EMPLOYMENT
2017-Present
Research Scientist, University of Washington
EDUCATION
2012-2016
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
PhD, Biology
2010-2012
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Pomona, USA
MSc, Biological Sciences
2001-2007
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
BSc, Conservation Biology
PUBLICATIONS
1. Paccard, A., Wasserman, B. A., Hanson, D., Astorg, L., Durston, D., Kurland, S., Apgar, T. M., El-Sabaawi, R. W., Palkovacs, E. P., Hendry, A. P., and R. D. H. Barrett. 2018. Adaptation in temporally variable environments: Stickleback armor in periodically breaching bar-built estuaries. Journal of Evolutionary Biology Early View.
2. Hanson, D., Hu, J., Hendry, A. P., and R. D. H. Barrett. 2017. Heritable gene expression differences between lake and stream stickleback include both parallel and antiparallel components. Heredity 111(5): 339-348.
3. Stuart, Y. E., Veen, T., Weber, J. N., Hanson, D., Ravinet, M., Lohman, B. K., Thompson, C. J., Tasneem, T., Doggett, A., Izen, R., Ahmed, N., Barrett, R. D. H., Hendry, A. P., Peichel, C. L., and D. I. Bolnick. 2017. Contrasting effects of environment and genetics create a continuum of parallel evolution. Nature Ecology and Evolution 1(6): 0158.
4. Hanson, D., Moore, J.-S., Taylor, E. B., Barrett, R. D. H., and A. P. Hendry. 2016. Assessing reproductive isolation using a contact zone between parapatric lake-stream stickleback ecotypes. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 29(12): 2491-2501.
5. Hanson, D., Barrett, R. D. H., and A. P. Hendry. 2015. Testing for parallel allochronic isolation in lake-stream stickleback. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 29(1): 47-57.
6. Rolshausen, G., Muttalib, S., Kaeuffer, R., Oke, K., Hanson., D., and A. P. Hendry. 2015. When maladaptive gene flow does not increase selection. Evolution 69(9): 2289-2302.
7. Wood, S. A., Russell, R., Hanson, D., Williams, R. J., and J. A. Dunne. 2015. Effects of spatial scale of sampling on food web structure. Ecology and Evolution 5(17): 3769-3782.
8. Cooke, S., Hanson, D., Hirano, Y., Ornelas-Gatdula, E., Gosliner, T. M., Chernyshev, A. V., and A Valdés. 2014. Cryptic diversity of Melanochlamys sea slugs (Gastropoda, Aglajidae) in the North Pacific. Zoologica Scripta 43(4): 351-369.
9. Hanson, D., Cooke, S., Hirano, Y., Malaquias, M. A. E., Crocetta, F., and A. Valdés. 2013. Slipping through the cracks: The taxonomic impediment conceals the origin and dispersal of Haminoea japonica, and invasive species with impacts to human health. PLoS ONE 8(10): e77457.
10. Gonzalez, L., Hanson, D., and A. Valdés. 2013. Molecular divergence between two sympatric species of Dondice (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) with distinct feeding specializations. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK 93(7): 1887-1893.
11. Hanson, D., Hirano, Y., and A. Valdés. 2012. Population genetics of Haminoea (Haloa) japonica Pilsbry, 1895, a widespread non-indigenous sea slug (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia) in North America and Europe. Biological Invasions 15: 395-406.
12. Russell, R., Huntly, N., Wood, S., Finney, B., and D. Hanson. 2012. The Remarkable Life of Sanak. Pages 27-48 in Reedy-Maschner, K. and H.D.G. Maschner, editors. Sanak Island, Alaska: A Natural and Cultural History. Idaho Museum of Natural History, Pocatello, Idaho.
13. Mathot, K., Lund, D., and R. W. Elner. 2010. Sediment in stomach contents of Western Sandpipers and Dunlin provide evidence of biofilm feeding. Waterbirds 33(3): 300-306.
14. Kuwae, T., Beninger, P., Decottignies, P., Mathot, K. J., Lund, D. R., and R. W. Elner. 2008. Biofilm grazing in a higher vertebrate: the western sandpiper, Calidris mauri. Ecology 89: 599-606.
