January 2015
Dr. Patrik Nosil
Current Position: European Research Council Independent Research Fellow
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences
Alfred Denny Building
University of Sheffield
Western Bank
Sheffield S10 2TN
UK
Email: p.nosil@sheffield.ac.uk
Education
1999. B.Sc. Biology. University of Victoria, Canada.
2001-2006. Ph.D. Biology. Simon Fraser University, Canada (advisor Dr. Bernard Crespi).
Academic Positions
2006-2008. Postdoctoral fellow, University of British Columbia, Canada (advisor Dr. Dolph
Schluter).
2008-2009. Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg, Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin, Germany
2009-2011. Assistant Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
2012-present. Independent Research Fellow, University of Sheffield, UK
Academic Awards Received
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship A (2000-2002)
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship B (2002-2004)
SFU Research matters entrance scholarship (awarded 2000)
Entomological Society of Canada Postgraduate Scholarship (awarded 2002)
Isabelle Steel Memorial Scholarship (awarded 2004)
SFU Graduate Fellowship (awarded 2005)
SFU President's Stipend (awarded 2006)
American Society of Naturalists Young Investigators Prize (awarded 2006)
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2006-2008)
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Doctoral Prize (2007) (awarded by
NSERC to the top two theses in the natural sciences within a given year)
Governor General of Canada Gold Medal (2007)
Canadian Association for Graduate Students UMI Prize (2007) (awarded for best
science/engineering thesis in Canada)
Dobzhansky Prize (2008) (awarded annually by the Society for the Study of Evolution to one
young evolutionary biologist)
Grant Support
Entomological Society of Canada Postgraduate Travel Award (awarded 2003) - $2000
NSERC graduate travel award (awarded 2004) - $2000
Isabelle Steel Memorial research award (awarded 2004) - $1000
NSF 3-year research grant (awarded 2007 – co-written with Dr. Dan Funk) – $450,000
NSF NESCent working group grant, collaborator (awarded 2009, PI’s Rebecca Safran and
Albert Uy)
CU Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program team grant (awarded 2009) - $2400
CU Innovation Seed Grant – Genomics and speciation (awarded 2010) - $50,000
European Research Council Starter Grant (2011-2016); Genomics of speciation in stick
insects – £1,547,417
Unity through Knowledge Research Grant (2013-2015); Rapid evolution of mussel
populations - £153,144
University Research Fellowship, Royal Society of London (2014-2019); Genome evolution
from pattern to process – £435,000
Natural Environmental Research Council Grant (2014-2017); Genomic dissection of the
evolution of C3 and C4 photosynthesis in grasses - £589,800
Books and Edited Volumes
Nosil, P. 2012. Ecological speciation. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Nosil, P. and J.L. Feder. 2012. Genomic divergence during speciation. Phil. Trans. R. Soc.
Lond. B. (theme issue).
Nosil, P. and J.L. Feder. 2013. Genome evolution and speciation. Evolution (special section).
Peer-Reviewed Publications
1) Egan, S.P., G. Ragland, L. Assour, T.H.Q. Powell, G.R. Hood, S. Emrich, P. Nosil, and
J.L. Feder. Experimental evidence of genome-wide impact of ecological selection during
early stages of speciation-with-gene-flow. submitted.
2) Comeault, A.A., R. Riesch, E. Curran, V. Soria-Carrasco, Z. Gompert, T.E. Farkas, M.
Muschick, T.L. Parchman, T. Schwander, J. Slate, and P. Nosil. Selection on a genetic
polymorphism counteracts ecological speciation in a stick insect. in revision.
3) Riesch, R., M. Tobler, H. Lerp, J. Jourdan, T. Doumas, P. Nosil, R.B. Langerhans, and M.
Plath. Extremophile Gambusia: multivariate insights into the speciation continuum along a
replicated toxicity gradient. in revision.
4) Farkas, T.E., A. Hendry, P. Nosil, and A. Beckerman. 2015. How maladaptation can
structure biodiversity: Eco-evolutionary island biogeography. Trends in Ecology and
Evolution in press.
5) Soria-Carrasco, V., Z. Gompert, A.A. Comeault, T.E. Farkas, T.L. Parchman, J.S. Johnson,
C.A. Buerkle, J.L. Feder, J. Bast, T. Schwander, S.P. Egan, B.J. Crespi, and P. Nosil. 2014.
Stick insect genomes reveal natural selection’s role in parallel speciation. Science 344: 738742.
6) Flaxman, S.M., A. Wacholder, J.L. Feder, and P. Nosil. 2014. Theoretical models of the
influence of genomic architecture on the dynamics of speciation. Molecular Ecology 23:
4074-4088.
7) Gompert, Z., A.A. Comeault, T.E. Farkas, J.L. Feder, T.L. Parchman, C.A. Buerkle, and P.
Nosil. 2014. Experimental evidence for ecological selection on genome variation in the wild.
Ecology Letters 17: 369-379.
8) Feder, J.L., P. Nosil, and S.M. Flaxman. 2014. Assessing when chromosomal
rearrangements affect the dynamics of speciation: implications from computer simulations.
