsson/ V. Millien/A. Ricciardi 83 G. Pollack/J. Dent/R. Krahe 166 D. Kramer 52 G. Fussmann/C. de Mazancourt 58 L. Glass 50 M. Zetka/F. Fagotto 90 L. Majewska/N. Jabado/M. Saleh/ T. Duchaine 93 D. Green 17 L. Chapman 14 M. Lehowicz/E. Abouheif/L. Chapman/ K. Flinn 16 T. Bureau/J. Mendes/B. Leung 19 Huntsman Marine Science Centre 20 G. Dunphy 45 R. Palmour/L. Cartier-Borys/K. Dewer/ D. Cournoyer/J. Engert/J. Majewski/ A. Ryan 44
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NOTE: Numbers are in reference to courses taught from June 1 through May 31 (i.e., a fiscal year)
*44 students at the downtown campus and 23 at the Mac Campus (via videoconference)
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TOTAL
6668
6601
6929
6552
6524
_________________________________________________________________________ TOTAL 421 417 386 410 430 _________________________________________________________________________ * Indicates the number of Honours students in the U3 year. Students may only enter the Honours program at the U3 year.
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TABLE 4 Undergraduate and Graduate Weighted Student Units (WSU) in Relation to Number of Full Time Faculty Members1
2004/05 Undergraduate WSU WSU Contributed to MSE Graduate WSU Total WSU Total Full Time Faculty WSU/Full Time Faculty 673.5 16.6 210.1 900.2 36 25
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TABLE 5 Total Number of Biology B.Sc. Degrees Awarded in Each Academic Year And The Percentage of Biology and Faculty of Science Undergraduates Awarded Honours at June Convocation
Total Number of Graduates1 Distinction2 Great Distinction3 Dean's Honour List4
YEAR Biology Biology Science Biology Science Biology Science __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2008/09 689 19. 110 16.3 47.111 51.6 5.9 13.8 2007/08 2006/07 2005/06 2004/05 2003/04 2002/03 2001/02 825 105 965 83 133 97 73 19.56 8.6 15.16 21.7 7.5 13.4 15.1 13.3 14.9 14.0 24.2 10.8 10.1 9.5 45.17 34.3 50.5 33.7 48.1 59.8 38.4 46.3 47.5 44.9 40.5 40.5 37.2 34.8 14.68 7.6 12.9 8.4 12.0 12.4 2.7 11.7 11.1 11.5 8.9 9.4 9.3 6.6
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TABLE 6
UNDERGADUATE STUDENT AWARDS 2008/09
AWARD
NSERC
NAME
Daniel Hoops Carolyn Poutiainen Katherine Velghe Lora Tsaneva Joy Ding Alice Roy-Bolduc Julian Gitelman Tony Kovach David Obert Rosalie McDonough Issac Hebert Leah Northfield Niloufar Bayani Hyun Hee Kim Myriam Lacharit Alana Parisi Valerie Nearing Matthew Burgess Elizabeth Lee Yuanhang Cao Sydnee Burgess Kristen Wiens Stefan Czerniecki Nathalie Sela Milena Popova Rui Li Susan Bragg Kiyoko Gotanda Katherine Velghe Joshua Gurberg
DEPT
Biology Environment Biology Anat. & Cell Biol. Cognitive Science Environment Biology Environment Biology U. New Brunswick Wildlife Biology Biology Biology Biology Biology Biology Biology U. Toronto Engineering/Special Biology Biology Biology Biology Biochemistry Biology Anat. & Cell Biology Biology Biology Biology Biology
SUPERVISOR
C. Potvin A. Gonzalez I. Gregory-Eaves L. Chapman M. Lechowicz M. Lechowicz J. Dent M. Lechowicz T. Bureau P. Lasko A. Ricciardi A. Gonzalez A. Ricciarid R. Krahe A. Ricciardi L. Chapman B. Leung M. Loreau F. Schoeck K. Hastings D. Kramer C. Potvin F. Schoeck F. Fagotto N. Moon F. Fagotto
AMOUNT $
5625 5625 5625 5625 6000 6000 5625 6000 5625 5625 5625 5625 5625 5625 5625 5625 5625 5625 5600 5600 5600 5600 5600 5600 5600 5600 400 600 750 900
USRA
GRADUATING STUDENT AWARDS Muriel Roscoe Prize Penhallow Prize Frank Rigler Prize Fantham Memorial Prize
CONTINUING STUDENT AWARDS Penhallow Scholarship in Biology Logan Scholarship Logan Scholarship Logan Scholarship Major Hiram Mills Scholarship Richard Adams Award in Marine Biology
Nigel Douglas Burke Julian Gitelman Trina Du Kirsten Wiens Kaidi Zhou Katrine Turgeon
D. Kramer
DEANS MULTIDISCIPLINARY UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH LIST Ilya Hekimi SIGMA XI EXCELLENCE IN UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AWARD Katherine Velghe
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Total enrollment includes all full-time resident, non-resident and additional session students. It does not include part-time, half-time, qualifying or special students.
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TABLE 8
Web Applications
2007/08
2008/09
Accepted
61% 14% 33% 33% 14% 36%
Applied
79 11 19 5 14 8 30 0 2 0 1 1
Accepted
38% 0% 10% 0% .07% 12%
Applied
75 8 12 5 20 9 42 2 2 0 2 1
Accepted
56% 25% 16% 0% 10% 11%
Canada U.S.A. P. R. China Europe Far East Middle East Central/South America & Mexico
Africa/Caribbean TOTAL
5 0 139
2 0 62
40% 0% 45%
8 0 144
1 0 35
12% 0% 25%
11 0 140
3 0 52
27% 0% 37%
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M.Sc.1 M.Sc.2 M.Sc.3 and up M.Sc. Totals Fellowship Holders* Ph.D.1-2 Ph.D.3 Ph.D.4 Ph.D.5 and up Ph.D. Totals Fellowship Holders* Total Number of Fellowship Holders*
28 24 8 60 20 (33%) 20 13 8 26 67 33 (49%)
18 25 12 55 23 (42%) 22 15 11 21 69 39 (57%)
31 17 16 64 27 (42%) 21 17 15 23 76 40 (53%)
35 22 15 72 27 (38%) 11 22 20 26 79 42 (53%)
15 28 15 58 20 (34%) 25 8 23 30 86 53 (62%)
53 (42%)
62 (50%)
67 (48%)
69(46%)
73(51%)
* The number of fellowships reflects only those students holding a competitive fellowship of $5000 or more.
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Bioinformatics M.Sc.1 M.Sc.2 M.Sc.3 and up Ph.D.1-2 Ph.D.3 Ph.D.4 Ph.D.5 and up Totals 0 0.5 2.5 1 0 2 1 7
Total number of students enrolled in 2008/09 was 144. (This includes all full-time, resident and additional session students. It does not include part-time, half-time, qualifying or special students, or students in ad-hoc programmes.)
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Boenke, M.
M.Sc.2F
Boisclair Lachance, JF. Ph.D. 6A Boogert, N. Brazeau, C. Chivers, C. Church, K. Correa-Guzman, C. Crispo, E. Cuddy, M. Dargent, F. De Boef, M. De Leon Reyna, L. Dececchi, T.A. Delaire, L. Ph.D.4F Ph.D.4A M.Sc.1F M.Sc.2A Ph.D.4F Ph.D.4F M.Sc. 1F Ph.D. 1F Ph.D.5A Ph.D.5A Ph.D.3F M.Sc.1F
Delaney, D. Desjardins, D.
Ph.D.4F M.Sc.1F
Dibattista, J.
Ph.D.5A
Feldman, R. Friesen, C.
Ph.D.4F M.Sc.1F
Fugre, Vincent
M.Sc.2A
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Hsieh, T-C. Ibarraran Viniegra, S. Jacob, A. Jensen, H. Jones, L. Kerr, K. Kipp, R. Kovach-Orr, C. Kugler, J-M. Kylafis, G. Labella, S. Lacoursiere-Roussel,A. Largaespada, C. Larocque, A. LaZerte, S. Leighton, P. Leroux, S.
M.Sc.1F Ph.D.2F Ph.D.2F Ph.D.4F Ph.D.4F Ph.D.4F M.Sc.2F Ph.D.1F Ph.D.5A Ph.D.4F Ph.D.4F Ph.D.2F M.Sc.2A M.Sc.1F M.Sc.2A Ph.D.6A Ph.D.4F
Pelletier, J. Ploss, J. Quan, T-Y. Radovski, M. Rohani Larijani, N. Roy, J-S. Ruiz Jaen, M. Sharpe, D.
Taranu, Z.
Ph.D.2F
Ph.D.5A Ph.D.2F
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A. External Fellowships
Number of Awards NSERC FQRNT James Lougheed Award (Alta.) Saudi Arabia Govt Scholarship STRI-McGill-NEO Fellowship IFARHU/SENACyT (Panama) CONICyT (Chile) CONACyT (Mexico) Hashemite University (Jordan) STRI Short Term Fellowship JSSO Scholarship (Japan) JASA Scholarship (Japan) Department of Fisheries & Oceans TOTAL 34 12 1 1 2 2 2 3 1 1 1 1 1 62 Total Value 513,116 161,666 15,000 23,628 17,500 36,429 35,207 41,600 8,750 4,000 6,162 5,000 21,000 $ 889,058
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B. McGill Awards
Number of Awards Arts & Science Class of 66 Award Dr & Mrs. M. Leong Scholarship Max E. Binz Fellowship Max Stern Recruitment Award Canderel Studentship CIHR Studentship Tomlinson Fellowship Lorne Trottier Sci. Acc. Fellowship Alma Mater Travel Grant Provosts Graduate Fellowship Principals Graduate Fellowship Bourses de doct. Hydro Quebec McGill Major Award 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 9 36 17 1 1 Total Value 4,000 25,000 10,000 10,000 4,167 8,750 11,250 20,000 6,750 131,000 50,000 11,250 12,000
TOTAL
35
$ 304,167
162
$1,239,788
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Source of Funding Teaching Services Graduate Stipends McGill Awards Biology Department Awards External Fellowships TOTAL
$ 2,982,635
AVERAGE STUDENT INCOME* *Number of graduate students enrolled in Masters and Doctoral programs: 144
$ 20,713
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Fall 2007 Convocation: Cuschieri, Lara. Ph.D. (Supervisor: J. Vogel) Thesis: Investigating the role of gamma-tubulin in coordinating microtubule plus end behaviour with regulation at the spindle pole Elina, Helen. Ph.D. (Supervisor: G. Brown) Thesis: Expression of a Brassica napus mitochondrial gene region associated with cytoplasmic male sterility: transcript initiation, editing, splicing and nuclease processing
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Thalassiosira oceanica
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TABLE 16
2005/06 17 11 28
2006/07 18 8 26
2007/08 16 10 26
2008/09 19 16 35
* Figures include students graduating between June 1 - May 31 of the year named to reflect the June - May span of this report.
