Amanda Melin
Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology
Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute
Executive Committee Member - Professional Development Portfolio Lead
PhD - Anthropology (Biological Anthropology)
Master of Arts - Anthropology
Bachelor of Science with Distinction -Zoology
Contact information
Research and teaching
Research
- Sensory ecology, genetics and genomics, feeding ecology, seasonality and parasitism in wild primates
Publications
See Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1DNv9OQAAAAJ&hl=en
Awards
Genome Alberta COVID-19 Rapid Response Program: Genomics-Enhanced Rapid COVID-19 Pandemic Response. Co-I (I am UCalgary Lead handling all lab work; Matthew Croxen, Linda Chui PIs) - 2020-2021.
Genome Alberta COVID-19 Rapid Response Program: COVID-19 Precision Health Genomics for Children: A multiomic study of the Alberta Childhood COVID-19 Cohort. Co-I (François Bernier, PI) - 2020-2021.
Bright Focus Foundation: Omics in a naturally occurring animal glaucoma model PI. - 2020-2022.
National Science Foundation: “Feeding ontogeny at the interface of behavior and morphology” Co-I (Janine Chalk, PI) - 2020-2025.
New Frontiers Explorations, Early Career Grant (National): “The ageing eye: integrating genomics, anatomy, and behaviour across the lifespan in a non-human primate model” PI - 2019-2021.
Canadian Institutes of Health Research Program Grant (National): “Endothelial colony forming cell-derived exosomes and cardiac repair after myocardial infarction” Collaborator (I am leading gene expression studies; Vaibhav Patel is the PI) - 2019-2024.
University of Washington Seed Grant (International) “Metabolomics of aging in retinal tissue” PI - 2019-2020.
Wenner-Gren Foundation (International). “Evolutionary and ecological underpinnings of human ethanol metabolism” PI (Postdoc Mareike Janiak, Co-I) - 2019-2021.
National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery Grant and Discovery Accelerator Supplement (National). “Primate dietary ecology and sensory evolution” PI - 2017-2021.
Canadian Foundation for Innovation (National): “Primate genomics and dietary ecology” PI - 2017-2020.
University of Calgary ‘Eyes High’ postdoctoral scholar recruitment competition (Institutional): “The aging eye” PI - 2019-2021.
The Leakey Foundation (International): “Understanding primate diet adaptations through genomics of digestive enzymes” Co-I (Mareike Janiak, PI) - 2019-2021.
The Leakey Foundation (International): “Evolution of M/L cone ratio variation” Co-I (James Higham, PI, Shoji Kawamura, Co-I) - 2019-2021.