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Biodiversity Research Seminar Series

The Biodiversity Research Seminar Series (BRS) is held on Wednesdays at noon in the Beaty Biodiversity Museum auditorium

The BRS series organizers are Diane Srivastava, John Richardson, and Judith Mank. Cookies and coffee are provided in the Biodiversity Research Centre atrium at 11:30am. To update the title/speaker changes, please contact Katie Beall.

Upcoming Events

BRS Iulia Darolti: Remarkable diversity of sex chromosome differentiation and dosage compensation in poeciliids

December 8, 2021
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

host: Mank Lab Title: Remarkable diversity of sex chromosome differentiation and dosage compensation in poeciliids Abstract: Sex chromosomes have repeatedly evolved across the tree of life. An important question in sex chromosome research is why do some sex chromosomes undergo extensive...

BRS Courtney Collins: Disentangling direct and indirect effects of global change above and below-ground in tundra ecosystems

January 12, 2022
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

host: Henry Lab Title: Disentangling direct and indirect effects of global change above and below-ground in tundra ecosystems Abstract: Global change threatens the stability of terrestrial ecosystems by reducing biodiversity, disrupting biogeochemical cycles and altering species interactions both...

BRS Michael Landis: Phylogenetic models of evolving ecological interactions

January 19, 2022
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

host: Pennell Lab Title: Phylogenetic models of evolving ecological interactions Abstract: Phylogenetic models formalize how macroevolutionary patterns are generated over deep time scales. Modeling how ecological traits evolve within and among phylogenetic lineages, however, has proven difficult...

BRS Shawn Leroux: Animals and the zoogeochemistry of elemental cycling in local and meta-ecosystems

January 26, 2022
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

host: Srivastava Lab Title: Animals and the zoogeochemistry of elemental cycling in local and meta-ecosystems Abstract: It is generally assumed that it is sufficient to characterize elemental cycling in terms of uptake and exchange between ecosystem plant and soil pools and the atmosphere. In this...

BRS Nancy Chen: Tracking short-term evolution in a pedigreed wild population

February 2, 2022
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

host: Otto Lab Title: Tracking short-term evolution in a pedigreed wild population Abstract: There are now many beautiful examples of phenotypic evolution on ecological timescales. Nevertheless, technological challenges and limited availability of temporal genomic data have left a large gap in...

BRS Fuwen Wei: Molecular Ecology Prize Winner "Conservation Genomics and Metagenomics of the Giant Panda"

February 9, 2022
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

host: Rieseberg Lab Molecular Ecology Prize Winner presentation Title: Conservation Genomics and Metagenomics of the Giant Panda Abstract: During past decades, genomics and metagenomics have developed very fast, and are widely applied to non-model species especially wild animals to provide new...

BRS Andrew Gonzalez: Chitty Lecture

February 16, 2022
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

host: Graduate students (contact Pierre Rogy) Chitty Lecture Title: Abstract:

BRS No seminar this week

February 23, 2022
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

host: Title: Abstract:

BRS Alison Bell: The evolutionary loss of paternal care in sticklebacks

March 2, 2022
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

host: Mank Lab Title: The evolutionary loss of paternal care in sticklebacks Abstract: Nature has experimented with many different ways to organize a family. For example, among those animal species that provide parental care, there’s tremendous diversity in who is primarily responsible for taking...

BRS Anne Yoder: Evolution Lecture

March 9, 2022
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

host: grad students (contact Libby Natola) Evolution Lecture Title: Abstract: