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.
In Memory of Professor Emeritus Dr. David Sherry
A scholarship award has been established in honour of David Sherry, to support students conducting research at the Advanced Facility for Avian Research. http://www.westernconnect.ca/sherry
Obituary- Professor Robert Bernard van Huystee
Events
Weekly Seminars
Louis-Philippe Hamel "Understanding plant responses to the production of enveloped VLPs" Fri. Dec. 8, 12:30-1:30 pm, BGS 0165.
Graduate Seminars
Friday Philosophicals
Sarah Santos "Genomic insights into the evolution of North American wild sheep (Ovis spp.)" and Will Van Hemessen "Macrofungi of Norfolk County, Brant County, and Waterloo Region, Ontario" Fri. Dec. 1, 3:30-4:30 pm, Kresge Building K106.
Ph.D. Lectures
No lectures are scheduled at this time.
Thursday Physiologicals
The seminar series will return next term.
Cell and Molecular Biology
The seminar series will return next year.
Friday Philosophicals
The seminar series will return soon.
Undergraduate
Flexibility in Higher Education, Student survey ongoing.
News
Animals like crickets use the ground to amplify calls: Western study
Research upends traditional theory that ground hinders animal communications
- 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
- Groundhogs Are Old News. In This Tiny Town, Caterpillars Predict the Weather
- ‘Buckthorn Bust’ helps eradicate invasive species
- The World's Most Frightening Animal Sounds like This
- Western scholars among global winners in undergraduate competition
- Western’s ‘dead bird guy’: Brendon Samuels
- Animals fear humans more than lions as 'super predators'
- Human Voices and the "Ecology of Fear"
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