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Kilburn, Vanessa. M.Sc. (Supervisor: D. Green) Western Painted Turtle Recovery Specialist, British Columbia Ministry of Environment, Vancouver, BC Lee, Soojin. M.Sc. (Supervisor: F. Schck) Ph.D. student, Department of Medicine, Division of Experimental Medicine, McGill University McFarlane, Heather. M.Sc. (Supervisor: T. Western) Ph.D. student, Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC McKellar, Ann. M.Sc. (Supervisor: University, Kingston, ON A. Hendry) - Ph.D. student, Department of Biology, Queen's
Mokin, Sergey. M.Sc. (Supervisor: P. Harrison) Programmer, Samuel Lunenfeld Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON Narbonne, Rmi. M.Sc. (Supervisor: G. Pollack) CEGEP teacher, Montreal Nowacka, Lidia. M.Sc. (Supervisor: K. Hastings) Forensic Search Technologist, Evidence Recovery Unit, Forensic Science & Identification Services, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Ong, Yen May. M.Sc. (Supervisor: S. Carbonetto/Y. Rao) Ph.D. student, Dept. of Neurology & Neurosurgery, McGill University Paterson, Jaclyn. M.Sc. (Supervisor: L. Chapman) Research Assistant, Health Geography and Epidemiology, Department of Geography, McGill University Roche, Dominique. M.Sc. (Supervisor: B. Leung/M. Torchin) not yet known
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Current Positions of Recent Graduates (continued) Sabourin, Patrick. M.Sc. (Supervisor: G. Pollack) Ph.D. student, Urbanisation, culture et socit, Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Universit du Qubec Schafhauser, James. M.Sc. (Supervisor: T. Western) Researcher, Qiagen Sciences Inc, Germantown, Maryland, USA Sijercic, Ada. M.Sc. (Supervisor: N. Price) Chef de projets, Saputo, St-Hyacinthe, QC Taranu, Zofia. M.Sc. (Supervisor: I. Gregory-Eaves) Ph.D. student, Department of Biology, McGill University Vincent-Hroux, Jonathan. M.Sc. (Supervisor: S. Carbonetto) Director, colo-Bio, Varennes, QC Woo, Edward. M.Sc. (Supervisor: N. Price) Medical school, University of Calgary, Calgary AB Ph.D. Graduates Cuschieri, Lara. Ph.D. (Supervisor: J. Vogel) PDF, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON Elina, Helen. Ph.D. (Supervisor: University G. Brown) Research Assistant, Department of Biology, McGill
Nadia Frbisch. Ph.D. (Supervisor: R. Carroll/H. Larsson) PDF, Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA Gardezi, Tariq. Ph.D. (Supervisor: A. Gonzalez/A. Hendry) not yet known Hebeisen, Michael. Ph.D. (Supervisor: R. Roy) PDF, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR), Lausanne, Switzerland Jani, Klodiana. Ph.D. (Supervisor: F. Schck) PDF, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany Juretic, Nikoleta. Ph.D. (Supervisor: T. Bureau) Project Manager, McGill University and Genome Quebec Innovation Centre, Montreal Knockleby, James. Ph.D. (Supervisor: J. Vogel) PDF, Tumor Biology, NEORCC, Univerrsity of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON
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Current Positions of Recent Graduates (continued) Laplante, Caroline. Ph.D. (Supervisor: L. Nilson) PDF, Department of Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA Maxwell, Erin. Ph.D. (Supervisor: H. Larsson) PDF, Biology Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB Moore, Jocelyn. Ph.D. (Supervisor: P. Lasko) PDF, Health Canada, Ottawa, ON Morgan, Sin. Ph.D. (Supervisor: A. Vincent/D. Kramer) Researcher, World Wildlife Fund, Vancouver, BC Narbonne, Patrick. Ph.D. (Supervisor: R. Roy) PDF, Department of Biology, McGill University Snaith, Tamaini. Ph.D. (Supervisor: C. Chapman) Science Policy Advisor, Parks Canada, Ottawa, ON Thomson, Travis. Ph.D. (Supervisor: P. Lasko) Postdoctoral Associate, Yale Stem Cell Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA Henri Valls Rodriguez. Ph.D. (Supervisor: D. Kramer/W. Hunte) Technical coordinator of fisheries project, Spanish Agency for International Cooperation, Jacmel, Haiti
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TABLE 19
2004/05-2008/09
04/05 Post-doctoral Scholars U.R.F.'s Research Associates & Visiting Scientists TOTALS 21 0 10 31
05/06 21 0 18 39
06/07 23 0 17 40
07/08 33 0 12 45
08/09 32 0 11 43
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$ $
6,836,304
179,903
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TABLE 22 Total Value of Research Grants Received by the Biology Department Staff during the Past Five Years
2004/05 1,429,328
2005/06 1,485,828
2006/07 1,477,463
2007/08 1,6227.75
2008/09 1,563,590
NSERC Equip. NSERC Other FCAR Team FCAR Other CIHR Contracts CFI Others
44,152
52,603
18,065
18,065
36,626
302,577
8,065,355
237,216
29,035,964
806,556
10,161,578
267,410
8,828,701
232,334
7,176,021
193,947
6,836,304
179,903
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Number of Days Public Sector Other Consulting 0.00 0.00 25.00 0.00 3.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 10.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 5.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 7.50 0.00 0.00 0.00 20.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 12.00 0.00 21.00 0.00 8.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 10.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 31.00 0.00 4.00 0.00 2.00 0.00
Total 0.00 25.00 3.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 10.00 0.00 5.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 7.00 0.00 0.00 8.50 13.00 20.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 16.00 21.00 8.00 0.00 10.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 31.00 4.00 3.00 184.50
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The Alma Howard Memorial Lecture Dr. Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Section Head, Organelle Biology, Cell Biology and Metabolism Branch, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. New fluorescent imaging techniques for analysis of protein transport pathways and the near molecular resolution of proteins. Dr. Gerardo Ferbeyre, Universite de Montreal. Cell aging and cytokine signaling. Dr. Janice Fischer, University of Texas at Austin. signaling. A puzzling role for Endocytosis in notch
Dr. Nir Barzilai, Institute for Aging Research, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, New York City. New insight on the genetics of human longevity. Dr. Pejmum Haghighi, Department of Physiology, McGill University. and function: transcriptional and translational mechanisms. Regulation of synaptic growth
Dr. Jason Young, Department of Biochemistry, McGill University. Molecular Chaperones in the Cytosol. Dr. Kristin White, Harvard University. The regulation and execution of apoptosis in Drosophila. Dr. Xiao Qiu, University of Saskatchewan. nutraceutical and industrial fatty acids. Metabolic Engineering of Plants to Produce
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Organismal Seminar
WINTER 2009 Dr. Nelson Hairston, Cornell University. Eco-Evolutionary Predator-Prey Dynamics in Laboratory Microcosms. Dr. Jasmine Saros, University of Maine. Ecological change in alpine lakes of the Rocky Mountains as a consequence of sustained nitrogen deposition.
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FALL 2008 PhD Thesis Defense Michal Hebeisen, Department of Biology, McGill University. From cells to organs: the developmental challenge of multicellular organisms.
PhD Thesis Defense Jocelyn Moore, Department of Biology, McGill University. Drosophila pole plasm component, germ cell-less.
Post-transcriptional control of
PhD Thesis Defense Patrick Narbonne, Department of Biology, McGill University. Roles of LKB1/AMPK signaling in the C. elegans dauer larva. PhD Thesis Defense Klodiana Jani, Department of Biology, McGill University. The role of integrin-dependent cell matrix adhesion in muscle development. PhD Thesis Defense Nikoleta Juretic, Department of Biology, McGill University. The role of transposons in shaping plant genomes. PhD Seminar Joseph Dibattista, Department of Biology, McGill University. Characterization of the mating system and evolutionary potential of the lemon shark.
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WINTER 2009 PhD Seminar David Delaney, Department of Biology, McGill University. Monitoring and modeling the spread of marine introduced species. PhD Seminar Paul Cote, Department of Biology, McGill University. Candida mating: New insights on signal transduction and beyond. PhD Thesis Defense David OBrien, Department of Biology, McGill University. The effect of harvesting on size structured predatory and competitive interactions between rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and northern pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus). PhD Thesis Defense Joseph DiBattista, Department of Biology, McGill University. Evolutionary potential of a large marine vertebrate, the lemon shark (Negaprion brevirostris). PhD Thesis Defense Oscar Puebla, Department of Biology, McGill University. Molecular ecology and evolution in Hypoplectrus coral reef fishes. PhD Thesis Defense Hugo Lavoie, Department of Biology, McGill University. regulatory networks of ascomycetes. PhD Seminar Erin Reardon, Department of Biology, McGill University. Reproduction and energetics under hypoxia.
PhD Seminar Audrey Heppleston, Department of Biology, McGill University. Patterns and processes involved in the evolution of digit number.
