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Keynote Speakers

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Biographies

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 Dr. Jesse Popp 
University of Guelph

Ecology

She is canada Research Chair in Indigenous Environmental Science. Part of the Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory with Anishinaabe and mixed European heritage, she promotes inclusive science. She aims to weave Indigenous and Western knowledge systems to contribute to the advancement of environmental and ecological science.​

Wise Lab's website:
https://www.wiselab.ca/

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Ethology

She examines natural behaviour in natural settings and examines links between behaviour, cognition, and the brain. As part of her research, she studies avian brood parasitism, in which some parasitic species show female-biased sex differences in spatial behaviour in the field with associated sex differences in spatial memory and in the hippocampus. 

 Dr. Mélanie Guigueno
McGill University 

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GUIGUENO Lab's website:
http://www.guiguenolab.ca/

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Evolution

She focuses on the genomic basis of contemporary evolution in natural populations. Her research integrates genomics and long-term demographic studies to characterize the evolutionary processes of variation across the genome through and link genetic variation to variation in individual phenotypes, fitness, and eventually population dynamics.

Dr. Nancy Chen
 University of California,
Los Angeles

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Pop Gen Chen Lab's website:

https://popgenchenlab.github.io/

Brock University acknowledges the land on which we gather is the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples, many of whom continue to live and work here today. 
This territory is covered by the Upper Canada Treaties and is within the land protected by the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Agreement.
Today this gathering place is home to many First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples and acknowledging reminds us that our great standard of living is directly related to the resources and friendship of Indigenous people.

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