Adam Chippindale is a graduate of the University of Alberta (B.Sc.) and did his doctoral work at University of California, Irvine with Michael Rose, a world-leading expert on the evolution of ageing (and, coincidentally, a Queen's alumnus). AC did postdoctoral work at UC Santa Cruz and UC Santa Barbara with William Rice, best known for his seminal work on sexual conflict. After years in California, he moved to Kingston (against all better judgement!) in 2002 to take up a Canada Research Chair in Evolutionary Genetics. Research in the Chippindale (Superfly) Lab at Queen's has focused on the evolution of sex, the sexes and the sex chromosomes, and adaptation broadly.
For more information about Dr. Chippindale's research, visit his web site.
Fern Gauthier is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario (B.Sc.) He also did his doctoral work at UWO, where he studied the molecular mechanisms controlling gene expression during metamorphosis of the American Bullfrog. He moved to Kingston in 2002 and joined the Department of Biology here at Queen's in August 2004.