Dr. Cortland Griswold
Assistant Professor
Email:cgriswol@uoguelph.ca
Office: SCIE 1474
Ext: 56240
Lab: 1409/10
Ext: 56014
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Profile
I am an evolutionary biologist whose research focuses on theoretical and inference questions. My interest in evolutionary theory and inference began the second term of my third year as an undergraduate. I attended a series of lectures that introduced the theory of population genetics and demonstrated how ecological processes bring about changes in allele frequencies, i.e. genetic evolution by natural selection. At the time I had very broad interests in biology, participating in research on vocal communication in birds and ecological physiology in plants. I continued pursuing my interest in understanding the evolution of bird vocalizations as an M.Sc. student and this work heightened again my interest in using theory and population genetics principles to help us understand ourselves and the natural world around us. I then pursued a Ph.D. in the area of theoretical population and evolutionary genetics.
Education
B.Sc. – University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.Sc. – University of Toronto
Ph.D. – University of British Columbia
Research
Our group seeks to advance population genetic and evolutionary theory and to develop computational methods that address basic and applied questions in biology. In particular, my research program seeks to understand how the genealogical structure of a population shapes phenotypic variation within a population and a population’s response to selection. Graduate student research in my lab is not limited to my research program and is in fact quite diverse; for more information, see my lab's webpage (below).
For more information about my lab, visit the Griswold Lab
Selected Publications
Griswold, C.K. and D.J. Eisner. 2012. The mapping of epistatic effects onto a genealogical tree in haploid populations. Theoretical Population Biology 81: 32-44.
Griswold, C.K., C.M. Taylor and D.R. Norris. 2011. The equilibrium population size of a partially migratory population and its response to environmental change. Oikos 120: 1847-1859.
Griswold, C.K. 2011. A Model of the Physiological Basis of a Multivariate Phenotype that is Mediated by Ca2+ Signaling and Controlled by Ryanodine Receptor Composition. Journal of Theoretical Biology 282: 14-22.
Griswold, C.K., C.M. Taylor and D.R. Norris. 2010. The evolution of migration in a seasonal environment. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 277: 2711-2720.
Griswold, C.K. and J. Masel. 2009. Complex adaptations can drive the evolution of the capacitor [PSI+], even with realistic rates of sex in yeast. PLoS Genetics 5(6): e1000517.
Masel, J. and C.K. Griswold. 2009. The strength of selection against the yeast prion [PSI+]. Genetics 181: 1057-1063.
Griswold, C.K, Gomulkiewicz R., and N. Heckman. 2008. Hypothesis testing in comparative and experimental studies of function-valued traits. Evolution 62: 1229-1242.
Griswold, C.K., Logsdon, B., and R. Gomulkiewicz. 2007. Neutral evolution of multiple quantitative characters: A genealogical approach. Genetics 176: 455-466.
Teaching
BIOL*3020 Population Genetics
BIOL*3400 Evolution
Grad Students
Landy, Christian (MSc)
McKay, Patrick (MSc)
Links