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  • Welcome to the PIEE Lab!

    The PIEE Lab at the University of British Columbia and the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm are located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Musqueam People. We are privileged to work and learn on their land. Photo: Warren Wong

Welcome to the PIEE Lab! We study plant-insect ecology and evolution, mostly concerning plant defence against herbivory and multispecies interactions. Our approach is primarily through experimental comparisons of populations that have diverged in evolutionary history or that span a gradient of plant-insect interactions, including plant defences of native vs. invasive plants populations and of domesticated crops vs. their wild relatives.

Projects in the lab are diverse, but often consider plant tolerance of herbivory and indirect defences of plants, such as the attraction of natural enemies (e.g. predaceous ants or parasitoid wasps). Almost all projects in the lab address fundamental questions in ecology and evolutionary biology with a strong applied component. Our lab is affiliated with the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at the UBC Farm and the Biodiversity Research Centre.

(C) 2020 by Juli Carrillo or as otherwise noted. The copyright holder retains all rights to the photos or other published materials. The copyright holder prohibits other uses including copying or republishing any portion of the photos without the author’s permission

Juli Carrillo
Faculty of Land and Food Systems
Vancouver Campus
131 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4
Tel 604 827 5039
Email juli.carrillo@ubc.ca
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