Principal Investigator
Darren Irwin (email) (download CV)
Graduate Students
Caleigh Charlebois (PhD candidate)
Claudie Pageau (PhD candidate)
Finola Fogarty (PhD student)
Lab Alumni
Postdoc alumni:
Dr. Armando Geraldes (now Research Scientist, UBC Zoology)
Dr. Christine Grossen (postdoctoral researcher, 2013-2014; now Independent Group Leader, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Dr. Miguel Alcaide (postdoctoral researcher, 2011-2014; now Senior Molecular Diagnostics Scientist, SAGA Diagnostics, Lund, Sweden)
Dr. Sampath Seneviratne (postdoctoral researcher, 2009-2012; now Professor, Department of Zoology & Environment Sciences, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka)
Dr. Alex Rubtsov (visiting postdoctoral researcher, 2005-2006; now Head of Research Department, State Darwin Museum, Moscow, Russia)
PhD alumni:
Dr. Rashika Ranasinghe (PhD 2025, now a postdoc at the BC Cancer Agency)
Dr. Kenny Askelson (PhD 2024, now a postdoc in the Michael Smith Labs, UBC)
Dr. Libby Natola (PhD 2023, now Research Scientist with the Hakai Institute)
Dr. Saminda Fernando (PhD 2020; co-advised with Dr. Sampath Seneviratne; now
Senior Lecturer, The Open University of Sri Lanka)
Dr. Silu Wang (PhD 2019; now starting as Assistant Professor at the University at Buffalo)
Dr. Kira Delmore (PhD 2015; now Associate Professor at Columbia 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 Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State University)
Dr. Julie Lee-Yaw (PhD, 2013; now Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa)
Dr. Alan Brelsford (PhD, 2010; now Associate Professor at Univ. of California Riverside)
Dr. Andrew Rush (graduate student, 2005-2007; completed PhD program at UC Berkeley; now Continuing Lecturer, UC Berkeley)
MSc alumni:
Ellen Nikelski (MSc, 2021; now in PhD program at University of Toronto Scarborough)
Dr. Maddie Ore (MSc, 2019; earned PhD at Cornell University, 2025)
Dr. Kenny Askelson (MSc, 2018; continued to a PhD–see above)
Alison Porter (MSc, 2015; now in law school at University of Ottawa)
Cheng Chen (MSc, 2017; co-advised by Jedediah Brodie and Darren Irwin)
Dr. Haley Kenyon (MSc, 2013; earned a PhD at Queen’s Univ., now a postdoc at the University of Colorado Boulder)
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
Sam Wong (NSERC USRA, 2024; Honours project, 2024-2025)
Quinn McCallum (NSERC USRA, 2019; Honours project, 2019-2021; now a PhD student at Louisiana State University)
Dr. Annegret Moto Naido-Liederbach (Honours project, 2016-2018; earned MSc and PhD at Kyoto Univ.; now a postdoc at Kyoto City Zoo)
Dr. Else Mikkelsen (Honours Project, 2016-2018; earned a PhD from University of Toronto Scarborough)
Stephanie Cavaghan
Michelle Chen (Honours project, 2012-2014)
Jamie Clarke
Alana Demko
Julian Heavyside
Haley Kenyon (Honours project, 2009-2010; continued as MSc student–see above)
Kristen Haakans
Mehdi Khadraoui
Nina Lobo
Christie Macdonald
Jacqueline Mackenzie
Dr. Matthew Osmond (now Assistant Professor at Univ. of Toronto)
Margarita Pacis
Thomas Pierce
Matt Robinson
Talia Sechley