Past Events

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

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April 15, 2020

2212 Main Mall

Vancouver, BC

Canada

Stephen Wright "Y degenerate? Evolutionary genomics of plant sex chromosomes” host: Keith Adams, cookies TBA

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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...

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Timothy Perez "The ecophysiology of photosynthetic heat tolerances in tropical plants" host: Sean Michaletz, cookies TBA Abstract: Physiological thermal tolerances are often assumed to define the limits of species’ climatic niches, and there is a growing interest in understanding how heat...

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Christopher Martin "The complex origins of vertebrate adaptive radiation: from adaptive gene flow to fitness landscapes" host: Dolph Schluter, cookies Dolph and Katie ? Abstract: Adaptive radiations produce many new species with diverse and often novel ecological niches. How do populations rapidly...

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Jeff Sayer "How change happens in forest landscapes" Abstract: Academic biodiversity science struggles to deal with the complex realities of places where biodiversity conservation happens. Conservation interventions themselves often focus on symptoms and neglect underlying drivers of biodiversity...

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Ingrid Parker “Phylogenetic ecology and plant disease” host: Jonathan Davies, cookies Marie and Laura P. Abstract: Pathogens play an important role in shaping the structure and dynamics of natural plant communities. We study how the phylogenetic and ecological structure of the surrounding community...