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Botany Seminar
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Rose Andrew, Dept. of Botany, UBC, will give a presentation entitled Strategic defence: understanding the scent of Australia and other secondary chemicals in Eucalyptus, Tuesday, March 18, 2008.
The seminar will be held in the Michael Smith Lab. Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 2:37 PM on March 17, 2008
Land and Food Systems Panel Discussion
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Celebrate Research Week with Rana Ahmad, Mark Bomford, Brian Ellis & Art Bomke
Title: Organic and Genetically-Engineered Foods: Questions of Science and Ethics
Venue: MacMillan Bldg., Rm. 160
Date: Monday, March 10, 2008
Time: 5:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 4:38 PM on March 7, 2008
Botany Seminar
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Sally Aitken, UBC Forest Sciences, will give a presentation entitled Climate and conifers: Local adaptation to moving targets on Tuesday, March 11, 2008.
The seminar will be held in the Michael Smith Lab., 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 4:35 PM on March 7, 2008
Botany Seminar-Mar 4
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Brian Leander, UBC, Depts. Botany & Zoology, will give a presentation entitled “Character evolution in marine microeukaryotes” on Tuesday, March 4, 2008.
The seminar will be held in the Michael Smith Lab., Auditorium, 12:30pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 5:35 PM on February 29, 2008
Botanical Garden Seminar - Feb 25
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Dr. Jack Saddler, Dean & Prof., UBC Forestry, with an NSERC Industrial Senior Chair, will give a presentation entitled The Forest-based Bio-refinery: Technical and Political Challenges Associated with Wood-to-Ethanol Processes on Monday, February 25, 2008.
The seminar will be held in the UBC Botanical Garden Reception Centre, 6804 SW Marine Dr., Van., 12pm to 1pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 10:18 AM on February 22, 2008
Botany Seminar - Feb 28
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Dr. Liwen Jiang, Dept. of Biology, The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, will give a presentation entitled Plant prevacuolar and endosomal compartments on Thursday, February 28, 2008.
The seminar will be held in the Michael Smith Lab., Rm. 101 (note new room), 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 10:15 AM on February 22, 2008
Vancouver Institute Seminar
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Dr. David Suzuki, CC Ecologist, Educator, Activist, Vancouver, will give a presentation entitled Sustainability: What is it? on Saturday, March 1, 2008.
The seminar will be held in Woodward, IRC, 8:15 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 10:13 AM on February 22, 2008
Botany Seminar-Feb19
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Benjamin Gilbert, Ph.D. Candidate, UBC Botany, will give a presentation entitled Plant community dynamics when competitors are friendly and niches don't matter:lessons from Kluane on Tuesday, February 19, 2008.
The seminar will be held in the Michael Smith Lab., Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 4:14 PM on February 15, 2008
Botany Seminar-Feb12
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James C. Cahill, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Univ. of Alberta, will give a presentation entitled Moving from analogy to substance: Linking plant foraging studies with behavioural and community ecology on Tuesday, February 12, 2008.
The seminar will be held in Michael Smith Lab., Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 5:01 PM on February 11, 2008
Botany Seminar
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Tuesday, December 4
Brandon Gaut, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology , Univ. of California, Irvine, will give a presentation entitled Population genetics, transposable elements and the molecular signature of local adaptation in Arabidopsis lyrata.
The seminar will be held in the Michael Smith Laboratories, Auditorium, 12:30 a.m.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 1:56 PM on December 3, 2007
Botanical Garden Seminar
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Peter Wharton, curator, David C. Lam Asian Garden, UBC Botanical Garden, will give a presentation entitled Explorations in China on Monday November 26, 2007.
The seminar will be held in Botanical Garden Reception Ctr., 12:00 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 2:38 PM on November 23, 2007
Botany Seminar-Nov 27
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Dan Szymanski, Dept. of Agronomy, Purdue Univ., will give a presentation entitled Arabidopsis leaf epidermal morphogenesis: protein complexes and genetic pathways controlling the actin cytoskeleton and growth on Tuesday, November 27, 2007.
The seminar will be held in Michael Smith Lab. Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 2:35 PM on November 23, 2007
Botany Seminar
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John Laurie, Ph.D. Candidate, UBC Botany/Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Summerland, B.C., “will give a presentation entitled Two related smut fungi possess similar pathogenicity clusters yet differ in regard to genome organization and host response” on Tuesday, November 13, 2007.
