Cameron J Weadick, PhD (U Toronto)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Evolutionary Biology
Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology (Tübingen)
cameron.weadick [at] tuebingen.mpg.de
Research
The world is complex and ever-changing. For life to survive and thrive in spite of this variability, organisms must be able to obtain accurate and timely information about their surroundings. My primary research interests involve the molecular evolution of sensory systems, particularly the proteins that transduce physical or chemical stimuli into biochemical signals.

I've recently begun a postdoctoral research position in the Department of Evolutionary Biology at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology (Tübingen). I'll be studying aspects of pheromone signaling in Pristionchus nematodes under the supervision of Dr Ralf Sommer. My PhD research focused on visual pigments, the light-sensitive proteins found in the retina's rod and cone photoreceptor cells, and was carried out under the supervision of Dr Belinda Chang and Dr Helen Rodd.
Curriculum vitae
CV [pdf]
Last updated: Feb 19th 2012
Publications
Google Scholar Listing [link]
  1. Weadick CJ and Chang BSW. An Improved Likelihood Ratio Test for Detecting Site-Specific Functional Divergence among Clades of Protein-Coding Genes. 2012. Molecular Biology and Evolution (online advance access). [link]
  2. Chang BSW, Du J, Weadick CJ, Müller J, Bickelmann C, Yu DD, and Morrow JM. The future of codon models in studies of molecular function: Ancestral reconstruction, and clade models of functional divergence. 2012. In: Cannarozii GM, and Schneider A, editors. Codon Evolution: Mechanisms and Models. Oxford University Press. [link]
  3. Fraser BA, Weadick CJ, Janowitz I, Rodd H, and Hughes KA. Sequencing and characterization of the guppy (Poecilia reticulata) transcriptome. 2011. BMC Genomics 12:202. [link] [PDF]
  4. Wong L, Weadick CJ, Kuo C, Chang BSW, and Tropepe V. Duplicate dmbx1 genes regulate progenitor cell cycle and differentiation during zebrafish midbrain and retinal development. 2010. BMC Developmental Biology 10:100. [link] [PDF]
  5. Weadick CJ and Chang BSW. Molecular evolution of the βγ lens crystallin superfamily: evidence for a retained ancestral function in γN crystallins? 2009. Molecular Biology and Evolution 26:1127-1142. [link] [PDF]
  6. Price AC, Weadick CJ, Shim J, and Rodd FH. Pigments, patterns, and fish behavior. 2008. Zebrafish 5:297-307. [link] [PDF]
  7. Hult EF, Weadick CJ, Chang BSW, and Tobe SS. Reconstruction of ancestral FGLamide-type insect allatostatins: A novel approach to the study of allatostatin function and evolution. 2008. Journal of Insect Physiology 54:959-968. [link] [PDF]
  8. Weadick CJ and Chang BSW. Long-wavelength sensitive visual pigments of the guppy (Poecilia reticulata): six opsins expressed in a single individual. 2007. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7(Suppl 1):S11. [link] [PDF]
  9. Fu J, Weadick CJ, and Bi K. A phylogeny of the high-elevation Tibetan megophryid frogs and evidence for the multiple origins of reversed sexual size dimorphism. 2007. Journal of Zoology 273:315-325. [link] [PDF]
  10. Fu J, Weadick CJ, Zeng X, Wang Y, Liu Z, Zheng Y, Li C, and Ying H. Phylogeographic analysis of the Bufo gargarizans species complex: A revisit. 2005. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 37:202-213. [link] [PDF]
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