View below or download here: G. Conte CV Oct. 2014
Gina L. Conte
4200-6270 University Blvd.
Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6T 1Z4
Email: conte [at] zoology [dot] ubc [dot] ca
Education
2008-2014 Ph.D.
Supervisor: Dolph Schluter
Biodiversity Research Centre and Zoology Department
University of British Columbia
2003-2006 B.Sc.
Behavior, Ecology, Evolution & Systematics
Biological Sciences
University of Maryland
Postdoctoral Appointments
2014-Present
Supervisors: Michael Whitlock, Loren Rieseberg and Sally Aitken
AdapTree Project
Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences
University of British Columbia
Honors, Awards and Fellowships
2014 Talk Award – CSEE, Genomes to Biomes 2014
2014 Talk Award – EVO-WIBO
2014 Talk Award – Zoology Graduate Student Symposium
2013 American Genetic Association Travel Award
2013-2014 Zoology Graduate Fellowship – UBC
2012 American Genetic Association Travel Award
2012 NSERC-CREATE Training Program – BRITE Travel Award
2009-2011 NSERC-CREATE Training Program – BRITE Fellowship
2009-2010 National Science Foundation GRFP Honorable Mention
2009-2010 University Graduate Fellowship – UBC
2008-2009 Graduate Entrance Scholarship – UBC
2008-2009 Eugenie Clark Biology Department Fellowship – UMD (declined)
2006 High Honors in Biology with B.Sc. degree
2006 Cum laude with B.Sc. degree
2004-2006 “Outstanding Student” in the College of Chemical and Life Sciences – UMD
Publications
Arnegard, M.E., M.D. McGee, B.W. Matthews, K.B. Marchinko, G.L. Conte, S. Kabir, N. Bedford, S. Bergek, Y.F. Chan, F.C. Jones, D.M. Kingsley, C.L. Peichel, and D. Schluter. 2014. Genetics of ecological divergence during speciation. Nature 511: 307-311. doi:10.1038/nature13301.
Conte, G.L., and D. Schluter. 2013. Experimental confirmation that body size determines mate preference via phenotype matching in a stickleback species pair. Evolution 67-5: 1477-1484. DOI: 10.1111/evo.12041.
Oh, K., G.L. Conte, and K.L. Shaw. 2013. Founder effects and the evolution of asymmetrical sexual isolation in a rapidly-speciating clade. Current Zoology 59 (2): 230–238.
Conte, G.L., M.E. Arnegard, C.L. Peichel, and D. Schluter. 2012. The probability of genetic parallelism and convergence in natural populations. Proc. R. Soc. B 279: 5039-5047. doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.2146.
Via, S., G. Conte, C. Mason-Foley, and K. Mills. 2012. Localizing FST outliers on a QTL map reveals evidence for large genomic regions of reduced gene exchange during speciation-with-gene-flow. Mol. Ecol. 21(22): 5546-5560. DOI: 10.1111/mec.12021.
Schluter, D. and G.L. Conte. 2009. Genetics and ecological speciation. PNAS 106: 9955-9962.
Manuscripts in Preparation
Conte G.L., M.E. Arnegard, J. Best, Y.F. Chan, F.C. Jones, D.M. Kingsley, D. Schluter and C.L. Peichel. Submitted. The Extent of Parallel Genetic Evolution Underlying Parallel Phenotypic Evolution in Pairs of Benthic and Limnetic Threespine Stickleback Species.
Presentations
2014 Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution Conference
Talk Title: “How predictable are the genetics of adaptation?”
2014 EVO-WIBO
Talk Title: “How predictable are the genetics of adaptation?”
2014 Zoology Graduate Student Symposium
Talk Title: “How predictable are the genetics of adaptation?”
2013 AGA 2013: Speciation Continuum
Poster Title: “How parallel is divergence in quantitative traits and their QTL during repeated ecological speciation?”