Frontiers in Genetics 5: 295.
9) Muschick, M., P. Nosil, M. Roesti, M.T. Dittmann, L. Harmon, and W. Salzburger. 2014.
Testing the stage model in the adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes in East African Lake
Tanganyika. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 281: 20140605.
10) Feder, J.L., P. Nosil, A. Wacholder, S.P. Egan, S.H. Berlocher, and S.M. Flaxman. 2014.
Genome wide congealing and rapid transitions across the speciation continuum during
speciation with gene flow. Journal of Heredity 105: 810-820.
11) Comeault, A.A., V. Soria-Carrasco, Z. Gompert, T.E. Farkas, C.A. Buerkle, T.L.
Parchman, and P. Nosil. 2014. Genome-wide association mapping of phenotypic traits subject
to a range of intensities of natural selection in Timema cristinae. American Naturalist 183:
711-727.
12) Feder, J.L., S. Flaxman, S.P. Egan, A.A. Comeault, and P. Nosil. 2013. Geographic mode
of speciation and genomic divergence. Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics
44: 73-97.
13) Farkas, T.E., T. Mononen, A.A. Comeault, I. Hanksi, and P. Nosil. 2013. Evolution of
camouflage drives rapid ecological change within an insect community. Current Biology 23:
1835-1843.
14) Flaxman, S.M., J.L. Feder, and P. Nosil. 2013. Genetic hitchhiking and the dynamic build
up of genomic divergence during speciation with gene flow. Evolution 67: 2577-2591.
15) Powell, T.H.Q., G.R. Hood, M.O. Murphy, J.S. Heilveil, S.H. Berlocher, P. Nosil, and
J.L. Feder. 2013. Genetic divergence along the speciation continuum: the transition from host
race to species in Rhagoletis (Diptera: Tephritidae). Evolution 67: 2561-2576.
16) Nosil, P., R. Riesch, and M. Muschick. 2013. Climate affects host-plant but not mating
preferences of Timema cristinae stick-insect populations. Evolutionary Ecology Research 15:
689-704.
17) Nosil, P., and J.L. Feder. 2013. Genome evolution and speciation: towards quantitative
descriptions of pattern and process. Evolution 67: 2461-2467.
18) Schwander, T., D. Arbuthnott, G. Gries, R. Gries, P. Nosil, and B.J. Crespi. 2013. Mate
discrimination, hydrocarbon divergence and speciation in Timema stick insects. BMC
Evolutionary Biology 13:151.
19) Roy, D., O. Seehausen, and P. Nosil. 2013. Sexual dimorphism dominates divergent host
use in stick insect trophic morphology. BMC Evolutionary Biology 13:135.
20) Nosil, P. 2013. Degree of sympatry affects reinforcement in Drosophila. Evolution 67:
868-872.
21) Crespi, B.J., and P. Nosil. 2013. Conflictual speciation: species formation via
intragenomic conflict. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 28: 48-57.
22) Feder, J.L., S.P. Egan, S.M. Flaxman, and P. Nosil. 2013. Hybridization and the build up
of genomic divergence during speciation. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 26: 261-266.
23) Reimchen, T.E., C. Bergstrom, and P. Nosil. 2013. Adaptive radiation of Haida Gwaii
stickleback. Evolutionary Ecology Research 15: 241-269.
24) Hendry, A.P., J. Boughman, B. Matthews, C. Peichel, and P. Nosil. 2013. Research on
stickleback: the now and the next. Evolutionary Ecology Research 15: 111-141.
25) Nosil, P., Z. Gompert, T. Farkas, A. Comeault, J.L. Feder, C.A. Buerkle, and T.L.
Parchman. 2012. Genomic consequences of multiple speciation processes in a stick insect.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 279: 5058-5065.
26) Flaxman, S.M., J.L. Feder, and P. Nosil. 2012. Spatially explicit models of divergence
and genome hitchhiking. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25: 2633-2650.
27) Nosil, P., and P.A. Hohenlohe. 2012. Dimensionality of sexual isolation during
reinforcement and ecological speciation in Timema cristinae stick insects. Evolutionary
Ecology Research 14: 467–485.
28) Feder, J.L., S.P. Egan, and P. Nosil. 2012. The genomics of speciation-with-gene-flow.
Trends in Genetics 28: 342-350.
29) Nosil, P., T.L. Parchman, J.L. Feder, and Z. Gompert. 2012. Do highly divergent loci
reside in gene regions affecting reproductive isolation? A test using next-generation sequence
data in Timema stick insects. BMC Evolutionary Biology 12: 164.
30) Comeault, A., M. Sommers, T. Schwander, C.A. Buerkle, T. Farkas, P. Nosil, and T.
Parchman. 2012. De novo characterization of the transcriptome of Timema cristinae facilitates
marker discovery and inference of genetic divergence. Molecular Ecology Resources 12: 54961.
31) Nosil, P., and J.L. Feder. 2012. Genomic divergence: causes and consequences.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 367: 332-342.
32) Feder, J.L., R. Gejji, S. Yeaman, and P. Nosil. 2012. Establishment of new mutations
under divergence and genome hitchhiking. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of
London B 367: 461-474.
