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Asher Leeks' team awarded 2026 Wall Research Team Faculty Award

September 16, 2026

Each year, Wall Fellowships and Wall Research prestigious UBC awards provide funding to push forward innovative faculty and student research tackling...

Claire Kremen and Colin Brauner named Fellows of The Royal Society of Canada

September 9, 2026

Colin Brauner and Claire Kremen have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada, one of the highest honours recognizing outstanding...

Snakes in an egg all coil in the same direction. Scientists think they’ve learned why

August 31, 2026

Graphical abstract UBC Science and Technology, Alex Walls, August 31, 2026: Snakes in an egg all coil in the same direction. Scientists think they’ve...

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Upcoming Events

Sep

Friday Zoology Coffee & Donuts

September 18: BRC Courtyard September 25: Biosci Lounge October October 2 – LSC 1416 October 9 – BRC Atrium October 16 – BioSci Lounge October 23 –...

Sep

Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health seminar

"Disentangling the roles of distinct cell classes with cell-type dynamical systems", Jonathan Pillow, Princeton University More information and...

Sep

IOF: Oceans and Fisheries Seminar

"Climate change, keystone predators, and the coastal marine biodiversity in British Columbia", Chris Harley, Professor, UBC BRC, IOF, and Zoology...

Sep

EDG: Evolution Discussion Group

Paper(s): Zhou et al. 2026 Genomic predisposition is associated with the direction of sex chromosome evolution. Full schedule and link to paper(s): E...

Sep

Friday: Comparative Physiology Invited Speaker Seminar – Morgan Piczak

"Integrating movement ecology with conservation", Morgan Piczak, Assistant Professor, UBC Forestry Source: Friday Comphy Seminar...

Sep

BLISS: Biodiversity Legendary Internal Seminar Series

"Towards evolutionary-informed management by understanding evolutionary rescue", Laurie Balstad, PDF, King lab Source: BLISS-BRC ...

Sep

Data4Nature workshop

Data4Nature Workshop: How to get data into and out of species databases Time: 1:30 to 4:30 pm Instructors: Emily Black, PhD student, UBC Department...

Sep

BRS: Biodiversity Research Seminar Series - Maurine Neiman

"Studying the maintenance of sex and other big questions, mostly in snails", Maurine Neiman, Professor, University of Iowa Source: BRS series...

Sep

Wednesday: Evening Comparative Physiology Seminar - Lab Intros 2

Katie, Colin, Andrea & Jeff lab profiles and introductions Source: Wednesday Comphy Seminar...

Sep

Bioinformatics/Genomics Discussion Group

We’re a group of graduate students and postdocs working on bioinformatics and genomics projects using tools such as Shell, Perl, Python, R, and Julia...

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Latest Publications

Diego F. Beltrán et al. Evolution

September 17, 2026

Figure 4. Distribution of contrasts between feather patches and background elements (dS). Contrasts were averaged among time slots and between light...

Celeste Leander et al. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education

September 14, 2026

FIG 3 Comparison of final course grades and quality of final projects in 2021 (ungraded) and 2018 (traditionally graded). No significant difference...

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