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Biodiversity Legendary Internal Seminar Series (BLISS)
Fall 2021
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Affiliation |
| Sept 16 |
Rachael Wade |
Implications of Plakobranchus cf. ianthobapsus (Gastropoda, Sacoglossa) kleptoplasty for herbivore ecology, benthic community structure, and invasive species management |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Martone Lab and Hakai |
| Sept 23 |
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Cancelled |
| Sept 30 |
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NO BLISS (Truth and Reconciliation Day) |
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| Oct 7 |
Jane Yangel and Michael Procko |
Green Shores for Homes: reducing impact of coastal development on shoreline ecosystems and evaluating program effectiveness through monitoring AND Science to Policy: Informing Wildlife and Recreation Management in Golden Ears Provincial Park, BC |
BRITE Interns |
| Oct 14 |
Nicole Balsdon and Karen Needham |
The Beaty Biodiversity Museum: Get to know your next door neighbour! |
Beaty Biodiversity Museum |
| Oct 21 |
Julia Craig and Nicolas Talloni |
Telling truth through fiction: science communication through storytelling AND Advancing climate-ready fisheries on Canada's Pacific Coast |
BRITE Interns |
| Oct 27 |
Angela Brennan |
Functional Connectivity of the World’s Protected Areas |
Research Associate, Kremen Lab |
| Nov 4 |
Jonna Kulmuni |
Understanding the outcomes of hybridization over time and space |
The University of Helsinki, visiting researcher in the Otto Lab |
| Nov 11 |
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NO BLISS (Reading Week) |
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| Nov 18 |
Mairin Deith |
Where the wild hunts are: mapping and managing data-deficient bushmeat system |
PhD Student, O'Connor Lab |
| Nov 25 |
Amy Liu |
Species and species divergence in the Western North American char complex (genus: Salvelinus) |
MSc Student, Taylor Lab |
| Dec 2 |
Edward Tekwa |
Uncovering biases in biodiversity and conservation sciences |
Postdoctoral Fellow, O'Connor Lab |
| Dec 9 |
Victoria Hemming |
Decision science for conservation |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Martin Lab |
Spring 2021
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Affiliation |
| Jan 8 |
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NO BLISS |
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| Jan 15 |
Rachel Germain, Tess Grainger |
'Failing' your way to success |
Assistant Professor and BRC Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Jan 22 |
Keerthi Kruta |
Habitat drivers of a vertebrate community in a fragmented neotropical landscape |
MSc Student |
| Jan 29 |
Alexa Fredston |
Understanding, managing, and predicting marine species on the move |
Postdoctoral associate, Rutgers University |
| Feb 5 |
Colin MacLeod |
New directions in parasite ecology: complete life cycles, DNA barcoding, and cryptic biodiversity |
Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Feb 12 |
Gil Jorge Barros Henriques |
Evolutionary theory of cooperation and group life |
PhD candidate, Exit Seminar! |
| Feb 19 |
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NO BLISS (reading week) |
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| Feb 26 |
Sarah Foster |
Turning national commitments into conservation action for seahorses |
Program Manager Project Seahorse |
| March 5 |
Claire Kremen Research Group |
WoRCS: Working to Restore Connectivity and Sustainability |
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| March 12 |
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NO BLISS (Virtual Eco-Evo Retreat) |
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| March 19 |
Linnea Sandell |
Experimental evolution and fitness effects of mutations in yeast |
PhD Candidate, Exit Seminar! |
| March 26 |
Harold Eyster |
Assessing the conservation value of a shared landscape: a metacommunity process approach |
PhD Candidate, Chan lab |
| Apr 2 |
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NO BLISS (Good Friday) |
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| Apr 9 |
Quentin Geissmann |
A computational approach to insect circadian ecology |
UBC Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Apr 16 |
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NO BLISS (cancellation) |
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| Apr 23 |
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NO BLISS (Botany and Zoology Symposium) |
