He received numerous awards and accolades throughout his career including the Order of Canada. He was a cherished colleague and a friend who will be greatly missed. 2 of 2

DYK that #genomics can be used to design #DNA methods to detect #tree killing pathogens and pests and prevent future disease outbreaks? #Forestry4EarthDay @forestry.ubc.ca on Bluesky IUFRO Genome Canada GenomeBC @GenomeQuebec Canadian Food Inspection Agency Natural Resources FPInnovations biosafegenomics.com

Cold tolerance of #Asianlonghornedbeetle by @AlexSTorson Brent J Sinclair and my lab GLFC Science. Supported by BioSAFE and Genome Canada #NRCanSci authors.elsevier.com/c/1c~Cm3v7jMyk…

Next up, Richard Hamelin is highlighting the importance of vigilant biosurveillance to protect the world’s forests 🌳 Tune in! #CFNGLM21

Check out our new publication Gene Deletion in Dutch elm disease pathogen #treedisease #InvasiveSpecies frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

New Simply Science & BioSAFE research on #ALB published in a special issue on insect cold tolerance

APS #Planthealth2021 today, go to RESEARCH ON-DEMAND: Detection, Diagnosis, and Survival III Wed Aug. 4th 2h30 EDT to see and discuss my research and collaboration on Oak Wilt; Detection of oak wilt eDNA in insect traps in Eastern Canada using metagenomics and qPCR The American Phytopathological Society

Bioproducts from Forest Biomass: An Emerging Opportunity for BC’s Pulp and Paper Industry genomebc.ca/blog/bioproduc…

Fungus pockets! Our review chapter on ambrosia beetle mycangia, the amazing organs these fungus farmers use to store and carry living spores of their fungal food, is just out (Open Access) at MIT Press. #fungi #symbiosis #ambrosiabeetles direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edite…

Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology in Prague, Czech Republic, offers postdoc position in fungal ecology that will utilize the GlobalFungi data. If you want to focus on fungi and are not afraid to work with large data and statistics, see more at: biomed.cas.cz/mbu/lbwrf/glob…

Check out our new paper: Characterizing, mapping and valuing the demand for forest recreation using crowdsourced social media data | PLOS ONE ⁦GenomeBC⁩ ⁦Genome Canada⁩ ⁦@GenomeQuebec⁩ ⁦@forestry.ubc.ca on Bluesky⁩ ⁦Integrated RS Studio⁩ journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Another great fall camp interior field school with @forestry.ubc.ca on Bluesky students learning about #foresthealth #treediseases #entomology

Smoke covering BC is so thick it can be seen from space (PHOTOS)🌎 dailyhive.com/vancouver/smok…

Congratulations to a fantastic trio of students Erika Dort, Priya Puri 🌞 and Leah Rettenbacher who received @ubcforestry awards to support their graduate studies on #treedisease #genomics #plantpathogen @EvoFunPath BioSAFE CRSNG / NSERC GenomeBC Genome Canada

They’re swimming! #phytophthora ⁦The American Phytopathological Society⁩ ⁦CPS⁩ #treedisease ⁦BioSAFE⁩ Erika Dort ⁦@EvoFunPath⁩

Range‐wide population genomics of the spongy moth, Lymantria dispar Implications for biosurveillance, subspecies classification and phylogeography of a destructive moth Sandrine Picq Richard Hamelin Genome Canada GenomeBC @GenomeQuebec Natural Resources Canadian Food Inspection Agency onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ev…

Check this new paper from our team developing new approaches to assess impact of #invasivespecies on recreational value of #parks #forest doi.org/10.1016/j.ecol…

fantastic UGA's Warnell School seminar by Richard Hamelin on #foresthealth, #genomics, #climatechange and #invasive; fun discussion with lab members! Thank VillariLab for organizing the seminar!

The global population genomics of the destructive Lymantria dispar (spongy or gypsy #moth) suggests continental East Asia as its evolutionary origin - article in Evolutionary Applications by Sandrine Picq and others like Richard Hamelin - doi.org/10.1111/eva.13…