Weir Lab opportunities (details here).
Professor (University of Toronto)
Research Associate (Royal Ontario Museum, Department of Ornithology)
Email: jason.weir [at] utoronto.ca
PhD student
 
PhD student: Mitonuclear incompatibilities in Amazonian birds.
 
PhD student: Whole genome characterization of hybrid speciation in the Golden-crowned Manakin and in skuas.
 
Honours thesis: Butterfly genomics and taxonomy
 
Honours thesis: Butterfly genomics and taxonomy
 
Honours thesis: Butterfly genomics and taxonomy
 
Butterfly identification and processing
 
Butterfly identification and processing
 
Butterfly identification and processing
 
Butterfly identification and processing
 
Post Doctoral fellow 2019-2022: Biogeography and population genomics of kiwi and flycatchers.
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PhD May 2023: 1) Role of ecological differentiation in acellerating evolution in birds of the Amazon basin. 2) hybridization between the elevational replacing Ramphocelus melanogaster and R. carbo
 
PhD May 2022: The role of competition and divergent selection in accelerating functional trait evolution.
 
PhD 2020: Hybrid zones in Hypoecnemis antbirds.
 
MSc May, 2019: Phylogeography of North American flycatchers.
 
PhD Dec, 2018: Phylogeography of varzea specialists.
Email: maya.faccio [at] mail.utoronto.ca
MSc August, 2018: Rates of trait evolution in Andean and Amazonian birds.
 
PhD December, 2016: Role of extinction in driving latitudinal diversity gradients and the genetic architecture of reproductive isolation in morphologically cryptic avian taxa of Amazonia.
Email: p.pulidosantacruz [at] mail.utoronto.ca
PhD September 2016: Speciation in Amazonian manakins with a special focus on hybrid speciation in Lepidothix manakins.
 
PhD August 2016: Phylogeography of Ceratopipra manakins of the Amazon basin.
Email: d_lavareda [at] hotmail.com
MSc December, 2013: Climatic niche evolution in birds.
Email: adam.lawson [at] utoronto.ca
Butterfly field work in the Greater Toronto Area
 
Butterfly field work in the Greater Toronto Area
 
Honour's Thesis: Butterfly genomics and taxonomy
 
Honour's Thesis: Butterfly genomics and taxonomy
 
Honour's Thesis: Conservation genomics of Amazonian Pipra manakins
 
Butterfly specimen processing
 
Butterfly specimen processing
 
Butterfly specimen processing
 
DNA isolation
 
Butterfly field work in the Greater Toronto Area
 
Butterfly field work in the Greater Toronto Area
 
Butterfly field work in the Greater Toronto Area
 
Butterfly field work in the Greater Toronto Area
 
Honour's Thesis: Mitonuclear introgression in Ramphocelus carbo and R. melanogaster.
 
Honour's Thesis: Whole genome assesment of Fst in Ramphocelus carbo and R. melanogaster.
 
Honour's Thesis: Rates of gene flow in autosomes and the z-chromosome in R. carbo and R. melanogaster.
 
Honour's Thesis: Mitogenomes in Ramphocelus carbo and R. melanogaster.
 
Ten UTSC undergrad honour students each sequenced, assembled and annotated the genome of a different Canadian bird. People from left to right. Front row: POS1, Adam El-Menini, Arsham Javaherdashti, Yahye Abdi, Amanda Nelson, Abdul Afzal, Shawanah Rahman, Vethushan Ramalingam. Back row: POS1, Else Mikkelsen (Project Coordinator), Jason Weir (Project Principal Investigator), Vernon Fong. Funds for this project were generously supplied by the Office of the Vice-Principal Research, the Department of Biological Sciences, and NSERC.