Dr. Tristan A.F. Long

Assistant Professor, Biology

Contact Information

Email: tlong@wlu.ca
Phone: 519-884-0710 ext.4625   |  lab ext.2888
Fax: 519-746-0677
Office Location: N3022F
Office Hours: Fall 2012 - Tuesdays & Thursdays 1:00 - 2:00 or by appointment
Personal Website: http://thelonglab.blogspot.ca/

Languages Spoken

English
French

Academic Background

EEB Departmental Post-Doctoral Fellow (September 2009 – July 2010), Department of Ecology, & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto.

Post-Doctoral Fellow (July 2005 – August 2009), Department of Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology,University of California at Santa Barbara.

Ph.D. 2005, Department of Biology, Queen’s University.

M.Sc. 2001, Department of Zoology, University of Guelph,

B.Sc. (Honours Ecology & Evolution) 1999, Department of Zoology, University of Western Ontario.

Research:  I work on a diverse array of topics in the areas of population, ecological and evolutionary genetics. This includes the study of:

• Speciation and the processes that promote or prevent divergence

• Sexual selection, sexual conflict and population dynamics

• Evolution of mating systems and reproductive isolation

• Genetic and environmental sources of phenotypic and fitness variation

• The process of adaptation, using experimental evolution techniques

Teaches:

Undergraduate: 

Bi111: Biological Diversity & Evolution 

Bi3963: Biostatistics

Graduate: 

Bi605: Evolutionary Ecology (co-taught with Scott Ramsay & Kevin Stevens)

Bi612: Advanced Biostatistics

In the News

 Listen to an interview on sexual conflict on CBC radio's Quirks & Quarks (5th story on page)

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