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
Pelin Volkan "The effect of social experience on gene expression, circuit function, and behaviors"
Fri. Apr. 5, 12:30-1:30 pm BGS 0165.
Western Biology Evolution Seminar Series
Brendan Sheppard "Does adaptation to challenge compromise competitive ability?" Video to be released Apr. 1.
Visit the website.Graduate Seminars
Friday Philosophicals
No seminars this week.
Thursday Physiologicals
Yanira Jiménez Padilla "Title to be announced Thursday"
Thurs. Mar. 28, 12:30-1:30 pm in the Kresge Building Room K 103 and on ZOOM.
Cell and Molecular Biology
Dristy Zaman "Identification and Characterization of Asparagine Transamination Pathway Proteins"Mon. Mar. 25. 12:30-1:30 pm in NCB 295 and via ZOOM.
Ph.D. Lectures
No seminars scheduled at this time.
Undergraduate
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Flexibility in Higher Education, Student survey ongoing.
News
Bird tracking network receives $3.1-million boost
Dr. Christy Morrissey of USask’s Department of Biology and Dr. Chris Guglielmo at Western University are co-principal investigators leading the expansion of Motus further west and strengthen research collaborations across the country.
- 53rd Ontario Ecology, Ethology, and Evolution Colloquium Meeting Review Published
- 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
- The Breathing Lands episode from Water Brothers
- Extreme environments leave genomic imprint in tiny organisms: Study
- Safety measures taking flight to protect birds from crashing into windows
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