Brendan Reid's research combines cutting-edge genomic sequencing in space and time with habitat data, demographic data, and computational methods to understand the evolutionary responses of species and communities to environmental change over time and to propose conservation solutions to ensure their sustainability. He is particularly interested in using genetics and museum collections to understand the basis of species responses to new stresses and to preserve biodiversity in the current era of global climate change.

His current research includes active participation in the PIRE project in the Philippines, which links museum specimens collected in the early 1900s to contemporary populations to understand how habitat changes have influenced the neutral and adaptive genetic diversity of fish. He is also leading a large-scale project to create a genomic database for the endangered Blanding's turtle, which will be used in conservation planning and forensics.

Professor Brendan Reid will join the URBE team on October 20, 2025.

"I am looking forward to establishing local research in Belgium on the responses of aquatic and semi-aquatic communities (particularly fish and amphibians) to environmental change."

More information coming soon.