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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...

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...

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

URO Life Sciences Research Night

Location: UBC AMS Nest Great Hall - 2nd floor Time: 5:00 - 9:00 pm LSRN Keynote speaker: "Moments That Made THIS Scientist Failing Forward … and...

Nov

Doctoral Defense - Nicola Love

"Modelling spatial use in wildlife and efficacy of measures to enhance recovery", Nicola Love, PhD candidate, Otto lab...

Nov

MBIM: Department of Microbiology and Immunology seminar

"Supershedding and beyond: mechanistic insights into Salmonella gut dynamics", Olivia Steele-Mortimer, Chief, Salmonella-Host Cells Interactions...

Nov

Pender Harbour Wildlife Society event

Location: Pender Harbour Elementary/Secondary School, 13639 Sunshine Coast Hwy, Madeira Park "Dealing with invasive species in British Columbia", Jud...

Nov

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...

Nov

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...

Nov

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...

Nov

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, UBCZoology Source: Wednesday...

Nov

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...

Nov

BDG: Biodiversity Discussion Group

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

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Latest Publications

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-...

Hasan & Whitlock, PLOS Genetics

September 28, 2025

Fig 1. Accuracy of various methods in predicting FST with respect to the scaled heterozygous strength of selection, Nlocalt. Asad Hasan, Michael C...

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