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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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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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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
12

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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Nov
13

IRES: Institute of Resources, Environment and Sustainability Seminar

"Beyond human-wildlife conflict: emplacing snow leopards in Himalayan landscape and knowledge", Phurwa Dolpopa, UBC Geography Source: IRES Seminar...
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Nov
13

Doctoral Defense - Evan McKenzie

"The mechanochemical hydrostatic organs of Chaoborus larvae: function under pressure", Evan McKenzie, PhD candidate, P Matthews lab...
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Nov
14

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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Nov
14

IOF: Oceans and Fisheries Seminar

"Developments in ecocentric fisheries management in European waters", Athanassios Tsikliras, Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Source:...
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Nov
14

Friday: Comparative Physiology Invited Speaker Seminar - Arthur Woods

"Evolution of the insect tracheal system driven by spatially varying limitation of oxygen and carbon dioxide transport", Arthur Woods, Professor...
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Nov
14

CANCELLED - BNS: Behavioural Neuroscience Seminars

"Intranasal administration of estradiol using a novel vehicle for brain-targeted delivery in rats", Brittany Jensen, Soma Lab Source: BNS
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Nov
18

Doctoral Defense - Nicola Love

"Modelling spatial use in wildlife and efficacy of measures to enhance recovery", Nicola Love, PhD candidate, Otto lab...
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Nov
18

MBIM: Department of Microbiology and Immunology seminar

"Supershedding and beyond: mechanistic insights into Salmonella gut dynamics", Olivia Steele-Mortimer, Chief, Salmonella-Host Cells Interactions...
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Nov
19

BRS: Biodiversity Research Seminar Series - Arunkumar Ramesh

"Genome and epigenome evolution in model, nonmodel, and crop plants", Arunkumar Ramesh Source: BRS series...
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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-...
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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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