Welcome to Campbell Rolian's website!

This website describes the Rolian Lab, a research group previously based at the University of Calgary. I moved to McGill University in 2022 to focus on teaching, in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology. I no longer run an active lab or research program, and don't have any open positions for undergraduate or graduate trainees.

My research aims to understand how morphology evolves - using the mammal limb skeleton as a model to address three questions: (1) How does limb development evolve to produce diversity among species? (2) How does covariation in size and shape among limb bones impact their ability to evolve independently? (3) How does limb morphological variation affect locomotor performance across individuals?

Over the years, my trainees and I have integrated data from multiple levels of biological organization (e.g., genomic, developmental, organismal), to define the mechanisms that have shaped limb ecomorphology in mammals.

Take a look around the website to find out more about our work, and thanks for visiting!