33) Servedio, M.R., G.S. Van Doorn, M. Kopp, A.M. Frame, and P. Nosil. 2012. Magic traits,
pleiotropy, and effect sizes: a response to Haller et al. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 27: 56.
34) Funk, D.J., S.P. Egan, and P. Nosil. 2011. ‘Isolation-by-Adaptation’ in Neochlamisus leaf
beetles: host-related selection promotes neutral genomic divergence. Molecular Ecology 20:
4671-4682.
35) Agrawal, A.F., J.L. Feder, and P. Nosil. 2011. Ecological divergence and the origins of
intrinsic postmating isolation with gene flow. International Journal of Ecology 2011: 1-15.
36) Feder, J.L., R. Gejii, T.H.Q. Powell, and P. Nosil. 2011. Adaptive chromosomal
divergence driven by mixed geographic mode of evolution. Evolution 65: 2157-2170.
37) Nosil, P., and D. Schluter. 2011. The genes underlying the process of speciation. Trends
in Ecology and Evolution 26: 160-167.
38) Nosil, P., and S. Flaxman. 2011. Conditions for mutation-order speciation. Proceedings of
the Royal Society of London B 278: 399-407.
39) Servedio, M.R., G.S. Van Doorn, M. Kopp, A.M. Frame, and P. Nosil. 2011. Magic traits
in speciation: ‘magic’ but not rare? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 26: 389-397.
40) Michel, A.P., S. Sim, T. Powell, P. Nosil, and J.L. Feder. 2010. Widespread genomic
divergence during sympatric speciation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
USA 107: 9724-9729.
41) Feder, J.L., and P. Nosil. 2010. The efficacy of divergence hitchhiking in generating
genomic islands during ecological speciation. Evolution 64: 1729-1747.
42) Pavey, S., H. Collin, P. Nosil, and S. Rogers. 2010. The role of gene expression in
ecological speciation. Year in Evolutionary Biology 1206: 110-129.
43) Matsubayashi, K.W., I. Oshima, and P. Nosil. 2010. Ecological speciation in
phytophagous insects. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 134: 1-27.
44) Feder, J.L., and P. Nosil. 2009. Chromosomal inversions and species differences: when
are genes affecting adaptive divergence and reproductive isolation expected to reside within
inversions? Evolution 63: 3061-3075.
45) Mallet, J., A. Meyer, P. Nosil, and J.L. Feder. 2009. Space, sympatry, and speciation.
Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22: 2332-2341.
46) Nosil, P. 2009. Adaptive population divergence in cryptic color-pattern following a
reduction in gene flow. Evolution 63: 1902-1912.
47) Nosil, P., L. Harmon, and O. Seehausen. 2009. Ecological explanations for (incomplete)
speciation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 24: 145-156.
48) Nosil, P., D.J. Funk, and D. Ortiz-Barrientos. 2009. Divergent selection and
heterogeneous genomic divergence. Molecular Ecology 18: 375-402.
49) Ortiz-Barrientos, D., Grealy, A., and P. Nosil. 2009. The genetics and ecology of
reinforcement: implications for the evolution of prezygotic isolation in sympatry and beyond.
Year in Evolutionary Biology 1168: 156-182.
50) Nosil, P., S.P. Egan, and D.J. Funk. 2008. Heterogeneous genomic differentiation
between walking-stick ecotypes: ‘isolation by adaptation’ and multiple roles for divergent
selection. Evolution 62: 316-336.
51) Nosil, P. 2008. Ernst Mayr and the integration of geographic and ecological factors in
speciation. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 95: 26-26.
52) Nosil, P., and R. Yukilevich. 2008. Mechanisms of reinforcement in simulated and
natural polymorphic populations. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 95: 305-319.
53) Nosil, P., and C.P. Sandoval. 2008. Ecological niche dimensionality and the evolutionary
diversification of stick insects. PLoS ONE 3: e1907.
54) Egan, S.P., P. Nosil, and D.J. Funk. 2008. Selection and genomic differentiation during
ecological speciation: isolating the contributions of host-association via a comparative
genome scan of Neochlamisus bebbianae leaf beetles. Evolution 62: 1162-1181.
55) Bolnick, D., and P. Nosil. 2007. Natural selection in populations subject to a migration
load. Evolution 61: 2229-2243.
56) Nosil, P. 2007. Divergent host-plant adaptation and reproductive isolation between
ecotypes of Timema cristinae. American Naturalist 169: 151-162.
57) Nosil, P., B.J. Crespi, R. Gries, and G. Gries. 2007. Natural selection and divergence in
mate preference during speciation. Genetica 129: 309-327.
58) Hendry, A.P., P. Nosil, and L. Rieseberg. 2007. The speed of ecological speciation.
Functional Ecology 21: 455-464.
59) Nosil, P., and B.J. Crespi. 2006. Experimental evidence that predation promotes
divergence during adaptive radiation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA
103: 9090-9095.
60) Nosil, P., B.J. Crespi, C.P. Sandoval, and M. Kirkpatrick. 2006. Migration and the genetic
covariance between habitat preference and performance. American Naturalist 167: E66-E78.