The seminar will be held in MSL Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 5:25 PM on November 9, 2007
Botanical Garden Seminar
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Rouvé Ritson, Friend of the Garden, “will give a presentation entitled An Introduction to Botanical Latin” on Monday, November 5, 2007.
The seminar will be held in the Botanical Garden Reception Ctr., 12:00 noon.
Call 822-3928 for advanced booking.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 10:21 AM on November 5, 2007
Botany Seminar
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Patrick von Aderkas, Ctr. for Forest Biology, Univ. of Victoria, will give a presentation entitled “Megagametophytes, Megastigmus and Megaproblems of gymnosperm reproduction ”Tuesday November 6, 2007.
The seminar will be held in the Michael Smith Lab. Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 10:05 AM on November 5, 2007
Travel with Botanists
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
"Travel with Botanists" presents Roy Turkington in China. Tibet, into Nepal and a 13-day trek to the Mt. Everest Base Camp.
The event will be held in Michael Smith Lab Auditorium, 12:00 noon, Monday October 22, 2007.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 3:02 PM on October 19, 2007
UBC Botanical Garden Seminar
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Gary Bradfield, UBC Botany, will give a presentation entitled Templates for Plant Community Recovery after Disturbance in Coastal Marshes and Forests on Monday October 22, 2007.
The seminar will be held in Botanical Garden Reception Ctr., 12:00 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 2:59 PM on October 19, 2007
Nature Vancouver Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Chris Harris, renowned Canadian nature photographer, will give a presentation entitled The Grasslands Gala
on Thursday October 25, 2007. The Cariboo-Chilcotin grasslands are one of the ecological wonders of the world and B.C.'s most endangered ecosystem.
The seminar will be held in Vancouver Museum, 1100 Chestnut St., Gallery 11 (west side of Museum), 7:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 2:56 PM on October 19, 2007
Botany Seminar
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Kris Palma, Ph.D. Candidate, Genetics Graduate Program, UBC, “will give a presentation entitled All roads lead to the nucleus: The roles of MOS6 and the MOS4-associated complex in plant innate immunity” on Tuesday October 16, 2007.
The seminar will be held in Michael Smith Lab., Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 2:37 PM on October 12, 2007
Botany Seminar - Oct. 19
Category(-ies): Centre for Plant Research News , Seminars/Workshops
Botany Seminar co-sponsored by MSL and Forestry:
Stefan Jansson, Umeå Plant Science Ctr., Umeå University, Sweden, will give a presentation entitled “Natural Variations in Populus” on Friday October 19, 2007.
The seminar will be held in Michael Smith Lab., Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 2:33 PM on October 12, 2007
Botany Seminar
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Nicole King, Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology, Univ. of California, Berkeley, will give a presentation entitled Choanoflagellates and the unicellular ancestry of metazoan cell signaling, adhesion, and transcriptional regulations on Tuesday October 9, 2007.
The seminar will be held in Michael Smith Lab, Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 4:18 PM on October 5, 2007
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Jonathan Wendel, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, & Organismal Biology, Iowa State Univ., will give a presentation entitled Genome evolution, gene expression, polyploidy, and fiber development in cotton on Thursday, September 27, 2007.
The seminar will be held in Michael Smith Lab. Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 10:11 AM on September 24, 2007
Botany Seminar
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Bita Jafarpour, Ph.D. Candidate, UBC Botany & Agri-Food Canada, Summerland, B.C., will give a presentation entitled “Characterization of X4 protein of Tomato ringspot virus (ToRSV)” on Tuesday, September 18, 2007.
The seminar will be held in Michael Smith Lab, Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 10:04 AM on September 17, 2007
Botany Seminar
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Prof. Sang-Gon Suh, Dept. of Horticulture, Yeungnam Univ., Korea, will be presenting a talk entitled The Dynamics of a Mobile RNA of Potato Involved in Long-Distance Signaling on Monday August 20, 2007.
The seminar will be held in BioSciences, Room 1124, 12:00 noon.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 2:31 PM on August 17, 2007
UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research
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Art Bomke, Prof. UBC, Land & Food Systems, will give a presenation entitled Feeding the Soil: Composts, Cover Crops and Other Goodies on Tuesday May 1, 2007.
