Departmental Mailing Address:
Department of Biology,
Biological & Geological Sciences Building,
Western University,
London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7
Departmental Phone:
519-850-2542
Departmental Fax:
519-661-3935
Departmental seminars explore all aspects of biology, and are held 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Fridays via ZOOM unless otherwise indicated.
All queries should be directed to Vera Tai.
All are welcome to attend!
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| 18 Sept | Optimal flight and migration strategies in birds: building a paradigm from aerodynamics, wind tunnel experiments to wild tracking |
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| 25 Sept | Kate Parr | Do the little things run the world? |
| 2 Oct | Tyler Eddy | Oceans & Fisheries in a Changing World |
| 9 Oct |
Graduate student nominated speaker |
Herbivores in the tundra: from caribou and caterpillars, to Icelandic sheep |
| 16 Oct |
Special Seminar: |
Cancer as a Mitochondrial Metabolic Disease: Implications for Novel Therapeutics |
| 23 Oct | Jason Podrabsky | The ecology and underlying physiology of embryonic dormancy in annual killifishes
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| 30 Oct | William Ja | Feeding, sleep, and microbial interactions affect Drosophila nutrition |
| 6 Nov | STUDY BREAK | |
| 13 Nov | Hiroshi Maeda | Regulation of aromatic amino acid biosynthesis in plants |
| 20 Nov | Laura Hug | Surviving and thriving in trash – microbial diversity and function in municipal landfills |
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25 Nov |
See the pdf poster for the event here and sign up for registration here. |
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| 27 Nov | Patrick Collins | Skating on thin ice
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| 4 Dec | Jon Harrison | Physiological and evolutionary interactions among body size, metabolic rate and oxygen |
| 11 Dec - 4 Jan | HOLIDAY SEASON BREAK | |
| 8 Jan | No Seminar | |
| 15 Jan | Neil Shubin | Finding Your Inner Fish: From Expeditions to Enhancers |
| 22 Jan | Nancy Simmons | Bat Diversity in a Changing World |
| 29 Jan | Mary Salcedo | What's inside an insect wing? Structure, flows, and function |
| 5 Feb | Sarah Otto | Genomic Scope of Adaptive Mutations in the Face of Environmental Challenges |
| 12 Feb | Britt Wray | Too Hot to Handle: the difficult emotions of living in climate crisis and what coping can look like |
| 19 Feb | READING WEEK | |
| 26 Feb | Patricia Brennan | Sexual conflict and genital evolution in vertebrates |
| 5 Mar | Kirsty Wan | Intracellular control and coordination of motile cilia |
| 12 Mar | Muriel Grenon | Multiple benefits of the Cell EXPLORERS programme – a STEM public engagement model in Ireland |
| 19 Mar | 1. Robert Buchkowski and 2. Tony Percival-Smith |
1. Structure and stoichiometry in soil food webs and Phenotypic non-specificity 2. Phenotypic non-specificity of transcription factor function |
| 26 Mar | 1. David Smith and 2. Brent Sinclair |
1. A series of short stories on genome evolution in plants, algae and protists 2. Remember travel? |
| 2 Apr | GOOD FRIDAY | |
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 in biology. All are welcome to attend!
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE or DETAILS | TIME | VENUE |
| 9 Apr | Natasha MacBean | Predicting the fate of the terrestrial carbon cycle from ecosystem to global scales Join us on ZOOM 10 minutes before the beginning of the talk at: https://westernuniversity.zoom.us/j/93879229455 | 9:30 am- 10:30 am | via ZOOM |