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FALL 2008 Dr. Carrie Wu - Department of Biology, Duke University. Mechanisms of adaptation to novel environments: from montane to model plants. Dr. Wu is a candidate for the Tenure Track Position in Biodiversity Science. Dr. Craig MacLean - Department of Zoology, University of Oxford. The evolution of microbial diversity: adaptation, cooperation, and specialization". Dr. MacLean is a candidate for the Tenure Track Position in Biodiversity Science. Dr. Jason T. Weir - Department of Ecology & Evolution, University of Chicago. The origin of the latitudinal diversity gradient. Dr. Weir is a candidate for the Tenure Track Position in Biodiversity Science. Dr. Marie-Jose Fortin - Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto. Conservation of Biodiversity: Too few or too much data? It is all a question of scale! Dr. Fortin is a candidate for the Tenure Track Position in Biodiversity Science.
Special Seminar
WINTER 2009 Dr. Jonathan Davies - National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California, Santa Barbara. An entangled bank: the evolution and maintenance of biodiversity gradients. Dr. Davies is a candidate for the Tenure Track Position in Biodiversity Science.
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Maxime Bouchard, Assistant professor, Department of Biochemistry/ McGill Cancer Centre, McGill University. Urogenital plumbing in the mouse embryo. Dr. Bouchard is a candidate for Associate Member status in the Biology Department. Frdric Charron - Director, Molecular Biology of Neural Development, IRCM. Wiring the brain: the role and molecular mechanism of Sonic hedgehog in axon guidance. Dr. Charron is a candidate for Adjunct Professor status in the Biology Department.
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D.3. Publications in Refereed Journals, Books and Conference Proceedings in 2008 D. 3. 1. Publications by Full-Time Academic Staff
Location http://biology.mcgill.ca/biopubs2008.htm
* indicates those publications actually published before May 31, 2008 ABOUHEIF, E. (Khila A and Abouheif E.) 2008. Reproductive constraint: a novel developmental mechanism to reinforce social harmony in ants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 105: 17884-17889. --*(Nahmad M, Glass L, and Abouheif E.) 2008. The dynamics of developmental system drift in the gene network underlying wing polyphenism in ants: a mathematical model. Evolution & Development, 10 (3): 360-374. This paper was mentioned in Faculty of 1000 - view comments. --*(Abouheif E.) 2008. Parallelism as the pattern and process of mesoevolution. Evolution & Development 10 (1): 3-5.
BELL, G.A.C. (Replansky, T. & Bell, G.) 2008. The relationship of environmental heterogeneity, species diversity, and productivity in a natural yeast community. Oikos 118: 233239. --(Replansky, T., Koufopanou, V., Greig, D. & Bell, G.) 2008. Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model system in ecology and evolution. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23: 494-501. --(Perron, G.G., Bell,G. & Quessy, S.) 2008. Parallel evolution of multidrug resistance in Salmonella enterica isolated from swine. FEMS Microbiology Letters (2008) 1-6. --(Bell, G. & Collins, S.) 2008. Adaptation, extinction and global change. Evolutionary Applications 1: 3-16. --Bell, G. 2008. Selection: the Mechanism of Evolution, second edition. 553 pp. Oxford University Press. --Bell, G. 2008. Experimental evolution. Heredity 100: 441-442. [Editorial introducing special issue of journal.] BUREAU, T. (Kim, N.-S., Park, K.-C., Kwon, S.-J., Kim, P.-H and Bureau, T.). Gene structure dynamics and divergence of the polygalacturonase gene family of plants and fungus. Genome, 2008 51, 30-40. --Bureau, T. (Rice Annotation Project) The Rice Annotation Project Database (RAP-DB): 2008 update. Nucleic Acids Research, 2008, 36, pp. 1028-1033. --Bureau, T. (Hirochika, H.) A Critical Role of the Chromomethylase OsMET2a-mediated DNA Methylation in Gene Regulation in Rice. The Plant Cell, 2008, in press.
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PUBLICATIONS BY FULL-TIME ACADEMIC STAFF (contd) BUSSEY, H. Bussey, H. (Logan, M.R., Nguyen, T., Szapiel, N.,Knockleby, J., Por, H.T., Zadworny, M., Neszt, M., Harrison, P., Mandato, C.A., Vogel, J., Lesage, G.) Genetic interaction network of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae type 1 phosphatase Glc7. BMC Genomics, v9, 2008, Article number 336. --Bussey, H. (Tarassov, K., Messier,V., Landry, C.R., Radinovic, S., Serma, M., Shames I., Malitskaya, Y., Vogel, J., and Michnick, S.W.) An in vitro map of the yeast protein interactome. Science,v. 320 June 13th 2008, pp. 1465-1470. --*Bussey, H. (Federova, N.D., Khaldi, N., Joardar, V.S., Maiti, R., Amedeo, P., Anderson, M.J., Crabtree, J., Silva, J.C., Badger, J.H., Albarraq, A., Angiuoli, S., Bowyer, P., Cotty, P.J., Dyer, P.S., Egan, A., Galens, K., Fraser-Liggett, C.M., Haas, B.J., Inman, J.M., Kent, R., Lemieux, S., Malavazi, I., Orvis, J., Roemer, T., Ronning, C.M., Sundaram, J.P., Sutton, G., Turner, G., Venter, J.C., White, O.R., Whitty, B.R., Youngman, P., Wolfe, K.H., Goldman, G.H., Wortman, J.R., Jiang,B., Denning, D.W., Nierman, W.C.) Genomic islands in the pathogenic filamentous fungus Aspergillus fumigatus. PLoS Genetics, v.4(4), 2008, e100046. CHAPMAN, L. J. (Crampton, W.G.R., L.J. Chapman, and J. Bell). 2008. Interspecific variation in gill size is correlated to ambient dissolved oxygen in the Amazonian electric fish Brachyhypopomus (Hypopomidae, Gymnotiformes). Environmental Biology of Fishes 83:223235. --(Chapman, L.J., J. Albert, and F. Galis). 2008. Developmental plasticity, genetic differentiation, and hypoxia-induced trade-offs in an African cichlid fish. The Open Evolution Journal 2:75-88. --*(Correa, S.B., W.G.R. Crampton, L.J. Chapman, and J.S. Albert). 2008. A comparison of flooded forest and floating meadow fish assemblages in an upper Amazon floodplain. Journal of Fish Biology 72:1-16. --*(Crispo, E. and L.J. Chapman). 2008. Population genetic structure across dissolved oxygen regimes in an African cichlid fish. Molecular Ecology 17:2134-2148. --*(Kasangaki, A., L.J. Chapman, and J. Balirwa). 2008. Land-use and the limnology and benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages of high altitude rainforest streams in Uganda. Freshwater Biology 53:681-697. --*(Wen-Chi Corrie, L., L.J. Chapman, and E. Reardon). 2008. Brood protection at a cost: Mouthbrooding under hypoxia in an African cichlid. Environmental Biology of Fishes 82:4149. --*(Reardon, E.E. and L.J. Chapman). 2008. Reproductive seasonality in a swamp-locked African cichlid. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 17:20-29. --(Chapman, C.A., L.J. Chapman, P. Omeja, and D. Twinomugisha). 2008. Long-term studies reveal the conservation potential for integrating habitat restoration and animal nutrition. Pp. 5162. In: Science and Conservation in African Forests: The Benefits of Long-term Research, R.W. Wrangham and E. Ross (eds). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. --*(Binning, S.A. and L.J. Chapman). 2008. Feeding ecology and diet overlap in riverine cichlids from western Uganda. Verhandlungen Internationale Vereinigung Limnologie 30( 2): 283-286. --*(Chapman, L.J., C.A. Chapman, F. Witte, L. Kaufman, and J. Balirwa). 2008. Biodiversity Conservation in African Inland Waters: Lessons of the Lake Victoria Basin. Plenary Paper: Verhandlungen Internationale Vereinigung Limnologie 30 (Part I):16-34.
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PUBLICATIONS BY FULL-TIME ACADEMIC STAFF (contd) --*(Cosandey-Godin, S.A. Binning, and L.J. Chapman). 2008. Specialized morphology for a noon-specialized diet: Liems paradox in an African cichlid fish. MSURJ (McGill Science Undergraduate Research Journal) 3:19-23. CHASE, R. (Chase, R. and Darbyson, E.) Differential survival of allosperm by location within the female storage organ of the snail Cornu aspersum. Canadian Journal of Zoology, v. 86, 2008, pp. 1244-1251. FAGOTTO F. (Reintsch W.E., Mandato C., McCrea P.D. and F. Fagotto). Inhibition of cell adhesion by xARVCF indicates a regulatory function at the plasma membrane, potentially involving Rac signaling. Developmental Dynamics 237, 2008, pp2328-2341. --*(Hendriksen J., Jansen M., Brown C.M., van der Velde H., van Ham M., Galjart N., Offerhaus G.J., Fagotto F. and M. Fornerod) Plasma membrane recruitment of dephosphorylated -catenin upon activation of the Wnt pathway. Journal of Cell Science 121, 2008, pp1793-1802. --*(Lindqvist L., Oberer M., Reibarkh M., Cencic R., Bordeleau M.-E., Vogt E., Marintchev A., Tanaka J., Fagotto F., Altmann M., Wagner G., and J. Pelletier) Selective Pharmacological Targeting of a DEAD box RNA helicase. PloS ONE 3, 2008, e1583. --(Fagotto F. and C.M. Brown) Detection of Nuclear -Catenin in Xenopus Embryos. In: Wnt Signaling: Methods and Model Systems. (E. Vincan ed. The Humana Press) (book chapter) Methods in Molecular Biology 469, 2008, pp363-80. FUSSMANN, G.F. (Fussmann, G.F.) The lake as a system of differential equations - a paradigm for the aquatic ecologist of the 21st century? International Review of Hydrobiology, v. 93, 2008, pp. 532-540. --(Cao, J., G.F. Fussmann & J.O. Ramsey) Estimating a predator-prey dynamical model with the parameter cascades method. Biometrics, v. 64, 2008, pp. 959-967. --*(Fussmann, G.F.) Experimental measurements of functional response: What is the relevance for food web theory? Proceedings International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology v. 30, 2008, 255-258. GONZALEZ, A. (Perron, G., Gonzalez, A., and Buckling, A) The rate of environmental change drives adaptation to an antibiotic sink. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2008, v. 21, pp. 17241731. --(Hendry, A. and Gonzalez, A.) Whither Adaptation? Biology and Philosophy, 2008, v. 23, pp. 673-699. --(Gardezi, T. and Gonzalez, A.) Scale dependence of the species-energy relationship: evidence from fishes in thousands of lakes. American Naturalist, v. 171, 2008, pp. 800-815. --(Gonzalez, A., Lambert, A. and Ricciardi, T.) When does ecosystem engineering facilitate invasion and species replacement. Oikos, v.117, 2008, pp. 1247-1257.