61) Nosil, P., and B.J. Crespi. 2006. Ecological divergence promotes the evolution of cryptic
reproductive isolation. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 273: 991-997.
62) Nosil, P., B.J. Crespi, and C.P. Sandoval. 2006. The evolution of host preference in
allopatric versus parapatric populations of Timema cristinae walking-sticks. Journal of
Evolutionary Biology 19: 929-942.
63) Funk, D.J., P. Nosil, and B. Etges. 2006. Ecological divergence exhibits consistently
positive associations with reproductive isolation across disparate taxa. Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences USA 103: 3209-3213.
64) Reimchen, T.E., and P. Nosil. 2006. Replicated ecological landscapes and the evolution
of morphological diversity among Gasterosteus populations from an archipelago on the west
coast of Canada. Canadian Journal of Zoology 84: 643-654.
65) Nosil, P., and A. Mooers. 2005. Testing hypotheses about ecological specialization using
phylogenetic trees. Evolution 59: 2256-2263.
66) Sandoval, C.P., and P. Nosil. 2005. Counteracting selective regimes and host preference
evolution in ecotypes of two species of walking-sticks. Evolution 59: 2405-2413.
67) Nosil, P., and T.E. Reimchen. 2005. Ecological opportunity and levels of morphological
variance within freshwater stickleback populations. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
86: 297-308.
68) Nosil, P., T. Vines, and D.J. Funk. 2005. Perspective: Reproductive isolation caused by
natural selection against immigrants from divergent habitats. Evolution 59: 705-719.
69) Rundle, H., and P. Nosil. 2005. Ecological speciation. Ecology Letters 8: 336-352.
70) Nosil, P. 2005. The role of selection and gene flow in the evolution of sexual isolation in
Timema stick-insects and other Orthopteroids. Journal of Orthopteran Research 14: 247-253.
71) Nosil, P. 2004. Reproductive isolation caused by visual predation on migrants between
divergent environments. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 271: 1521-1528.
72) Reimchen, T.E., and P. Nosil. 2004. Variable predation regimes predict the evolution of
sexual dimorphism in a population of threespine stickleback. Evolution 58: 1274-1281.
73) Nosil, P., and B.J. Crespi. 2004. Does gene flow constrain trait divergence or vice-versa?
A test using ecomorphology and sexual isolation in Timema cristinae walking-sticks.
Evolution 58: 101-112.
74) Nosil, P., B.J. Crespi, and C.P. Sandoval. 2003. Reproductive isolation driven by the
combined effects of ecological adaptation and reinforcement. Proceedings of the Royal
Society of London B 270: 1911-1918.
75) Nosil, P., B.J. Crespi, and C.P. Sandoval. 2002. Host-plant adaptation drives the parallel
evolution of reproductive isolation. Nature 417: 440-443.
76) Nosil, P. 2002. Transition rates between specialization and generalization in
phytophagous insects. Evolution 56: 1701-1706.
77) Reimchen, T.E., and P. Nosil. 2002. Temporal variation in divergent selection on spine
number in threespine stickleback. Evolution 56: 2472-2483.
78) Nosil, P. 2002. Food fights in house crickets, Acheta domesticus, and the effects of body
size and hunger level. Canadian Journal of Zoology 80: 409-417.
79) Nosil, P., and T.E. Reimchen. 2001. Tarsal asymmetry, nutritional condition and survival
in water boatmen (Callicorixa vulnerata). Evolution 55: 712-720.
80) Reimchen, T.E., and P. Nosil. 2001. Ecological causes of sex-biased parasitism in threespined stickleback. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 73: 51-63.
81) Nosil, P. 2001. Tarsal asymmetry, trait size and extreme phenotypes in a sexually sizedimorphic water boatman (Callicorixa vulnerata). Canadian Journal of Zoology 79: 11141119.
82) Reimchen, T.E., and P. Nosil. 2001. Dietary differences between symmetrical and
asymmetrical pelvic phenotypes in stickleback. Canadian Journal of Zoology 79: 533-539.
83) Nosil, P. 2001. Sexual size dimorphism in a natural population of Callicorixa vulnerata
(Hemiptera: Corixidae). Canadian Entomologist 33: 311-313.
84) Reimchen, T.E., and P. Nosil. 2001. Lateral plate asymmetry, diet and parasitism in
threespine stickleback. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 14: 632-645.
Non-refereed contributions and refereed book chapters and articles
85) Nosil, P., A.A. Comeault, and T.E. Farkas. in press. Ecological speciation and its
consequences. pp. xx-xx. In ‘Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology’ (R. Kliman, head editor,
D. Ortiz-Barrientos, section editor), Elsevier.
86) Feder, J.L., S.P. Egan, and P. Nosil. 2013. Speciation and genome evolution. pp. 549-558.
In ‘Princeton Guide to Evolution’ (J. Losos, chief editor), Princeton University Press.
87) Nosil, P. 2013. Reproductive isolation. pp. 173-176. In Encylopedia of Genetics, 2nd
edition. (S. Maloy, K. Hughes, editors), Elsevier.
