Matthew Orton

Program: Ph.D.

Advisor: Dr. Sarah Adamowicz

Research:

My Masters research is focused primarily on developing software pipelines for the analysis of DNA barcoding data from BOLD.  Current research focuses on:

• Informatics approaches to studying the relationship between rates of molecular evolution and the latitudinal biodiversity gradient using geographical coordinate data and COI barcoding data.
• Informatics approaches to studying Arctic Dipteran bio-geography and community similarity across the regions of Canada, Greenland and Norway.
• Development and field validation of software used in primer design of in-situ qPCR assays of Trichopteran species in Churchill, Mb.