Concordia University
Postdoctoral fellow candidate
Supervisor: Dylan Fraser
Start: 2020-08-01
End: 2025-04-30

Project

Conservation genomics of freshwater fish species important to Indigenous Peoples in Canada
My project is part of the large collaborative project called FISHES - Fostering Indigenous Small-scale fisheries for Health, Economy and Food Security. The project aims to interweave Indigenous Knowledge and Genomics to improve fisheries conservation, management and stewardship. My role is to develop and apply genomic tools to identify distinct fish populations, infer population diversity and structure and uncover the mechanisms underlying putative adaptation.

Keywords

Conservation, Genetics/Genomics, ecology, freshwater fish, Indigenous people

Publications

1- Location and Species Matters: Variable Influence of the Environment on the Gene Flow of Imperiled, Native and Invasive Cottontails
McGreevy, Thomas J., Sozos Michaelides, Mihajla Djan, Mary Sullivan, Diana M. Beltrán, Bill Buffum, Thomas Husband
2021 Frontiers in Genetics

2- Independent introductions and sequential founder events shape genetic differentiation and diversity of the invasive green anole (Anolis carolinensis) on Pacific Islands
Michaelides, Sozos N., Rachel M. Goodman, Ronald I. Crombie, Jason J. Kolbe,
2017 Diversity and Distributions

3- Changes in selection pressure can facilitate hybridization during biological invasion in a Cuban lizard
Bock, Dan G., Simon Baeckens, Jessica N. Pita-Aquino, Zachary A. Chejanovski, Sozos N. Michaelides, Pavitra Muralidhar, Oriol Lapiedra, Sungdae Park, Douglas B. Menke, Anthony J. Geneva, Jonathan B. Losos, Jason J. Kolbe
2021 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

4- Dispersal ability predicts spatial genetic structure in native mammals persisting across an urbanization gradient
Richardson, Jonathan L., Sozos Michaelides, Matthew Combs, Mihajla Djan, Lianne Bisch, Kerry Barrett, Georgianna Silveira, Justin Butler, Than Thar Aye, Jason Munshi‐South, Michael DiMatteo, Charles Brown, Thomas J. McGreevy
2020 Evolutionary Applications

5- Genetic differentiation predicts body size divergence between island and mainland populations of common wall lizards (Podarcis muralis)
Uller, Tobias, Hanna Laakkonen, Sozos Michaelides, Geoffrey M While, Aurélie Coulon, Fabien Aubret
2019 Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

6- Genetic reconstruction of the invasion history of Anolis wattsi in Trinidad with a comment on the importance of ecological similarity to invasion success

2019 Herpetological Journal

7- Widespread primary, but geographically restricted secondary, human introductions of wall lizards, Podarcis muralis
Michaelides, Sozos N., Geoffrey M. While, Natalia Zajac, Tobias Uller
2015 Molecular Ecology

8- Phylogeography and Conservation Genetics of the Common Wall Lizard, Podarcis muralis, on Islands at Its Northern Range
Sozos Michaelides, Nina Cornish, Richard Griffiths, Jim Groombridge, Natalia Zajac, Graham J. Walters, Fabien Aubret, Geoffrey M. While, Tobias Uller
2015 PLOS ONE

9- Translocation retains genetic diversity of a threatened endemic reptile in Mauritius
Michaelides, Sozos, Nik Cole, Stephan M. Funk
2014 Conservation Genetics

10- Human introductions create opportunities for intra-specific hybridization in an alien lizard
Michaelides, Sozos, Geoffrey M. While, Celia Bell, Tobias Uller
2012 Biological Invasions