Danielle Schmidt

Danielle Schmidt
Postdoctoral Researcher
Email: danielle.schmidt@ubc.ca

Education

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington (2025)
  • PhD in Biology, University of British Columbia (2024)
  • MSc in Biology, University of British Columbia (2019)

Research Interests

  • The role of adaptation in species responses to climate change
  • Using genetic tools to inform conservation management
  • Landscape genomics

Projects

  • Developing genomic tools to inform British Columbia’s Chronic Wasting Disease management and surveillance program
  • Investigating the genomic basis of life history evolution in sockeye salmon

Publications

      • Schmidt, DA, Waterhouse, MD, Sjodin, BMF, Russello, MA (2021). Genome-wide analysis reveals associations between climate and regional patterns of adaptive divergence and dispersal in American pikas. Heredity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-021-00472-3
      • Hulthén, K, Heinen-Kay, JL, Schmidt, DA, & Langerhans, RB (2021). Predation shapes behavioral lateralization: insights from an adaptive radiation of livebearing fish. Behavioral Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arab098
      • Schmidt, DA, Govindarajulu, P, Larsen, KW, & Russello, MA. (2020). Genotyping‐in‐thousands by sequencing reveals marked population structure in Western Rattlesnakes to inform conservation status. Ecology and Evolution, 10(14), 7157-7172. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6416
      • Schmidt, DA, Campbell, NR, Govindarajulu, P, Larsen, KW, Russello, MA (2020). Genotyping‐in‐Thousands by sequencing (GT‐seq) panel development and application to minimally invasive DNA samples to support studies in molecular ecology. Mol Ecol Resour. 2019; 00: 1– 11. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13090
      • Jandricic, S. E., Schmidt, D., Bryant, G., & Frank, S. D. (2016). Non-consumptive predator effects on a primary greenhouse pest: Predatory mite harassment reduces western flower thrips abundance and plant damage. Biological Control 95: 5-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2015.12.012
      • Heinen-Kay, J.L., Schmidt, D.A., Stafford, A.T., Costa, M.T., Peterson, M.N., Kern, E.M.A. and Langerhans, R.B. (2016). Predicting multifarious behavioural divergence between predation regimes in the wild. Animal Behaviour 121: 3-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.08.016