Department of Biology
Dr. Graham A. C. Bell
 

 
Educational background



Graham Bell - Brief Curriculum vitae

Graham Arthur Charlton Bell, born 3 March 1949 at Leicester, England.  Educated at Ingle Street Primary School and the Wyggeston School, Leicester. Attended Oxford University (BA Hons 1970, D Phil 1974).  Married Susan Eva Rosinger 6 February 1971. Three children: Matthew (born 1975), Thomas (born 1977), and Nicholas (born 1979).  Emigrated to Canada October 1975.

Address:
Department of Biology, McGill University, 1205 Avenue Docteur Penfield, Montreal, Quebec, Canada  H3A 1B1
Tel: Office (514) 398-6458 (voice mail) Laboratory (514) 398-6459  Fax: (514) 398-5069
e-mail:graham.bell@mcgill.ca

Career
   
1967-1970
Undergraduate at St. Peter's College, Oxford.
1968
Domus Exhibition at St. Peter's College, Oxford
1969
Domus Scholarship at St. Peter's College, Oxford1970
1970
Christopher Welch Scholarship from the University of Oxford
1970-1974
Graduate student at St. Peter's College, Oxford.
1973
Research Fellowship for postdoctoral research, from the National Environment Research Council.
1974-1975
Postdoctoral Fellow (NERC), University of York, England.
1975
Research Biologist with Fisheries and Wildlife Division, Government of Alberta.
1976
Appointed Visiting Lecturer at McGill University, Montreal.
1977
Appointed Visiting Assistant Professor at McGill University, Montreal.
1978
Appointed Assistant Professor at McGill University, Montreal.
1983
Appointed Associate Professor at McGill University, Montreal.
1989 
Appointed Professor at McGill University, Montreal.
1995  Appointed Director of the Redpath Museum.
   
Honours and Awards
   
1992  Appointed to the Molson Chair in Genetics at McGill.
1994 Elected to the Royal Society of Canada.
2001 Appointed as James McGill Professor
2002 Prix Lˆ©o Parizeau de l’ÄôAssociation francophone pour le savoir, Quˆ©bec.
2003  Elected to Honorary Fellowship of St Peter’Äôs College, Oxford
2004 Laurˆ©at Marie-Victorin, Prix du Quˆ©bec.
2006. Elected President, Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution.
2007  NSERC Award of Excellence
   
Books

Bell, G. 2008.  Selection: the Mechanism of Evolution, second edition. Oxford University Press (publication date 18 January 2008).

Bell, G. 1996. The Basics of Selection.  Chapman & Hall, New York and London.

Bell, G. 1996. Selection: the Mechanism of Evolution. Chapman & Hall, New York and London. 

Bell, G.  1989.  Sex and Death in Protozoa: the History of an Obsession.  Cambridge University Press.

Bell, G.  1982.  The Masterpiece of Nature: the Evolution and Genetics of Sexuality.  Croom Helm, London; University of California Press, Berkeley.
Recent Public Talks
   
August 2007 Invited speaker, Symposium on Natural Selection, European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Uppsala, Sweden.
July 2007 Invited speaker, Gordon Research Conference, New Hampshire.
June 2007 Keynote speaker, Canadian Genetics Society, Montreal.
May 2007 Invited speaker, Symposium on Natural Selection, Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution, Toronto
May 2007 Invited speaker, Yodzis Symposium, University of Guelph.
March 2007 Invited speaker, British Ecological Society Symposium, Sheffield, U.K.
February 2007 Invited speaker, Symposium on Experimental Evolution, Centre for Environmental Genomics, University of Ottawa.
February 2007 Conferencier invitˆ©, Centre des Ÿñtudes Nordiques, Quˆ©bec
November 2006 Invited speaker, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.
September 2006 Invited speaker, Society for General Microbiology/British Ecological Society, Symposium on Neutral Models in Microbial Ecology, York, U.K.
August 2006 Invited speaker, Ecological Society of America, Symposium on Neutral Theory in Community Ecology, Memphis, Tennessee.
April 2006 Invited speaker, Station Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy.
April 2006 Invited speaker, UQAM, Workshop on Fitness.
December 2005 Invited speaker, Workshop on Innovation, Bures-sur-Yvette, France.
August 2005 Invited speaker, European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Symposium on Evolution of Asexuals, Krakow, Poland.
November 2004 Invited speaker, 21COE International Symposium 2004 on Molecular mechanisms of cell proliferation and evolution, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
October 2004 Invited speaker, workshop on Experimental Evolution, University of Fribourg.
April 2004 Invited speaker, Origin and Spread of Asexuals, Valencia, Spain, workshop organized by the European Science Foundation.
   
Current Research Funding
   
2001 CFI      Laboratory for Experimental Ecology and Evolution (LE3)
2003-2008 NSERC   Experimental evolution using Chlamydomonas as a mode system
2005-2008 FQRNT    Consˆ©quences ˆ©cologiques de l'origine des espˆ®ces