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2015 Department of Biology Writing-Year Award ($6000)
2015 Delise Alison Graduate Student Award ($1260)
2014 Redpath Museum Class of ’66 Award ($6000)
2014 McGill Biology Department Research Travel Award ($2000)
2012 NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship ($21,000·3 years)
2012 Arthur Willey Memorial Fellowship ($2500)
2012 McGill Graduate Excellence Award ($5000)
2012 Vernon Gregory Scholarship ($750)
2012 UBC Forestry Four Year Fellowship ($16,000·4 years) (declined)
2012 BRITE Graduate Fellowship ($10,000·2 years) (declined)
2012 TerreWEB Graduate Funding ($9625) (declined)
2011 President’s Council Scholar Award ($2500)
2011 Chuck Bayless Memorial Scholarship ($750)
2011 Houston Conchology Society C. E. Boone Award ($1000)
2011 Southern California Academy of Sciences Student Research Grant ($1400)
2011 Conchologists of America Grants to Malacology ($1900)
2011 COAST Student Award for Marine Science Research ($1500)
2010 COAST Student Travel Award ($1000)
2010 Ernest Prete, Jr. Student Environmental Research Fellowship ($10,750)
2007 NSERC Undergraduate Summer Research Award ($6257)
2001 Waikiki Aekai Uniona Scholarship (full tuition with stipend·3 years)
PRESENTATIONS (oral presentation unless otherwise noted)
2016 Evolution 2016
2016 American Genetic Association Presidents Symposium (poster)
2015 8th International Conference on Stickleback Behavior and Evolution
2014 Genomes to Biomes Montreal 2014 (CSZ, CSEE, SCL joint meeting)
2013 Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science Symposium
2012 4th International Workshop on Opisthobranchs
2011 Southern California Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting
2011 Southern California Unified Malacologists Meeting XV
2010 CSU Agricultural Research Institute Research Showcase
2007 Georgia Basin Puget Sound Research Conference
2006 Shorebird Science in the Western Hemisphere
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2012-2016
Barrett and Hendry Labs, McGill University, Montréal, QC
Parallelism of lake-stream divergence in threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)
2010-2012
Valdés Lab, Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, USA
Population genetics of the invasive gastropod Haminoea japonica
2006-2007
Shurin Lab, UBC Department of Zoology, Bamfield, Canada
Intertidal food webs in the Alaskan Aleutian Islands
2006-2007
Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment Canada, Delta, Canada
Western sandpiper (Calidris mauri) feeding behavior and ecology
WORK EXPERIENCE
2014-2015
McGill University, Department of Biology, Montreal, Canada
Teaching assistant for Introductory Biology and Animal Diversity.
2010-2012
Cal Poly Pomona, Department of Biological Sciences, Pomona, USA
Teaching assistant for biology lab courses (Introductory Biology, Reproduction and Development, Principles of Ecology, Biometrics).
2007-2008
Abcam Plc., Cambridge, UK
Characterization and quality control of polyclonal antibodies, production of monoclonal antibodies.
2004-2005
Srivastava Lab, UBC Department of Zoology, Vancouver, Canada
Characterization of bromeliad communities by identification and quantification of micro-invertebrates.
2017-Present
Research Scientist, University of Washington
EDUCATION
2012-2016
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
PhD, Biology
2010-2012
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Pomona, USA
MSc, Biological Sciences
2001-2007
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
BSc, Conservation Biology
PUBLICATIONS
1. Paccard, A., Wasserman, B. A., Hanson, D., Astorg, L., Durston, D., Kurland, S., Apgar, T. M., El-Sabaawi, R. W., Palkovacs, E. P., Hendry, A. P., and R. D. H. Barrett. 2018. Adaptation in temporally variable environments: Stickleback armor in periodically breaching bar-built estuaries. Journal of Evolutionary Biology Early View.
2. Hanson, D., Hu, J., Hendry, A. P., and R. D. H. Barrett. 2017. Heritable gene expression differences between lake and stream stickleback include both parallel and antiparallel components. Heredity 111(5): 339-348.
3. Stuart, Y. E., Veen, T., Weber, J. N., Hanson, D., Ravinet, M., Lohman, B. K., Thompson, C. J., Tasneem, T., Doggett, A., Izen, R., Ahmed, N., Barrett, R. D. H., Hendry, A. P., Peichel, C. L., and D. I. Bolnick. 2017. Contrasting effects of environment and genetics create a continuum of parallel evolution. Nature Ecology and Evolution 1(6): 0158.
4. Hanson, D., Moore, J.-S., Taylor, E. B., Barrett, R. D. H., and A. P. Hendry. 2016. Assessing reproductive isolation using a contact zone between parapatric lake-stream stickleback ecotypes. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 29(12): 2491-2501.
5. Hanson, D., Barrett, R. D. H., and A. P. Hendry. 2015. Testing for parallel allochronic isolation in lake-stream stickleback. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 29(1): 47-57.
6. Rolshausen, G., Muttalib, S., Kaeuffer, R., Oke, K., Hanson., D., and A. P. Hendry. 2015. When maladaptive gene flow does not increase selection. Evolution 69(9): 2289-2302.
7. Wood, S. A., Russell, R., Hanson, D., Williams, R. J., and J. A. Dunne. 2015. Effects of spatial scale of sampling on food web structure. Ecology and Evolution 5(17): 3769-3782.
8. Cooke, S., Hanson, D., Hirano, Y., Ornelas-Gatdula, E., Gosliner, T. M., Chernyshev, A. V., and A Valdés. 2014. Cryptic diversity of Melanochlamys sea slugs (Gastropoda, Aglajidae) in the North Pacific. Zoologica Scripta 43(4): 351-369.
