View some of the previous events hosted in the last year by the BRC.
Past Events
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November 13, 2019
BRS: Stephanie Pau “Feeling the Heat: Climate Change Impacts on the Phenology and Productivity of a Panamanian Tropical Forest”
host: Sean Michaletz, cookies provided by Jenn W. and Naomi S. Abstract: Tropical forests are generally warm and wet year round, thus some hypothesize that their phenology and productivity are most limited by light. Alternatively, tropical species may be highly sensitive to temperature because…
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November 11, 2019
BDG (Cancelled this week)
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/ …
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November 8, 2019
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. …
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November 8, 2019
EDG
for complete schedule please check EDG website (https://www.zoology.ubc.ca/edg/)
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November 6, 2019
BRS: Michael Malay (video from UBCO) "The Grammar of Extinction"
host: UBCO video link, cookies provided by Lydia Fong and Sean M. In one of his poems, Coleridge writes that the world is ‘one mighty alphabet’. We are surrounded, he thought, by emblems and signs, marks and inscriptions, by a universe loaded with meanings. If we could decipher…
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November 5, 2019
Biodiversity Public Lecture: Beth Shapiro "Can (and should) biotechnology reverse extinction?"
Biodiversity Lecture Series with Beth Shapiro Start: 5 November 2019 7:00 pm End: 5 November 2019 8:30 pm Can (and should?) biotechnology reverse extinction? Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? Is it possible to clone extinct species…
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November 4, 2019
BDG
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/ …
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November 1, 2019
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. …
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November 1, 2019
EDG
for complete schedule please check EDG website (https://www.zoology.ubc.ca/edg/)
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October 30, 2019
BRS: Gideon Mordecai "Endangered wild salmon infected by newly discovered viruses"
host: Curtis Suttle, cookies provided by Rassim K. and Mackenzie UC. abstract: The collapse of iconic, keystone populations of sockeye (Oncorhynchus nerka) and Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) salmon in the Northeast Pacific is of great concern. It is thought that infectious disease may…