View some of the previous events hosted in the last year by the BRC.
Past Events
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February 18, 2022
Virtual/Remote WORKSHOP "Facting: The Act of Bringing Passion to Science Communication"
Time: Feb 18, 2022 01:30 PM Vancouver Join Zoom Meeting https://ubc.zoom.us/j/66453875174?pwd=a09hSHhQdWMzdnpYaGVyT3VKZmNvUT09 Meeting ID: 664 5387 5174 Passcode: 945550 This workshop on Facting: the act of bringing passion to science communication will o er a scalable …
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February 16, 2022
BRS Andrew Gonzalez: Chitty Lecture "Biodiversity science for the Anthropocene"
host: Graduate students (contact Pierre Rogy) Chitty Lecture Title: Biodiversity science for the Anthropocene Abstract: I will present three interlinked facets of biodiversity science I have worked on to deepen my understanding of the causes and consequences of biodiversity…
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February 9, 2022
BRS Tom Booker: What we can learn about natural selection from patterns of diversity across the genomes of wild mice
host: Whitlock lab Title: What we can learn about natural selection from patterns of diversity across the genomes of wild mice Abstract: Natural selection leaves distinct footprints in the patterns of genetic variation across the genome. In this talk I will give an overview of how…
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February 2, 2022
BRS Nancy Chen: Tracking short-term evolution in a pedigreed wild population
host: Otto Lab Title: Tracking short-term evolution in a pedigreed wild population Abstract: There are now many beautiful examples of phenotypic evolution on ecological timescales. Nevertheless, technological challenges and limited availability of temporal genomic data have left a…
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January 26, 2022BRS Shawn Leroux: Animals and the zoogeochemistry of elemental cycling in local and meta-ecosystems
host: Srivastava Lab Title: Animals and the zoogeochemistry of elemental cycling in local and meta-ecosystems Abstract: It is generally assumed that it is sufficient to characterize elemental cycling in terms of uptake and exchange between ecosystem plant and soil pools and the…
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January 19, 2022
BRS Michael Landis: Phylogenetic models of evolving ecological interactions
host: Pennell Lab Title: Phylogenetic models of evolving ecological interactions Abstract: Phylogenetic models formalize how macroevolutionary patterns are generated over deep time scales. Modeling how ecological traits evolve within and among phylogenetic lineages, however, has…
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January 12, 2022
BRS Courtney Collins: Disentangling direct and indirect effects of global change above and below-ground in tundra ecosystems
host: Henry Lab Title: Disentangling direct and indirect effects of global change above and below-ground in tundra ecosystems Abstract: Global change threatens the stability of terrestrial ecosystems by reducing biodiversity, disrupting biogeochemical cycles and altering species…
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December 8, 2021
BRS Iulia Darolti: Remarkable diversity of sex chromosome differentiation and dosage compensation in poeciliids
host: Mank Lab Title: Remarkable diversity of sex chromosome differentiation and dosage compensation in poeciliids Abstract: Sex chromosomes have repeatedly evolved across the tree of life. An important question in sex chromosome research is why do some sex chromosomes undergo extensive…
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December 1, 2021
BRS Samraat Pawar: Thermal Constraints on Microbial Community Structure and Functioning
host: O'Connor Lab Title: Thermal Constraints on Microbial Community Structure and Functioning Abstract: Microbial communities are crucial for carbon cycling in both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Yet, we lack a general, mechanistic understanding of how complex microbial…
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November 24, 2021
BRS Elena Bennett: Monitoring, modelling, and managing multiple ecosystem services in Canada’s working landscapes
host: UBC-O Title: Monitoring, modelling, and managing multiple ecosystem services in Canada’s working landscapes Abstract: The current scale, rate, and intensity of anthropogenic change is unprecedented, and has evoked broad discussion about how these changes will affect the…