Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Arts and Science
Degree Programs Offered
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology – MSc, PhD
Programs Closed to Admission
Plant and Microbial Biology – MSc, PhD
Zoology – MSc, PhD
Collaborative Programs
The following collaborative programs are available to students in participating degree programs as listed below:
1. Biomedical Toxicology
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, MSc, PhD
2. Environmental Studies
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, MSc, PhD
3. Genome Biology and Bioinformatics
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, PhD
Overview
The disciplines of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology involve complementary perspectives on biological systems. Individual and collaborative research within the department covers the range of both disciplines and often involves study and synthesis across multiple levels of organization. Professors’ research interests include anatomy/physiology, behaviour, behaviour genetics, bioinformatics, community/population/ecosystem/landscape/evolutionary ecology, conservation biology, developmental biology, genetics/genomics, microbiology, molecular evolution, plant biology, taxonomy/systematics and theoretical biology. Professors who supervise graduate students are located on all three campuses of the University (St. George, Mississauga, Scarborough) as well as at the Royal Ontario Museum.
Contact and Address
Web: www.eeb.utoronto.ca
E-mail: grad@eeb.utoronto.ca
Telephone: (416) 978-7172
Fax: (416) 978-5878
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Toronto
Earth Sciences Centre
Room 3046, 25 Willcocks Street
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3B2
Canada
Degree Programs
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Master of Science
Minimum Admission Requirements
- Applicants are accepted under the general regulations of the School of Graduate Studies.
- Four-year University of Toronto bachelor’s degree, or its equivalent from a recognized university, with an average grade equivalent to a University of Toronto B+ or better in the last year of the bachelor’s degree and a minimum B average in the previous year.
- Students will not be admitted until they have made arrangements to secure a research supervisor by contacting professors in the Department.
Program Requirements
- Students must complete a 0.5 graduate full-course equivalent (FCE) chosen from courses offered. The Faculty Research Course is recommended; however, other courses are also acceptable on the advice of supervisory faculty.
- A thesis is completed under the direction of the student’s supervisor, assisted by an advisory committee, and defended at a departmental oral examination.
Normal Program Length
- 3 sessions (full-time)
Doctor of Philosophy
Minimum Admission Requirements
- Applicants are accepted under the general regulations of the School of Graduate Studies.
- Students will not be admitted until they have made arrangements to secure a research supervisor by contacting professors in the Department.
- There are three routes of entry to the PhD program:
o Applicants already holding an MSc degree or its equivalent from a recognized university with an average equivalent to at least a University of Toronto A- during the MSc and an average of at least B+ in the last year of the bachelor’s program may be accepted.
o Applicants may be accepted first into the MSc program from a bachelor’s program and, conditional upon evidence of research excellence as judged by the thesis supervisory committee, may transfer into the PhD program.
o Exceptional applicants may be accepted for direct entry into the PhD with a BSc degree or equivalent, an average grade equivalent to a University of Toronto A- or better in courses in ecology and evolutionary biology, and evidence of research potential.
Program Requirements
- Exceptional students admitted to the PhD program without an MSc degree will be required to complete course work equivalent to the master’s program in addition to the PhD course requirements.
- Students must complete 1.5 graduate FCE chosen from courses offered (2.0 graduate FCE for students entering without an MSc degree). Students transferring into the PhD program from the MSc may apply 0.5 graduate FCE towards the PhD course requirement.
- All students are examined 18 to 20 months into the program on both their mastery of concepts in ecology and evolutionary biology and a submitted research proposal.
- Students must deliver two public seminars in the Department based on their thesis research.
- Students must submit a thesis and defend it at a Final Oral Examination conducted by the School of Graduate Studies.
Normal Program Length
- 4 years (full-time PhD); 5 years (full-time, direct-entry PhD)
Course List
Not all courses are offered every year. Please refer to the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Web site for a current list of course offerings.