The seminar will be held in the UBC Botanical Garden Reception Ctr., 12:00 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 2:41 PM on April 27, 2007
Botany/Michael Smith Lab Seminar
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Jin Suk Lee, Ph.D. Candidate, Michael Smith Lab/Dept. of Botany, UBC, will present a talk entitled Fine-tuning MAP kinase signalling by MAPK phosphatases in Arabidopsis on Tuesday April 24, 2007.
The seminar will be held in the Michael Smith Lab., Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 2:03 PM on April 20, 2007
Fermentas Life Sciences Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Jovonna Richards, Territory Mgr., Fermentas, will be presenting a Product Show on Tuesday April 24, 2007.
The event will be held in the Michael Smith Lab, Rm. 101, 10:00 - 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 2:00 PM on April 20, 2007
QIAGEN Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Dirk Loeffert, Director of R&D, QIAGEN, will give a presentation entitled the effect of RNA integrity on real-time PCR results Improved methods for cDNA synthesis being optimized for real-time PCR Novel technology for multiplex real-time PCR Fast real-time PCR analysis on any real-time PCR cycler on Monday April 16, 2007.
The seminar will be held in the Life Sciences Ctr., Rm. 1410, 10:00 am.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 3:55 PM on April 13, 2007
Botany Seminar
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Jen Sheen, Dept. of Genetics, Harvard Medical School., “will present a talk entitled Plant Innate Immune Signalling Networks”, Clayton Person Lecture in genetics, molecular and cellular biology on Tuesday April 17, 2007.
The seminar will be held in the Michael Smith Lab. Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 3:52 PM on April 13, 2007
Botanical Garden Lecture
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Wilhelm Bischoff, Vancouver Orchid Society, will give a presentation entitled “Hardy Orchid on Tuesday April 17, 2007.
The seminar will be held at the UBC Botanical Garden Reception Ctr., 12:00 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 3:50 PM on April 13, 2007
Botany Seminar
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Aine L. Plant, Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser Univ., will give a presentation entitled “Plant molecular responses to environmental stress” on Thursday April 19, 2007.
The seminar will be held in the Michael Smith Lab. Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 3:47 PM on April 13, 2007
Vancouver Natural History Society Seminar
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Brian Klinkenberg, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Geography, UBC, “will give a presentation entitled Virtual Botany: A Peak into the World of E-Flora” on Thursday April 19, 2007.
The seminar will be held in the Vancouver Museum, 1100 Chestnut St., 7:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 3:45 PM on April 13, 2007
Botany Seminar
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Sharon Jeffery, M.Sc. Candidate, Dept. of Botany, UBC, will give a presentation entitled Influences of seagrass (Zostera marina) bed characteristics on juvenile rockfish abundance: in search of a predictive model on Tuesday, April 10, 2007.
The seminar will be held in Michael Smith Lab. Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 2:55 PM on April 5, 2007
Genomics Forum and Research Exchange 2007
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Where & When
UBC Graduate Student Centre Ballroom
6371 Crescent Road, Vancouver
April 13, 2007
12:20 -1:15pm (Round 1 Judging)
4:20-6:00pm (Round 2 Judging & Pizza)
Poster Competition
Graduate students from academic institutions across BC will present research posters at the fourth annual Research Exchange, co-hosted by Genome BC and the Student Biotechnology Network.
The Exchange concludes the full day Genomics Forum and will feature an impressive display of graduate, post-
doctoral and platform technology research posters in disciplines across the life sciences.
First prize is a 2007 laptop computer.
View Research Exchange Agenda & Abstract Guidelines Research Exchange 2007
NOTE: Only the first 50 posters will be registered for Research Exchange 2007, on a first-come first-serve
basis. Space fills fast so register your abstract today!
REGISTER YOUR POSTER NOW - Genomics Forum 2007 Registration
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Genome British Columbia is a research organization that invests in and manages large-scale genomics and proteomics research projects, and technology platforms focused on areas of strategic importance such as human health, forestry, fisheries, ethics, agriculture and the environment.