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| Apr 30 |
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NO BLISS (cancellation) |
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Fall - 2020
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Affiliation |
| Sept 11 |
Nicole Balsdon |
Virtual Resources: teaching, learning, research, and recreation with the Beaty Biodiversity Museum |
Education & Outreach Coordinator, Beaty Biodiversity Museum |
| Sept 18 |
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| Sept 25 |
Geneviève Lajoie |
Ecological and evolutionary perspectives on microbial community assembly in the phyllosphere (and elsewhere) |
Hakai Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Oct 2 |
Antonin Machac |
Evolution of diversity across scales |
UBC Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Oct 9 |
Alexia Constantinou |
Of Mice and Moose: Small and Large Mammal Responses to a Gradient of Forest Harvesting Treatments |
MSc Student, Wildlife Coexistence Lab & Belowground Ecology Group
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| Oct 16 |
Jared Grummer and the Whitlock research group |
The fitness and genomic consequences of assisted gene flow |
UBC Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Oct 23 |
Carla Di Filippo |
Nutrients in a changing world: Testing the effects of temperature on nutrient quality, quantity, and trophic cascades in food webs |
MSc student |
| Oct 30 |
Melody Salehzadeh and Jordan Hamden |
Local glucocorticoid production in the nervous
and immune systems |
PhD Candidates in the Soma lab |
| Nov 6 |
Kyle Shanebeck |
What doesn't kill you, may not make you stronger: sub-lethal fitness effects of parasitic helminth infection in mammals |
PhD Candidate |
| Nov 13 |
Luis Camacho |
Macroecological patterns of biotic interactions and their consequences in prey communities |
PhD Candidate |
| Nov 20 |
Kaleigh Davis, Julian Idrobo, and Mary O'Connor |
Macroecological patterns of biotic interactions and their consequences in prey communities |
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| Nov 27 |
Wildlife Coexistence lab (Cole Burton research group) |
Camera trapping for human-wildlife coexistence: emerging insights and opportunities |
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| Dec 4 |
Rassim Khelifa |
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SNSF postdoctoral fellow |
| Dec 11 |
Tom Booker |
Thinking about recombination rate variation when looking for interesting patterns in the genome |
UBC Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Dec 18 |
Tess Grainger |
Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of invaded communities |
BRC Postdoctoral Fellow |
Fall 2019
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Affiliation |
| Sept 6 |
Amandine Sabadel |
Stable isotopes of amino acids in food webs: theory and applications |
Research Fellow at the Department of Marine Science - Otago University |
| Sept 13 |
Tom Booker |
Global adaptation confounds the search for local adaptation |
UBC PostDoctoral Fellow |
| Sept 20 |
Chris Beirne |
Using remote sensing to shed light on the ecology and behaviour of forest elephants |
UBC PostDoctoral Fellow |
| Sept 27 |
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Global Climate Strike! |
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| Oct 4 |
Tom Nelson |
The forces that structure genetic variation among populations and species |
PostDoctoral Fellow at University of Montana |
| Oct 11 |
Ross Whippo |
In search of Antarctica's seaweed forests |
PhD student at Oregon Institute of Marine Biology |
| Oct 18 |
Lesley Miller |
Improving Access to Biodiversity Data in Metro Vancouver |
Fellow in the Data Science for Social Good program with the UBC Data Science Institute |
| Oct 25 |
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Go to Eco-Evo Retreat! |
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| Nov 1 |
Nicole Balsdon and Karen Needham |
Behind-the-Scenes with the Beaty Museum |
Education & Outreach Coordinator and Curator of the Spencer Entomological Collection - Beaty Museum |
| Nov 8 |
Alyssa Gehman |
Variation in host response to sea star wasting disease in the central BC coast |
UBC and Hakai Institute PostDoctoral Fellow |
| Nov 15 |
Alejandra Echeverri |
Iconic Manakins and Despicable Grackles: Which traits make birds prone to be liked or disliked by people? |
Applied Research Coordinator, Climate Crisis in Urban Biodiversity (CCUB) | SEEDS Sustainability Program |
| Nov 22 |
Alex Yeung |
Hear the voices of future: a review of ecosystem change projections in boreal Canada by 2050 |