88) Safran, R.L., and P. Nosil. 2012. Speciation: the origin of new species. Nature Education
Knowledge. 3: 17.
89) Nosil, P., and J.L. Feder. 2012. Widespread yet heterogeneous genomic divergence.
Molecular Ecology 21: 2829–2832 (News and Views).
90) Nosil, P., and A. Buerkle. 2010. Population genomics. Nature Education Knowledge 1: 8.
91) Niemiller M.L, P. Nosil, and B.M. Fitzpatrick. 2010. Corrigendum: Recent divergencewith-gene-flow in Tennessee cave salamanders (Plethodontidae: Gyrinophilus) inferred from
gene genealogies. Molecular Ecology 19: 1513-1514.
92) Nosil, P. 2009. Habitat preference and the formation of new species. pp. 473-477. In
‘Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology’ (C. Fox, D.F. Westneat, editors), Oxford University Press.
93) Nosil, P., and H.D. Rundle. 2009. Ecological speciation: natural selection and the
formation of new species. pp. 134-142. In ‘Princeton Guide to Ecology’ (S. Levin, editor),
Princeton University Press.
94) Nosil, P., and L. Harmon. 2009. Niche dimensionality and ecological speciation. pp. 127–
154. In ‘Speciation and patterns of diversity’ (R. Butlin, J. Bridle, D. Schluter, editors)
Cambridge University Press.
95) Nosil, P. 2008. Speciation with gene flow may be common. Molecular Ecology 17: 21032106 (News and Views).
96) Funk, D.J., and P. Nosil. 2007. Comparative analyses and ecological speciation in
herbivorous insects. pp. 117-135 In 'Specialization, Speciation, and Radiation: the
Evolutionary Biology of Herbivorous Insects' (K. Tilmon, ed.) California University Press.
97) Nosil, P. 2006. Frequency-dependent selection: when being different makes you not stand
out. Current Biology 16: 806-808 (Dispatch article).
98) Nosil, P. 2005. Darwinian speciation in the 21st century. Ecoscience 12: 434-435 (book
review of Adaptive Speciation by Dieckmann, U., M. Doebeli, J.AJ. Metz, and D. Tautz).
Talks and Presentations at Scientific Meetings
Assortative mating between host-associated morphs of Timema cristinae: implications for
ecological speciation - UBC/SFU/UVIC Ecology and Evolution Meeting, Brackendale, B.C.
(Nov. 2000).
Fitness costs of departures from symmetry: evidence from feeding ability in water boatmen
and parasitism in stickleback - Les Ecologistes seminar, SFU (Jan. 2001).
Premating isolation between host-associated morphs of Timema cristinae: implications for
ecological speciation - Pacific Ecology Conference, Bamfield Marine Station (Feb. 2001).
Divergent natural selection and speciation in Timema walking-sticks - Evolution conference,
Knoxville, TN (Jun. 2001).
Predator-driven ecological divergence promotes premating isolation among populations of a
walking-stick insect - SFU Graduate Student Symposium, SFU (Sept. 2001).
Can selection by predators promote speciation? - Les Ecologistes seminar, SFU (Oct. 2001).
Temporal variation in selection on spine number in stickleback - UBC/SFU/UVIC Ecology
and Evolution Meeting, Brackendale, B.C. (Oct. 2001).
Can selection by predators promote speciation? - Ecology seminar, UBC (Nov. 2001).
Can selection by predators promote speciation? - Ecology seminar, UVIC (Nov. 2001).
Transition rates between specialization and generalization in phytophagous insects - Pacific
Ecology Conference, Port Townsend, WA (Feb. 2002).
Host-plant adaptation drives the parallel evolution of reproductive isolation - Evolution
conference, Urbana, IL (Jun. 2002).
Reproductive isolation driven by a balance between reinforcing selection and gene flow Ecology seminar, UBC (Sept. 2002).
Visualizing the causes of speciation - UBC/SFU/UVIC Ecology and Evolution Meeting,
Brackendale, B.C. (Nov. 2002).
Evolutionary consequences of migration during ecological speciation - Ecology seminar, SFU
(Nov. 2002).
Reproductive isolation driven by the combined effects of ecological adaptation and
reinforcement - Pacific Ecology Conference, Bamfield Marine Station (Feb. 2003).
Predators and phenotypic diversification within stickleback populations - Pacific Ecology
Conference, Bamfield Marine Station (Feb. 2003).
Reproductive isolation driven by the combined effects of ecological adaptation and
reinforcement - Evolution conference, Chico, CA (Jun. 2003).
Ecological divergence drives the evolution of premating isolation in a walking-stick insect Ecology seminar, SFU (Oct. 2003).
Reproductive isolation caused by natural selection against migrants between divergent
environments - UBC/SFU/UVIC Ecology and Evolution Meeting, Brackendale, B.C. (Nov.
2003).
Reproductive isolation driven by the combined effects of ecological adaptation and
reinforcement - CalPEG conference, Irvine, CA (Dec. 2003).
