Current and recently funded projects

Funding

  • Comparative molecular evolutionary genetics of bivalves.
    - Sperm motility and mtDNA polymorphisms in Mytilus mussels.
    - Adaptive significance of male-transmitted mtDNA in bivalves
    - Comparative genomics of male and female mitochondrial DNAs in Mytilus
    (Collaborators include Pierre Blier and Sophie Breton, UQAR; Randy Hoeh and Jennifer Walker, Kent State)

  • Conservation genetics of the freshwater mussels, Pyganodon cataracta and Pyganodon fragilis in Atlantic Canada (with Lily Stanton and Randy Hoeh).


  • Taxonomy and historical biogeography of Sorex gaspensis and S. dispar, two of Atlantic Canada’s rarest shrews. $6000. (with Aaron Shafer, PhD candidate U. of A., Stephen Petersen, PhD candidate Trent, Fred Scott,  Acadia Wildlife Museum Curator, and Judith Rhymer, University of Maine Orono.


  • Gene expression and Development – in situ PCR system (with Glenys Gibson).


  • Conservation genetics of the endangered yellow lampmussel, Lampsilis cariosa, in Atlantic Canada.
    - Collaborators include Judith Rhymer, University of Maine at Orono, Don McAlpine New Brunswick Museum, and Kelly White, ACAP-Cape Breton, and David Toews, Acadia University.

  • Conservations genetics of southern flying squirrels (Glaucomys volans) in Nova Scotia.
    - with Stephen Petersen, Trent University.

 

  • Atlantic Centre for Global Change and Ecosystem Research (ACGCER, John Roff, PI +8 others).

 

2008-2013. NSERC Discovery Grant. $27,580/yr.

 



2007. $4750.
New Brunswick Wildlife Trust Fund.

2005. $6000.
New Brunswick Wildlife Trust Fund.



2005. NSERC Equipment Grant. $22451.


2003/04. New Brunswick Wildlife Trust Fund. $9000.



2003. WWF-Endangered Species Recovery Fund. $5000.

2004. $1.2M for infrastructure; $300K in support of research.

 

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Last updated November 2008.