The Department of Biology is a thriving, diverse academic unit dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in research and teaching. We offer a core curriculum for all of the “biological sciences” taught at Western and exceptional graduate and undergraduate programs in Biology and sub disciplines. The Department, like the discipline, is diverse, offering both undergraduate and graduate students opportunities to study living systems at the level of genes and proteins to entire ecosystems.
Our faculty members are innovative researchers, conducting internationally recognized research in areas as different as the genetics of aging in mice to predicting the impacts of climate change on habitat loss, using theoretical and experimental approaches performed in state-of-the-art research facilities. There is real synergy between research and teaching as our best researchers are also in the classroom – as well, we offer many opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students to actively engage in research activities in the Department.
Students in our programs acquire the knowledge, tools and skills that allow them to succeed in a wide range of careers, including research in academia, government, NGOs and industry, consultancy, medicine and law, to name a few.
Events
Weekly Seminars
Seminars are concluded for the semester.
Western Biology Evolution Seminar Series
Isabeau Lewis "Plant responses to dynamic environments" Video to be released Apr. 8.
Visit the website.Graduate Seminars
Friday Philosophicals
Seminars are concluded for the semester.
Thursday Physiologicals
Arani Cuevas-Sanchez "Untangling the cues for freeze tolerance acclimation" and
Lorena Yeung "Deciphering the Role of Cytochrome P450s in Soybean Aliphatic Suberin Biosynthesis"
Thurs. Apr. 18, 12:30-1:30 pm on ZOOM and in the Kresge Building Room K 103.
Cell and Molecular Biology
Seminars completed for the term.
Ph.D. Lectures
Emma Churchman "Understanding the mechanisms underlying parental care behaviour in response to perceived paternity in sunfish" Mon. Apr. 22, 9:00 am- 10:00 am BGS 0153.
Andrew Beauchamp "Ecological drivers of songbird stopover behaviour during autumn migration in eastern New Brunswick" Tues. Apr. 23, 10:30 am- 11:30 am BGS 0153, Exam- 1:30 pm BGS 2084 .
Undergraduate
Intent to Register has closed.
Flexibility in Higher Education, Student survey ongoing.
News
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- Use owls, not poison, to get rid of rodents, students tell university officials
- Expert insight: Extreme environments coded into genomes of extremophiles
- New sustainability projects secure seed money
- 1 in 5 migratory species at risk of extinction, UN report says
- World's globetrotting animals at risk due to habitat loss, climate change
- How springtime weather in February affects bees and plants
- Probiotics for Honey Bees: How Beneficial Microbes Could Boost Hive Health
- Ancient Balkan genomes trace the rise and fall of Roman Empire’s frontier, reveal Slavic migrations to southeastern Europe
- Western, international researchers reconstruct Balkan genomic history
- Hazards of flushable wipes
- Animals like crickets use the ground to amplify calls: Western study
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