Past Events

View some of the previous events hosted in the last year by the BRC.

BDG (cancelled this week)

October 14, 2019

The Biodiversity Discussion Group Meets mondays at noon in room 225 Biodiv. BDG is a friendly group that meets to discuss papers. For our first meeting we will have a group brainstorming session to set the schedule for this fall. Please check the schedule here: https://www.zoology.ubc.ca/bdg/...

BLISS

Fridays, 16:00 to 17:00, Biodiversity Research Centre, Room 224. Featuring research by grad students, postdocs, faculty, visitors and emeritus faculty interested in biodiversity research. Click here for more information or contact Andrea Thomaz (last name @ biodiversity.ubc.ca) to sign up. schedule...

EDG

for complete schedule please check EDG website ( https://www.zoology.ubc.ca/edg/ )

BRS: PDF Wouter van der Bijl "Evolving a larger brain: Using artificial selection to measure benefits, costs and constraints"

host: Judith Mank, cookies provided by Matt P. and Gil H. Brain size is one of the most studied quantitative traits in animals. It has been the subject of extensive comparative analyses, a plethora of adaptive hypotheses, and substantial controversy about its role in humans. Experimental evidence...

for complete schedule please check EDG website ( https://www.zoology.ubc.ca/edg/ )

BRS: Staffan Bensch "Unfolding the elusive migratory direction genes in the willow warbler genome"

host: Darren Irwin, cookies provided by Ellen N. and Carla DF Abstract: Understanding the genetic architecture of the migratory program is a research field in its infancy - no gene has so far been conclusively identified as linked to the expression of different migratory behaviours. The willow...