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FEATURED FACULTY:
Our current FEATURED FACULTY is Dr. Robert Cumming[Read more about Dr. Cumming and his recent research]
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Our current FEATURED STAFF is Jacqui Griffin [Read more about Jacqui]
First-year master's students Meghan Laturney (left), Ainsley Furlonger and Alanna Backx check out the in-wall tropical fish aquaria viewable from both sides. The aquaria are just one of the features in our newly renovated Biological and Biological Sciences Building. BIOLOGY IN THE NEWS:
Nature In The City 2010
A six part series of illustrated talks on nature within the City of London
The Nature in the City Series will be starting again on January 19.
This is a FREE public Lecture at the Wolfe Performance Hall and is sponsored by London Libraries and McIllwraith Field Naturalists. There is one lecture a week for 6 weeks and once again this year two of your Biology Department associates will be presenting: Jeremy McNeil on Monarch Migration on February 2 and Jane Bowles on Wetland Wildflowers on February 9. [read more]
The how and why of freezing the common fruit fly
By Communications Staff
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Using a microscope the size of a football field, researchers from The University of Western Ontario are studying why some insects can survive freezing, while others cannot
Why is this important? Because the common fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) is one of the bugs that cannot survive freezing and the little creature just so happens to share much of the same genetic makeup as humans, therefore finding a way to freeze them for research purposes is a top priority for geneticists the world over (about 75 per cent of known human disease genes have a recognizable match in the genetic code of fruit flies).
And why the large microscope? “It’s the only one in the world that’s set up for this kind of imaging on insects,” says lead researcher Brent Sinclair of his team’s use of the Advanced Photon Source (APS), located near Chicago, Illinois. [read more]
Faculty Profile: Pursuing new opportunities
By Mark Melnychuk
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Belarus, the home country of Alexander Timoshenko, is a country of which many Canadians may not be familiar.
Not many people know this name, only those who like hockey,” Timoshenko says with a laugh. And despite the long journey from Minsk, the capital of Belarus, he is definitely no stranger to the university or its students. Timoshenko, an assistant professor in Western’s Department of Biology, first came to the campus in 2000 through a transfer fellowship from the International Union Against Cancer. [read more]
