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MSc Course in the Biodiversity and Taxonomy of Plants
Category(-ies): Opportunities , Systematics
Applications are being accepted for an MSc course in the Biodiversity and Taxonomy of plants at the University of Edinburgh in partnership with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Deadline for applications is March 31, 2005.
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Posted by Eric La Fountaine at 3:38 PM on February 28, 2005
WORLD MICROARRAY CONGRESS 2005
Category(-ies): Conferences
On March 19th and 20th, 2005 the World Congress on Microarray Technology will be held in downtown Vancouver. This will be an opportunity for both users and providers of microarray technology to share expertise, exchange ideas, and promote education about the diverse field of microarray technology.
For more information on this conference, please see:
World Microarray Congress
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 2:42 PM on February 28, 2005
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Mark Estelle, Indiana University, is presenting a talk entitled (Clayton Person Lecture) The F-box protein TIR1 is an auxin receptor in Arabidopsis on Tuesday March 1, 2005. The seminar will be held in Michael Smith Laboratories Main Lecture Room at 1230pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 3:40 PM on February 25, 2005
Society for Canadian Women in Science, Engineering & Technology
Category(-ies): Website News
Society for Canadian Women in Science, Engineering & Technology invites
women studying science to a networking evening at Science World on Tuesday March 1, 2005 at 5:30 pm.
Preregister at (604) 443-7552 or e-mail sisinfo@scienceworld.bc.ca. Entrance fee is $12.00.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 11:49 AM on February 25, 2005
Vancouver Food Policy Presentation
Category(-ies): Centre for Plant Research News
The Vancouver Food Policy Council will present a panel discussion on local food system issues on March 2, at 7:30pm. Panel members include: Devorah Kahn, Coordinator, Vancouver Food Policy Council; Susan Kurbis, Founder, Environmental Youth Alliance; and Moura Quayle, Dean, UBC Faculty of Agriculture.
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Posted by Eric La Fountaine at 11:00 AM on February 25, 2005
UBC Botanical Garden & Centre for Plant Research Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Judy Newton and David Tarrant will give a presentation entitled “Waking up your Plants on Wednesday February 23”, 2005. The seminar will be held in the Botanical Garden Reception Centre at 12pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 3:36 PM on February 18, 2005
Genomics & Beyond: Frontiers in Plant Biology
Category(-ies): Conferences
The Twenty-Second Annual Missouri Symposium, Genomics & Beyond: Frontiers in Plant Biology will be hosted by The Interdisciplinary Plant Group at the University of Missouri in Columbia on April 27-30, 2005. The fee for students is US$75. Registration deadline is April 1. For a list of speakers, further information and registration visit the symposium announcement.
Posted by Eric La Fountaine at 2:58 PM on February 18, 2005
UBC Postdoctoral Fellows Program
Category(-ies): Graduate Student News
Postdoctoral Fellows are an integral part of the research enterprise as they play key roles on many research teams. Having a postdoctoral position is also a critical step for the careers of our future scientists and research scholars.
The Office of the Vice President Research announces the launch of a new
Postdoctoral Fellows Program including its new website UBC Postdoctoral Fellows.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 3:39 PM on February 11, 2005
2004 Luella K. Weresub Memorial Award
Category(-ies): Opportunities
Wendy A. Untereiner, Associate Professor of Botany at Brandon University sent us the following announcement: “Applications are now being accepted for the 2004 Luella K. Weresub Memorial Award which will be presented at the upcoming Annual Meeting of the Canadian Botanical Association / Association Botanique du Canada. If you are an undergraduate or a graduate student working with fungi, or if you supervise a mycology student who may be eligible for the award, please read this announcement carefully.
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Posted by Eric La Fountaine at 3:16 PM on February 11, 2005
GHN Towers Memorial Lecture
Category(-ies): Conferences
NHP Research Society Honours the Late Dr. Neil Towers
Vancouver – The Natural Health Products Research Society of Canada is pleased to announce the G. H. N. Towers Memorial Lecture, to be delivered Saturday night by UBC Alumna Dr. Nancy Turner at the NHP Society’s Second Annual NHP Conference and Trade Show.
Dr. Turner, a renowned ethnobotanist, is one many of the late Dr. Neil Towers’ students who will be presenting at the conference, which runs Friday Feb. 11 through Sunday Feb. 13 at the Sheraton Wall Centre.
“He was the grand professor emeritus of natural health products,” said adjunct Botany professor Allison McCutcheon, herself a Towers student of her mentor, who passed away in November. “Many of the people at the conference will be his students, and students of his students. His presence will be missed.”
The G. H. N. Towers lecture, entitled “The Nature in Natural Health Products,” will be free to conference attendees. A fee of $100 for the lecture and gala dinner is being charged for those who wish to attend this event only.
For more information about the conference, entitled “Integrating Basic and Clinical Research,” visit the NHP Society website NHP Research
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 5:29 PM on February 10, 2005
UBC BGCPR Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
David Tarrant, will give a presentation entitled Where the garden has come in 35 years on Tuesdays February 8, 2005. The seminar will be held in Botanical Garden Reception Ctr., 12 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 11:23 AM on February 7, 2005
Botany/Namkoong Family Lecture
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Stuart Pimm, Environment & Earth Sciences, Duke Univ., will give a presentation entitled Does the variety of life on Earth have a future?, on Tuesday February 8, 2005. The seminar will be held in Forest Sciences Ctr., Rm. 1005, 4:00 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 11:20 AM on February 7, 2005
Faculty of Forestry Hosts International Bio-Diversity Expert
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Prof. Stuart Pimm, the Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology at the Nicolas School of Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University, and Extraordinary Professor in Conservation Ecology Research Unit at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, will present a seminar titled, Does the Variety of Life on Earth Have a Future? for UBC Faculty of Forestry’s Namkoong Family Lecture Series.
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Posted by Eric La Fountaine at 4:22 PM on February 1, 2005
Phragmites Database Completed
Category(-ies): Research Tools
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) has developed a database on the distribution of native and alien races of common reed, Phragmites australis in Canada. The database is accessible through the Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility (CBIF) web portal, a resource for biodiversity study with a network of information on geographically-referenced specimens.
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Posted by Eric La Fountaine at 10:55 AM on February 1, 2005
