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Biodiversity Research Centre Symposium and Open House

September 17, 2025, 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm

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The Biodiversity Research Centre Open House will be an event to engage with ourselves as well as our colleagues and partners from across campus and beyond. There will be a symposium in the Alumni Centre featuring BRC Scientists (12:00-1:45 pm) as well as a networking reception and open house in the Beaty Biodiversity Centre building. This will include refreshments, partner booths, and free stuff in the new Multi-Purpose Room as well as lab tours and space to look around the Beaty Biodiversity Centre expansion (2:00 - 4:00 pm). All are invited and encouraged to join, each event is drop-in so come when you can, bring your friends and colleagues. RSVP not mandatory, but is encouraged. 

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Schedule of BRC Opening Celebration events:

Research Showcase Symposium: 12:00 pm - 1:45 pm, Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre, Jack Poole Hall

  • times may be adjusted slightly, please feel free to come and go as you like

12:00 pm    Mary O’Connor – Opening remarks.

12:07 pm     Patrick Keeling - Here be dragons: exploring invisible biodiversity in the microbial world. 

12:20 pm     Judy Li - Can microbiomes help save polar bears?

12:28 pm     Claire Kremen - Fixing farming through biodiversity.

12:41 pm     Asher Leeks - The social lives of viruses.

12:54 pm     Wouter van der Bijl - Female choice, sexy sons, and the world’s most fashionable fish.

1:08 pm       Madison Earhart - Saving the sturgeon: a murder mystery of overheating, overeating and disease.

1:16 pm       Kaitlyn Gaynor - No room to roam: how animals navigate a human-dominated world.

1:29 pm       Sean Michaletz - The breath of the biosphere in a warming world. - no video available

1:40 pm       Mary O’Connor - Closing remarks.

 

Reception: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Beaty Biodiversity Centre, Biodiversity Research Centre - Multipurpose Room 1024

  • in the new BRC multipurpose room engage with projects and partners
  • enjoy refreshments, conversation and new BRC merch
  • visit BRC enhanced research and collaborative spaces
 
See the BRC Opening Celebration program for more details on schedules, participants and more!
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Biodiversity Research Centre

2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4
E-mail biodiversity.centre@ubc.ca

Research Excellence Clusters at UBC Vancouver is a joint initiative of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic, UBC Vancouver and the Vice-President, Research and Innovation. Funding support for the clusters is provided by Academic Excellence Funds – UBC Vancouver.

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