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Michael Donoghue Lectures
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Michael Donoghue will be presenting a seminar entitled “On the recurrence of form in evolution” on April 7th at 4pm in room 60 of the FNS building. The following day at 11am, he will be giving a talk on the “Biogeography of the Northern Hemisphere” at the Botanical Garden.
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Posted by at 11:38 AM on March 30, 2004
Plant Micromorphology Bibliographic Database
Category(-ies): Research Tools
The Plant Micromorphology Bibliographic Database (PMBD) is a searchable database maintained by the Kew Micromorphology Group. It contains publication references covering an extensive range of subject areas dealing with higher plant micromorphology.
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Posted by Eric La Fountaine at 3:26 PM on March 24, 2004
Call for medicinal plant experts
Category(-ies): Phytochemistry
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada is developing a database of Canadian wild medicinal plant experts. If you work or have expertise with any of Canada's 1500 medicinal wild plant species, you are invited to participate in this effort.
Please complete one of the following on-line forms:
- English: Wild Medicinal Plants Specialists Survey
- French: Enquête sur les spécialistes des plantes sauvages au Canada
Information submitted will be made available to the general public.
Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 3:33 PM on March 18, 2004
Summer Student Jobs at UBC Botanical Garden
Category(-ies): Opportunities
Five summer student positions are available for the summer of 2004.
Students are hired for available summer positions at the UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research based on the following criteria:
- employment is limited to returning first, second and third year students enrolled in a recognized Agriculture, Botany, Horticulture or Plant Biology program at UBC or another university/college, and to returning UBC Masters of Landscape Architecture students
- preference will be given to UBC students, and to students who have not had previous summer employment at the UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research
- the term of employment is generally May to August
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Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 4:53 PM on March 16, 2004
Plant Evolutionary Ecology Positions
Category(-ies): Evolution , Opportunities
Dr. Elizabeth Elle, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Simon Fraser University, has graduate student positions available in her laboratory, with a start date of summer 2004.
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Posted by Eric La Fountaine at 11:51 AM on March 15, 2004
EVO-WIBO 2004
Category(-ies): Conferences , Evolution
The evolutionary biologists of the Pacific Northwest will meet April 16-18, 2004 at Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend, Washington. This meeting has been called EVO-WIBO, for "Evolution - Washington, Idaho, British Columbia, and Oregon." All interested evolutionary biologists in the region and beyond are invited to attend.
The deadline for registration is March 15, 2004. Cost of registration is $80 USD for students and postdocs, $100 USD for faculty.
For more information: EVO-WIBO 2004
Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 1:50 AM on March 7, 2004
Research Awareness Week
Category(-ies): Conferences , Graduate Student News , Seminars/Workshops
For a full week March 6 – 13, 2004 UBC will host a series of free public forums, symposia, research days and exhibits to highlight and celebrate the outstanding research continually underway at the university.
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Posted by at 2:19 PM on March 5, 2004
Opium Poppy - A Biochemical Portrait
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Peter Facchini, Dept. of Biology, Univ. of Calgary, will be giving a seminar on Tuesday, March 9, 2004 entitled, “Opium Poppy: A Biochemical Portrait of the Heavenly Demon”
Posted by at 11:24 AM on March 5, 2004
Botany Grad Students Assoc. Symposium
Category(-ies): Plant Science at UBC
The 2004 Botany Graduate Students Association Symposium occurs on Wednesday, March 10 at GSS Thea's Lounge (6371 Crescent Road) from 10am to 5pm.
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Posted by at 5:12 PM on March 4, 2004
Garry Oak Ecosystems Symposium
Category(-ies): Conferences
From the Garry Oaks Ecosystem Recovery List:
'Greetings fellow oak enthusiasts: As some of you may have heard there is a planned symposium on Restoration of Garry Oak Ecosystems at the Society of Ecological Restoration's 16th annual conference in Victoria, BC Aug. 24-26, 2004.'
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Posted by Eric La Fountaine at 11:47 AM on March 2, 2004