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PUBLICATIONS BY FULL-TIME ACADEMIC STAFF (contd) GREGORY-EAVES, I. *(Tinner W, Bigler C, Gedye S, Gregory-Eaves I, Jones RT, Kaltenrieder P and Krhenbhl U, Hu, FS). Boreal ecosystem responses to climatic variation in southeastern Alaska during the past seven centuries. Ecology v. 89, 2008, pp. 729743. --*(Taranu ZE and Gregory-Eaves I). Quantifying relationships among phosphorus agriculture and lake depth at an inter-regional scale. Ecosystems. v. 11, 2008, pp. 715-725. --*(Brother S, Vermaire J and Gregory-Eaves I). Empirical models for describing recent sedimentation rates in lakes distributed across broad spatial scales. Journal of Paleolimnology. v. 40, 2008, pp. 1003-1019. --*(Vermaire J and Gregory-Eaves I). Reconstructing changes in macrophyte cover in lakes across the northeastern United States based on sedimentary diatom assemblages. Journal of Paleolimnology v. 39, 2008, pp. 477-490. HARRISON, P. M. Logan MR, Nguyen T, Szapiel N, Knockleby J, Por H, Zadworny M, Neszt M, Harrison P, Bussey H, Mandato CA, Vogel J, Lesage G. Genetic interaction network of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae type 1 phosphatase Glc7. BMC Genomics, v. 9, 2008, 336. HEKIMI, S. Lapointe J, Hekimi S (2008) Early mitochondrial dysfunction in long-lived Mclk1+/- mice. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 283(38):26217-27. --*Hihi AK, Beauchamp M-C, Branicky R, Desjardins A, Casanova I, Guimond M-P, Carroll M, Ethier M, Kianicka I, McBride K, and Hekimi S (2008) Evolutionary conservation of drug action on lipoprotein metabolism-related targets. Journal of Lipid Research, 49(1):74-83. HENDRY, A.P. (Hendry, A.P. and Gonzalez, A.) Whither adaptation? Biology and Philosophy, v. 23, 2008, 673-699. --(Delcourt, M., Rsnen, K. and Hendry, A.P.) Genetic and plastic components of divergent male inter-sexual behavior in Misty lake/stream stickleback. Behavioral Ecology, v. 19, 2008, pp. 1217-1224. --(Berner, D., Adams, D.C., Grandchamp, A.-C. and Hendry, A.P.) Natural selection drives patterns of lake-stream divergence in stickleback foraging morphology. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, v. 21, 2008, pp. 1653-1665. --(Sharpe, D.M.T., Rsnen, K., Berner, D. and Hendry, A.P.) Genetic and environmental contributions to the morphology of lake and stream stickleback: implications for gene flow and reproductive isolation. Evolutionary Ecology Research, v. 10, 2008, pp. 849-866. --(DiBattista, J.D., Feldheim, K.A., Thibert-Plante, X., Gruber, S.H. and Hendry, A.P.) A genetic assessment of polyandry and breeding site fidelity in lemon sharks. Molecular Ecology, v. 17, 2008, pp. 3337-3351. --(Rsnen, K. and Hendry, A.P.). Disentangling interactions between adaptive divergence and gene flow when ecology drives diversification. Ecology Letters, v. 11, 2008, pp. 624-636. --*(Hendry, A.P.) Darwin in the fossils. Nature, v. 451, 2008, pp. 779-780. --*(DiBattista, J.D., Feldheim, K.A., Gruber, S.H. and Hendry, A.P.) Are indirect genetic benefits associated with polyandry? Testing predictions in a natural population of lemon sharks. Molecular Ecology, v. 17, 2008, pp. 783-795.
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PUBLICATIONS BY FULL-TIME ACADEMIC STAFF (contd) --*(Hendry, A.P., Farrugia, T. and Kinnison, M.T.). Human influences on rates of phenotypic change in wild animal populations. Molecular Ecology, v. 17, 2008, pp. 20-29. --*(Foster, D., Podos, J. and Hendry, A.P.) A geometric morphometric appraisal of beak shape in Darwins finches. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, v. 21, 2008, pp. 263-275. --*(Waples, R.S. and Hendry, A.P.) Evolutionary perspectives on salmonid conservation and management. Evolutionary Applications, v. 1, 2008, pp. 183-188. --*(Crozier, L.G., Hendry, A.P., Lawson, P.W., Quinn, T.P., Mantua, N.J., Battin, J., Shaw, R.G. and Huey, R.B). Evolutionary responses to climate change for organisms with complex life histories: Columbia River salmon as a case in point. Evolutionary Applications, v. 1, 2008, pp.252-270. KRAHE, R. (Krahe, R., Bastian J, and Chacron, M.J.) Temporal processing across multiple topographic maps in the electrosensory system. Journal of Neurophysiology, v. 100, 2008, pp.852-867. --(Mehaffey, W.H., Ellis, L.D., Krahe, R., Dunn, R.J., and Chacron, M.J.) Ionic and neuromodulatory regulation of burst discharge controls frequency tuning. Journal of Physiology (Paris), v. 102, 2008, pp. 195-208. --(Ronacher, B., Wohlgemuth, S., Vogel, A., and Krahe, R.) Discrimination of acoustic communication signals by grasshoppers: temporal resolution, temporal integration, and the impact of intrinsic noise. Journal of Comparative Psychology, v. 122, 2008, pp. 252-263. --(Krahe, R.) Rooted in behaviour. Journal of Physiology (Paris), v. 102, 2008, pp. 154-156 (editorial).
KRAMER, D.L. *(Mnard, A., Turgeon, K. and Kramer, D.L.) Selection of diurnal refuges by the nocturnal squirrelfish, Holocentrus rufus. Environmental Biology of Fishes, v. 82, 2008, pp. 59-70. (published May 2008) --(Valles, H., Kramer, D.L. and Hunte, W.) Temporal and spatial patterns in the recruitment of coral-reef fishes in Barbados. Marine Ecology Progress Series, v. 363, 2008, pp. 257-272. --(Hall, C.L. and D.L. Kramer). The economics of tracking a changing environment: competition and social information. Animal Behaviour, v. 76, 2008, pp. 1609-1619. --(Leighton, P.A., J.A. Horrocks, B.H. Krueger, J.A. Beggs, and D.L. Kramer). Predicting species interactions from edge responses: mongoose predation on hawksbill sea turtle nests in fragmented beach habitat. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, v. 275, 2008, pp. 2465-2472. LASKO, P.F. Stein, D. and Lasko, P. (2008) The 30th Anniversary Crete Fly Meeting: from individual molecules to 12 genomes, and beyond. Fly 2: 326-333. --Dansereau, D. A., and Lasko, P. (2008) An isoform of RanBPM regulates cell shape, arrangement and capacity of the female germline stem cell niche in Drosophila. J. Cell Biol. 182: 963-977.
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PUBLICATIONS BY FULL-TIME ACADEMIC STAFF (contd) --*Thomson, T., Liu, N., Arkov, A., Lehmann, R., and Lasko, P. (2008) Isolation of new polar granule components in Drosophila reveals P body and ER associated proteins. Mech. Dev. 125: 865-873. --*Hanyu-Nakamura, K., Sonobe, H., Tanigawa, A., Lasko, P., and Nakamura, A. (2008) Drosophila polar granule component encodes a small protein that acts as a germ cell specific PTEFb inhibitor. Nature 451: 730-733. --*Dansereau, D. A. and Lasko, P. (2008) The development of germline stem cells in Drosophila. In: Hou, S. X. and Singh, S. R. (eds.) Methods in Molecular Biology, volume 450, Germline Stem Cells. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, p. 3- 26. LECHOWICZ M.J. (Flinn, KM, MJ Lechowicz & MJ Waterway). 2008. Plant species diversity and composition of small wetlands within upland forests. American Journal of Botany 95: 1216-1224 --(Morin, X & Lechowicz MJ). 2008. Contemporary perspectives on the niche that can improve models of species range shifts under climate change. Biology Letters 4: 573-576 LEFEBVRE, L. (Sol, D, Bacher, S., Reader, S. M., Lefebvre, L.) Brain size predicts the success of mammal species introduced into novel environments. American Naturalist, v.172, 2008, pp. S63S71 --(Lefebvre, L., Sol. D.). Brains, lifestyles and cognition: are there general trends Brain, Behavior and Evolution, v. 72, 2008, pp. 135-144. --(Marino, L., Butti, C., Connor, R.C., Fordyce R.E., Herman L.M., Hof P.R., Lefebvre, L., Lusseau, D., McCowan, B., Nimchinsky, E.A., Pack, A.A., Rendell, L., Reidenberg, J.S., Reiss, D., Rendell, L., Uhen, M.D., Van der Gucht, E., Whitehead, H. ). A claim in search of evidence: Reply to Mangers thermogenesis hypothesis of cetacean brain structure. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, v.83, 2008, pp. 417-440. --(Overington, S. Dubois, F. Lefebvre, L.) Resource unpredictability drives both generalism and social foraging: a game theoretical model. Behavioral Ecology, v. 19, 2008, pp. 836-841. --(Raes, A., Lefebvre, L., Jordaens, K.). First report of fishing in the European Blackbird Turdus merula. Acta Ornithologica, v.43, 2008, pp. 231-234. --(Boogert, N.J., Giraldeau, L.A. Lefebvre L.). Song complexity correlates with learning ability in zebra finch males. Animal Behaviour, v.76, 2008, pp. 1735-1741. --Lefebvre, L. Petits futs! Linnovation comme signe dintelligence. Qubec Oiseaux, v.20 (2), 2008, pp. 10-14. (Invited cover article for 20th anniversary issue). LEUNG, B. Hyder, A., Leung, B., Miao, Z. 2008. Integrating data, biology, and decision models for invasive species management: application to leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula). Ecology and Society 13: 12 --Gertzen, E., Familiar, O., Leung, B. 2008. Quantifying invasion pathways : fish introductions from the aquarium trade. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 65: 1265-1273. --Cohen, J., Mirotchnick, N., Leung, B. 2008. The aquarium plant trade: missing pieces, the authors reply. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5: 528-532.
