Jonathon Stone - Department of Biology

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Research in the area of ‘bioinformatics and functional genomics’ leverages the power of genomic and post-genomic technologies, to address fundamentally important biological questions in a wide range of organisms, from a molecular level, through to a population perspective. Our laboratories provide a superb training environment for motivated post-doctoral fellows, graduate students and undergraduates.

Relevant Graduate Courses

BIOL 6DD3 / Molecular Evolution
BIOL 708 / Quantitative Methods in Ecology and Evolution
BIOL 709 / Special Topics in Biology
BIOL 715 / Topics in Evolutionary Genetics
BIOL 720 / Bioinformatics
BIOL 721 / Topics in Molecular Evolution
BIOL 724 / Molecular Ecology
BIOL 742 / Molecular and Metabolomic Responses of Plants to Environmental Perturbations
BIOL 775 / Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Genomics
Education *750 / Principles and Practices of University Teaching

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Research Highlights

3.5 million dollar Ontario Research Fund grant awarded to Dr. Weretilnyk to use next generation sequencing to reveal the incredible stress tolerance mechanisms of the Yukon native plant Thellungiella. The long term goal is use this knowledge to improve crop stress tolerance and sustainability.
2.8 million dollar ORF grant awarded to Dr. Herb Schellhorn and colleagues, to fund studies into water contamination by E. coli bacteria
Infection modelling by the Dushoff lab has provided key insights into the spread of HIV and influenza infections (as published in PLoS Biology and PNAS)
Recent work by the Evans lab has uncovered new amphibian species (as profiled on CBC), revealed variation in the genetic mechanisms for sex determination in frogs, and explored how social systems affect gene evolution in primates
Functional genomic analyses by the Finan lab (funded by Genome Canada) have significantly advanced our understanding of bacterial-plant symbiosis
The Golding lab is a national leader in understanding molecular evolution, and has provided important analyses into antibiotic resistance (Nature, 2011), and the bubonic plague (Nature, 2011)
Discoveries in the Elliot lab have revealed novel mechanisms governing bacterial development (PNAS, 2011), and led to the development of new strategies to stimulate antibiotic production (mBio, 2012)
Work in the Stone laboratory focuses on ‘big picture’ questions, as befits the Associate Director of the Origins Institute here at McMaster

Jonathon Stone

Contact Info

Title:

Associate Professor, Director, Origins Institute

Office:

LSB 327

Phone:

(905) 525-9140 ext. 26136

Email:

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Website:

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Research

Astro-, Computational, Developmental, and Evolutionary biology (with smattering from Ecology and Physiology); Viruses to elephants, including human menopause and especially gastropods, echinoids, and water bears (oh my).

Research Interests:

Bioinformatics & Functional Genomics; Cell and Developmental Biology; Ecology & Evolution; Genetics & Molecular Biology

Publications

Morton, R.A., Stone, J.R., Singh, R.S. 2013. Mate choice and the origin of menopause. PLoS Computational Biology. 9: e1003092.
Abou Chakra, M. and Stone, J.R. (2011) Holotestoid: a computational model for testing hypotheses about echinoid skeleton form and growth. J. Theor. Biol. 285: 113-125.
Abou Chakra, M. and Stone, J.R. (2011) Classifying echinoid skeleton models: testing ideas about growth and form. Paleobiology. 4: 686-695.
Mok, W., Seto, K. and Stone, J. (2007) Non-molecular-clock-like evolution following viral origins in Homo sapiens. Evol. Bioinform. Online. 3:263-266.
Stone, J.R.(2005) Probabilities for completely pectinate and symmetric cladograms. Cladistics. 19: 565-566.
Stone, J.R. and Hall, B.K. (2004) Latent homologues for the neural crest as an evolutionary novelty. Evol. Dev. 6: 123-129.
Stone, J.R.(2002) Mapping cladograms into morphospaces. Acta Zoologica. 84: 63-68.

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Department of Biology
McMaster University
Life Sciences Building, Room 218
1280 Main Street West
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
L8S 4K1

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Office Hours:
8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Telephone:
+1 (905) 525-9140 ext.24400
Email:
biology@mcmaster.ca

Mailing Address

Department of Biology
McMaster University
Life Sciences Building, Room 215
1280 Main Street West
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
L8S 4K1

Contact Information

Office Hours:
8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Telephone:
+1 (905) 525-9140 ext.24400
Email:
biology@mcmaster.ca