Dr. Amanda Roe is a research scientist in the Great Lakes Forestry Centre (GLFC), researching population genetics and genomics of invasive and domestic forest insect pests, and to provide scientific oversight to GLFC’s Insect Production and Quarantine Laboratory.
Dr. Roe obtained her PhD in systematics and evolution from the University of Alberta in 2006. Since then she has held several postdoctoral fellowship positions and was an NSERC Visiting Fellow with the Canadian Forest Service from 2010-2013. Her work has covered a wide range of forestry-related topics, including mountain pine beetle, spread of exotic genes from poplar hybrids, and species delineation in forest Lepidoptera.
She has published widely in high-profile scientific journals.