{"id":472,"date":"2026-03-24T13:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/andrewsimonslab\/cutheme-homepage\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T16:31:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T20:31:21","slug":"cutheme-homepage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/andrewsimonslab\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Simons Lab | ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Andrew Simons Lab\n <\/h1>\n \n \n \n\n

Plant life-history evolution<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

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Matthew Coffey braves the Canadian wilderness in the name of truth, justice, and the scientific way<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

My students and I focus on how organisms respond and adapt to changing environments. We use a variety of organisms both in the field and under controlled environments to address fundamental questions about the evolution of adaptive phenotypic plasticity and bet-hedging traits under fluctuating environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Especially useful as model organisms are monocarpic (i.e. reproduce once per lifetime) plants, such as Lobelia inflata,<\/em> and plants with rapid generation times such as Spirodela polyrhiza<\/em>, a member of the duckweed subfamily (Lemnoideae), which are the smallest flowering plants on the planet. Although we mostly work with plants, we regularly use other organisms such as the fungi Neurospora crassa<\/em> and Saccharomyces cerevisiae <\/em>for studies in experimental evolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Research opportunities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If you are interested in evolutionary ecology and would like to join the lab, please contact me! I am accepting applications for M.Sc. and Ph.D. studies in evolutionary ecology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrew M. Simons, Department of Biology, ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, +1-613-520-2600 x3869, andrew_simons@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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