People

Locke Rowe

Locke Rowe

Current Collaborators

Lab Alumni

Postdoctoral Fellows

Graduate Students

Undergraduate Students

  • April Patmanathan
  • Lauren Malatesta
  • Rosemary Martin
  • Diana Sharpe
  • Natalia Sokolovska
  • Abigail Fernandes
  • Tamar Baluja
  • Andrea Iaboni
  • Angus McAuslan
  • Steph Weinstein
  • Anna Simonsen
  • Jeanette Kroshko
  • Jill Wheeler
  • Justin Carroll
  • Kelly Boyle
  • Michelle den Hollander
  • Nicole Mideo
  • Nancy Barker
  • Blake Turner
  • Mohan Couray
  • Alya Ahsan
  • Anna Gosline
  • Kevin Sha
  • Crystal Vincent
  • Tracy Michalak
  • Andrew Colgoni
  • Ying Wang
  • Inga Roedenbeck
  • Crystal Tse
  • Patrick Schaefer
  • Delara Jalalian
  • Samuel Paiva
  • Adam Dobkin
  • Amanda Fernandes
  • Melanie Croydon-Sugarman
  • Divyang Patel
  • Mackenzie Urquart-Cronish
  • Li Yun
  • Sarah Qidwai
  • Greg Giberson
  • Lyly Chung
  • Jimmy Deng
  • Kurt Hartung
  • Zoryana Gorin
  • Katie McGhee
  • Mohamad Hamiah
  • Mathew Nagendran
  • Michelle Ku
  • Fiona Sun

Locke's Brief CV

Current Positions

Past Academic Positions

  • 2016 – 2023Distinguished Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
  • 2018 – 2019Visiting Professor, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia
  • 2017 – 2018Visiting Professor, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia
  • 2014 – 2017Dean, School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto
  • 2014 – 2017Vice Provost, Graduate Research and Education, University of Toronto
  • 2008 – 2013Chair, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
  • 2008 – 2013Tricampus Graduate Chair, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
  • 2003 – 2016Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Toronto
  • 2000 – 2003Associate Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Toronto
  • 1994 – 2000Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Toronto
  • 1992 – 1994NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Kentucky and University of California, Davis

Education

  • 1986 – 1992 PhD in Zoology, University of British Columbia
  • 1984 – 1986 MSc, Watershed Ecosystems Program, Trent University
  • 1980 – 1984 BSc (Hons) in Biology, Trent University

Honours and Awards

  • PhD honoris causa, Uppsala University (2019)
  • Fellow, Royal Society of Canada (elected, 2019)
  • Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies (2018 and 2024)
  • Foreign Fellow, Royal Physiographic Society of Lund (Elected 2018)
  • Vice-President, American Society of Naturalists (Elected 2016)
  • Senior Fellow, Massey College (Elected 2014)
  • Fellow, Royal Entomological Society of London (Elected 2014)
  • NSERC Accelerator Award (2013-16)
  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (Elected 2012)
  • NSERC Accelerator Award (2008-2011)
  • E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship (2006 – 2008)
  • Canada Research Chair in Evolutionary Ecology (2004 – 2016)
  • Premier's Research Excellence Award (1999 – 2004)
  • S.T.I.N.T. Scholar, Umeå University, Sweden (2000-2001)
  • Young Investigator Award, American Society of Naturalists (1993)
  • NSERC Post-doctoral Fellowship (1993-1995)
  • Killam Pre-doctoral Fellowship (1990 – 1993)

Internal Honours and Awards

  • Distinguished Professor of Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto (2016 – 2023)
  • Faculty of Arts and Science Outstanding Teaching Award (2006)
  • Dean’s Excellence Award (1996 – 2006, 2008 – 2013)

Some Representative Publications

Journal Articles

  1. De Lisle, S.P. and L. Rowe. 2023. Condition dependence and the paradox of missing plasticity costs. Evolution Letters 7: 67–78. pdf
  2. Nilsson-Örtman, V. & Rowe, L. 2021. The evolution of developmental thresholds and reaction norms for age and size at maturity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118: e2017185118. pdf
  3. Rowe L & Rundle HD. 2021. The alignment of natural and sexual selection. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 52: 499–517.
  4. Rowe, L., Chenoweth, S.F., and A.F. Agrawal. 2018. The genomics of sexual conflict. American Naturalist 192: 274–286. pdf
  5. De Lisle, S.P. and L. Rowe. 2015. Independent evolution of the sexes promotes amphibian diversification. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282: 20142213. pdf
  6. Khila, A., E. Abouheif and L. Rowe. 2012. Function, developmental genetics, and fitness consequences of a sexually antagonistic trait. Science 336: 585–589. pdf
  7. Long, T.A.F., A. Agrawal and L. Rowe. 2012. The effect of sexual selection on offspring fitness depends on the nature of genetic variation. Current Biology 22: 204–208. pdf
  8. Bonduriansky, R. and L. Rowe. 2005. Intralocus sexual conflict and the genetic architecture of sexually dimorphic traits in Prochyliza xanthostoma (Diptera: Piophilidae). Evolution 59: 1965–1975. pdf
  9. Chapman, T., G. Arnqvist, J. Bangham. and L. Rowe. 2003. Sexual conflict. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 18: 41–47. pdf
  10. Arnqvist, G. and L. Rowe. 2002. Antagonistic coevolution between the sexes in a group of insects. Nature 415: 787–789. pdf
  11. Day, T. and L. Rowe. 2002. Developmental thresholds and the evolution of reaction norms for age and size at life-history transitions. American Naturalist 159: 338–350. pdf
  12. Johansson, F. and L. Rowe. 1999. Life history and behavioral responses to time constraints in a damselfly. Ecology 80: 1242–1252. pdf
  13. Rowe, L. and Houle, D. 1996. The lek paradox and the capture of genetic variance by condition dependent traits. Proceedings of the Royal Society (Lond) B 263: 1415–1421. pdf
  14. Rowe, L., D. Ludwig and D. Schluter. 1994. Time, condition, and the seasonal decline of avian clutch size. American Naturalist 143: 698–722. pdf
  15. Rowe, L. 1992. Convenience polyandry in a water strider: foraging conflicts and female control of copulation frequency and guarding duration. Animal Behaviour 44: 189–202. pdf
  16. Rowe, L. and Ludwig, D. 1991. Size and timing of metamorphosis in complex life cycles: time constraints and variation. Ecology 72: 413–427. pdf

Book

Arnqvist, G. and L. Rowe. 2005. Sexual Conflict. Princeton University Press.