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Julie Sieg elected one of the 2026 Rhode Scholar

December 8, 2025
Congratulations to Julie Sieg, a fourth-year undergaduate student in the Biology honours program at UBC, who was elected one of the 2026 Rhode...
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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...
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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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Upcoming Events

Dec
12

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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Dec
12

EDG: Evolution Discussion Group

Paper: Barroso-Batista et al., 2015 Adaptive immunity increases the pace and predictability of evolutionary change in commensal gut bacteria.  Source...
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Dec
12

MSL - Michael Smith Seminar Series

"Metabolic engineering of yeasts for biodiesel and rhamnolipid production", Ahmad Abdel-Mawgoud, Université Laval Source: MSL event and to register
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Jan
09
2026

Friday: Comparative Physiology Invited Speaker Seminar - Ethan Greenblatt

Ethan Greenblatt, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, UBC Source: Friday Comphy Seminar...
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Jan
14
2026

Annual Dennis H. Chitty Lecture - Shana Goffredi

"Beyond skin deep: Specific surface-attached bacteria serve as novel nutrition for animals across the tree of life", Shana Goffredi, Professor, Chair...
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Jan
15
2026

IRES: Institute of Resources, Environment and Sustainability Seminar

1. "Electronics at the End-of-Life: Repair Ecosystems, Consumer Decisions, and Policy Barriers", Neha Sharma-Mascarenhas, IRES PhD Candidate 2....
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Jan
16
2026

Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health seminar

"Transcendence!: Adolescents’ coordinated neural development of abstract thinking, social emotion and self-awareness", Mary Helen Immordino-Yang...
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Jan
16
2026

BNS: Behavioural Neuroscience Seminars

"The relationship of beat perception and verbal working memory to word-segmentation", Sevinchbegim Miralimova Source: BNS
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Jan
19
2026

Friday: Comparative Physiology Invited Speaker Seminar – Kyle Wellband

"DNA methylation in hatchery salmon: toward a better understanding of proximate causes and ultimate consequences", Kyle Wellband, Research Scientist...
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Jan
21
2026

BRS: Biodiversity Research Seminar Series - TBA

Source: BRS series posted 2026
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Latest Publications

Tahnee Ames et al. Journal of Experimental Biology

December 11, 2025
Overview of the study system and transcriptome characterization. (A) Phylogenetic relationship between the genera Eucorethra, Mochlonyx and Chaoborus...
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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...
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