Strength of selection predicts the magnitude of divergence in mating preferences during
reinforcement. Evolution conference, Fort Collins, CO (Jun. 2004).
Ecological divergence drives the evolution of postmating isolation - Ecology seminar, SFU
(Oct. 2004).
Habitat heterogeneity promotes the evolution of a genetic correlation between host preference
and performance - UBC/SFU/UVIC Ecology and Evolution Meeting, Brackendale, B.C.
(Nov. 2004).
Habitat heterogeneity promotes the evolution of a genetic correlation between host preference
and performance - CalPEG conference, San Diego, CA (Dec. 2004).
Migration in heterogeneous habitats generates genetic covariance between host preference
and performance - Evolution conference, Fairbanks, AK (Jun. 2005).
Outstanding questions in the ecology of speciation - Ecology seminar, SFU (Sept. 2005).
Adaptive divergence, reproductive isolation and genomic differentiation between walkingstick ecotypes - Genetics of Speciation Meeting, University of British Columbia, BC (July
2006) (poster).
Niche dimensionality and ecological speciation. Evolution conference, Christchurch, New
Zealand (Jun. 2007).
Natural selection and heterogeneous genomic divergence during speciation. PopGroup
Meeting, Warwick, UK (Dec. 2007).
Adaptive chromosomal divergence driven by mixed geographic mode of evolution. Evolution
conference, Portland, OR (Jun. 2010) – note: presented by Jeff Feder.
Genomic architecture of speciation: islands or continents of divergence? Evolution
conference, Portland, OR (June 2010).
Invited Seminars and Symposium Talks
Ecological divergence drives the evolution of reproductive isolation - Invited speaker,
Population Biology Seminar Series - UC Davis (Jan. 2004).
Natural selection drives the evolution of reproductive isolation - Evolution Seminar Series UC San Diego (Mar. 2004).
Natural selection drives the evolution of reproductive isolation - Evolution Seminar Series UC Riverside (Apr. 2004).
Natural selection drives the evolution of reproductive isolation - Departmental Seminar Series
- WWU (Oct. 2004).
Reproductive isolation driven by the combined effects of ecological adaptation and
reinforcement - Invited Symposium Talk - Entomological Society of America Annual
Meeting, Salt Lake City, Ut (Nov. 2004).
Natural selection drives the evolution of premating isolation - Invited Seminar - UT Austin
(Jan. 2005).
Natural selection drives the evolution of premating isolation - Departmental Seminar - BYU
(Apr. 2005).
Natural selection and the evolution of sexual forms of reproductive isolation - Invited
Symposium Talk - Orthopterists' Society Annual Meeting, Canmore, AB (Aug. 2005).
Outstanding questions in the ecology of speciation - Departmental Seminar - Sheffield, UK
(Nov. 2005).
Outstanding questions in the ecology of speciation - Departmental Seminar - University
College London, UK (Nov. 2005).
Outstanding questions in the ecology of speciation - Departmental Seminar - Bern University,
SWI (Nov. 2005).
Outstanding questions in the ecology of speciation - Invited Keynote Symposium Talk Speciation symposium at the Natural History Museum - London UK (Nov. 2005).
The ecology of speciation - Population Biology Seminar - Duke University (Dec. 2005).
Outstanding questions in the ecology of speciation - Invited Keynote Symposium Talk Graduate symposium - McGill University (Dec. 2005).
The ecology of speciation - Departmental Seminar - Vanderbilt University (Feb. 2006).
Microevolutionary processes and the formation of new species - Invited Symposium Talk,
Young Scientists Symposium - University of Michigan Ann Arbor (May 2006).
Integrating experimental and comparative approaches provides unique insight into ecological
speciation - American Society of Naturalists Young Investigators Symposium Talk, Evolution
conference, Stony Brook, NY (June 2006).
Ernst Mayr and ecological factors in speciation – A Century of Evolution, a Symposium in
honor of Ernst Mayr, London, UK (Oct. 2006).
Ecological speciation: details and generalities – Departmental Seminar – University of
California Santa Barbara (March 2007).
Ecological speciation: details and generalities – Ecology Seminar – Oxford University, UK
(March 2007).
Ecological speciation: details and generalities – Ecology Seminar – Zurich, SWI (March
2007).
Ecological speciation: details and generalities – Ecology Seminar – Leeds University, UK
(March 2007).
Niche dimensionality and ecological speciation – Ecology and Speciation, the annual
symposium of the British Ecological Society – Sheffield, UK (March 2007).
Ecological speciation: details and generalities – Departmental Seminar – Queensland
University, Brisbane Australia (July 2007).
Ecological speciation: details and generalities – Departmental Seminar – Auckland
University, New Zealand (July 2007).
Stages of ecological speciation in Timema walking-stick insects – Symposium Talk at the
International Symposium on the Origin and Evolution of Natural Diversity, Hokkaido
University, Japan (Oct. 2007).
Natural selection and the origins of biodiversity – Canadian Association for Graduate
Students Annual Meeting, New Brunswick, Canada (Oct. 2007).
Stages of ecological speciation in Timema walking-stick insects – Departmental Seminar –
University of Basel, Switzerland (Nov. 2007).