PhD, UBC |
| Nov 29 |
Tom Givnish |
The Green Empire strikes back: ecology and evolution of carnivorous plants |
Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Dec 6 |
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NO BLISS - go to Huts :) |
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| Dec 13 |
No speaker |
Holiday break :) |
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Winter/Spring 2019
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Affiliation |
| Jan 11 |
Nina Morrell, Julian Heavyside, Emily Adamczyk, Sarah Harper |
1. Identifying riparian and wetland ecological values in British Columbia using GIS.
2. Ecology, traditional indigenous fisheries management, and youth engagement in science and culture.
3. Kelp forest restoration in Gwaii Haanas, Haida Gwaii
4. Who owns fishing licences in BC? |
BRITE interns, UBC |
| Jan 18 |
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| Jan 25 |
Jungsoo Park |
Phycospheric bacterial engineering for the better biomass productivity of microalgae and future research on endophytes |
PhD student, Parfrey lab |
| Feb 1 |
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| Feb 8 |
Nate Cathcart |
How fish navigate cryptic legacies of water development in the American Southwest |
Alaska Dept. of Fish & Game |
| Feb 15 |
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| Feb 22 |
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| Mar 1 |
Zoe Panchen |
Arctic plant phenology: climate change impacts and responses |
W. Garfield Weston Postdoctoral Fellow in Northern Research, UBC |
| Mar 8 |
Smudge and Jeannette Whitton |
The case for good dogs in the workplace, or how I earned my Ph.Dog and you should too. |
Prof, BRC |
| Mar 15 |
Dr. Gideon Mordecai |
Emerging viruses of Salmon in British Columbia |
Postdoc, Suttle lab |
| Mar 22 |
Silu Wang |
Glacial legacy effects on hybridization and speciation
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PhD candidate, Irwin lab |
| Mar 29 |
Melissa Guzman |
Trophic metacommunities: lessons from studying bromeliads |
PhD candidate, Srivastava lab |
| Apr 5 |
No speaker this week |
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| Apr 12 |
Dan Greenberg |
TBA |
PhD candidate, Arne Mooers/Palen lab |
| Apr 19 |
Holiday |
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| Apr 26 |
Grad symposium! No speaker this week |
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Fall 2018
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Affiliation |
| Sept 14 |
Hannah Visty, Patrick Burke, Emily Stump |
TBA |
BRITE interns, UBC |
| Sept 21 |
Prof. Julie Allen |
Untangling the Web of Vertebrate-Louse-Endosymbiont Coevolution: An Evolutionary Bioinformatic approach |
University of Nevada-Reno |
| Sept 28 |
Nicole Balsdon, Philippe Roberge |
Communicating your Research with the Beaty Museum |
Beaty Biodiversity Museum |
| Oct 5 |
Dr. Emily Warschefsky |
The evolution and domestication of the mango genus (Mangifera) |
Postdoc, Rieseberg lab |
| Oct 12 |
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| Oct 19 |
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| Oct 26 |
Eco-Evo retreat |
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| Nov 2. Beaty Museum auditorium |
Dr. Michael Betancourt |
Scalable Bayesian Inference with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo |
Applied Statistician |
| Nov 9 |
Prof. Margie Mayfield |
Adding complexity to fitness models: a step towards improving our ability to predict coexistence and diversity patterns at local scales |
Professor, University of Queensland |
| Nov 16 |
Dr. Dan Morris |
Computer vision challenges in wildlife conservation |
