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Richard Hamelin
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Research
Latest papers
Genomics-based assessment of the geographic origin of spongy moths (Lymantria dispar) intercepted during vessel inspections, using SpongySeq, an amplicon sequencing panel.
BMC genomics · 2026
Lifestyles shape genome size and gene content in fungal pathogens.
eLife · 2025
Tracking the North American Asian Longhorned Beetle Invasion With Genomics.
Evolutionary applications · 2024
Latest funding
- $69,000
Modelling dwarf mistletoe spread and describing its underlying genetic patterns
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $118,000
Evolution and adaptation in the pine stem rust pathogens
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $1,129,000
Canadian training program on the evolution of fungal pathogens: EvoFunPath
NSERC · 2021 · Co-investigator
14 publications.
Genomics-based assessment of the geographic origin of spongy moths (Lymantria dispar) intercepted during vessel inspections, using SpongySeq, an amplicon sequencing panel.
Picq S, Capron A, Prunier J, Boyle B, Djoumad A, Stewart D, Wu Y, Hamelin R, Cusson M
Lifestyles shape genome size and gene content in fungal pathogens.
Fijarczyk A, Hessenauer P, Hamelin R, Landry CR
Tracking the North American Asian Longhorned Beetle Invasion With Genomics.
Cui M, Roe AD, Boyle B, Keena M, Wu Y, Braswell WE, Smith MT, Gasman B, Shi J, Javal M, Roux G, Turgeon JJ, Hamelin R, Porth I
Genetics of flight in spongy moths (Lymantria dispar ssp.): functionally integrated profiling of a complex invasive trait.
Blackburn GS, Keeling CI, Prunier J, Keena MA, Béliveau C, Hamelin R, Havill NP, Hebert FO, Levesque RC, Cusson M, Porth I
Occurrence of Ascospores and White Mold Caused by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum in Dry Bean Fields in Alberta, Canada.
Reich J, McLaren D, Kim YM, Wally O, Yevtushenko D, Hamelin R, Balasubramanian P, Chatterton S
Range-wide population genomics of the spongy moth, Lymantria dispar (Erebidae): Implications for biosurveillance, subspecies classification and phylogeography of a destructive moth.
Picq S, Wu Y, Martemyanov VV, Pouliot E, Pfister SE, Hamelin R, Cusson M
Genome-scale phylogeography resolves the native population structure of the Asian longhorned beetle, Anoplophora glabripennis (Motschulsky).
Cui M, Wu Y, Javal M, Giguère I, Roux G, Andres JA, Keena M, Shi J, Wang B, Braswell E, Pfister SE, Hamelin R, Roe A, Porth I
Supervised learning on phylogenetically distributed data.
Layne E, Dort EN, Hamelin R, Li Y, Blanchette M
Long-term effects of stump removal and tree species composition on the diversity and structure of soil fungal communities.
Modi D, Simard S, Bérubé J, Lavkulich L, Hamelin R, Grayston SJ
Overexpression of AtGolS3 and CsRFS in poplar enhances ROS tolerance and represses defense response to leaf rust disease.
La Mantia J, Unda F, Douglas CJ, Mansfield SD, Hamelin R
Modelling dwarf mistletoe spread and describing its underlying genetic patterns
Principal investigators: Hamelin, Richard RC
Keywords: dwarf mistletoe; epidemiology; forest biotic disturbances; forest diseases; forest management; forest pathology; genome sequencing; parasitic plants; population genomics; variable retention harvesting
Evolution and adaptation in the pine stem rust pathogens
Principal investigators: Hamelin, Richard
Keywords: fungi; plant pathology; rust fungi; pucciniales; fungal genomics; fungal lifestyles
Canadian training program on the evolution of fungal pathogens: EvoFunPath
Principal investigators: Landry, Christian CR
Keywords: adaptation; agriculture; antifungals/fungicides; data analysis; forestry; fungal pathogens; genomic/synthetic biology; host switch; mycosis; taxonomy and diversity
Using genomics to understand tree rust biology and epidemiology
Principal investigators: HAMELIN, Richard
Ecosystem Services, Commercialization and Entrepreneurship (ECOSCOPE)
Principal investigators: Hallam, Steven
The NSERC TRIA Network: Turning risk into action for the Mountain Pine Beetle epidemic
Principal investigators: Cooke, Janice
Funding for full application preparation: The NSERC Tria Mountain Pine Beetle System Network
Principal investigators: Cooke, Janice
Exploring resistance mechanisms in the S. musiva - Populus interaction
Principal investigators: Erbilgin, Nadir
Elucidation of rust life-cycle using molecular approaches
Principal investigators: Hamelin, Richard
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Ilga Porth and Richard Hamelin: 4 shared papers
- Michel Cusson and Richard Hamelin: 3 shared papers
- Mathieu Blanchette and Yue Li: 1 shared paper
- Mathieu Blanchette and Richard Hamelin: 1 shared paper
- Yue Li and Richard Hamelin: 1 shared paper
- Dmytro Yevtushenko and Richard Hamelin: 1 shared paper
- Ilga Porth and Michel Cusson: 1 shared paper
- Suzanne Simard and Richard Hamelin: 1 shared paper
- Forest and Conservation Sciences
- Sciences du bois et de la forêt
- Département de biochimie, de microbiologie et de bio-informatique
- Biological Sciences Department
- School of Computer
- Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences
- School of Computer Science
Co-authors at University of British Columbia, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Ilga Porth
Sciences du bois et de la forêt
4 shared papers, latest 2024
Michel Cusson
Département de biochimie, de microbiologie et de bio-informatique
3 shared papers, latest 2026
Mathieu Blanchette
School of Computer
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Yue Li
School of Computer Science
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Dmytro Yevtushenko
Biological Sciences Department
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Suzanne Simard
Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2020
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