View some of the previous events hosted in the last year by the BRC.
Past Events
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February 8, 2023
BRS Emily Josephs: An evolutionary genomics approach to the evolution of plasticity.
Zoom webinar recording: https://ubc.zoom.us/rec/share/bO59UzryDoESlgbqlks_XNvI318_pQXIucLDDUSSN…; Passcode: *06hs$?$ host: Mike Whitlock Title: An evolutionary genomics approach to the evolution of plasticity. Abstract: …
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February 2, 2023
Fernando Hernandez: WHEN GENE FLOW MATTERS: THE ROLE OF HYBRIDIZATION ON THE EVOLUTION OF INVASIVE AND AGRICULTURAL WEEDS
Abstract: Cultivated species and their wild relatives often hybridize and crop-wild hybrids can survive and reproduce in some environments. However, it is unclear whether crop alleles are permanently incorporated into the wild genomes or whether they are purged by natural selection. This question…
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February 1, 2023
BRS Sacha Vignieri: Opening the black box: an editor's perspective on scientific publishing
Zoom webinar link for remote attendees: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/66364136696?pwd=OVp2UW10Ulp5eCtncTVzQ3pvWmFZUT09 Passcode: 202209 host: IBios Title: Opening the black box: an editor's perspective on scientific publishing Abstract: From the outside, publication in high…
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January 26, 2023
Coreen Forbes: Exit Seminar
SCALING FROM SPECIES' TRAITS TO THE MAINTENANCE OF BIODIVERSITY IN A CHANGING WORLD Abstract: Patterns of biodiversity and the processes generating them vary over scales of time, space, and ecological organization. This scale dependency is one of the foremost obstacles to understanding how…
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January 25, 2023
BRS Lauren Ponisio: Disease in plant-pollinator communities
Zoom webinar link for remote attendees: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/66364136696?pwd=OVp2UW10Ulp5eCtncTVzQ3pvWmFZUT09 Passcode: 202209 host: Risa Sargent Title: Disease in plant-pollinator communities Abstract: Infectious disease prevalence is among the top five drivers of…
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January 18, 2023
BRS Carla Staver: “The past, present, and future of herbivore impacts on savanna vegetation”
Zoom webinar link for recording: https://ubc.zoom.us/rec/share/ZE6xuHbYN7MPTul6KBOf-O1mCeiXUmzFDUXofsSR4… Passcode: this recording is only available to members of the UBC Biodiversity Research Centre. Please contact Katie.beall@ubc.ca for access host:…
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January 11, 2023
BRS Meg Krawchuk: Fire refugia: What are they, where are they, and why do they matter for forest ecosystems and fire ecology in a time of global change
Zoom webinar recording: https://ubc.zoom.us/rec/share/ViH4-O2khn-Bu47XGHd8bDqSPXynV6oe5IhbhVFFU…; Passcode: F$+?@6T0 host: Jason Pither Title: Fire refugia: What are they, where are they, and why do they matter for forest ecosystems and…
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December 7, 2022
BRS Anne Yoder: Evolution Lecture 2021-2022 "Cryptic patterns of speciation in cryptic primates: mouse lemurs, Madagascar, and the multispecies coalescent.”
Zoom webinar link for recording: https://ubc.zoom.us/rec/share/a__u9d7r_szM8iTIiBtBH3WPap1mt7pI2P23iCfkC…; Passcode: this seminar is only available to UBC Biodiversity Research Centre members and is not available for a wider public audience. Please…
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November 30, 2022
BRS Jean-Phillippe Gibert: Temperature response and eco-phenotypic dynamics of microbial predators
Zoom webinar link for remote attendees: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/66364136696?pwd=OVp2UW10Ulp5eCtncTVzQ3pvWmFZUT09 Passcode: 202209 host: Mary O'Connor Title: Temperature response and eco-phenotypic dynamics of microbial predators Abstract:
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November 23, 2022
BRS Detlef Weigel: Paranoid Plants: When Too Much Genetic Diversity Is Harmful
Zoom webinar link recording: https://ubc.zoom.us/rec/share/RJZlKsRXZ4QvS-5vywQmc_bYD1I77z_Ih1Pes6bJE…; Passcode: wC9$FXwJ host: Loren Rieseberg Title: Paranoid Plants: When Too Much Genetic Diversity Is Harmful Detlef Weigel,…