By working collaboratively with all levels of government, universities and industry, Genome BC is the catalyst for a vibrant, genomics-driven life sciences cluster with far reaching social and economic benefits for the Province and Canada.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 3:56 PM on April 4, 2007
Botany Seminar
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Jeff Palmer, Indiana University, will give a presentation entitled Swallowing other genomes: horizontal gene transfer gone wild in Amborella mitochondrial DNA on Tuesday April 3, 2007.
The seminar will be held in the Michael Smith Lab., Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 4:09 PM on March 30, 2007
The Beaty Museum of Natural History Seminar
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Dr. Peter Raven, Prof. of Botany, Washington Univ., St. Louis, will present a talk entitled The Future of Plant Survival on Tuesday April 3, 2007.
The seminar will be held in Wesbrook 100, 7:30 pm.
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Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 4:06 PM on March 30, 2007
Botany Graduate Student Assoc. Seminar
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Dr. Peter Raven, Prof. of Botany, Washington Univ., St. Louis, will give a presentation entitled Biodiversity, Sustainability, and Our Common Future on Thursday April 5, 2007.
The seminar will be held in the AERL Bldg., 2202 Main Mall, Rm. 120, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 4:03 PM on March 30, 2007
Botany Seminar
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Clarice Souza, Ph.D. candidate, UBC Botany, Genome-wide phylogenetic analysis and functional genomics of the plant specific acyl-coenzymeA ligase-like (ACLL) gene family in Arabidopsis and poplar on Tuesday March 27, 2007.
The seminar will be held in Michael Smith Lab. Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
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Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 3:29 PM on March 20, 2007
Centre for Plant Research Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Please join us for a special guest lecture by Dr. Iain Taylor, Professor Emeritus of Botany and Professor of the Botanical Garden, UBC, at the Centre for Plant Research meeting this Friday March 23, 2007.
The talk, entitled Genetically Engineered Plants: When will we learn to manage this new invention?, starts at 10am.
Dr. Taylor's research interests concern scientific ethics, particularly scientific responsibility and risk assessment in plant biotechnology. There are two major goals. First, to understand how scientists perceive their professional rights and responsibilities, particularly areas of peer review, conduct of research and professional and public accountability. Second, to advance to development of guidelines for release of genetically modified plants, recognizing that plant breeding has made a quantum leap with the development of gene transfer technology.
The seminar is held in the CPR lounge (MacMillan 318).
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 3:25 PM on March 20, 2007
Botany Seminar
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Edgar Spalding, Dept. of Botany, Univ. of Wisconsin, Using computer vision and Arabidopsis mutants to understand the contributions of poplar auxin transport to seedling growth and development on Tuesday March 20, 2007.
The seminar will be held in the Michael Smith Laboratories, Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 12:24 PM on March 19, 2007
Annual Botany Graduate Student's Symposium
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Friday March 23, 2007 - 8:30am - 5pm
MSL Lecture Theatre and Multipurpose room
Key Note Speaker - Dr. Beverly Green
It is an excellent opportunity to gain public speaking skills and let everyone in the department know about the research that is ongoing in your lab.
The symposium schedule and abstract booklet will be available the week of
March 19th.
Complementary coffee, tea, breakfast, and light lunch will be
provided for participants and their fans.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 12:20 PM on March 19, 2007
CPR Meeting Seminar
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Dr. Loren Reiseberg, Professor of Botany, UBC, and Canada Research Chair in Plant Evolutionary Genomics, will present a talk entitled Evolutionary genomics of the Compositae at the CPR meeting this Friday March 16.
Dr. Reiseberg's research interests include plant evolutionary genomics, speciation, domestication, invasiveness, Compositae genomics, and conservation.
His lab integrates high-throughput genomic methods, bioinformatics, ecological experiments, and evolutionary theory to study the origin and evolution of species, domesticated plants, and weeds.
See you all at 10am on Friday, CPR lounge.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 11:43 AM on March 14, 2007
CPR Seminar
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Mario Kasapi, Senior Manager, University-Industry Liasion Office, will give an overview of his work, in particular the transfer process of benchtop discoveries to the industry and contract negotiations, on Friday March 9, 2007.
The seminar will be held in CPR lounge, at 10am.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 4:25 PM on March 8, 2007
Botany Seminar
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Jason Hoeksema, National Evolutionary Synthesis Ctr., Durham North Carolina, will give a presentation entitled Ecological and evolutionary consequences of variability in plant-mycorrhizal interactions on Tuesday March 13, 2007.
