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Diane Srivastava wins the 2025 Canadian Open Data Leader of the Year

March 29, 2026

Canadian Open Data Society 2025 winners: Diane Srivastava founded and leads the Living Data Project as Director of the Canadian Institute of Ecology...

In Memoriam of Robert (Bob) C. Fitzsimmons

March 27, 2026

Credits: [unknown]. (1970, January 1). Robert C. Fitzsimmons [P]. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0023644. UBC Digital collection "Dr. Robert (Bob)...

Wild plants can rapidly evolve to rescue themselves from climate change

March 13, 2026

Daniel N. Anstett, Julia Anstett, Seema N. Sheth, Dylan R. Moxley, Haley A. Branch, Mojtaba Jahani, Kaichi Huang, Marco Todesco, Rebecca Jordan, [...]...

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Upcoming Events

Apr

Special Research seminar

"Chill with climate change: are warmer winters a problem for plants?", Al Kovaleski, Plant Resilience Lab, University of Wisconsin The survival of...

Apr

Master's Defense - Jackie DaSilva

"Discourse patterns shape students' experiences of active learning in an introductory biology course", Jackie DaSilva, Master's Student, Blaire...

Apr

BRS: Biodiversity Research Seminar Series - Adam Siepielski

Adam Siepielski, Professor, Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas Source: BRS series...

Apr

Wednesday: Evening Comparative Physiology Seminar - Erik Folkerts

"Heating up the heart: a journey investigating temperature impacts on ancient fish cardiac systems", Erik Folkerts, Postdoctoral Fellow at University...

Apr

Bioinformatics/Genomics Discussion Group

posted 2026...

Apr

Life Sciences Symposium

Jay Shendure, Director of the Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology and Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington for his talk...

Apr

Friday Zoology Coffee & Donuts

April: April 10: BioSci Lounge April 17: BioSci Lounge April 24: BRC Atrium May: May 1: BioSci Lounge May 8: LSC 1416 May 15: BRC Atrium May 22...

Apr

Friday: Comparative Physiology Invited Speaker Seminar – Bradley Dickerson

"Functional organization of haltere feedback for Drosophila flight control", Bradley Dickerson, Assistant Professor, Princeton Neuroscience Institute...

Apr

BNS: Behavioural Neuroscience Seminars

Jackson Schumacher, Floresco Lab Source: BNS

Apr

ZGSA presents: Drag is coming to the BRC

The ZGSA and Markus Thormeyer are excited to announce that Drag is coming to the BRC on Friday, April 10th at 5:00-6:00pm in the BRC multipurpose room...

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