Microsoft researcher, Artificial Intelligence for Earth |
| Nov 23 |
Dr. Allison Mann |
TBA |
Postdoc, Parfrey lab |
| Nov 30 |
Huts |
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Winter/Spring 2018
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Affiliation |
| Jan 5 |
Norah Brown |
Exit seminar |
Zoology, PhD candidate |
| Jan 12 |
BRITE interns Dr. Paige Olmsted, Patrick Burke, Dr. Ruth Sharpe |
Show Me the Money? Social Finance for Conservation. Bioacoustic Monitoring in a Biodiversity Hotspot. Education and Outreach at The Vancouver Aquarium |
UBC |
| Jan 19 |
Dr Daniel Anstett |
Latitudinal gradients in herbivory and plant defence |
Postdoc, Angert lab |
| Jan 26 |
Dr Claire Ruffing-Cathcart |
Understanding Temporal Variability in Stream Ecosystems |
Postdoc, Richardson lab |
| Feb 2 |
Dr Matthew Mitchell |
Managing human-dominated systems for nature and people: the importance of landscape structure |
Postdoc, IRES |
| Feb 9 |
Christoph Deeg |
Parasites of heterotrophic protists: Giant viruses and tiny bacteria |
PhD candidate, Suttle lab |
| Feb 16 |
Dr. Bianca Trevizan |
Microbial taxa exhibit distinct biogeographic patterns depending on how rare they are |
Postdoc, Parfrey lab |
| Feb 23 |
Reading break |
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| Mar 2 (15:30-17:00), Beaty Museum auditorium |
Invited speakers: Dr. Andrea MacLeod, Dr. Aria Hahn, M.Sc. Christianne Wilhelmson |
Career paths outside academia |
Nature Trust BC, ECOSCOPE and Koonkie Cloud Services, Georgia Strait Alliance |
| Mar 9 |
Laura Borden |
Persistence and recovery potential of the kelp Neoagarum fimbriatum under increased grazer pressure |
MSc Candidate, Botany |
| Mar 16 |
Dr. Jared Grummer |
Scaly, temperate beasts: evolutionary history of Argentinean lizards, and population genomics and adaptation of BC rainbow trout |
Postdoc, Zoology |
| Mar 23 |
Prof. Jason Weir |
Speciation in Amazonian birds and the origins of the latitudinal diversity gradient |
Associate Professor, U of Toronto |
| Mar 30 |
Holiday |
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| Apr 6 |
ZGSA symposium |
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| Apr 13 |
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| Apr 20 |
Matthew Miles Osmond |
Evolutionary rescue: integrating ecological and evolutionary theory |
PhD candidate, Zoology |
| Apr 27 |
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| May 4 |
Dr. Jan Finke |
Environmental variables shape phytoplankton virus communities |
Postdoc, Suttle lab |
Fall 2017
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Affiliation |
| Sep 15 |
BRITE interns Dr Alys Granados, Jasmine Ono, Natalie Westwood |
The consequences of clear-cut logging for coastal temperate rainforests on Vancouver Island. Investigating the stability of hybrid beer yeast over multiple re-pitches. From the ground up: creating a long-term biodiversity monitoring program. |
UBC |
| Sep 22 |
Dr Florent Mazel |
The evolution of mammals and their gut microbiota |
UBC postdoc |
| Sep 29 |
Prof Arturo Elosegi |
Effects of global change on streams: from individual behavior to ecosystem functioning |
Visiting faculty, Basque University |
| Oct 6 |
Dr Pirmin Nietlisbach |
Inbreeding depression and heterozygosity-fitness correlations in simulations and in the wild |
UBC postdoc, Whitlock lab |
| Oct 13 (AERL 120) |
Prof. Jonathan Levine |
Understanding species' responses to climate change: the need for population and community ecology |
ETH Zürich |
| Oct 20 |
Dr. David Shiffman |
The role of modern communication technology in ocean science and conservation |
Liber Ero postdoc, SFU |
| Oct 27 |
Beaty Biodiversity Museum |
Mini-Workshop: Communicating your Science with the Beaty Museum (workshop material here) |
