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Zoology Staff Highlight: meet Ben Jan!

October 31, 2025
Meet Ben Jan! Professional background and where were you before you joined Zoology?  Before joining Zoology in August 2025, I was with UBC IT...
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Brendan Lavery won the Arthur J. Niimi award

October 17, 2025
Last week, at the Canadian Ecotoxicity Workshop in Victoria, Brendan Lavery, a Directed Studies student in the Wood lab, won the Arthur J. Niimi award...
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Iris Li's findings on Kip the coyote

October 15, 2025
UBC Science by Alex Walls, Oct 15, 2025 - What cherished campus coyote’s death tells us about his life - [...]Third-year PhD candidate Iris Li is...
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Upcoming Events

Nov
19

BRS: Biodiversity Research Seminar Series - Arunkumar Ramesh

"Genome and epigenome evolution in model, nonmodel, and crop plants", Arunkumar Ramesh, Postdoctoral researcher, Technical University of Munich...
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Nov
19

Sex and Gender Inclusivity Community of Practice meeting

 In this meeting, Katie Marshall will share a lesson on diversity of sex determination mechanisms in animals that she is planning to implement in her...
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Nov
19

MSL - Michael Smith Seminar Series

"DNA-based molecular measurement tools", Peng Yin, Professor of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Core Faculty Member, Wyss Institute for...
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Nov
19

Wednesday: Evening Comparative Physiology Seminar – Iris Lee

"Thrill or trap? Conflict coyotes (Canis latrans) thrive in urban chaos", Iris Lee, PhD student, Sarah Benson-Amram lab, UBC Forest and Conservation...
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Nov
19

ZGSA presents: Trivia Night

We are excited to announce TRIVIA NIGHT to be held November 19th in BRC 224 at 5pm!  Think you are the ultimate trivia champion, bring your friends...
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Nov
20

BDG: Biodiversity Discussion Group

Paper: Generalists are more specialized in low-resource habitats Source: BDG
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Nov
20

IRES: Institute of Resources, Environment and Sustainability Seminar

"Life after academia: finding career fulfilment in applied biology", Larissa Darc, Project Biologist, ISL Engineering and Land Services Source: IRES...
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Nov
20

Biodiversity Public Lecture Series

"What’s left to what’s needed: reframing biodiversity in decision-making". Justina Ray, President and Senior Scientist of the Wildlife Conservation...
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Nov
21

Friday Zoology Coffee & Donuts

Please join us for Friday Zoology Coffee and Donuts. This event happens from 9:30 am to 10:30 am - unless otherwise indicated. Each week, the venue...
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Nov
21

IOF: Oceans and Fisheries Seminar

"From theory to practice: a human well-being approach to understanding the socio-economics of small-scale fisheries", Anna Schuhbauer, Postdoctoral...
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Latest Publications

Mi Jing Khor et al. Current Biology

November 17, 2025
Graphical abstract Mi Jing Khor, Yuxuan Rain Xiong, Gaganpreet Sangha, Kenji Sugioka. 2025. Cadherin flow translates cortical chirality into left...
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Rory D. J. Macklin & Jill E. Jankowski. Avian Biology

November 3, 2025
Figure 1. Predicted relative abundance of chestnut-backed chickadee (CBCH) in the environmental conditions of grid cells across gradients of urban-...
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