Two ecological explanations for (failed) speciation – Invited seminar – Biology 08 meeting,
University of Lausanne, Switzerland (Feb. 2008).
Two ecological explanations for (failed) speciation – University of Oklahoma – graduate
student invited speaker (Feb. 2008).
Ecological explanations for (failed) speciation – Annual Meeting for the Society for the Study
of Evolution – Dobzhansky prize talk – University of Minnesota (June 2008).
Ecological explanations for (incomplete) speciation – Potsdam University, Germany (Nov.
2008).
Strong versus multifarious selection in the origin of species – Museum of Natural History,
Berlin (Nov. 2008).
Strong versus multifarious selection in the origin of species – University of Bern (Dec. 2008).
Divergent selection and heterogeneous genomic divergence – EAWAG, Lucerne (Dec. 2008).
Natural selection and the (incomplete) formation of new species – Wissenschaftskolleg,
Berlin (Jan. 2009).
Ecological explanations for (incomplete) speciation – University of Texas, Austin (Apr.
2009).
Natural selection and the (incomplete) formation of new species – University of Colorado,
Boulder (Nov. 2009).
Natural selection and the (incomplete) formation of new species – American Museum of
Natural History, New York (Jan. 2010).
Natural selection and the (incomplete) formation of new species – University of Wyoming
(Feb. 2010).
Natural selection and (incomplete) speciation – University of Toronto, Annual Graduate
Student Symposium (Apr. 2010).
Genomic architecture of speciation: theory and data from herbivorous insects. ERC funded
workshop on Frontiers in Speciation Research (FROSpects). Holar, Iceland (Aug. 2010).
Phenotypic and genomic tests of two hypotheses for species formation – University of
Lausanne (Nov. 2010).
Phenotypic and genomic tests of two hypotheses for species formation – University of
Missouri (Feb. 2011).
Phenotypic and genomic tests of two hypotheses for species formation – University of Denver
(Feb. 2011).
Phenotypic and genomic tests of two hypotheses for species formation – University of
Michigan at Ann Arbor – Graduate Student Invited Speaker (Feb. 2011).
Genomic architecture of ecological speciation – Harvard University – OEB seminar (March
2011).
Genomic architecture of ecological speciation – McGill University (April 2011).
Genomic architecture of ecological speciation – Kastanienbaum, Switzerland (May 2011).
The ecological and genomic basis of species formation – Goettingen, Germany (June 2011).
Genomic consequences of multiple speciation processes. I. Data – University of Idaho
(October 2011).
Genomic consequences of multiple speciation processes. II. Theory – University of Idaho
(October 2011).
Genomic consequences of multiple speciation processes – University of Lausanne (Nov.
2011).
Two strategies for conducting biological research – University of Neuchâtel Graduate Student
Conference (Nov. 2011).
Phases of genomic divergence during speciation – ITN training network Finland (Feb. 2012).
Phases of genomic divergence during speciation – Genetics of speciation workshop, Uppsala
(Mar. 2012).
Genomic divergence during speciation – University of Chicago (Apr. 2012).
Genome evolution and speciation: symposium summary – SSE sponsored symposium at the
1st joint SSE/ESEB congress, Ottawa (July 2012).
Phenotypic and genomic change in field experiments – ASN sponsored symposium, 1st joint
SSE/ESEB congress, Ottawa (July 2012).
Phenotypic and genomic change in field experiments – Royal Entomological Society
Meeting, Cambridge UK (July 2012).
Contributions of stickleback to understanding of ecology and evolution – Stickleback
meetings, Bainbridge Island, WA (August 2012).
Eco-evolutionary dynamics: from genomes to communities – National Croatian Biology
Congress, Sibenik (September 2012).
Ecological and evolutionary consequences of gene flow – University of Sheffield, UK
(October 2012).
Ecological and evolutionary consequences of gene flow – Zoological Station, Naples, Italy
(November 2012).
Rapid genome evolution during founder events – University of Helsinki, Finland (February
2013).
Natural selection, founder events, and rapid genome evolution in a field experiment –
Michigan State University, Michigan (April 2013).
Genomic basis of speciation with gene flow – Speciation 2013, Montpellier, France (May
2013).
Genomic divergence: moving from pattern to process – Genomic Islands symposium - ESEB
2013, Lisbon, Portugal (August 2013).
Genomic divergence: moving from pattern to process – Departmental Seminar, Lund
University, Sweden (September 2013).
Genomic divergence: moving from pattern to process – Departmental Seminar, University of
Nottingham, UK (November 2013).
Eco-evolutionary dynamics: from genes to communities – Departmental Seminar, University
of Victoria, Canada (December 2013).
Micro-geographic adaptation: a genomic perspective – American Society of Naturalists –
Monterey, USA (January 2014).
The ecological consequences of rapid evolution – Natural History Society – Sheffield, UK
(February 2014).
Stick insect genomes reveal natural selection’s role in parallel speciation – Departmental
Seminar, University of Glasgow (February 2014).
Stick insect genomes reveal natural selection’s role in parallel speciation – EGI Seminar,
University of Oxford (March 2014).
