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Rees Kassen

Academic title(s): 

Professor

Rees Kassen
Branch: 
Université McGill
Department: 
Biologie
Areas of expertise: 
  • experimental evolution
  • biodiversity
  • adaptation
  • environmental surveillance
  • antibiotic resistance
Biography: 

Rees Kassen is internationally recognized for his work using microbes to study the evolution of biodiversity, antimicrobial resistance, and the development of chronic infection. Rees is also active at the interface between science, society and policy, currently serving as Director of the Trottier Institute for Science and Public Policy at McGill and previously as Chair of the Science and Innovation Advisory Council at the Institute on Governance and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Scientific Collaboration. Kassen is Full Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Trottier Professor of Science and Public Policy at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, where he also leads the Coronavirus in the Urban Built Environment initiative as its scientific director.

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