Museum |
| Nov 3 |
no BLISS, due to EcoEvo retreat |
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| Nov 10 |
Dr. Matt Whalen |
Effects of small-scale environmental heterogeneity on development of rocky intertidal communities |
Postdoc, Martone & O'Connor labs |
| Nov 17 |
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| Nov 24 |
Prof. Raul Suarez |
History, social institutions and the Philippine biodiversity crisis |
Zoology |
Winter/Spring 2017
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Lab |
| Jan 16 |
Dr. Jennifer Sunday |
The ecology of species distributions: testing our understanding across scales |
Postdoctoral fellow |
| Jan 23 |
Alys Granados |
Ecological effects of disrupting plant-animal interactions (PhD exit seminar) |
Brodie lab |
| Jan 30 |
Dr. Claire Fortunel |
Functional trait differences and the mechanisms structuring
diverse communities
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UCLA |
| Feb 6 |
Kat Anderson |
Algal-herbivore interactions in a high CO2 world: lessons from different ecological scales |
Harley lab |
| Feb 13 |
Family day |
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| Feb 20 |
Reading week |
-- |
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| Feb 27 |
Dr. Alyssa Gehman |
Community interaction & environmental drivers of marine host-parasite dynamics |
Harley lab |
| Mar 6 |
Dr Holly Moeller |
Trade, Borrow, or Steal: Acquired metabolism in community ecology |
Biodiversity postdoc |
| Mar 13 |
Colin Mahony |
A closer look at novel climates: Trajectories of climate change beyond North America’s climatic boundaries |
Aitken lab |
| Mar 20 |
Dr Tiffany Stephens |
Exploring patterns in enzyme activity for the carbon and nitrogen metabolism of 39 seaweeds |
Martone lab, Fisheries |
| Mar 27 |
Dr. Martha Nelson-Flower |
In line to the throne: queues for dominance in a social bird |
Arcese lab |
| Apr 3 |
Marybel Soto Gomez
Micah Scholer
Adrian Semmelink |
BRITE Interns |
Biodiversity Research Centre |
| Apr 10 |
Dr. Walden Kwong |
The bee microbiome: a new model system |
Keeling lab |
| Apr 17 |
Statutory holiday |
-- |
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| Apr 24 |
Joey Bernhardt |
Causes and consequences of nutritional diversity in aquatic food webs |
O'Connor lab |
Fall 2016
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Lab |
| Sep 12 |
Prof Isla Myers-Smith |
Arctic ecology in a warming world |
University of Edinburgh |
| Sep 19 |
Dr Giulio Valentino Dalla Riva |
Tree and leaf: on the evolution of cultural and natural networks |
Dobeli lab |
| Sep 26 |
Dr Rachel Germain |
Historical contingencies in the ecology and evolution of species diversity |
Biodiversity Postdoc |
| Oct 3 |
Dr Devin Arbuthnott |
Mate choice, sexual selection, and adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster |
Whitlock & Schluter labs |
| Oct 10 |
Thanksgiving |
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| Oct 17 |
Kim Gilbert |
Understanding local adaptation and effective population size in the face of complex demographic history |
Whitlock lab |
| Oct 24 |
Prof Tony Sinclair |
The future of conservation: lessons from long term research and the need for rewilding |
Zoology |
| Oct 31 |
Dr. Alex Little (Comparative Physiology search) |
Regulators of Plasticity: molecular fitness determinants in changing environments |
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami |
| Nov 7 |
Dr. Paula Duarte Guterman (Comparative Physiology search) |
Comparative physiology of sex steroids: from development to brain function |
Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, UBC |
| Nov 14 |
Beaty Biodiversity Museum |
