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Sally Otto received one of the 2025 Killam Award for Excellence in Mentoring

November 28, 2025

Please join us in congratulating Sally Otto on receiving the Killam Award for Excellence in Mentoring. It was awarded to Sally yesterday at a...

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...

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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Upcoming Events

Dec

IRES: Institute of Resources, Environment and Sustainability Seminar

""Here for a better life”: community-based participatory action research to advance environmental justice for South Asian immigrant communities in...

Dec

BRC Special Research seminar

"Gambling for resurrection: environmental fluctuations can reduce extinction risk for highly at-risk populations", Jeremy Fox, U Calgary Abstract...

Dec

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...

Dec

IOF: Oceans and Fisheries Seminar

Student Presentations Source: IOF seminars to RSVP

Dec

Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health seminar

"A tale of serotonin’s value: from release dynamics to behavioral regulation", Jean-Claude Béique, University of Ottawa More information and zoom...

Dec

Friday: Comparative Physiology Invited Speaker Seminar – Yvonne Dzal

"From bat noses to mole-rat skin — How physiology can save imperiled wildlife: tools, tolerance, and turning science into conservation solutions", Yvo...

Dec

EDG: Evolution Discussion Group

Rosemary (Rosie) Redfield is going to present some ideas she’s been working on for a discussion. She is part of a group preparing an opinion piece...

Dec

Doctoral Defense - Jawad Sakarchi

"How genotypes, populations and species evolve to persist and persist to evolve", Jawad Sakarchi, PhD candidate, Germain lab...

Dec

Huts 2025

This year will be a full-day event, starting with the Art auction and ending with the annual HUTS party hosted in the BRC atrium. We especially want...

Dec

BNS: Behavioural Neuroscience Seminars

"Unveiling Mice Behaviours in 3D: Capture and Analysis Pipelines", Tony Fong, Murphy Lab Source: BNS

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Latest Publications

Mackenzie H Kinney et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B

December 1, 2025

Figure 1. Invertebrate biomass at the end of the experiment. Violin plots of (A) zooplankton biomass (µg) and (B) benthic invertebrate biomass (µg) in...

Madeleine H. Abbott et al. PLOS One

November 20, 2025

Fig 1. Map of all sites visited in BC, with orange dots indicating the presence of Peltogaster sp., purple diamonds indicating the presence of E...

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