2012 Pacific Northwest Ecology and Evolution Retreat
Talk Title: “The probability of genetic parallelism and convergence in natural populations”
2012Seventh International Conference on Stickleback Behavior and Evolution
Talk Title: “Tests of genomic-level parallelism underlying parallel ecological speciation in threespine stickleback”
2012First Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology
Talk Title: “Tests of genomic-level parallelism underlying parallel ecological speciation in threespine stickleback”
2011 Invited Lecture in ‘Diversity and Evolution of Fishes’ (UBC BIOL465)
Lecture Title: “Ecological Genetics of Speciation”
2011 Pacific Northwest Ecology and Evolution Retreat
Talk Title: “Preliminary QTL for niche differences between benthic and limnetic sticklebacks”
2011 Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution Conference
Talk Title: “Assortative Mating by Body Size Phenotype Matching”
2011 Zoology Graduate Student Symposium
Talk Title: “Assortative Mating by Body Size Phenotype Matching”
2010 Evolution Conference
Poster Title: “Genetic Architecture of Speciation With Gene Flow: Threespine Stickleback Species Pairs”
2010 Texada Island Stickleback Symposium
Talk Title: “Discovering the Genetics of Speciation in Benthic and Limnetic Threespine Sticklebacks”
2009 Pacific Northwest Ecology and Evolution Retreat
Talk Title: “Simple mendelian segregation of nesting habitat preference in male sticklebacks”
2009 Stickleback Molecular Genetics Course/Conference
Talk Title: “Genetic architecture of ecological speciation in benthic and limnetic sticklebacks”.
2008 Pacific Northwest Ecology and Evolution Retreat
Poster Title: “Mapping Reproductive Isolation in Threespine Sticklebacks: Proposed Research”.
Other Work Experience:
2008-2009 Teaching Assistant – Basic Genetics
Biology Department, University of British Columbia
2006-2008 Laboratory Manager and Research Assistant
Via Lab, University of Maryland
2006 Field Assistant
Shaw Lab, University of Maryland
2005-2006 Honors Research Thesis
Shaw Lab, University of Maryland
2004-2006 Laboratory Assistant
Shaw Lab, University of Maryland
2003 Field and Greenhouse Assistant
Costa Lab, University of Maryland
Supervisorial Experience
2013-present Joey Burant – Directed studies student, Schluter lab UBC
2009-2013 Jacob Best – Lab and field technician, Schluter lab UBC
2010-2011 Tiffany Lam – Honors student and research assistant, Schluter Lab UBC
2008-2011 Nicole Bedford – Honors student and research assistant, Schluter Lab UBC
2008-2010 Sahriar Kabir – Honors student and research assistant, Schluter Lab UBC
2007-2008 Casey Mason-Foley – Undergraduate research assistant, Via Lab UMD
2007-2008 Kelly Mills – Undergraduate research assistant, Via Lab UMD
2006-2008 Jeffrey Lew – Undergraduate research assistant, Via Lab UMD
Professional Memberships
Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE)
Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution (CSEE)
American Society of Naturalists (ASN)
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Professional Service and Outreach
2008-2014 Member of the Zoology Graduate Student Association
2012 Volunteer for interviews with students in UBC’s first-year science seminar (SCI113)
2011 Organizer of the Zoology Graduate Student Symposium
2011 Organizer of the Annual Evolution Lecture
2010-present Reviewer for Evolution, Molecular Ecology, ODE, Oikos, J. Biogeography
2010-2011 President of the Zoology Graduate Student Association
2010 Organizer of tri-university biology social
2010 Volunteer for FestEvolve
2010 Speaker at the Texada Island Stickleback Symposium
2008 Volunteer for Vancouver Evolution Festival
References
Dolph Schluter
(Ph.D. Advisor)
Professor and Canada Research Chair
Biodiversity Research Centre and
Zoology Department
University of British Columbia
Catherine Peichel
(Collaborator and Ph.D. Committee Member)
Associate Member
Division of Human Biology
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Loren Rieseberg
(Postdoc Supervisor and Ph.D. Committee Member)
Professor
Biodiversity Research Centre and
Botany Department
University of British Columbia
loren.rieseberg@botany.ubc.ca
Michael Whitlock
(Postdoc Supervisor and Ph.D. Committee Member)
Professor
Biodiversity Research Centre and
Zoology Department
University of British Columbia
whitlock@zoology.ubc.ca
Sara Via
(Former Supervisor)
Professor
Department of Biology and
Department of Entomology
University of Maryland
svia@umd.edu