The seminar will be held in the Michael Smith Lab.Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 4:14 PM on March 8, 2007
Botany Seminar
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Dr. Makiko Kawagishi, Rice Biotechnology Research Team, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Japan, will present a talk entitled Genomic analysis of rice genes associated with male reproductive development and stress response on Thursday March 15, 2007.
The seminar will be held the Michael Smith Lab., Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 4:24 PM on March 7, 2007
UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research Lecture
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Ron Long, retired photographer at SFU, and an active member of the Native Plant Soc. of BC and the Vcr. Natural History Soc., will present a talk entitled “Tundra Plants of Pink Mountain” on Tuesday March 6, 2007.
The seminar will be held in the UBC Botanical Garden Reception Ctr., 12:00 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 3:29 PM on March 2, 2007
Botany Seminar
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Eiko Kawamura, Ph.D. Candidate, UBC Botany, “will give a presentation entitled Regulation of mitosis and cytokinesis by MOR1 in the Arabidopsis root” on Tuesday, March 6, 2007.
The seminar will be held in Michael Smith Lab. Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 3:27 PM on March 2, 2007
UBC Botanical Garden Seminar
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Mark Vellend, UBC Botany, will give a presentation entitled Biodiversity and Garry Oaks on Tuesday, February 6, 2007. He will provide a seminar on biodiversity with respect to his research on deciduous forests in eastern North America and Garry Oak ecosystems of B.C.
The seminar will be held in Botanical Garden Reception Ctr., 12:00 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 11:35 AM on February 5, 2007
Botany Seminar
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Nancy Turner, Environmental Studies, Univ. of Victoria, will be presenting a talk entitled Borrowing a Root: Indigenous Practices of Transplanting and Moving Plants, on Tuesday, February 6, 2007.
The seminar will be held in Michael Smith Bldg. Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 11:27 AM on February 5, 2007
Plant Genomics Workshop
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
5th Canadian Plant Genomics Workshop
Vancouver Harbour Renaissance Hotel
July 30-Aug 2, 2007
The CPGW is the primary annual Canadian Conference on Plant Molecular Biology and Genomics.
Confirmed speakers: Chris Somerville, Christoph Benning, Loren Rieseberg, Xing Wang Deng, Shauna Somerville, Mary Schuler, Jean Bousquet, Blake Meyers, Pierre Fobert, Rob Martienssen
Website and program details will be released in early January.
For Information contact: CPGWorganizer@mail.botany.ubc.ca
Posted by Hardeep Rai at 11:20 AM on February 5, 2007
Botany Seminar
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Tuesday, November 28
Jeff Saarela, Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Botany, Molecular Systematic Studies in Commelinid Monocots.
Michael Smith Lab. Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Hardeep Rai at 10:08 AM on November 23, 2006
Botany Seminar
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Thursday, November 30
Dr. Cynthia Hays, Long Marine Lab., Univ. of California, Davis, Candidate for Assistant Professor Phycology position in Botany, Ecological consequences of dispersal and gene flow in an intertidal alga
Michael Smith Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Hardeep Rai at 10:04 AM on November 23, 2006
Botanical Garden Seminar
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Daniel Mosquin, Plants, Gardens and Natural Areas of Southwestern USA
Tuesday, Nov. 7
Botanical Garden Reception Ctr., 12:00 noon.
Posted by Hardeep Rai at 9:48 AM on November 3, 2006
Botany Seminar
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Susan Harrison, Dept. of Environmental Science & Policy, Univ. of California, Davis, Krajina Lecture
Biogeographic affinity helps to explain the productivity-richness relationship at regional and local scales: evidence from Californian plants
Tuesday, October 17
Michael Smith Laboratory Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Hardeep Rai at 9:38 AM on October 12, 2006
Evolution, Ecology, & Biodiversity Seminar
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Michelle Tseng, University of British Columbia
Linking ecological variation to evolutionary change using host-parasite systems
Wednesday, October 11
AERL Auditorium, 4:00 pm.
