2023-2024 Weekly Seminars
These free Departmental seminars, which explore all aspects of biology, are open to the public and are held 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Fridays in BGS 0165 unless otherwise indicated.
All queries should be directed to Thomas DeFalco.
All are welcome to attend!
2023-2024 Schedule
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | VENUE |
| 22 Sept | Danve Castroverde | Molecular insights into plant immune systems under climate change |
BGS 0165 |
| 29 Sept |
This special seminar is The 2023 Uchida Lecture |
The Bird Genoscape Project: Harnessing the power of genomics to advance migratory bird conservation |
BGS 0165 |
| 6 Oct | Gene sharing across the eukaryotic tree of life: highways, byways, and bike paths |
BGS 0165 | |
| 13 Oct | Lee Henry | Symbiosis as an adaptive process: understanding transitions to more complex life forms | Zoom |
| 20 Oct | What does not kill you makes you more complex: The role of stress in the evolution of multicellularity, altruism and cancer | BGS 0165 | |
| 30 Oct | Richard Feldman | Bird migration in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula | In-person (in CAM seminar series due to BGRF) |
| 30 Oct-5 Nov | STUDY BREAK | ||
| 10 Nov | Greg Mitchell | Conserving biodiversity in Canada’s agroecosystems: a landscape ecology approach | BGS 0165 |
| 17 Nov | Heather McFarlane | Plant cell wall signalling and pathways for cell wall synthesis |
BGS 0165 |
| 24 Nov | Jason Bertram | Environmental change and the determinants of genetic diversity: recent progress and new challenges |
BGS 0165 |
| 8 Dec | Louis-Philippe Hamel | Understanding plant responses to the production of enveloped VLPs |
BGS 0165 |
| 10 Dec - 7 Jan | EXAM PERIOD/HOLIDAY SEASON BREAK | ||
| 12 Jan | Joey Berhardt | Towards a mechanistic science of global change: from cells to ecosystems and human well-being | BGS 0165 |
| 19 Jan | Katharina Braeutigam | Modern Tree Biology - Epigenomics and Physiology in stress and development | BGS 0165 |
| 26 Jan | Jen Fisher | Redesigning STEM Curricula to Create Equity in Undergraduate Research Opportunities | BGS 0165 |
| 2 Feb |
This special seminar is The 2024 Uchida Lecture |
How to give bacteria food poisoning – antibiotics that hijack nutrient transporters | BGS 0165 |
| 9 Feb | Tanvi Deora | Tactile sensing and learning in insect feeding and plant pollination | Zoom |
| 16 Feb | Aaron Shafer | Population and Quantitative Genomics of Deer | BGS 0165 and Zoom |
| 17-25 Feb | READING WEEK | ||
| 1 Mar | Jean-Christophe Billeter | Female mate choices in Drosophila melanogaster: unravelling multilevel female control and adaptive plasticity | BGS 0165 |
| 8 Mar | Codruta Ignea | Engineering production of New-to-Nature Terpenoids in Saccharomyces cerevisiae | BGS 0165 |
| 15 Mar | Andy Davis | Monarch butterflies were just listed as Endangered in Canada, but are they really in trouble? | Zoom |
| 22 Mar | Keiko Yoshioka | CNGC-mediated Ca2+ signaling at the nexus of immunity and development | BGS 0165 |
| 29 Mar | GOOD FRIDAY | ||
| 5 Apr | Pelin Volkan | The effect of social experience on gene expression, circuit function, and behaviors | BGS 0165 |
There are occasions when notable speakers visit the department who are not part of the weekly series. Those seminars will be listed below and will also explore a wide range of topics. All are welcome to attend!
Special Seminar Schedule
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE or DETAILS | TIME | VENUE |
| 16 Nov | Jimmy Breen |
Developing a Precision Healthcare framework for Indigenous Australians |
1:00-2:00 pm |
3M Centre Room 3250 |