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PUBLICATIONS BY FULL-TIME ACADEMIC STAFF (contd) Delaney, D.G., Sperling, C.D., Adams, C., Leung, B. 2008. Marine invasive species: validation of citizen science and implications for national monitoring networks. Biological Invasions 10: 117-128 LOREAU, M. (Goudard, A. and Loreau, M.) Non-trophic interactions, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: an interaction web model. The American Naturalist, v. 171, 2008, pp. 91106. --Loreau, M. Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: the mystery of the deep sea. Current Biology, v. 18, 2008, pp. R126R128. --(Schmid, B., Hector, A., Saha, P. and Loreau, M.) Biodiversity effects and transgressive overyielding. Journal of Plant Ecology, v. 1, 2008, pp. 95102. --(Kfi, S., van Baalen, M., Rietkerk, M. and Loreau, M.) Evolution of local facilitation in arid ecosystems. The American Naturalist, v. 172, 2008, pp. E1E17. --(Loreau, M. and de Mazancourt, C.) Species synchrony and its drivers: neutral and nonneutral community dynamics in fluctuating environments. The American Naturalist, v. 172, 2008, pp. E48E66. --(Vojtech, E., Loreau, M., Yachi, S., Spehn, E. M. and Hector, A.) Light partitioning in experimental grass communities. Oikos, v. 117, 2008, pp. 13511361. --(Kylafis, G. and Loreau, M.) Ecological and evolutionary consequences of niche construction for its agent. Ecology Letters, v. 11, 2008, pp. 10721081. --(Leroux, S. J. and Loreau, M.) Subsidy hypothesis and strength of trophic cascades across ecosystems. Ecology Letters, v. 11, 2008, pp. 11471156. --(Haegeman, B. and Loreau, M.) Limitations of entropy maximization in ecology. Oikos, v. 117, 2008, pp. 17001710. --(Daufresne, T., Lacroix, G., Benhaim, D. and Loreau, M.) Coexistence of algae and bacteria: a test of the carbon hypothesis. Aquatic Microbial Ecology, v. 53, 2008, pp. 323332. --Loreau, M. Foreword. In DIVERSITAS Annual Report 2007: Integrating biodiversity science for human well-being, Paris, 2008, p. 1. MOON, NS (Morris EJ, Yuan JY, Yang F, Di Stefano L, Herr A, Moon NS, Kwon EJ, Haigis KM, Nr AM and Dyson NJ) E2F1 represses b-catenin transcription and is antagonized by both pRB and CDK8. Nature. 455(7212):552-6 --(Moon NS, Di Stefano L, Morris EJ, Patel R, White K, and Dyson NJ) E2F and p53 induce apoptosis independently during Drosophila development but intersect in the context of DNA damage. PLoS Genetics. 4(8):e1000153 POLLACK, G.S *(Sabourin, P., Gottlieb, H. and Pollack, G.S.) Carrier dependent temporal processing in an auditory interneuron. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, v. 123, 2008, pp. 2910-2917. --(Narbonne, R. and Pollack, G.S.) Developmental control of ultrasound sensitivity by a juvenile-hormone analog in crickets (Teleogryllus oceanicus). Journal of Insect Physiology, v. 54, 2008, pp. 1552-1556.
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PUBLICATIONS BY FULL-TIME ACADEMIC STAFF (contd) POTVIN, C. 5- Healy, C., Gotelli, N. and Potvin, C. 2008. Partitioning the effects of biodiversity and environmental heterogeneity for productivity and mortality in a tropical tree plantation. Journal of Ecology 96: 903-913. --Coll, L., Potvin, C., Messier, C. and Delagrange, S. 2008. Carbon storage, allocation patterns and root architecture of tropical trees with contrasting shade tolerance in young mixed plantations. Trees - Structure and Function 22: 585-596. --Delagrange, S., Coll, L, Messier, Ch, and Potvin, C. 2008. Linking multiple-level tree traits with biomass accumulation in native tree species used for reforestation in Panama. Trees Structure and Function 22: 337-349. --Potvin, C. and Bovarnick, A. 2008. Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries: Key actors, negotiations and actions. In Press - Carbon and Climate Law Review Special Edition: Climate Policy, Carbon Markets and Forestry, Legal Essays {online} http://www.lexxion.eu/cclr/current_issue.php. CCLR 03/2008 MARCH 2008 --Murphy, M., Balser, T., Buchmann, N., Hann, V. and Potvin, C. 2008 Linking tree biodiversity to belowground process in a young tropical plantation: impacts on soil CO2 flux. Forest Ecology and Management 255: 2577-2588. APRIL 2008 --Potvin, C., Guay, B. and Pedroni, L. 2008. Implementing the mechanisms proposed to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation: A case study with Panama. Climate Policy 8: 23-40. SPRING 2008 --#Potvin, C. and Gotelli, N. 2008. Biodiversity enhances individual performance but does not affect survivorship in tropical trees. Ecology Letters 11: 217223. APRIL 2008 #This paper was chosen by Science 319 (5869) as the Editors choice for the ecology section on March 14th 2008 http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol319/issue5869/twil.dtl#319/5869/1461a. --Coomes, O.T., Grimard, F., Potvin, C. and Sima, P. 2008. The fate of tropical forest: carbon or cattle? Ecological Economics 65: 207-212. MARCH 2008 --Sarlo, M, Healy, C and Potvin C. 2009. Tropical tree plantations with native species: linking carbon storage with concerns for biodiversity in. Dallmeier, F., A. Fenech, D. Maciver, and R. Szaro (ed.) Climate Change, Biodiversity, and Sustainability in the Americas. A Smithsonian Contribution to Knowledge. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, Washington, D.C. (October 8th 2008) PRICE, N.M. (Tremblay, J.-E., K. G. Simpson, J. Martin, L. Miller, Y. Gratton, D. G. Barber, and N. M. Price) 2008. Vertical stability and the annual dynamics of nutrients and chlorophyll fluorescence in the coastal, southeast Beaufort Sea. J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2007JC004547, in press. (accepted 29 February 2008). --(Simpson, K.G., J.-E- Tremblay, Y. Gratton & N.M. Price) 2008. An annual study of inorganic and organic nitrogen and phosphorus and silicic acid in the southeastern Beaufort Sea. J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2007JC004462, in press. (accepted 5 March 2008). ROY, R. Hebeisen M, Drysdale J, Roy R. (2008) Suppressors of the cdc-25.1(gf)-associated intestinal hyperplasia reveal important maternal roles for prp-8 and a subset of splicing factors in C. elegans. RNA.14: 2618-2633. --Ouellet J, Li S, Roy R. (2008) Notch signalling is required for both dauer mainte-nance and recovery in C. elegans. Development 135:2583-2592. Development. 135: 2583-2592.
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PUBLICATIONS BY FULL-TIME ACADEMIC STAFF (contd) SCHCK, F. Lee S, Zhou L, Kim J, Kalbfleisch S and Schck F (2008). Lasp anchors the Drosophila stem cell niche and mediates spermatid individualization. Mechanisms of Development 125, 768-776 SCHOEN, D. J. (JARVIS, D.I., and 28 other authors). Schoen, D. J. 2008. A global perspective of the richness and evenness of traditional crop genetic diversity maintained by farming communities. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA 105: 5326-5331. (On the cover) (ISI Impact factor 2006 = 9.6) --(BUSCH, J. W., SHARMA, J., and SCHOEN, D. J.) 2008. Molecular characterization of an SRK-like gene linked to the S-locus in the wild mustard, Leavenworthia alabamica. Genetics 178:2055-2067. (ISI Impact factor 2006 = 4.3) --*(BUSCH, J. W., and SCHOEN, D. J.) 2008. The molecular ecology of self-incompatibility in small populations. Trends in Plant Science 13:128-136. (ISI Impact factor 2006 = 8.0) --*(SCHOEN, D. J., REICHMAN, J. R., and ELLSTRAND, N. C.) 2008. Transgene escape monitoring and population genetics. Bioscience 58:71-77. (ISI Impact factor 2006 = 5.4) VOGEL, J. Logan ML, T Nguyen, N Szapiel, J Knockleby, H Por, M Zadworny, M Neszt, P Harrison, H Bussey, CA Mandato*, J Vogel* and G Lesage* Genetic interaction network of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae type 1 phosphatase Glc7. BMC Genomics 15,336 (2008) *corresponding authors --Vogel, J. (Tarassov, K., Messier,V., Landry, C.R., Radinovic, S., Serma, M., Shames I., Malitskaya, Y., Vogel, J., and Michnick, S.W.) An in vitro map of the yeast protein interactome. Science,v. 320 June 13th 2008, pp. 1465-1470. WESTERN, T.L. (Young, R.E., McFarlane, H.E., Hahn, M.G., Western, T.L., Haughn, G.W. and Samuels, A.L.) Analysis of the Golgi apparatus in Arabidopsis seed coat cells during polarized secretion of pectin-rich mucilage. Plant Cell, v. 20, 2008, pp. 1623-1638. --(Western, T.L.) Tales of mucilage and MEN cell walls and cellular differentiation. Genetics Society of Canada Bulletin, v. 39, 2008, pp. 65-66. ZETKA, M.C. Goodyer, W., Kaitna, S., Couteau, F., Ward, J.D., Boulton, S.J., and Zetka, M. (2008). HTP-3 links DSB formation with homolog pairing and crossing over during C. elegans meiosis. Developmental Cell, 14:263-274. ZHENG, H. (Li, F., Wu, X., Lam, P., Bird, D., Zheng, H., Samuels, L., Jetter, R., and Kunst L.). Identification of the Wax Ester Synthase/Acyl-CoA:Diacylglycerol Acyltransferase WSD1 Required for Stem Wax Ester Biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiology, v. 148, 2008, pp. 97-107
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AFFILIATION OF CO-AUTHORS (contd) Cotty, P.J. Crabtree, J. Crampton, W.G.R. Crispo, E. Darbyson, E. Davison, J. Delagrange, S. Delcourt, M. Denning, D.W. Desjardins, A. DiBattista, J. Di Stefano, L. Dunn, R.J. Dyer, P.S. Dyson, N.J. Egan, A.