What's new at the museum |
Museum |
| Nov 21 |
Prof Sally Aitken |
Do phenotypes and population genomics paint the same picture of
adaptation to climate in conifers? |
Forestry |
| Nov 28 |
Jasmine Ono |
Genetics of adaptation in experimental yeast populations (PhD exit seminar) |
Otto lab |
| Dec 5 |
Dr Edward Gregr |
Sea Otters, kelp forests, and ecosystem services: modelling habitats, uncertainties, and trade-offs |
Chan lab |
| Dec 12 |
I: Advanced Research Computing
II: BRITE intern John Lee |
I: ARC & Compute Canada at UBC
II: The importance of agricultural biodiversity |
ARC UBC |
Winter/Spring 2016
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Lab |
| Jan 18 |
Emilie Stump |
Red List Assessments of Marine Pufferfishes (Tetraodontidae) |
Vincient Lab |
| Jan 25 |
Speak Up! Community-Building with Respect |
LOCATION room 224 BRC, 12-1:30 RSVP |
BRC and Botany |
| Feb 1 |
Ron Long |
The Unmatched Biodiversity of Pink Mountain |
-- |
| Feb 8 |
Family Day |
-- |
-- |
| Feb 15 |
Reading Week |
-- |
-- |
| Feb 22 |
Taku Demura |
A tale of the evolution and revolution of water-conducting systems in land plants |
Botany, Peter Wall Institute |
| Feb 29 |
Sara Miller |
Exit Seminar |
Schluter Lab |
| Mar 7 |
Alathea Letaw |
Exit Seminar |
Srivastava Lab |
| Mar 14 |
Mollie Chapman
Sarah Amundrud |
BRITE Interns |
Biodiversity Research Centre |
| Mar 21 |
Patrik Nosil |
Punctuated and gradual changes in speciation |
Schluter Lab |
| Mar 28 |
Easter |
-- |
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| Apr 4 |
Marius Rösti |
-- |
-- |
| Apr 11 |
Benjamin Freeman |
Elevational specialization in tropical montane birds |
Schluter Lab |
Apr 18 |
Diana Rennison |
Exit Seminar |
Schluter Lab |
| Apr 25 |
Jennifer Selgrath |
TBA |
Gergel and Vincent Labs |
Fall 2015
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Lab |
| Sep 14 |
Biodiversity Museum Staff |
-- |
-- |
| Sep 21 |
Kristin Mercer |
Adaptation of crop landraces to environmental variation in an era of climate change |
Ohio State University |
| Sep 28 |
Jeremy Yoder |
Species interactions and the origins of biological diversity |
Aitken |
| Oct 5 |
Amanda Vincent |
The role of SMS texting in conservation |
UBC Fisheries Centre |
| Oct 12 |
-- |
Thanksgiving |
-- |
| Oct 19 |
David Anderson |
Intermolecular epistasis shaped the evolution of a new gene regulatory module |
Tokuriki |
| Oct 26 |
Rachael Bay |
Genomic basis of thermal tolerance in corals |
Schluter |
| Nov 2 |
Jesse Weber |
Adaptation genetics in mice, fish, and tapeworms: behavior, immunology, and coevolution |
University of Texas |
| Nov 9 |
Matt Pennell |
Evolutionary insights from big biodiversity |
UBC |
| Nov 16 |
Erin McCullough |
Elaboration and diversification of animal weapons |
University of Western Australia |
| Nov 23 |
Javier del Campo |
Data scavenging for microbial ecology studies |
Keeling |
| Nov 30 |
Lilly Hehenberger |
From Endosymbiont to Organelle. Or how Dinoflagellates help us to understand that process |
Keeling |
| Dec 7 |
Meagan Grabowski
Liz Kleynhans
Sarah Klain |
BRITE Interns |
-- |
Spring 2015
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Lab |
| Jan 12 |
Katie Marshall |
Integrating the effects of repeated cold exposure from transcriptome to whole organism |
Killam Fellow |
| Jan 19 |
Stephen Heard |
Diet shifts and speciation in herbivorous insects: ecological causes and evolutionary consequences |
University of New Brunswick |
| Jan 26 |
Andrew MacDonald |
Exit Seminar: The causes and consequences of variation in community composition in bromeliads |
Srivastava |
| Feb 2 |
Elizabeth Gow |
Sex related patterns of foraging and parental care across two bird species |
Killam Fellow |
