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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: Alison Donnelly "Exploring discrepancies between in situ phenology and remotely derived phenometrics"

January 27, 2021
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

host: Elizabeth Wolkovich Title: Exploring discrepancies between in situ phenology and remotely derived phenometrics Abstract: In recent years, the use of satellite sensors and near-surface cameras to monitor vegetation phenology at landscape and higher scales has become increasingly common. These...

BRS: Deborah McGregor "Decolonizing Conservation: Living in Harmony with Nature"

February 3, 2021
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

host: Adam Ford Abstract:The Convention in Biological Diversity seeks to ensure humanity is able to live in harmony with nature by 2050. What role can Indigenous peoples play in charting a path forward for that living in harmony look like? What role can Indigenous knowledge systems play in...

BRS: Julia Kreiner "The repeatability and genomic architecture of herbicide resistance evolution"

February 10, 2021
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

host: Loren Rieseberg and Judith Mank Abstract: The evolution of resistance in response to herbicides is a striking example of repeated, human-induced evolution. While much is known about the effects of particular point mutations that confer resistance, the extent to which they arise repeatedly de...

BRS: READING WEEK

February 17, 2021
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

no seminar during Reading Week

BRS: Loeske Kruuk "The evolutionary ecology of fitness in natural population"

February 24, 2021
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

host: Mike Whitlock

BRS: Tadashi Fukami - Chitty lecture "Making sense of messy communities"

March 3, 2021
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

host: graduate students (please contact Sam Straus) Abstract: Seeing that ecological communities are messy in the patterns they exhibit in structure and function, some researchers have sought to uncover general principles that govern all communities, while others have focused on describing unique...

BRS: Nadia Singh "Phenotypic plasticity in recombination in Drosophila melanogaster"

March 10, 2021
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

host: Judith Mank abstract: Meiotic recombination rate is phenotypic plastic, varying in response to a number of environmental stimuli. Recombination seems particularly plastic in response to stressors, including pathogens, aging, and starvation. Though plastic recombination is pervasive and has...

BRS: Lian Pin Koh "Promises and Pitfalls of Nature-based Climate Solutions"

March 17, 2021
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

host: Cole Burton Title: Promises and Pitfalls of Nature-based Climate Solutions Abstract: The protection or restoration of natural ecosystems can contribute to climate mitigation through carbon storage and sequestration. However, there are various social, economic, cultural and political...

BRS: Chris Martin "The complex origins of vertebrate adaptive radiation: from adaptive gene flow to fitness landscapes"

March 24, 2021
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

host: Dolph Schluter Abstract: Adaptive radiations produce many new species with diverse and often novel ecological niches. How do populations rapidly adapt to novel ecological niches? My talk will explore the myriad factors underlying the evolution of novel trophic specialists in two case studies...

BRS: Evolution lecture Trevor Price "The distribution of biodiversity across the Himalaya"

March 31, 2021
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

host: graduate students (contact Ken Thompson) Abstract: Tropical mountainous regions are exceptionally biodiverse. In this talk, I address causes of species richness across the Himalaya. The entire range lies just north of the tropics but still spans 30% of the world’s climates, 8% the world’s...