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Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Sarah Otto, Dept. of Zoology, UBC, will give a presentation titled "Why have sex? The population genetics of sex and recombination" on Tuesday October 5, 2004. The seminar will be held at 1230pm, BioSciences 2000.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 4:49 PM on September 29, 2004
Evolution, Ecology, and Biodiversity Seminars
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Chris Eckert will be giving a talk entitled "Evolutionary consequences of biological invasion: interactions between founder effect and natural selection" at the Evolution, Ecology and Biodiversity seminar, hosted by Whitton/Otto. The seminar will be held on Wednesday October 6 , 4:00pm, Fam. & Nutr. Sci.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 4:41 PM on September 29, 2004
International Conference for the Barcoding of Life
Category(-ies): Conferences
On behalf of the Consortium for the Barcoding of Life (CBOL) the Natural History Museum, London (NHM) is hosting the first International Conference for the Barcoding of Life on Sunday 6th - Wednesday 9th February 2005 in NHM's Flett Theatre, South Kensington, London.
This conference will be focused on advancing the theoretical and practical
issues in DNA barcoding. It aims to review and advance the state-of-the-art, expand the worldwide community interested in 'barcoding', and harmonize research efforts.
If you would like further details, log on to:
Natural History Museum
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 10:42 AM on September 24, 2004
Poplar Genome Decoded
Category(-ies): Genomics
An international consortium, including researchers at the University of British Columbia, has decoded the first complete DNA sequence of a tree, Populus trichocarpa, the Black Cottonwood. Poplar was chosen because of its relatively small genome size. Although considerably smaller than other trees, the poplar genome is four times the size of the first plant sequenced, Arabidopsis thaliana.
Continue reading "Poplar Genome Decoded"
Posted by Eric La Fountaine at 3:36 PM on September 23, 2004
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Dr. Roy Turkington, Dept. of Botany, UBC, will present on a talk titled "Investigating causes and consequences of biodiversity loss in the Yukon" on Tuesday Sept. 28, 2004. The seminar will be held in BioSciences 2000, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 11:01 AM on September 23, 2004
Evolution, Ecology & Biodiversity Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Roger Nisbet will be giving a presentation entitled, "Population Cycles" on Wednesday Sept. 29, 2004. The seminar will be held at 4pm in Room 60, Fam. & Nutr. Sci.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 10:51 AM on September 23, 2004
CPR Seminar/Meeting
Category(-ies): Centre for Plant Research News , Seminars/Workshops
Keith Adams, Agricultural Sciences, UBC, will give a presentation on "Exploring the Mysteries of Polyploidy", on Friday October 1, 2004. The seminar will start at 930am, MacMillan Rm 318.
General discussion on CPR/lab issues will follow.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 4:54 PM on September 22, 2004
Free NCBI Training Course in Bioinformatics
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
The UBC Bioinformatics Centre (UBiC) will be hosting instructors from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) to offer a unique and innovative training course in bioinformatics to 200 participants on the UBC campus.
The course is entitled, " A Field Guide to GenBank and NCBI Molecular Biology Resources," and involves a lecture and hands-on computer workshop on GenBank and related databases covering effective use of the Entrez databases and search service, the BLAST similarity search engine, genome data and related resources.
This unique training opportunity in bioinformatics will be held in the new Michael Smith Building, on the UBC campus, November 5th and 6th, 2004. Registration is open to all UBiC account holders including students, staff, and faculty interested in bioinformatics.
For more information, please visit:
UBC Bioinformatics Center
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 3:59 PM on September 22, 2004
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Dr. James Dickson, University of Glasgow, will present on a talk titled "The Last Days of Long Ago Person Found, the First Ancient Glacier Body from the Americas - Clues from Plants, Animals and Isotope Chemistry". This seminar, sponsored by UBC Herbariums, will begin at 12:30 pm on Thursday September 23 in BioSci 2000.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 11:37 AM on September 22, 2004
Forest Sciences (Namkoong Family) Lecture
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Dr. Hugh Campbell, Director of the Centre for the Study of Agriculture, Food and Environment, will present a talk titled "The Commercialization of Sustainability: Transforming Primary Production in New Zealand" on Wednesday September 22. The seminar will be held in Forest Sciences Center Rm 1005 at 5:15 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 11:53 AM on September 20, 2004
Biology Film Festival
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
The first Biology Film Festival movie (The Cane Toads: an Unnatural History) will be shown on Wednesday September 22 at 7:30pm in BioSci 2000. Bring your family and friends- admission is free.
For more details, go to the Biology Film Festival website.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 10:03 AM on September 20, 2004
Killam Postdoctoral Fellowships
Category(-ies): Opportunities
Killam Postdoctoral Fellowships application information and forms are now available for the 2005-2006 competition at the UBC Faculty of Graduate Studies. The fellowships, valued at $44,000 per annum, are awarded for two years and is subject to review at the end of the first year.
For more information, visit Killam Postdoctoroal Fellowships or contact killam@interchange.ubc.ca.
Deadline for submission of applications to the Botany office is Monday November 15, 2004.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 8:50 AM on September 20, 2004
Conservation Without Borders
Category(-ies): Conferences
The Center for Tropical Ecology and Conservation will be holding its 3rd annual symposium titled “Conservation without Borders: The Impact of Conservation on Human Communities” on October 9, 2004 at Antioch New England Graduate School in Keene, New Hampshire.
Update: The conference program outline is now available at the conference website.
Continue reading "Conservation Without Borders"
Posted by Eric La Fountaine at 11:13 AM on September 12, 2004
