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.
Weekly Seminar
Graduate Student invited speaker, Amanda Bates "Thermal Safety, Environmental Variability and Biodiversity Change".
Fri. Mar. 22, 12:30 pm. BGS 0153
[Details and schedule]
Doctoral Lectures
No lecture this week.
[see Graduate Events]
Friday Philosophicals Graduate Seminars
No seminar this week, instead the sheduled speakers, Spencer Heuchan and Caitlin Lyons are giving talks at Envirocon this Friday.
Details and Schedule
Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Seminars
Agriculture and Agri-Foods Canada
Biruk Feyissa: "miR156-SPL network regulate abiotic stress response"
Wed. Mar. 20, 12:30 pm. AAFC Seminar Room.
Western Campus
Alannah Mattice: "Genetic basis of hybrid sterility between Drosophila pseudoobscura and D. persimilis”.
Sean Pham: "The Functional Characterization of the Genes COPB2 and SNAP-α in Tetranychus urticae via RNA Interference"
Thurs. Mar. 21, 12:30 pm. Kresge K103.
Details and Schedule
Thursday Physiologicals Graduate Seminars
André Duarte "The low-carbon diet: Plant C and N dynamics at past low [CO2]".
Thurs. March. 21, 12:30 pm. BGS 0165.
Details and Schedule
