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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
25

CEDAR Program + Indigenous Science Colloquium Series

What:   "The Water Remembers: Diné Perspectives and Assessments of Emerging Contaminants" Who:     Dr. Ranalda Tsosie When:  Tuesday, November 25th at...
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Nov
25

Botany Seminar

"Photorespiration as a crossroads between photosynthesis, metabolism, and leaf energetics", Berkley Walker, Assistant Professor, Michigan State...
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Nov
26

BRS: Biodiversity Research Seminar Series - Jeremy Borderieux

"Declining or thriving? Long-term monitoring program and climatic affinity reveal vascular plant abundance trends", Jeremy Borderieux, Postdoctoral...
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Nov
26

FOSI: Focus On Scientific Imaging

Two speakers: 1. Lydia Li (Nabi lab, Cellular & Physiological Sciences) will give a talk titled "Single molecule localization microscopy: revealing...
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Nov
26

Wednesday: Evening Comparative Physiology Seminar - Laura-Anne Browning

"Temperature exposures during diapause preparation impact insect cold tolerance and post-diapause fitness", Laura-Anne Browning, MSc Student, Marshall...
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Nov
27

BDG: Biodiversity Discussion Group

Paper: Limited evidence for range shift–driven extinction in mountain biota Source: BDG
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Nov
27

IRES: Institute of Resources, Environment and Sustainability Seminar

Location: Henry Angus Building, Room 254 "Transitioning to a sustainable materials economy", Alex Tavasoli, Assistant Professor, UBC Mechanical...
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Nov
27

IOF Special presentation

LIVE: CHEM 300 UBC Vancouver "Looking for patterns & processes in the ocean: an obstinate quest", Philippe Cury, Emeritus Senior Scientist, Institut...
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Nov
28

UBC Graduation Ceremonies - Fall 2025

Congratulations to UBC 2025 Zoology Fall Graduates! 🎓 Bridget Barraclough- PhD, Ramer 🎓 Justin Carless - MSc, Brauner 🎓 Natasha Klasios - PhD, Tseng...
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Nov
28

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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Latest Publications

Madeleine H. Abbott et al. PLOS One

November 20, 2025
Fig 1. Map of all sites visited in BC, with orange dots indicating the presence of Peltogaster sp., purple diamonds indicating the presence of E...
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Mi Jing Khor et al. Current Biology

November 17, 2025
Graphical abstract Mi Jing Khor, Yuxuan Rain Xiong, Gaganpreet Sangha, Kenji Sugioka. 2025. Cadherin flow translates cortical chirality into left...
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