Courses Offered at the Graduate Level Only
EEB 1002H Advanced Research and Reading Course (This course may be taken only once for credit, and is only available to students who were admitted to the old Zoology, Plant and Microbial Biology, or Botany programs)
EEB 1100H Faculty Research Course
EEB 1210H Advanced Statistics
EEB 1230H Multivariate Statistics
EEB 1250H Spatial Statistics
EEB 1310H Philosophy and Methods
EEB 1320H Ecology
EEB 1350H Evolution
EEB 1360H Behaviour
EEB 1420H Special Topics in Ecology
EEB 1440H Special Topics in Evolution
EEB 1470H Special Topics in Integrative Biology
Graduate Courses with Significant Undergraduate Content
These courses will normally constitute only a minor component of the required credits
EEB 1004H Vertebrate Paleontology
EEB 1328H Physiological Ecology
EEB 1330H Systematic Botany
EEB 1337H Families of Vascular Plants
EEB 1340H Comparative Plant Morphology
EEB 1341H Plant Anatomy
EEB 1459H Population Genetics
EEB 1460H Molecular Evolution
EEB 1468H Limnology
Graduate Faculty
Full Members
Abrams, Peter - PhD
Agrawal, Aneil - BSc, PhD
Andrade, Maydianne - BSc, MS, PhD
Baker, Allan - MSc, PhD
Baker, Robert - BSc, MSc, PhD
Barrett, Spencer - BSc, PhD, Canada Research Chair
Boonstra, Rudy - BSc, PhD
Brooks, Daniel - BS, MS, PhD
Buck, Leslie - BSc, PhD
Cadotte, Marc W. - BS, MS, PhD
Campbell, Malcolm - DPhil
Carleton, Terence - BSc, MSc, PhD
Caron, Jean-Bernard - PhD
Caspersen, John - BA, PhD
Chang, Belinda - AB, PhD
Collins, Nicholas - BA, PhD (Associate Chair, Graduate Studies)
Currie, Douglas - BSc, PhD
Cutter, Asher - PhD
Cyr, Helene - BSc, MSc, PhD
Darling, DChristopher - MSc, PhD
Dickinson, Timothy - PhD
Eckenwalder, James - BA, PhD
Engstrom, Mark - PhD
Evans, David - PhD
Fitzpatrick, Mark - BS, MS, PhD
Fortin, Marie-Josee - MSc, PhD
Frederickson, Megan - AB, PhD
Fulthorpe, Roberta - BSc, MSc, PhD
Gibo, David - BA, PhD
Gross, Mart - BSc, PhD
Guttman, David - BS, PhD
Gwynne, Darryl - BSc, PhD
Irwin, David - BSc, PhD
Jackson, Donald - PhD
Kohn, Linda - BS, PhD
Kotanen, Peter - PhD
Kronzucker, Herbert - PhD
Levine, Joel - BA, PhD
Lopez-Fernandez, Hernan - BS, PhD
Lovejoy, Nathan Richard - BSc, MS, PhD
Mason, Andrew - MS, PhD
McLennan, Deborah - BSc, PhD
Moncalvo, Jean-Marc - PhD
Murphy, Robert - PhD
Reisz, Robert - BSc, MSc, PhD
Rodd, F. Helen - PhD
Rowe, Locke - BSc, MS, PhD (Chair & Graduate Chair)
Sage, Rowan - PhD
Sage, Tammy - BA, MS, PhD
Short, Steven - PhD
Smith, Sandy - BAgrSc, MSc, PhD
Sokolowski, Marla - PhD
Sprules, W Gary - BSc, MA, PhD
Stefanovic, Sasa - MSc, PhD
Thomas, Sean - BA, PhD
Thomson, James - MS, PhD
Wagner, Helene - MSc, MSc, PhD
Weis, Arthur - BPhil, PhD
Welch Jr., Kenneth Collins - BS, MA, PhD
Williams, D Dudley - DipEd, BSc, MSc, PhD, DSc
Winterbottom, Richard - PhD
Wright, Stephen - BSc, MS, PhD
Zimmerman, Ann - BA, PhD
Members Emeriti
Dengler, Nancy - BA, MS, PhD
Harvey, Harold - MSc, PhD
Morris, Glenn - BSA, MS, PhD
Mrosovsky, Nicholas - BA, PhD
Associate Members
Johnson, Timothy - BSc, MSc, PhD
Lester, Nigel Paul - BA, MSc, PhD
Mandrak, Nicholas - PhD
Minns, Charles - PhD
Moses, Alan - BA, PhD
Ridgway, Mark - MSc, PhD
Shuter, Brian - BSc, MSc, PhD
Somers, Keith - MSc, PhD
Walsh, Denis - BA, MPH, PhD