Sean Myles, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor / Canada Research Chair, Agriculture Genetic Diversity
Email: sean.myles@dal.ca
Bio:
Dr Sean Myles is from Fredericton, New Brunswick, where he received his BA at Saint Thomas University. He completed his Masters in Human Biology at Oxford University and his PhD in Human Evolutionary Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany. He turned to plants during his postdoc at Cornell where he worked on grape genomics. He also spent time as a postdoc at Stanford University before starting his current position in the Faculty of Agriculture at Dalhousie University as the Canada Research Chair in Agricultural Genetic Diversity in the summer of 2011. His research focusses on figuring out how to use genomics to more efficiently breed improved fruit that requires less chemical input to grow.