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Colin Brauner and Keila Stark: CSZ Award Winners

December 17, 2025
F.E.J. Fry Medal: Colin Brauner The Fry Medal is given to a Canadian Zoologist who has made an outstanding contribution to knowledge and understanding...
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Zoology Faculty recipients of BCKDF

December 16, 2025
UBC Research + Innovation: Province announces support for research infrastructure through BCKDF December 15, 2025,  - the Government of BC announced...
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Michael Gordon will be the new FoS Associate Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

December 15, 2025
UBS Science, December 10, 2025: "Improving support for graduate students and postdocs: This January, the Faculty of Science is launching a portfolio...
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Upcoming Events

Jan
09
2026

IOF: Oceans and Fisheries Seminar

Rocio López de la Lama, MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Bonn Source: IOF seminars to RSVP
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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
14
2026

Neuropizza Seminars

Neuropizza is always on Wednesdays at 5:00 pm in the Koerner conference room Source: Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health    
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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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Jan
23
2026

Friday: Comparative Physiology Invited Speaker Seminar – Erika Eliason

"Beating the heat: Cardiac clues to fish resilience", Erika Eliason, DFO Source: Friday Comphy Seminar...
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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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