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Lichen Monitoring Project in Vancouver
Category(-ies): Opportunities
Volunteers are needed for a Community Lichen Monitoring project in the Greater Vancouver Area sponsored by Environment Canada's EMAN (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Network). The project will survey lichen communities around Vancouver to use as indicators to characterize air quality.
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Posted by Eric La Fountaine at 5:50 PM on January 28, 2005
Bioinformatics Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Michael Brudno, PDF, Computer Science Div., Univ. of California, Berkeley, will give a presentation entitled Alignment of Whole Genomes: Techniques and Algorithms on Monday January 31, 2005. The seminar will be held in Michael Smith Laboratories Main Lecture Room, 1230 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 4:42 PM on January 28, 2005
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Miranda Corkum, M.Sc. Candidate, UBC Botany, will give a presentation entitled Effects of N-limitation on inorganic C-acquisition and C-fixation efficiency in marine phytoplankton on Tuesday February 1, 2005. The seminar will be held in Michael Smith Laboratories Main Lecture Room, 1230 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 4:38 PM on January 28, 2005
Bioinformatics Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Christian von Mering, Staff Scientist, Structural & Computational Biology Group, European Molecular Biol. Lab., Heidelberg, Germany, will give a talk entitled Functional Protein Networks: Interaction Data Mining and Application to Environmental Genomics on Thursday February 3, 2005. The seminar will be held in Michael Smith Laboratories Main Lecture Rm, 1230 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 4:29 PM on January 28, 2005
The Legume Information System
Category(-ies): Genomics , Research Tools
The Legume Information System, a website focusing on the genetics, physiology and biochemistry of legumes has been created by the National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR) in Santa Fe, New Mexico in a cooperative agreement with the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS).
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Posted by Eric La Fountaine at 3:02 PM on January 28, 2005
Psyllids Website
Category(-ies): Centre for Plant Research News , Systematics
Centre for Plant Research member, Diana Percy has launched a website about Psyllids (jumping plant lice). She writes, “This site is an ongoing project to present and summarize general information about psyllids, their biology, host plant associations and the economic and ecological impact that pysllids have on man-made and natural environments.”
Link: psyllids.org created by Diana M. Percy
Posted by Eric La Fountaine at 2:23 PM on January 27, 2005
Evolutionary Biology Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Jonathan Kaplan, Department of Philosophy at Oregon State University will be giving a seminar titled, The End of the Adaptive Landscape Metaphor?, Friday Jan 28th. The seminar will be presented from 3:00 to 5:00 pm, at UBC Buchanan B-228.
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Posted by Eric La Fountaine at 11:44 AM on January 26, 2005
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Sherryl Bisgrove, Dept. of Botany, Univ. of Utah, will give a presentation entitled Microtubule Regulation and Plant Development on Tuesday January 25, 2005. The seminar will be held in BioSciences 2000, 1230pm
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 4:16 PM on January 21, 2005
Evolution Discussion Group
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Dr. Keith Adams, will give a presentation (topic TBA) on Friday January 28, 2005. The seminar will be held in Hut B8, Ralf Yorque Room, at 12pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 4:13 PM on January 21, 2005
International Symposium on the Biology of the Palm Family
Category(-ies): Conferences , Seminars/Workshops
The Linnean Society of London and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew are hosting a symposium on palm biology April 6-8, 2005. “New palm phylogenies have enhanced all areas of palm research. This international symposium aims to draw on these advances by focusing on the current status of palm research both in evolutionary biology and in the environment” (from the synposium announcement).
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Posted by Eric La Fountaine at 3:42 PM on January 20, 2005
Tropical Plant Families of SE Asia Course
Category(-ies): Opportunities
The National Herbarium of the Netherlands in Leiden is offering a masters level course on the flora of Southeast Asia June 13 – July 1, 2005. “Southeast Asia is one of the hotspots of global biodiversity: it contains more than 40,000 vascular plant species with a density ten times higher than the European flora” (from the course announcement).
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Posted by Eric La Fountaine at 3:36 PM on January 19, 2005
Natural Health Product Research Conference
Category(-ies): Conferences
The Natural Health Product Research Society of Canada is pleased to announce the 2nd NHP Research Conference: Integrating Basic & Clinical Research on NHPs, to be held in Vancouver, British Columbia from February 11th-13th, 2005.
The Key objectives of this 3-day conference will be to showcase leading edge NHP research, increase awareness of NHP research capacity and facilitate the development of new collaborations amongst stakeholders.
This conference comes at a critical juncture as the regulatory standards of evidence now required to support product safety, efficacy and quality have provided a potent new stimulus for research in the field.
For more information, visit NHP Research Conference.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 3:10 PM on January 14, 2005
Phylogenetic Workshop
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops , Systematics
A Phylogenetic Workshop will be held May 30 to June 28, 2005. This workshop is intended to help answer questions in phylogenetic analysis ranging from the mechanical to the theoretical. Register NOW for Biol. 525B. term II. If you are interested, contact Mary Berbee (berbee@interchange.ubc.ca).
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 2:51 PM on January 12, 2005
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Somrudee Sritubtim, UBC Botany, will give a presentation entitled Functional Diversity of the Arabidopsis MAP Kinase Gene Family on Tuesday January 18, 2005. The seminar will be held in BioSciences 2000, 1230pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 2:41 PM on January 12, 2005
Biology Film Festival
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Microcosmos (1996) will be played at the Biology Film Festival on Wednesday January 19, 2005. The event will be held in Biosciences 2000 at 730 pm. Everyone is welcome and admission is free.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 2:34 PM on January 12, 2005
Vancouver Natural History Society Lecture
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Dr. Bruce Bohm, Prof. Emeritus, Dept. of Botany, UBC, will give a presentation entitled Hawaiian Flora at Risk - Fighting Back on Thursday January 20, 2005. The seminar will be held at 730pm, Vancouver Museum, 1100 Chestnut Street.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 2:27 PM on January 12, 2005