Posted by Hardeep Rai at 3:42 PM on October 4, 2006
Botany Seminar
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Michael Sanderson, University of California, Davis, Section of Evolution & Ecology,
Mining the sequence databases to build large phylogenetic trees,
Tuesday, October 10
Michael Smith Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Hardeep Rai at 3:39 PM on October 4, 2006
Evolution Discussion Group
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
You are invited to attend this semester's Evolution Discussion Group (EDG), co-organized by Darren Irwin and Keith Adams. The group has presentations and discussions of recent papers in evolutionary biology. The first weekly meeting will take place this Friday, September 8, at 12:00 in room 1465 BioSciences. At this meeting we will introduce ourselves to each other, discuss possible topics/goals for the term,
and sign up to lead discussions.Â
Posted by Hardeep Rai at 10:32 AM on September 11, 2006
Botany Seminar
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Tuesday, June 6
Aaron Heiss, M.Sc. candidate, UBC Botany Dept., Molecular Phylogeny of Protist Symbionts of the Woodroach, Cryptocercus
Michael Smith Lab., Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Hardeep Rai at 9:10 AM on June 6, 2006
Botany Seminar
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Ian Baldwin, MPI for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany
Using transgenic plants to study plant-herbivore interactions
Host: Graduate Students
Date: THURSDAY, May 18, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM
Place: MICHAEL SMITH LABORATORIES
AUDITORIUM, 2185 East Mall
Posted by Hardeep Rai at 1:01 PM on May 17, 2006
Michael Smith Lecture
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Monday, April 24
Dr. Sir John Sulston, FRS, 2002 Nobel Prize Laureate, former Director of the Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK, Biology in the Public Domain
Wesbrook 100, 4:00 pm.
Posted by Hardeep Rai at 4:01 PM on April 19, 2006
Botany Seminar
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Thursday, April 27
Jane Parker, Dept. of Molecular Plant Pathology, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Unraveling multiple layers of plant immunity to disease
Michael Smith Lab., Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Hardeep Rai at 3:56 PM on April 19, 2006
Biodiversity Lecture
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Renowned artist Robert Bateman will speak on: Thinking like a mountain.
13 April 2006, 8:00 pm (doors open at 7:15 pm)
Room 2, Life Sciences Centre
2350 Health Sciences Mall
University of British Columbia
Tickets $6
For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit: The Biodiversity Research Centre.
Posted by Hardeep Rai at 1:29 PM on April 3, 2006
Thesis Defense
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Wednesday, March 29
Faride Grace Unda, will be defending her thesis entitled, Agrobacterium - mediated transformation of Exacum Styer Group. Everyone is welcome.
Room 318D; MacMillan Bldg. 10:30 a.m.
Posted by Hardeep Rai at 12:39 PM on March 17, 2006
UBC Botanical Garden Lunchtime Lecture
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Monday, March 20
Linda Jennings, Curator, Botany Dept. Herbarium, Female botanists,
Where are all the ladies in the Garden? UBC Botanical Garden has recently named thirty new Asian Garden trails and twelve new Carolinian Forest beds, all after male botanists. To help restore some balance, Linda will be sharing the names and stories of female botanists possibly worthy of recognition for the next round of trail names. Sure to be full of humour and history.
Botanical Garden Reception Centre, 12:00 pm. (Note: a $5.00 fee will be collected at the door)
Posted by Hardeep Rai at 4:35 PM on March 15, 2006
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Tuesday, March 21
Ravi Kumar, Ph.D. Candidate, UBC Dept. of Botany, The role of Arabidopsis SAWTOOTH genes in leaf morphogenesis.
MSL Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Hardeep Rai at 4:33 PM on March 15, 2006
Botany Seminar
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Thursday, March 23
Stacey Thompson, Ph.D. Candidate, UBC Dept. of Botany, Sub-arctic sex and virgin births: Mating dynamics and genetic structure of diploid and polyploid Townsendia.
MSL Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Hardeep Rai at 4:29 PM on March 15, 2006
Biodiversity Education and Conservation Colloquium
Category(-ies): Centre for Plant Research News , Seminars/Workshops
April 12 to 14, 2006
UBC Botanical Garden & Centre for Plant Research and VanDusen Botanical Garden are hosting the 2nd Biennial Biodiversity Education and Conservation Colloquium.
Join fellow environmental educators, botanical garden professionals and conservation biologists from across Canada to exchange experiences and innovative ideas for engaging the public in conservation.