Elina, H.
Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD USA. Department of Biology, University of Central Florida Department of Biology, McGill University Research Assistant, Biology, McGill University Merck Frost Center for Fungal Research, Montreal Institut qubecois dAmnagement de la Fort feuillue Dept. of Biology, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada. School of Medicine and Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Chronogen Inc., Montreal Redpath Museum and Dept. of Biology, McGill Univ. Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Cancer Research Centre for Research in Neuroscience, McGill Univ. School of Biology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom. Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Cancer Research The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD USA.
Department of Biology, McGill University
Ellis, L.D. Ellstrand, N. Ethier, M. Farrugia, T. Federova, N.D. Feldheim, K. Flinn, K. Fordyce, E. Foster, D. Fraser-Liggett, C.M. Galens, K. Galis, F. Gardezi, T. Gedye, S. Giraldeau, L-A Glass, L.
Dept. Physiology and Biophysics, Dalhousie University, Halifax Professor, University of California at Riverside Chronogen Inc., Montreal Biology Dept., California State Univ. Long Beach. The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD USA. Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, USA. Biology McGill Department of Geology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Dept. of Biological Sciences, Univ. of Calgary The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD USA. The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD USA. Institute of Biology, Leiden University, The Netherlands McGill University LTSN National Subject Centre for Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth, UK Dpartement des Sciences Biologiques, Universit du Qubec Montral Frdrique Dubois, Department of Biology, Univesit de Montral Centre for Non-Linear Dynamics, McGill University
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AFFILIATION OF CO-AUTHORS (contd) Goldman, G.H. Gotelli, N. Gottlieb, H Grandchamp, A-C. Gratton, Y. Grieg, D. Grimard, F. Gruber, S. Guay , B. Guimond, M-P. Hall, C.L. Haas, B.J. Hahn, M.G. Haigis, K.M. Hann, V. Haughn, G.W. Healy, C. Herman, L. M. Herr, A. Hihi, A. Hirochika, H. Hof, P.R. Horrocks, J.A. Hu, F.S. Hunte, W. Inman, J.M. Jarvis, D.I. Jiang, B. Joardar, V.S. Jones, R. Jordaens, K. Kaltenrieder, P. Kaufman, L.S. Depatamento de Ciencias Farmaceuticas, Faculdade de Ciencias Farmaceuticas de Ribeirao Preto, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Full Professor, University of Vermont Medical student, McGill Zoological Institute, Univ. of Basel, Switzerland. INRS-ETE, 490 de la Couronne, Qubec, QC. Reader, University College London. Associate Professor, Economy, McGill Division of Marine Biology and Fisheries, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, USA. OECD, France Chronogen Inc., Montreal previously Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Anthropology, McGill The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD USA. Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Cancer Research ETH-Zurich, Switzerland Botany Department, University of British Columbia Environmental advisor, Quebecor, Montral Department of Psychology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, HI Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Cancer Research Chronogen Inc., Montreal National Institute of Agrobiological Research, Tsukuba, Japan. Department of Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY Professor, U. of West Indies Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois Pro Vice Chancellor Research, U. of West Indies The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD USA. Bioversity International, Maccarese, Italy Merck Frost Center for Fungal Research, Montreal The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD USA. Dept. of Geography, University of Exeter, Devon, UK Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Belgium Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Dept. of Environ. Sci., ETH Zrich Department of Biology, Boston University
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AFFILIATION OF CO-AUTHORS (contd) Kasangaki, A. Kent, R. Ketela, T. Khaldi, N. Khila, A. Kianicka, I. Kim, N.-S. Kim, P.-H Kinnison, M. Knockleby, J. Koufopanou, V. Krhenbhl, U. Krueger, B.H. Kwon, E.J. Kwon, S.-J. Lambert, A. Landry, C.R. Lapointe, J. Leighton, P.A. Lemieux,S. Lesage, G. Logan, M.R. Lusseau, D. Maiti, R. Malavazi, I. Malitskaya, Y. Mandato, C.A. Marino, L. Martel, N. Martin, J. McBride, K. McCowan, B. International Trust for Forest Conservation & Mbarara University, Uganda School of Medicine and Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Merck Frost Center for Fungal Research, Montreal Department of Genetics, Smurfit Institute, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Postdoc in Abouheif Lab, Biology, McGill University Chronogen Inc., Montreal Department of Molecular Biosciences, Kangwon National University, Chunchon, Korea Department of Molecular Biosciences, Kangwon National University, Chunchon, Korea Dept. of Biological Sciences, Univ. of Maine, Orono. Dept. of Biology, McGill University Lecturer, Imperial College, London. Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Univ. of Bern, Switzerland Ph.D. student, U. of West Indies Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Cancer Research Department of Molecular Biosciences, Kangwon National University, Chunchon, Korea University of Paris VI, France. Biochimie, Universit de Montral McGill, Biology Department Ph.D. student, Kramer lab, Biology, McGill Merck Frost Center for Fungal Research, Montreal Dept. of Biology, McGill University Dept. of Biology, McGill University Department of Biology, Dalhousie University The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD USA. Depatamento de Ciencias Farmaceuticas, Faculdade de Ciencias Farmaceuticas de Ribeirao Preto, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Biochimie, Universit de Montral Anatomy and Cell Biology, McGill University, Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology Program, Emory University, Atlanta GA, Merck Frost Center for Fungal Research, Montreal Dpartement de biologie, Universit Laval, QC Chronogen Inc., Montreal Department of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA
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AFFILIATION OF CO-AUTHORS (contd) McFarlane, H.E. Mehaffey, W.H. Menard, A. Messier, C. Messier,V. Michnick, S.W. Miller, L. Morin, X. Morris, E.J. Murphy, M. Nr, A.M. Nahmad, M. Narbonne, R Neszt, M. Nierman, W.C. Nimchinsky, E. A. Nguyen, T. Omeja, P. Orvis, J. Overington, S Pack, A.A. Park, K.-C. Patel, R. Pedroni, L. Perron, G. Podos, J. Por, H. Quessy, S. Radinovic, S. Raes, A. Ramsay, J.O. Rsnen, K. A.L. Samuels Lab, Botany Department, UBC (M.Sc. student in Western lab at time paper completed) Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary Environmental consultant with S.N.C. Lavelin; real estate consultant in Montreal Universit du Qubec Montral Biochimie, Universit de Montral Biochimie, Universit de Montral Institute of Ocean Sciences, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Sidney, BC. Centre dEcologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, CNRS Montpellier Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Cancer Research PhD candidate, McGill, Geography Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Cancer Research Biophysics Institute, California Institute of Technology CEGEP teacher Anatomy and Cell Biology, McGill University, The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD USA. Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers State University, Newark, NJ Dept. of Biology, McGill University Department of Forestry, Makerere University, Uganda The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD USA. Department of Biology, McGill University The Dolphin Institute, Honolulu, HI Department of Molecular Biosciences, Kangwon National University, Chunchon, Korea Massachusetts General Hospital, Cutaneous Biology Research Center CATIE, Costa Rica PhD student, Oxford University. Dept. of Biology, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst. Dept. of Biology, McGill University Professor, Universit de Montral. Biochimie, Universit de Montral Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Antwerp, Belgium Dept. of Psychology, McGill University Institute of Integrative Biology and EAWAG, Department of Aquatic Ecology, ETH-Zurich,
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AFFILIATION OF CO-AUTHORS (contd) Reader, S. Reichman, J. Reardon, E. Rendell, L. Replansky, T. Ricciardi, T. Rodriguez-Saurez, R. Roemer, T. Ronacher, B. Ronning, C.M. Sabourin, P Samuels, A.L. Sarlo, M. Serma, M. Shames I. Sharma, J. Sharpe, D. Sillaots, S. Silva, J.C. Sol, D Sundaram, J.P. Sutton, G. Szapiel, N. Taranu, Z. Tarassov, K. Thibert-Plante, X. Tinner, W. Tremblay, J-E Trosok, S. Turgeon, K Turner, G. Twinomugisha, D. Uhen, M.D. Valles, H. Behavioural Biology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Western Division, Corvalis, OR Department of Biology, McGill University Center for Social and Cognitive Evolution, Sea Mammal Research Unit, School of Biology, University of St. Andrews, Fife, UK Event organizer, Montreal. Redpath Museum, McGill University Merck Frost Center for Fungal Research, Montreal Merck Frost Center for Fungal Research, Montreal Dept. Behavioural Physiology, Institute of Biology, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD USA. PhD student, U. Montreal Botany Department, University of British Columbia The Nature Conservancy, Panama Biochimie, Universit de Montral Biochimie, Universit de Montral former McGill undergraduate Dept. of Biology, McGill Univ. Merck Frost Center for Fungal Research, Montreal The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD USA. CREAF, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD USA. The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD USA. Dept. of Biology, McGill University Dept. of Biology, McGill University Biochimie, Universit de Montral Redpath Museum and Dept. of Biology, McGill Univ. Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Dept. of Environ. Sci., ETH Zrich Dpartement de biologie (Qubec-Ocan), Universit Laval, Qubec. Merck Frost Center for Fungal Research, Montreal Ph.D. student, Kramer lab, Biology, McGill Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK Makerere University, Uganda National Museum of Natural History, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC Expert in Fisheries Resources, Spanish International Development Agency, Haiti
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AFFILIATION OF CO-AUTHORS (contd) Van der Gucht, E. Veillette,K. Venter, J.C. Vermaire, J. Vogel, A. Waples, R. Ward, J.D. Waterway, M. Wen-Chi Corrie, L. White, K. White, O.R. Whitehead, H. Whitty, B.R. Witte, F. Wohlgemuth, S. Wolfe, K.H. Wortman, J.R. Xu, D. Yang, F. Young, R.E. Youngman, P. Yuan, J.Y. Zadworny, M. Department of Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY Merck Frost Center for Fungal Research, Montreal The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD USA. Dept. of Biology, McGill University Private company Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA-Fisheries, Seattle, USA. DNA Damage Response Laboratory, Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, UK Plant Science-McGill Department of Zoology, University of Florida Massachusetts General Hospital, Cutaneous Biology Research Center The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD USA. Department of Biology, Dalhousie University The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD USA. Institute of Biology, Leiden University, The Netherlands Dept. Behavioural Physiology, Institute of Biology, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany Department of Genetics, Smurfit Institute, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD USA. Merck Frost Center for Fungal Research, Montreal Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Cancer Research A.L. Samuels Lab, Botany Department, UBC Merck Frost Center for Fungal Research, Montreal Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Cancer Research Dept. of Biology, McGill University
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D.3.3. Refereed Publications in 2008 by Students and Post-doctoral Scholars Supervised by Faculty Members who were not Co-Authors.
