Professor Dr. John Stinchcombe

Biography

John Stinchcombe is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto and the Director of the Koffler Scientific Reserve. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bucknell University and a PhD from Duke University. Following his doctoral studies, he completed a Postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University. His research focuses on ecological evolutionary genetics, with an emphasis on natural selection and its genetic mechanisms. Stinchcombe's work combines field and laboratory approaches, employing next-generation sequencing and manipulative experiments primarily in plant systems. He is interested in measuring natural selection, predicting evolutionary change, and understanding the ecological agents of selection, as well as exploring topics such as life history evolution, plant-microbe mutualisms, gene expression, herbicide resistance, invasive species, and evolution of clines and species range limits.

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