9. Hanson, D., Cooke, S., Hirano, Y., Malaquias, M. A. E., Crocetta, F., and A. Valdés. 2013. Slipping through the cracks: The taxonomic impediment conceals the origin and dispersal of Haminoea japonica, and invasive species with impacts to human health. PLoS ONE 8(10): e77457.
10. Gonzalez, L., Hanson, D., and A. Valdés. 2013. Molecular divergence between two sympatric species of Dondice (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) with distinct feeding specializations. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK 93(7): 1887-1893.
11. Hanson, D., Hirano, Y., and A. Valdés. 2012. Population genetics of Haminoea (Haloa) japonica Pilsbry, 1895, a widespread non-indigenous sea slug (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia) in North America and Europe. Biological Invasions 15: 395-406.
12. Russell, R., Huntly, N., Wood, S., Finney, B., and D. Hanson. 2012. The Remarkable Life of Sanak. Pages 27-48 in Reedy-Maschner, K. and H.D.G. Maschner, editors. Sanak Island, Alaska: A Natural and Cultural History. Idaho Museum of Natural History, Pocatello, Idaho.
13. Mathot, K., Lund, D., and R. W. Elner. 2010. Sediment in stomach contents of Western Sandpipers and Dunlin provide evidence of biofilm feeding. Waterbirds 33(3): 300-306.
14. Kuwae, T., Beninger, P., Decottignies, P., Mathot, K. J., Lund, D. R., and R. W. Elner. 2008. Biofilm grazing in a higher vertebrate: the western sandpiper, Calidris mauri. Ecology 89: 599-606.
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2015 Department of Biology Writing-Year Award ($6000)
2015 Delise Alison Graduate Student Award ($1260)
2014 Redpath Museum Class of ’66 Award ($6000)
2014 McGill Biology Department Research Travel Award ($2000)
2012 NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship ($21,000·3 years)
2012 Arthur Willey Memorial Fellowship ($2500)
2012 McGill Graduate Excellence Award ($5000)
2012 Vernon Gregory Scholarship ($750)
2012 UBC Forestry Four Year Fellowship ($16,000·4 years) (declined)
2012 BRITE Graduate Fellowship ($10,000·2 years) (declined)
2012 TerreWEB Graduate Funding ($9625) (declined)
2011 President’s Council Scholar Award ($2500)
2011 Chuck Bayless Memorial Scholarship ($750)
2011 Houston Conchology Society C. E. Boone Award ($1000)
2011 Southern California Academy of Sciences Student Research Grant ($1400)
2011 Conchologists of America Grants to Malacology ($1900)
2011 COAST Student Award for Marine Science Research ($1500)
2010 COAST Student Travel Award ($1000)
2010 Ernest Prete, Jr. Student Environmental Research Fellowship ($10,750)
2007 NSERC Undergraduate Summer Research Award ($6257)
2001 Waikiki Aekai Uniona Scholarship (full tuition with stipend·3 years)
PRESENTATIONS (oral presentation unless otherwise noted)
2016 Evolution 2016
2016 American Genetic Association Presidents Symposium (poster)
2015 8th International Conference on Stickleback Behavior and Evolution
2014 Genomes to Biomes Montreal 2014 (CSZ, CSEE, SCL joint meeting)
2013 Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science Symposium
2012 4th International Workshop on Opisthobranchs
2011 Southern California Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting
2011 Southern California Unified Malacologists Meeting XV
2010 CSU Agricultural Research Institute Research Showcase
2007 Georgia Basin Puget Sound Research Conference
2006 Shorebird Science in the Western Hemisphere
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2012-2016
Barrett and Hendry Labs, McGill University, Montréal, QC
Parallelism of lake-stream divergence in threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)
2010-2012
Valdés Lab, Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, USA
Population genetics of the invasive gastropod Haminoea japonica
2006-2007
Shurin Lab, UBC Department of Zoology, Bamfield, Canada
Intertidal food webs in the Alaskan Aleutian Islands
2006-2007
Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment Canada, Delta, Canada
Western sandpiper (Calidris mauri) feeding behavior and ecology
WORK EXPERIENCE
2014-2015
McGill University, Department of Biology, Montreal, Canada
Teaching assistant for Introductory Biology and Animal Diversity.
2010-2012
Cal Poly Pomona, Department of Biological Sciences, Pomona, USA
Teaching assistant for biology lab courses (Introductory Biology, Reproduction and Development, Principles of Ecology, Biometrics).
2007-2008
Abcam Plc., Cambridge, UK
Characterization and quality control of polyclonal antibodies, production of monoclonal antibodies.
2004-2005
Srivastava Lab, UBC Department of Zoology, Vancouver, Canada
Characterization of bromeliad communities by identification and quantification of micro-invertebrates.
