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Garry Oak Bibliography
Category(-ies): Research Tools
Interest in Quercus garryana has grown as Garry oak forest habitats decline. To accommodate this recent increase in interest, the USDA Forest Service has compiled a bibliography for publications on Quercus garryana and other geographically associated and botanically related oaks.
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Posted by Eric La Fountaine at 2:15 PM on March 31, 2005
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Mechthild Tegeder, School of Biological Sciences, Washington State Univ., will give a presentation entitled From soil to seed: Physiological and molecular mechanisms of organic nitrogen transport on Tuesday March 29, 2005. The seminar will be held in Michael Smith Laboratories, Main Lecture Room, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 4:05 PM on March 24, 2005
Evolution, Ecology, and Biodiversity Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Risa Sargent, will give a talk entitled Pollinator-mediated selection and diversity in flowering plants on Wednesday March 30, 2005. The semianr will be held in FNSC Rm.60, 4:00 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 4:04 PM on March 24, 2005
Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Brian Charlesworth (Edinburgh), will give a presentation entitled The Importance of being Closely Linked on March 23, 2005.
He is one of the world's leading evolutionary biologists. The talk will describe conditions under which evolutionary theory predicts lower recombination rates within a genomic region as well as the consequences of lower recombination rates to sequence evolution.
Start Time: 16:00
End Time: 17:00
Location: UBC Family and Nutritional Sciences bldg Rm 60
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 9:58 AM on March 23, 2005
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Tom Smith, Adjunct Professor, Biology, Donald Danforth Plant Science Ctr., Washington Univ., St. Louis, will present a talk entitled Metals in biology; fungal toxins that block calcium channels and ABC metal transporters on Tuesday March 22, 2005. The seminar will be held in Michael Smith Laboratories Main Lecture Room, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 11:38 AM on March 21, 2005
Biology Film Festival
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Outbreak (1995) will be played at the Biology Film Festival on Wednesday March 23, 2005. The file will start at 7:30 pm, Biosciences 2000, Free admission.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 11:35 AM on March 21, 2005
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
D'Ann Rochan, Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre, Summerland, will give a presentation entitled Molecular interactions between a plant virus and its fungal vector on Thursday March 24, 2005. The seminar will be held in Michael Smith Laboratories Main Lecture Room, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 11:32 AM on March 21, 2005
Evolution 2005
Category(-ies): Conferences , Evolution
Evolution 2005, a jointly sponsored conference of the Society for the Study of Evolution, the Society of Systematic Biologists, and the American Society of Naturalists will be hosted by the Institute of Arctic Biology and the University of Alaska Museum of the North, June 10-14, 2005 at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
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Posted by Eric La Fountaine at 1:24 PM on March 11, 2005
Genomics Forum and Research Exchange 2005
Category(-ies): Conferences
Date: Friday, April 1st, 2005
Time: 730am – 430pm (Forum), 430pm - 630pm (Exchange)
Venue: Ballroom, Graduate Student Centre (Across from Frederic Wood Theatre), UBC Campus, 6371 Crescent Road, Vancouver, BC.
Genomics Forum 2005:
This is your opportunity to learn more about the scope, scale and progress of genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics research areas of interest to BC. This one-day scientific forum brings together researchers from BC’s life sciences sector to share information and discuss opportunities for future collaborations.
Research Exchange 2005:
The exchange will feature graduate, post-doctoral, and project & platform technology research posters from across BC. The best poster presentation will be awarded a 2005 ThinkPad laptop computer, generously donated by IBM Life Sciences.
For more information and registration, visit Genome BC Forum 2005.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 11:46 AM on March 4, 2005
Botanical Garden Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Keith Adams, UBC, Botanical Garden & Centre for Plant Research and Botany, will be giving a talk entitled Polyploidy, domestication, and evolution of cotton on Tuesday 8 March 2005. The seminar will be held in the Botanical Garden Reception Centre at 12:00 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 11:18 AM on March 4, 2005
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Kaeli Stark, M.Sc., Botany Dept., UBC, will give a presentation entitled Fire, logging, and vegetation establishment in interior Douglas fir forests on Tuesday March 8, 2005. The seminar will be held in BIOSCIENCES 2000, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 11:09 AM on March 4, 2005
Botany Graduate Student Symposium
Category(-ies): Conferences
The Botany Graduate Students' Symposium is Friday 4 March, 2005, in Thea's Lounge (in the Grad Student Centre), 9am - 430pm.
Our keynote speaker, Dr. Anthony Griffiths, will be giving his presentation "The best of times, and the worst of times: reflection on 100 years of genetics" at 330pm.
Here is the BGSS schedule and abstracts for all of the speakers.
Please come out and hear the latest developments in the plant world at UBC!
For more information, contact Clarice at clarice@mail.botany.ubc.ca or Jeff at jsaarela@interchange.ubc.ca.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 12:50 PM on March 3, 2005
