Principal Investigator
Darren Irwin (email)
Graduate Students
Silu Wang (PhD student)
Libby Natola (PhD student)
Kenny Askelson (PhD student, after completing his MSc here; email)
Saminda Fernando (email; PhD student at Univ. of Colombo; co-advised by Sampath Seneviratne and Darren Irwin)
Maddie Ore (MSc student; email)
Ellen Nikelski (MSc student)
Rashika Ranasinghe (MSc student)
Postdoctoral Fellows
Undergraduate Researchers
Annegret Liederbach (Honours project, 2016-2018)
Else Mikkelsen (research assistant, NSERC USRA, and Honours Project, 2016-2018)
Jacqueline Mackenzie (research assistant and Hesse undergraduate researcher, 2017)
Lab Alumni
Postdoc alumni:
Dr. Miguel Alcaide (email; postdoctoral researcher, 2011-2014; now a Research Associate at Simon Fraser University)
Dr. Christine Grossen (postdoctoral researcher, 2013-2014; now a postdoc at University of Zurich)
Dr. Sampath Seneviratne (postdoctoral researcher, 2009-2012; now Senior Lecturer at Univ. of Colombo, Sri Lanka)
Dr. Alex Rubtsov (visiting postdoctoral researcher, 2005-2006; now a curator at the State Darwin Museum, Moscow)
PhD alumni:
Dr. Kira Delmore (PhD 2015; now Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University) **Received Faculty of Science Graduate Prize for Best PhD Dissertation in UBC Science, and Milsom Prize for Best PhD Dissertation in UBC Zoology
Dr. David Toews (PhD, 2014; now a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell Lab of Ornithology; starting in 2019 as Assistant Professor at Pennsylvania State University)
Dr. Julie Lee-Yaw (PhD, 2013; now an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Rieseberg lab in UBC Botany, starting in July 2019 as Assistant Professor at the University of Lethbridge)
Dr. Alan Brelsford (PhD, 2010; now Assistant Professor at Univ. of California Riverside)
Dr. Andrew Rush (graduate student, 2005-2007; completed PhD program at UC Berkeley)
MSc alumni:
Alison Porter (MSc, 2015; now an Interpreter in the Beaty Biodiversity Museum)
Cheng Chen (MSc, 2017; co-advised by Jedediah Brodie and Darren Irwin)
Haley Kenyon (MSc, 2013; now a Ph.D. student at Queen’s Univ.)
Katie Kuker (MSc, 2008; co-advised by Lance Barrett-Lennard; now a Senior Consultant at Environmental Resources Management)
Dr. David Toews (MSc, 2007; went on to do PhD–see above)
BSc alumni:
Stephanie Cavaghan
Michelle Chen (Honours project, 2012-2014)
Alana Demko
Julian Heavyside
Haley Kenyon (Honours project, 2009-2010; continued as MSc student–see above)
Kristen Haakans
Mehdi Khadraoui
Nina Lobo
Christie Macdonald
Matthew Osmond
Margarita Pacis
Thomas Pierce
Matt Robinson
Talia Sechley