CARROLL, R. L. Sigurdsen, Trond (PhD 4), The otic region of Doleserpeton (Temnospondyli) and its implications for the evolutionary origin of frogs. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, (2008), 154: 738-751. In review: The Lissamphibian humerus and elbow joint and the origin of modern amphibians. Journal of Morphology. Submitted: The anuran humerus and the evolution of jumping in early salientians. Paleobiology. GREGORY-EAVES, I. Student theses: *Taranu Z. 2008. Tracking changes in water quality due to catchment land-use and lake morphometry across spatial and temporal scales. MSc thesis, McGill University, QC, 107 pp. *Richard Albert M. 2008. Assessing the response of cladocera to nutrients and related ecological changes in shallow lakes over spatial and temporal scales. BScH thesis, McGill University, QC, 37 pp. HENDRY, A.P. Gardezi, T., and Gonzalez, A. Scale dependence of species-energy relationships: evidence from fishes in thousands of lakes. American Naturalist, v. 171, 2008, 800-815. LECHOWICZ M.J. Morin, X, D. Viner & I Chuine. 2008. Tree species range shifts at a continental scale: new predictive insights from a process-based model. Journal of Ecology 96: 784-794 (Supervised the lead author, postdoc Xavier Morin, and provided editorial input on the ms.) LEFEBVRE L. (Overington, S.E., Cauchard, L., Ct, K.A). Kleptoparasitism by the Gray Kingbird (Tyrannus dominicensis) in Barbados. Wilson Bulletin, v.120, 2008, pp. 655-657. LEUNG, B. Mendoza-Franco, EF, *Roche, DG, Torchin, ME. 2008. New species of Diplectanum (Monogenoidea: Diplectanidae), and proposal of a new genus of the Dactylogyridae from the gills of gerreid fishes (Teleostei) from Mexico and Panama. Folia Parasitologica 55: 171179, *indicates grad student
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INVITED LECTURES, PAPERS (contd) FAGOTTO F. Cellular dynamics of Xenopus gastrulation, Canadian Society Developmental Biology, Banff, March 2008 (invited speaker) --Cell sorting at embryonic boundaries, International Xenopus meeting, Trier, Germany, September 2008 (invited speaker) --High resolution live microscopy of cell motility and cell-cell contacts along embryonic tissue boundaries, Joined French/Japanese Societies for Developmental Biology, Hyeres, France, September 2008. FUSSMANN, G.F. Eco-evo old methods for a new field? NERC-funded workshop Linking evolutionary and ecological dynamics at the Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, UK (invited speaker and participant). Jan. 2008. GONZALEZ, A. (Pradeep Pillai, Michel Loreau, Andrew Gonzalez). A patch-dynamic framework for studying food-web metacommunities. CSEE Vancouver May 11-14, 2008. --(Whiteley, J. & Gonzalez, A.). Distribution of N-fixing cyanobacteria in boreal forest moss and implications for nutrient cycling. CSEE 2008. May 11-14, 2008. --(OFarrill, G., Gonzalez, A., Calme, S. and Sengupta, R.). The Tapirs role in the Ecosystem: Lessons from Experiments in the Forest, Calakmul Mexico. Fourth International Tapir Symposium. Parque Xcaret, Cancun, Mexico., 26 June, 2008. --(OFarrill, G., Gonzalez, A., Calme, S. and Sengupta, R.). Tapirs as unique seed dispersers: a large scale seed germination and survival experiment The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation Annual Meeting: Past and Recent history of Tropical Ecosystems: Cross Continental comparisons and Lessons for the Future. Paramaribo Suriname 2008, June 9-13th. GREGORY-EAVES, I. Chen G, Selbie DT, Finney BP, Schindler DE, Bunting L, Leavitt, PR, and Gregory-Eaves I. Zooplankton dynamics in Pacific salmon nursery lakes of Alaska: A limnological and paleolimnological perspective. Oral presentation for the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO), St Johns. June 8 13, 2008. --Bunting L, Leavitt PR, Schindler DE, Finney BP, Gregory-Eaves I., Selbie DT, Chen G, Pellatt MG, Bos DG. Continental gradients in the effects of marine-derived nutrients from salmon on lake primary production. Oral presentation for ASLO, St Johns. June 8 13, 2008. --Gregory-Eaves, I. Drawing ecological inferences from salmon lake sediment records. Young Investigators Seminar Series, School of Fisheries, University of Washington, Seattle WA, Oct. 10, 2008. --Gregory-Eaves, I. Paleolimnological techniques: What can lake sediments can tell us about past salmon abundance? Symposium on Applications of Paleolimnology to Sockeye Salmon Nursery Lakes and Ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska at sponsored by Raincoast Conservation Foundation, the Pacific Salmon Commission and Fisheries and Oceans Canada., Sydney, BC. Oct. 7-9, 2008. --Selbie D, Finney B, Leavitt P, Schindler DE, Smol JP and Gregory-Eaves I. Long-term climatic forcing of North Pacific salmon populations: Understanding future fisheries production in context of natural variability. Symposium on Sensitivity of Fish and Fisheries to Climate Change at the American Fisheries Meeting in Ottawa, Ont., Aug. 18-21, 2008.
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INVITED LECTURES, PAPERS (contd) HEKIMI, S. A genetic and pharmacological model of lipoprotein metabolism in C. elegans. Inauguration of the McGill Life Sciences Complex, Scientific Symposium, Sept 08. --Targets, Drugs, and Drug Targets for Dyslipidemia and Beyond. Novartis Institute of Biomedical Research, Boston, September 2008. --Energy metabolism, not mitochondrial oxidative stress, determines aging and sensitivity to agedependent diseases in worms and mice. Cold Spring Harbor New-York. September 2008. --Energy metabolism, not mitochondrial oxidative stress, determines aging and sensitivity to agedependent diseases in worms and mice. Keynote speaker: CIHR 7th Annual New Investigator Meeting. Jacksons Point. November 2008. HENDRY, A.P. Dept. of Biology, Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA, Dec. 4, 2008. --FAPESP, So Paulo, Brazil, Nov. 14, 2008. --Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Univ. of Oregon, Eugene, USA, Oct. 14, 2008. --Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of California, Davis, USA, Sept 25, 2008. KRAHE, R. Fugre, Krahe R: Electric signal diversity and reproductive isolation in gymnotiform fish. Socit Qubcoise pour ltude Biologique du Comportement Meeting 2008, Rimouski, QC, Canada, 31 October 2 November 2008 (poster presentation) --Krahe R, Bastian J, Chacron MJ: Multiple topographic maps in the electrosensory system. Gordon Research Conference: Neuroethology: Behavior, Evolution, and Neurobiology, Oxford, UK, 10-15 August, 2008 (poster presentation) --The electrosensory world of weakly electric fish. NEO Symposium, Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, Dec. 8, 2008 (oral presentation) --Electric fish and how they communicate: Montreal Field Naturalists Club, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, 29 October, 2008 --Processing of temporal information by multiple topographic maps in the electrosensory system: Colloquium at the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA, 15 October, 2008 --Temporal processing across multiple topographic maps in the electrosensory system: Seminars in Integrative Biology at the Dpartement des sciences biologiques at Universit de Montral, Montreal, QC, Canada, 15 September, 2008 KRAMER, D. L. Differential effect of early post-settlement processes on the abundance of two concurrently settling coral reef fishes (with Henri Valles and Wayne Hunte, presented by Henri Valles). International Coral Reef Symposium, Fort Lauderdale FL USA (9 July 2008). --Les aire protgs adjacentes peuvent-elle compenser lexploitation locale dune population par limmigration? (with K. Turgeon, presented by K. Turgeon). SQEBC, Rimouski (November 2008). --Connectivit et choix de trajectoires dans un recif : les demoiselles noires passent-elles par quatre chemins lorsqueelle retournent au bercail ? (with A. Robillard, K. Turgeon, V. Duclos, and J. Grgoire, presented by A. Robillard). SQEBC, Rimouski (November 2008). --Stop, Look, and Listen: the Ecology and Psychology of Vigilance. Invited lecture, Department of Biological Sciences, UQAM (1 October 2008)
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INVITED LECTURES, PAPERS (contd) --Stop, Look, and Listen: the Ecology and Psychology of Vigilance. Invited lecture, Department of Biology, Concordia University. (17 October 2008) LASKO, P. Platform presentation at the EMBO International Workshop on the Molecular and Developmental Biology of Drosophila, Kolymbari, Crete, June 23-29, 2008. --Platform presentation at Germ Cell Symposium in honor of Tony Mahowald, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, June 21, 2008. --October 2008: Translational control in the Drosophila development. Department of Biochemistry, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. --October 2008: Translational control in the Drosophila development. Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. --October 2008: Translational control in the Drosophila development. Academy of Science, Bologna, Italy. --June 2008: Department of Medical Genetics, University of Toronto. LECHOWICZ M.J. Morin X., Lechowicz M. J., Thuiller W., & Chuine I. Modlisation mcaniste de limpact du changement climatique sur la rpartition des espces d'arbres : rcentes avances et futurs dveloppements, Universit du Qubec Rimouski. November 24th 2008 given by Xavier Morin LEFEBVRE, L. Social informers and thieves: are heterospecifics different from conspecifics? European Conference on Behavioural Biology, plenary, Dijon, France, July 2008. --Is the comparative study of cognitive complexity at the level of the whole brain a waste of time? European Conference on Behavioural Biology, Symposium on Brain & Behaviour, Dijon, France, July 2008. --Twenty-one things that field work and comparative analyses have taught us about social transmission in grackles and doves. GRECA workshop on Social Transmission, UQAM, Montral, December 2008. LEUNG, B. Zhejiang Univ, Hangzhou, China - Predicting and managing biological invaders July 2008 --NaFIRI: Uganda -Statistics in ecology - June 2008 LOREAU, M. Cherif, M., Aly Hassan, R., Long, Z. & Loreau, M., 2008. Evolving complex food webs with simple physical and biological rules: a project. Poster at the Gordon Research Conference Metabolic basis of ecology, in Biddeford (U.S.A.). --Sun, C., Schmitz, O. J. & Loreau, M., 2008. Carnivore hunting mode and plant species coexistence. Poster at the 2008 Annual Meeting of The Society for Mathematical Biology, in Toronto (Canada). --Long, Z. T., Cherif, M. & Loreau, M., 2008. Coexistence of predators depends on differences in their sizes and the sizes of their prey. Talk at the 93rd Annual Meeting of The Ecological Society of America, in Milwaukee (U.S.A.). --Sun, C., Schmitz, O. J. & Loreau, M., 2008. Dynamics and ecological functioning of ecosystems with different predator hunting modes. Talk at the 93rd Annual Meeting of The Ecological Society of America, in Milwaukee (U.S.A.).
