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John received a B.A. in Biology from Bucknell University in May 1996. He completed his Ph.D. in Biology at Duke University in 2001, working with Mark Rausher. His dissertation explored how the evolutionary dynamics of plant defense traits depended on variation in community composition. He then moved to Annie Schmitt's lab at Brown University as a Post-Doctoral Researcher, studying how flowering time variation in Arabidopsis thaliana is influenced by climate and the functionality of candidate genes. In addition to these academic pursuits, John drinks inordinate amounts of coffee on a daily basis.
The Stinchcombe Lab was founded at the University of Toronto in September 2005. We study plant evolutionary and ecological genetics, using morning glory, Jewelweed, Arabidopsis, and Medicago as study systems. |
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Young Wha Lee
Young Wha joined the lab in December 2010, to work on Capsella population genomics. She did her graduate work at Duke with John Willis, and also worked closely with John Kelly on QTL mapping in Mimulus. She was somewhat taken aback by being offerred a post-doc at the Evolution meetings even though had not yet applied for the position, but she quickly came to the conclusion that she shouldn't pass up the opportunity to work with the third John in a row. Our close collaboration with Stpehen Wright breaks this streak of great names, but we occasionally refer to him as "John #4" to keep the streak alive. |
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Billie Gould
Billie joined the lab in January 2013, while finishing up her PhD at Cornell University with Monica Geber and Susan McCouch. She is planning on working on the genetics of adaptation in Arabidopsis thaliana. She has her own website, which is where we stole this picture. For her PhD, she worked on the ecological genetics of rapid evolution in sweet grass.
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Brechann McGoey
Brechann finished her Master's thesis in the lab, went out and worked in plant conservation, and has come back for a PhD. She is broadly interested in evolutionary ecology, and specifically how species interactions affect the evolutionary dynamics of plants. For her project, Brechann spent lots of time in the Marsh at Joker's Hill, and became quite adept at dodging large spiders. She published some very cool papers in New Phytologist and Evolution.
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Emily Josephs
Emily is starting a PhD in the lab, co-advised by Stephen Wright. Emily came to Toronto by way of Annie Schmitt, Leonie Moyle, and David Reznick, and is now carving out her own niche studying gene expression evolution. hShe is joint student between the Stinchcombe and Wright labs, and is working on Capsella, which looks a lot like one of John's favorite plants, Arabidopsis. Check out her cool website.
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Amanda Stock
Amanda was the winner of the 2008, Bio 150 Northrop Frye Scholarship, a prestigious scholarship given to 1 outstanding student in Bio 150, a class of close to 1,700 students. For her project, Amanda investigated how levels of herbivory on Impatiens capensis changed depending on the severity of interspecific competition. In doing so, she quickly mastered Photoshop and brought all kinds of stinky and nasty bugs back to the lab. She followed this up with a summer NSERC looking at costs of nodulation in Medicago. She then did another project in the lab on clinal variation in morning glory, and will probably study something different for her Ph.D. Check out her awesome website. |
| Honors & R.O.P. Students |
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Adriana Salcedo
Adriana is a year working in the lab, spending the summer investigating geographic patterns in eco-physiological traits in Capsella. She has past research experience working in Ellie Larsen's lab on lichens. She is the inaugural winner of the James D. Rising Scholarship in field biology, which she used to defray the expenses of a 2-week field course in Peruvian Andes and lowland rainforest with John and Megan Frederickson. She's shown here at Wayqecha Cloud Forest. John and Megan's suspicion is that field work in the tropcial rainforest was not Adriana's cup of tea. She acutally no longer works in the lab, but we're keeping her picture up in case she decides to do a MSc. with John & Stephen.
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