| Feb 9 |
Family Day |
-- |
-- |
| Feb 16 |
Olivier Dézerald |
Life history and secondary production of tank-bromeliad invertebrates in a neotropical rainforest |
Université de la Guyane |
| Feb 23 |
Anna Hargreaves |
Testing the limits to species distributions: interactions, climate, dispersal |
Biodiversity Postdoc |
| Mar 2 |
Bernardo Ranieri
Ally Thompson
Alys Granados |
BRITE Intern Presentations |
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| Mar 9 |
Jeremy Draghi |
Lessons on Evolvability from Complex Genotype-Phenotype Models |
Whitlock |
| Mar 16 |
Brook Moyers |
Exit Seminar: The landscape of divergence in silverleaf sunflowers |
Rieseberg |
| Mar 23 |
Helen Drost |
Exit Seminar: Upper thermal limits of Arctic cod (Boreogadus saida) |
Farrell |
| Mar 30 |
Amanda Vincent |
Postposed until next semester |
UBC Fisheries Centre |
| Apr 6 |
Easter Monday |
-- |
-- |
| Apr 13 |
-- |
No BLISS - BGSA Symposium |
-- |
| Apr 20 |
Kira Delmore |
Exit Seminar: Examining seasonal migration's role in speciation and its genetic basis |
Irwin |
| Apr 27 |
Julia Gustavsen |
Temporal dynamics of marine viruses at Jericho Pier |
Suttle |
Fall 2014
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Lab |
| Sept 8 |
BRITE interns:
Edward Gregr
Greg Baute
Megan Vaughan |
Special Seminar |
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| Sept 15 |
Adam Ford |
Exit Seminar: A mechanistic study of trophic interactions in an African savanna |
Goheen/Arcese |
| Sept 22 |
Celine Caseys |
Toward understanding the effects of hybridization on plant secondary metabolism |
Rieseberg |
| Sept 29 |
Nicole Balsdon
Jackie Chambers |
Communicating Research at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum |
Beaty Biodiversity Museum |
| Oct 6 |
Chris Kopp |
Plant community response to recent and future climate change in California's White Mountains |
Angert |
| Oct 13 |
-- |
Thanksgiving (Canada)
Columbus Day (USA) |
-- |
| Oct 20 |
Simon Goring |
Pre-Settlement vegetation in the Upper Midwest: Realized niches, species co-existence and the loss of community analogues in modern forests. |
Wisconsin |
| Oct 27 |
Marjorie Weber |
Linking ecology with the macroevolution of plant-arthropod defense mutualisms |
UC Davis Center for Population Biology Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Nov 3 |
Adriana Suarez |
Is allelic introgression from balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera) adaptive in black cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa)? |
Douglas |
| Nov 10 |
Nathaniel Sharp |
Mutation load in sexual populations: effects of sexual selection and condition-dependence |
Otto/Whitlock |
| Nov 17 |
Holly Kindsvater |
The evolution and ecology of life histories in the sea |
Reynolds (SFU) |
| Nov 24 |
William Cheung |
Climate change and ocean acidification: implications for global marine fisheries |
UBC Fisheries Centre |
| Dec 1 |
BRITE interns:
Andew Huang
Matt Strimas-Mackey
Richard Schuster
Kate McGrath |
Special Seminar |
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Spring 2014
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Lab |
| Jan 6 |
Charles Krebs |
Is modern agriculture sustainable? An ecologists view of agricultural science |
Krebs |
| Jan 13 |
Trevor Gareth Jones |
Community-based conservation of Madagascar's mangroves |
Blue Ventures Conservation/UBC |
| Jan 20 |
Kristina Cockle |
Ecological networks of cavity-nesting vertebrates through time and space |
Louisiana State University-UBC |
| Jan 27 |
Christopher D. Muir |
Is it time for an evolutionary physiology synthesis, yet? |
Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Feb 3 |
Jennifer Sunday |
