I did my PhD in Prof. Rob Ness’s lab at the University of Toronto Mississauga. I am broadly interested in meiotic recombination, and use lab-based and computational approaches to better understand how recombination rate variation affects genome evolution.
Outside of my research work, I am also passionate about teaching programming skills for scientific research, with an emphasis on reproducible and open science. I have taught several Carpentries workshops over the course of my PhD, in addition to running programming workshops at my campus with UofT Coders.
See the Projects page for more detail.
About Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
My research primarily uses the model alga C. reinhardtii, which has been an important model organism for decades now in a variety of subfields within biology. A unicellular, facultatively sexual (i.e. capable of reproducing clonally or sexually), photosynthetic organism with two flagella, C. reinhardtii has been used in studies of organelle inheritance, cell motility, photosynthesis, and evolutionary genetics. In 2007, its genome was sequenced in its entirety and released to the world, bringing the alga into the ever-growing world of genomics.
Contact me
ahmed [dot] hasan [at] mail [dot] utoronto [dot] ca