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Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop
Category(-ies): Conferences , Genomics
Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop will be held on February 16 to 28, 2004 in Vancouver, BC.
For more information, contact Saara Romu or visit Bioinformatics.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 10:18 AM on December 4, 2003
The Centre for Plant Research and Forest 2020
Category(-ies): Centre for Plant Research News
The Honourable Herb Dhaliwal, Member of Parliament and Minister of Natural Resources Canada, visited UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research on Thursday, November 27, 2003, to announce important details about "Forest 2020". Forest 2020 is a federal funding initiative aimed at scoping forestry solutions to carbon sequestration, in response to Canada's Kyoto Treaty obligations. The Minister saw at first hand University of British Columbia's research on poplar and other forest trees.
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Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 2:05 AM on December 4, 2003
Plant Science Potluck
Category(-ies): Faculty and CPR Events
The Plant Science Graduate Students would like to invite you to an end-of-term / pre-holiday potluck this Friday Dec. 19 in the CPR lounge starting at 1:00pm.
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Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 1:53 AM on December 4, 2003
'Taxonomy and the genus Echinacea'
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Shannon Binns, Agricultural Sciences and the Centre for Plant Research, UBC, will give a presentation on Monday December 8, 2003 as the speaker for the Botanical Garden & Centre for Plant Research Lecture: "Taxonomy and the genus Echinacea". The seminar will be held at 12:00pm in the Botanical Garden Reception Center, 6804 SW Marine Drive.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 1:28 AM on December 4, 2003
Plant Evolution Group
Category(-ies): Evolution , Seminars/Workshops
PEG is an interdepartmental "working group" that meets bi-weekly to discuss our research on various aspects of the evolutionary biology of plants.
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Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 4:40 PM on December 3, 2003
"Hybridization and Ecological Divergence in Wild Sunflowers"
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Davidson Lecture: Loren Rieseberg, Biology Dept., Indiana Univ., will be addressing to UBC on Thursday December 4, 2003 with a lecture entitled "Hybridization and Ecological Divergence in Wild Sunflowers". The seminar will be held at 2:00pm in Biological Sciences Rm 2000.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 4:32 PM on December 3, 2003
"Global Warm ... & Fuzzy"
Category(-ies): Faculty and CPR Events
Thursday, December 11, 2003
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Agora
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Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 11:55 AM on December 3, 2003
Botanical Garden Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Dr. Quentin Cronk will be giving a free noon hour seminar on January 12, detailing some of the recent research projects being pursued at the Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research. The seminar will be held at 12pm in the UBC Botanical Garden Reception Centre (6804 S.W. Marine Drive).
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Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 10:35 AM on December 3, 2003
"Molecular genetics of hypersensitive cell death in plant defenses"
Category(-ies): Genomics , Seminars/Workshops
Jean Greenberg, Dept. of Biology, Univ. of Chicago, will give a presentation on Tuesday December 2, 2003 as the speaker for the Botany/Biotechnology Seminar: "Molecular genetics of hypersensitive cell death in plant defenses". The seminar will be held at 12:30 pm, in Biological Sciences Building Rm 2000.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 10:25 AM on December 1, 2003
