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

BLISS

February 14, 2020
2212 Main Mall
room 224
Vancouver, BC
Canada

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...

BRS: Lauren Shoemaker "The role of environmental variability and food web structure for species coexistence"

February 12, 2020
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

host: Rachel Germain, cookies Angie N and Mia W Abstract: Environmental variability and interspecific interactions are two cornerstones of the longstanding effort to understand how species coexist and the mechanisms that maintain biodiversity. Recently it has become evident that these two factors...

BLISS

February 7, 2020
2212 Main Mall
room 224
Vancouver, BC
Canada

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...

BRS: Noelle Beckman "Seed dispersal ecology under global change"

February 5, 2020
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

host: Jennifer Williams, cookies Sarah S-T and Megan S Abstract: Dispersal influences individual fitness, population persistence, and biodiversity across scales, as well as a population’s ability to track shifting habitats, deal with large-scale environmental variability, and adapt to novel...

BLISS

January 31, 2020
2212 Main Mall
room 224
Vancouver, BC
Canada

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...

BRS: Chelsea Little "Everything Is Moving: Ecosystem Function in a Changing World"

January 29, 2020
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

host: Rachel Germain, cookies: Sean M and Gil H Topic: My research centers on how connections between ecosystems influences their dynamics and functioning. In this talk, I will present how spatial configuration of ecosystems in a landscape affects the flow of materials and organisms between them;...

BLISS

January 24, 2020
2212 Main Mall
room 224
Vancouver, BC
Canada

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...

BRS: Lisa D. White "Integrating field and fossil data with visualization tools to enhance instruction in biodiversity, Earth system processes, and global climate change"

January 22, 2020
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

host: Bridgitte Clarkson, cookies: Sierra S and Chelsea L Lisa D. White, Director of Education, Museum of Paleontology, University of California at Berkeley The extensive fossil holdings and significant online resources at the University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) are accessible...

BLISS

January 17, 2020
2212 Main Mall
room 224
Vancouver, BC
Canada

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...

CANCELED BRS: Nadia Singh "Phenotypic Plasticity in Recombination in Drosophila"

January 15, 2020
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

Today's seminar has been canceled due to weather. host: Judith Mank, cookies: Lydia F and Kaleigh D 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...