COVID-19: Updates for the Campus Community
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.
Information Session for Students Entering Fourth Year
Biology and Integrated Science 4999E Thesis 2021/2022 Information session. Mon. Mar. 8 6:30 pm via ZOOM.
[See pdf for details and ZOOM link]
Weekly Seminars
Kirsty Wan "Intracellular control and coordination of motile cilia" Fri. Mar. 5 12:30 - 1:30 pm via ZOOM.
[Details and schedule]
Ph.D. Defense
No seminar this week.
[see Graduate Events]
Friday Philosophicals Graduate Seminars
Patricia Rokitnicki "Age differences in stopover and flight behaviour of black throated blue warblers" and Samuel Rycroft "Freezing tolerance of herbaceous legumes in the northern temperate zone: are legumes disproportionately sensitive to freezing?" Fri. Mar. 5 3:30 - 4:30 pm via ZOOM.
[Details and Schedule]
Thursday Physiologicals Graduate Seminars
Libesha Anparanasan "Allocation of larval and adult acquired essential and nonessential fatty acids to flight and reproduction in two adult Lepidoptera: Danaus plexippus and Mythimna unipuncta" and Jessica Sinka "Metabolic Flux Analysis During Wound-Healing in Potato Tubers" Thurs. Mar. 4 12:30 - 1:30 pm via ZOOM.
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Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Seminars
Daniel Olteanu "Rapid emergent species classification using genomic signatures" . Thurs. Feb. 25 12:30 - 1:30 pm via ZOOM.
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AAFC talks
No talks scheduled until further notice.
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