Patricia M. Schulte FRSC is a Canadian zoologist who is a Professor of Zoology at the University of British Columbia.
She moved to Stanford University for her doctoral research, where she studied the regulation and function of transcriptional Lactate dehydrogenase b in Fundulus heteroclitus.
She has investigated the genetic variants that leave certain rainbow trout susceptible to climate-change relevant stressors.
[3] Three-spined stickleback exist in both freshwater and marine environments, and the two forms come into contact in the streams of British Columbia.
[5] Schulte has investigated how the sticklebacks adapt to new environments, such as changes in salinity, temperature or the types of predators.