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
Danve Castroverde "Molecular insights into plant immune systems under climate change" Sept. 22, 12:30-1:30 pm, BGS 0165.
Graduate Seminars
Ph.D. Lecture
No seminars scheduled.
Thursday Physiologicals
The seminar series will return next year.
Cell and Molecular Biology
The seminar series will return next year.
Friday Philosophicals
The seminar series will return next term.
Undergraduate
Flexibility in Higher Education, Student survey ongoing.
News
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- Western grad offers field work opportunity to Black, Indigenous, racialized students
- Swarms of flying ants are emerging across Ontario right now
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- Harmless but hated, the ubiquitous earwig is a 'fascinating' bug with bad PR
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- The tallest poison ivy in the world is in Ontario, says Guinness
- Conifer needles found to consume oxygen when times are hard
- Gut health the key to a healthy honeybee
- Probiotics positively influence honeybee health, Western research finds
- Termite infestations are on the rise in Toronto — and not just downtown, experts say
- Can mushrooms save the world? This Ontario farmer thinks so
- Noticing more mosquitoes? It could be because of the heat wave
- ‘There are people who will help’: Biology grad cherishes undergrad journey
- When a loved one dies: how academia can support bereaved colleagues
- Avian-flu threat means now isn't time to allow backyard chickens: Expert
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