Dylan Weese

Teaches general biology and evolutionary biology. His research focuses on interactions between ecological and evolutionary processes.

 

Education and Training

Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, Mich.
Kellogg Biological Station
Postdoctoral Research Associate, 2010-2012

University of Maine, Orono, Maine
School of Biology and Ecology
Doctor of Philosophy, 2010

University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Department of Zoology
Master of Science, 2003

University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Biological Sciences
Bachelor of Science, 2001

 

Courses Taught

BIOL 101 Principles of Biology
BIOL 199 General Biology I: Foundations of Living Systems
BIOL 348 Evolution

 

Areas of Professional Interest

Evolutionary Biology

 

Recent Publications and Presentations

Weese, D.J., M.M. Ferguson, & B.W. Robinson. 2012. Contemporary and historic evolutionary processes interact to shape patterns of within-lake phenotypic divergence in polymorphic pumpkinseed sunfish, Lepomic gibbosus. Ecology and Evolution 2:57-592.

Weese, D.J., A.K. Schwartz, P. Bentzen, A.P. Hendry, & M.T. Kinnison. 2011. Eco-evolutionary influences on population recovery following catastrophic disturbance. Evolutionary Applications 4:354-366.

Schwartz, A.K., D.J. Weese, P.Bentzen, M.T. Kinnison & A.P. Hendry. 2011. Both geography and ecology contribute to mating isolation in guppies.  PLoS ONE 5: e15659.

Weese, D.J., S.P. Gordon, A.P. Hendry & M.T. Kinnison. 2010. Spatio-temporal variation in linear natural selection on body color in wild guppies (Poecilia reticulata). Evolution 64: 1802-1815.

Palkovacs, E.P., M.C. Marshall, B.A. Lamphere, B.R. Lynch, D.J. Weese, D.F. Fraser, D.N. Reznick, C.M. Pringle & M.T. Kinnison, 2009. Experimental evaluation of evolution and coevolution as agents of ecosystem change in tropical streams. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 364: 1617-1628.