For more information visit BGCI Canada.
Posted by Hardeep Rai at 4:19 PM on March 15, 2006
VANDUSEN BOTANICAL GARDENS LECTURE
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Thursday, March 16
Benjamin Hall of the University of Washington, Seattle will present a talk entitled, So many rhododendrons: how they came to be and how they have moved about at the VanDusen Botanical Gardens.
VanDusen Botanical Gardens - 5251 Oak Sreet
7:30pm
Posted by Hardeep Rai at 9:46 AM on March 14, 2006
BGSA Graduate Students' Symposium
Category(-ies): Conferences , Seminars/Workshops
The BGSA will be presenting the annual Graduate Students' Symposium on Friday, March 24, in the Michael Smith Auditorium. This event is open to graduate students in Botany and its associated departments: Plant Science, Forestry, and Zoology.
The symposium is a yearly event that provides a forum for botany and plant science grad students to share their planned, in progress, or completed research with their peers. This is an excellent opportunity to get some mileage out of a talk or poster that you've given in the last year, to present your research proposal to a wider audience, or to put together a new talk in anticipation of the upcoming conference season.
Students: this is an excellent opportunity to practice your public speaking skills, let us know about your research, and attempt to cram five years' worth of research into a 10-12 minute PowerPoint presentation. You can present your latest paper, your thesis results or progress, or even a summary of your thesis proposal. No data - no excuse!
Supervisors: "encourage" your students to participate - no graduate education is complete without the aforementioned cramming of complex scientific concepts into a short talk given to a general audience! We likewise encourage you (without quotation marks) to drop by the symposium to support your students and see what interesting things are going on in the rest of the department. We also have coffee.
Please submit abstracts to Jeff Saarela (jsaarela@interchange.ubc.ca) by Friday, March 17th. If you have a poster, bring it (please let us know beforehand). Questions regarding the symposium should be directed to Jeff Saarela or Chris Sears (sears@interchange.ubc.ca).
Posted by Hardeep Rai at 4:30 PM on March 13, 2006
UBC Botanical Garden Lunchtime Lecture
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Monday, March 13
David Tarrant, Seasonal Blooms for the Garden
Botanical Garden Reception Centre, 12:00pm (Note: a $5.00 fee will be collected at the door).
Posted by Hardeep Rai at 3:52 PM on March 8, 2006
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Tuesday, March 14
Shannon Wright, M.Sc. Candidate, UBC, Dept. of Botany, Long-term effect of fertilization on ectomycorrhizal biodiversity
Host: Mary Berbee
Michael Smith Lab Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Hardeep Rai at 3:49 PM on March 8, 2006
Vancouver Natural History Society
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Thursday, March 16
Paul Kroeger, The Mushrooms of Haida Gwaii,
Vancouver Museum, 1100 Chestnut St., 7:30 pm.
Posted by Hardeep Rai at 3:45 PM on March 8, 2006
UBC Botanical Garden Lunchtime Lecture
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
On Monday, March 6, Daniel Mosquin and Eric LaFountain will be presenting a lunchtime lecture about the Botanical Garden Forums.
Come and learn how the garden’s web forums can help you learn about plants and provide a space for you to ask your gardening questions. Daniel and Eric will lead an entertaining and informative tutorial on this pillar of the garden’s web site.
Botanical Garden Reception Centre, 12:00pm (Note: a $5.00 fee will be collected at the door).
Posted by Hardeep Rai at 4:12 PM on March 3, 2006
Botany Seminar - Cancelled
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
SEMINAR CANCELLED
Thursday, March 9
Lauchlan Fraser, Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Community and Ecosystem Ecology, Department of Natural Resource Science, Thompson Rivers University, will present Plant Traits, Community Composition and Ecosystem Function in Temperate Grasslands,
Host: Roy Turkington, MSL Auditorium, 12:30pm
Posted by Hardeep Rai at 3:21 PM on March 3, 2006
Evolution Discussion Group
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Friday, March 10
Keith Adams, Title: TBA.