Stick insect genomes reveal natural selection’s role in parallel speciation – MVZ seminar,
University of California, Berkeley (April 2014).
Natural selection both drives and constrains repeated speciation – CSEE meeting, Genomes to
Biomes Symposium, McGill, Montreal (May 2014).
Eco-evolutionary dynamics in a plant-insect interaction – UK Plant Evolution meeting –
Edinburgh (September 2014).
Natural selection both drives and constrains repeated speciation – IBED seminar, University
of Amsterdam, Netherlands (September 2014).
Natural selection both drives and constrains repeated speciation – MEGP meeting, University
of Vigo, Spain (October 2014).
Natural selection both drives and constrains repeated speciation – WEEN meeting, Gregynog,
Wales (October 2014).
Genomic architecture and the dynamics of speciation – Departmental seminar, University of
Liverpool (November 2014).
Genomic architecture and the dynamics of speciation – Departmental seminar, Vienna
Institute for Population Genetics, Austria (December 2014).
Teaching Experience
EBIO 3080 – Evolution (110 undergraduate students), fall 2009, 2010, 2011
EBIO 5110 – Advanced Topics in Evolutionary Biology (Speciation, 15 graduate students),
fall 2009
EBIO 4460/5560 – Evolutionary Genetics (24 students, mix of undergraduates and graduates)
Six guest undergraduate lectures on general topics in ecology and evolution at UCSB, SFU,
and the Bamfield Marine Station
Services to the Scientific Community
Review of 152 Manuscripts for 32 different peer-reviewed journals including Nature (16),
Science (1), Ecology Letters (1), Evolution (42), American Naturalist (7), Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences USA (6), Journal of Evolutionary Biology (5), Proceedings of
the Royal Society of London B (6), Behavioural Ecology (3), Behavioral Ecology and
Sociobiology (1), Ecological Entomology (1), Journal of Animal Ecology (1), Biology Letters
(1), Heredity (5), Functional Ecology (1), Journal of Heredity (1), Biology Direct (2), Plant
Ecology and Diversity (1), International Journal of Parasitology (1), International Journal of
Ecology (3), Biotropica (1), Evolutionary Ecology Research (1), Molecular Ecology (13),
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (4), BMC Evolutionary Biology (1), Evolutionary
Ecology (1), Public Library of Science Biology (12), Public Library of Science One (1),
Public Library of Science Genetics (2), Molecular Biology and Evolution (3), Trends in
Ecology and Evolution (10), Current Biology (3)
Associate Editor, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B (2015-present)
Guest Editor for Evolution, PLoS Biology, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of
London B
Faculty member of Faculty of 1000 (F1000)
Review of 3-year research proposal for National Science Foundation (3 proposals), 5-year
research CAREER grant proposal for National Science Foundation, 5-year European
Research Council Advanced Grant (3 proposals), 5-year European Research Council Starter
Grant, 3-year Mardsen Fund proposal, Graduate Women in Science Fellowship application
for the National Science Foundation, 3-year National Environmental Research Council grant
proposal (UK), 3-year Swiss National Science Foundation research grant
Co-chair (with Rutger Vos), organizing committee for the 24th Annual Pacific Ecology and
Evolution Conference (2003)
Co-organizer (with Dr. Steve Vamosi) of Symposium on ‘Predation and Evolution
Diversification’ held at the 11th congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology,
August 2007
Co-organizer (with Dr.’s Axel Meyer, Jim Mallet, and Jeff Feder) of Symposium on
‘Genetics of adaptation and speciation’ held at the Institute for Advanced Study,
Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin, March 2009
Co-organizer (with Dr. Jeff Feder) of SSE-sponsored (Society for the Study of Evolution)
Symposium on ‘Genome Evolution and Speciation’ held at the first joint congress of the SSE
and European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Ottawa, Canada, July 2012
Training of Undergraduates
Fieldwork - T. Leverage, E. Lopez, M. Javid, W. Deacy, C. Lee
Insect Rearing, Experimental work - J. Smith, J. Ford, K. Smith, C. Paul, M. Zheng, P. Mahal,
W. Deacy, S. Lopez-Fanuel
Molecular Work - C. Riley, N. Spiegel, M. Sommers
Other – Adrienne Jones, William Preston
Ph.D. Thesis examiner
Xavier Thibert-Plante (McGill University), Moritz Muschick (University of Basel), Loren
Sackett (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Member of the Society for the Study of Evolution, the American Society of Naturalists, the
European Society for Evolutionary Biology, and the Canadian Society for Ecology and
Evolution
Referees for Patrik Nosil
Dr. B.J. Crespi
Department of Biosciences, Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive, Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S9
Phone: 604 291-3533
Fax: 604 291-3496
email: crespi@sfu.ca
Dr. Dolph Schluter
Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia
Vancouver, B.C. Canada
Phone: 604 822-2387
Fax: 604 822-2416
email: schluter@zoology.ubc.ca
Dr. Arne Mooers
Department of Biosciences, Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive, Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S9
Phone: 604 291-4649
Fax: 604 291-3496
email: amooers@sfu.ca