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INVITED LECTURES, PAPERS (contd) --Loreau, M., 2008. An Intergovernmental SciencePolicy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. Talk at the Symposium on the Centre for Biodiversity Science, in Montreal (Canada). --Loreau, M., 2008. Pourquoi se proccuper de la biodiversit? Lecture at Marie de France International School, in Montreal (Canada). NILSON, L.A. September 2, 2008 Department of Biochemistry, SUNY Buffalo Buffalo, NY, "Differential cell adhesion and epithelial morphogenesis during development." POLLACK, G.S. *(Sabourin, P and Pollack, G.S.) Mechanisms of temporal filtering in a simple auditory system. Canadian Association of Neuroscience, Montreal, May 2008. --(Pollack, G.S. and Sabourin, P.) Temporal coding by populations of auditory afferents in the cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus. XII Invertebrate Sound & Vibration Meeting, Tours, October 2008. --(Sabourin, P. and Pollack, G.S.) Bursting in auditory receptor neurons of crickets. XII Invertebrate Sound & Vibration Meeting, Tours, October 2008. --(Narbonne, R. and Pollack, G.S.) Hormonal control of ultrasound sensitivity in crickets. XII Invertebrate Sound & Vibration Meeting, Tours, October 2008. --(Pollack, G.S., Marsat, G. and Sabourin, P.) Bugs, bats and bursts: behaviorally relevant bursting in an insect auditory system. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Conference on the Life Sciences, Montreal, August 2008. --Pollack, G.S. Mechanisms of temporal coding in a simple auditory system. Department of Physiology, McGill, September 2008. --Pollack, G.S. Neuroethology of acoustic behavior in crickets. Department of Biology, Indiana University, September 2008. POTVIN, C. Reducing Emissions from deforestation and forest degradation : The international agenda and challenges of implementation. Key note address Adaptation of Forests and Forest Management to Changing Climate with Emphasis on Forest Health: A Review of Science, Policies, and Practices. Umea, Sweden, August 2008. SCHCK, F. 2008 Poster at the GRC on Signaling by Adhesion Receptors, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA (June 29 July 4); K Jani, T Bunch, and F Schck: Zasp is a core adaptor of the integrin adhesion complex linking talin and -actinin --2008 June 13: Integrin-mediated cell-matrix adhesion and its modulation by LIM domain proteins during development given in the Department of Cell Biology, University of Alberta, Edmonton. Alberta Heritage VOGEL, J. April 23, 2008 multi-level analysis of spindle dynamics in living cells: genome, proteome, molecules Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) Barcelona, Spain --April 8, 2008 multi-level analysis of spindle dynamics in living cells: genome, proteome, molecules Institute of Biochemistry, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland December 3, 2008 Analysis of cytoskeletal dynamics in living cells: genome, proteome, molecules. Institute for Systems Biology, University of Ottawa
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INVITED LECTURES, PAPERS (contd) --November 28, 2008 Analysis of cytoskeletal dynamics in living cells: genome, proteome, molecules. School of Computer Science, McGill University --November 7, 2008 The challenges and thrills of measuring cytoskeletal and spindle dynamics in living cells. Department of Physiology, McGill University --June 12-13, 2008. Invited speaker/discussant, Cellular Decision Making, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research; CIFAR (co-author of speaker Maria Kilfoil: Analysis of fast spindle dynamics in living cells) WESTERN, T.L. Arsovski, A.A., Popma, T.M., Haughn, G.W., Carpita, N.C., McCann, M.C. and Western, T.L. AtBXL1 encodes a putative -D-xylosidase/-L-arabinofuranosidase required for pectic arabinan modification in Arabidopsis mucilage secretory cells. 42nd Plant Development Workshop and Canadian Society of Plant Physiologists Eastern Regional Meeting, Toronto, Canada. December 5-6, 2008. --Arsovski, A.A., Popma, T.M., Haughn, G.W., Carpita, N.C., McCann, M.C. and Western, T.L. AtBXL1 encodes a putative -D-xylosidase/-L-arabinofuranosidase required for pectic arabinan modification in Arabidopsis mucilage secretory cells. 2nd Montreal Plant Meeting, Montreal, Canada. November 15, 2008. --Western, T.L. Genetic analysis of pectin structure in Arabidopsis mucilage secretory cells. McGill Biomimetic Research Symposium, Montreal, Canada. October 31, 2008. --McFarlane, H.E., Kwok, M. and Western, T.L. Reverse genetic investigation of plasma membrane-cell wall attachment in the mucilage secretory cells of Arabidopsis. 6th Canadian Plant Genomics Workshop (Session Chair), Toronto, Canada. June 23-26, 2008. --Arsovski, A.A., Popma, T.M., Haughn, G.W., Carpita, N.C., McCann, M.C. and Western, T.L. AtBXL1 encodes a bifunctional -D-xylosidase/-L-arabinofuranosidase required for pectic arabinan modification in Arabidopsis mucilage secretory cells. Cell Wall Biosynthesis 3, Asilomar, USA. June 9-11, 2008. --*Arsovski, A.A., Popma, T.M., Haughn, G.W., Carpita, N.C., McCann, M.C. and Western, T.L. AtBXL1 encodes a bifunctional -D-xylosidase/-L-arabinofuranosidase required for pectic arabinan modification in Arabidopsis mucilage secretory cells. 19th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, Montreal, Canada. July 23-27, 2008. *Winner of best Student Abstract in Cell Wall poster session, A. Arsovski invited to attend Emerging Young Scientists Luncheon during the conference. --McFarlane, H.E., Kwok, M. and Western, T.L. Reverse genetic investigation of plasma membrane-cell wall attachment in the mucilage secretory cells of Arabidopsis. 19th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, Montreal, Canada. July 23-27, 2008. --Villota, M.M., Arsovski, A.A., Martin, N., Wang, M., Schafhauser, J., Pantelidis, M.S., Rowland, O., Subramaniam, G. and Western, T.L. Isolation and characterization of MUM ENHANCERS (MEN) affecting Arabidopsis seed coat differentiation. 19th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, Montreal, Canada. July 23-27, 2008. --Villota, M.M., Martin, N., Western, T.L., Subramaniam, G. and Rowland, O. Characterization of enhancers of mucilage-modified4. 50th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Plant Physiologists. Ottawa, Canada. June 14-17, 2008. --Mucilage, MEN and cell walls in cellular differentiation. Biology Department, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. November 27, 2008.
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INVITED LECTURES, PAPERS (contd) --Mucilage, MEN and cell walls in cellular differentiation. Biology Department, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. November 21, 2008. ZETKA, M. C. Ka-Lun Law and Monique Zetka. Suppression of nonhomolgous synapsis in C. elegans. Gordon Research Conference on Meiosis, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, New Hampshire, June 13-18, 2008. ZHENG, H. Qi, X. and Zheng H. (2008). Function and regulation of Rab-A1 proteins in membrane trafficking in Arabidopsis, 2nd Montreal Plant Meeting (Talk), Montreal, Canada, Nov 2008 --Chen, J. and Zheng, H. (2008). RHD3 functions in the interface of ER-to-Golgi trafficking in plant cell development, 2nd Montreal Plant Meeting (Poster), Montreal, Canada, Nov 2008 --Qi, X. and Zheng, H. (2008). Functional characterization of Rab-A1c in membrane trafficking in Arabidopsis, 19th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (Poster), Montreal, Canada, July 2008 --Beaudoin, F., Wu, X., Li, F., Haslam, R., Markham, J., Zheng, H., Napier, J.A. and Kunst, L. (2008). Functional Characterization of the Arabidopsis thaliana -Ketoacyl-CoA Reductase Candidates of the Fatty Acid Elongase, 18th International Plant Lipid Symposium (Talk), Bordeaux, France, July 2008 --GTP, GFP and secretory life of plant cells, Dpartement des Sciences Biologiques, UQAM, Montreal, Canada, May 2008 --GTP, GFP and membrane trafficking in plant cells, Institut de Recherche en Biologie Vgtale, Universit de Montral, Montreal, Canada, April 2008
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