Take the heat or get out of the kitchen: Distributional and adaptive responses to climate change among the worlds' ectotherms |
Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Feb 10 |
-- |
Family Day |
-- |
| Feb 17 |
-- |
Spring Break |
-- |
| Feb 24 |
David Toews |
Exit Seminar: Hybridization, speciation and the biogeography of genetic and phenotypic variation in Setophaga warblers |
Irwin |
| Mar 3 |
Mary O'Connor |
Metabolic temperature dependence and the importance of herbivory |
O'Connor |
| Mar 10 |
Marco Todesco |
The molecular basis of plant natural variation (and possibly of plant adaptation) |
Rieseberg |
| Mar 17 |
BRITE interns |
Special Seminar |
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| Mar 24 |
Tim Vines |
Science publishing, data archiving and peer review |
Axios Review/UBC |
| Mar 31 |
Angelica Gonzalez |
A chemical approach to biodiversity: from individual traits to ecosystem functioning |
Srivastava |
| Apr 7 |
Jennifer Selgrath |
Mapping fishing and habitats in the Philippines |
Gergel/Vincent |
Fall 2013
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Lab |
| Sep 9 |
Nicolas O. Rode |
Adaptation to temperature and male-female coevolution in natural populations: new insights from resurrection ecology approaches using the brine shrimp Artemia |
University of Ottawa |
| Sep 16 |
Nicole Littlemore |
Interacting with the Beaty Museum |
|
| Sep 23 |
BRITE interns |
Special Seminar |
|
| Sep 30 |
Maria Beger |
Multiple objectives in spatial conservation prioritization in the Coral Triangle |
O'Connor |
| Oct 7 |
Carl Rothfels |
|
Otto |
| Oct 14 |
-- |
Canadian Thanksgiving |
-- |
| Oct 21 |
Julie Lee-Yaw |
Exit seminar: Understanding parapatric range limits in a northern amphibian |
Irwin |
| Oct 28 |
Becca Gooding |
Exit seminar: Multiple abiotic changes and species interactions mediate responses to climate change on rocky shores |
Harley |
| Nov 4 |
Becca Kordas |
Exit seminar# Community ecology in a warming world: The influence of temperature on species composition and interspecific interactions in marine systems |
Harley |
| Nov 11 |
-- |
Remembrance Day |
-- |
| Nov 18 |
Liz Perkin |
The effects of artificial light at night on stream ecosystems |
Richardson |
| Nov 25 |
Christine Grossen |
Risks and benefits of introgression: insights from Alpine ibex and Sapsuckers |
Irwin |
| Dec 2 |
Roz Dakin |
Iridescent color signals in birds |
Altshuler |
| Dec 9 |
Robin LeCraw |
Exit seminar: The influence of spatial processes at multiple scales on local community structure and function |
Srivastava |
Spring 2013
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Lab |
| Jan 14 |
Jeremy Draghi |
Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Genotype-Phenotype Maps |
Whitlock |
| Jan 21 |
Lizzie Wolkovich |
Community Assembly & Disassembly with global change |
Biodiversity Postdoc |
| Jan 28 |
Kyle Demes |
Exit Seminar |
Harley |
| Feb 4 |
Ethan White |
Testing a general theory of macroecology using big data |
Utah State University |
| Feb 11 |
-- |
Family Day |
-- |
| Feb 18 |
-- |
Reading week |
-- |
| Feb 25 |
Greg Sharam |
How to get a job in Consulting |
|
| Mar 4 |
Jennie McLaren
|
The influences of plant identity on ecosystem properties in a changing arctic |
Turkington |
| Mar 11 |
Juan Santos |
Emergent Properties in Poison Frogs: Aposematism, Bioacoustics and
Systematics |
Biodiversity Postdoc |
| Mar 18 |
BRS |
-- |
-- |
| Mar 25 |
Heather Kharouba |
Exit Seminar |
Mark Vellend |
| Apr 1 |
-- |
Easter Monday |
-- |
| Apr 8 |
Rob Colautti |
Rapid evolution, genetic constraints and climate adaptation in a changing world |
Rieseberg |
| Apr 15 |
Gwylim Blackburn |
Exit Seminar |
Maddison |
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