Ralf Yorque Rm. Hut B8, 12:00 noon
Posted by Hardeep Rai at 2:29 PM on March 3, 2006
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Hugo Zheng, UBC Dept. of Botany, Membrane Traffic in Plant Cells: One Large GTPase, Two Small Rab GTLPases and Sphingolipids all Dance on the Way on Tuesday Feb 28, 2006. Host: Dr. L. Kunst.
The seminar will be held in the MSL Auditorium, 12:30pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 1:52 PM on February 24, 2006
Botanical Garden Lecture Series
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Chris Sears, Botany Dept. MSc Candidate, will give a presentation entitled Polystichum kwakiutlii, is it really the rarest fern? on Monday February 20, 2006.
The seminar will be held at the Botanical Garden Reception Centre, 6804 S.W. Marine Drive, 12:00pm.
Note: a $5.00 fee will be collected at the door.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 2:36 PM on February 16, 2006
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Hannah Stewart, Marine Science Institute, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, will give a talk entitled Ecological implications of morphological plasticity and ontogeny in a tropical alga on Tuesday February 7, 2006.
The seminar will be held in MSL Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 2:10 PM on February 3, 2006
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Gregg Howe, Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State Univ., will present a talk entitled Regulation of plant antinutritive defense against herbivores: More than a gut feeling on Thursday February 9, 2006.
The seminar will be held in MSL Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 2:07 PM on February 3, 2006
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Sara E. Patterson, Dept. of Horticulture, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, will give a presentation entitled Molecular Genetic Analysis of Cell Separation and Abscission in Arabidopsis on Tuesday January 31, 2006.
The seminar will be held in Michael Smith Lab. Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 2:53 PM on January 27, 2006
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Jonathan Jones, John Innes Centre, Norwich, will give a presentation entitled “Surprising roles for plant hormones in pathogen virulence and plant defence” on Thursday January 19, 2006. The seminar will be held in UBC Michael Smith Laboritories Lecture Theatre, Rm. 102 , 4:00 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 9:58 AM on January 17, 2006
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Ray Callaway, Univ. of Montana, Missoula, “will present a talk entitled Do novel biochemical weapons play a role in exotic invasions?” on Tuesday January 10, 2006.
The seminar will be held in Michael Smith Lab., Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 4:26 PM on January 5, 2006
Scientists & Innovators in the Schools Workshop
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Scientists & Innovators in the Schools Workshop will be held on Wednesday January 18th, 2006 at Science World - Large Boardroom, 5:00pm - 8:30pm.
The goal of the workshop is to teach volunteer scientists new and exciting ways to bring science alive in the classroom. The workshop gives scientists ways to enhance their existing presentations, ideas for new presentations for those who have yet to visit students in their classrooms and the opportunity to meet other enthusiastic volunteers.
Please note dinner will be provided at 5:00pm - workshop commences at 5:30pm.
As space is limited, an early RSVP would be most appreciated. Please contact
Jennifer at 604-443-7551 or jscott@scienceworld.ca to register.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 2:28 PM on December 14, 2005
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Cynthia (Cindy) M. Ross, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Thompson Rivers Univ., Kamloops, B.C., will give a presentation entitled “Embryology of the dwarf mistletoe Arceuthobium americanum (Viscaceae)” on Tuesday November 29, 2005.
The seminar will be held in the Michael Smith Lab. Auditorium, 12:30pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 4:08 PM on November 25, 2005
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Carsten Külheim, Umeå Plant Sciences Centre, Sweden, will give a presentation entitled “Overlap of biotic and abiotic plant defense mechanisms on Thursday December 1, 2005.
The seminar will be held in the Michael Smith Lab., Lecture Theatre, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 4:05 PM on November 25, 2005
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Christopher (Chris) Lortie, Biology Dept., York Univ., Toronto, “will give a presentation entitled Using community ecology to explore invasive plant species dynamics: two case studies on Tuesday November 22, 2005. The seminar will be held in the Michael Smith Lab., Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 4:13 PM on November 17, 2005
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Jaideep Mathur, Dept. of Plant Agriculture, Univ. of Guelph, will give a presentation entitled Splitting Hairs in Plant Cell Shape Development on Tuesday November 15, 2005. The seminar will be held in Michael Smith Lab. Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 2:17 PM on November 14, 2005
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Bahram Soltani, UBC Botany, Investigations of genetic and epigenetic regulation of Arabidopsis 4-Coumarate :CoA ligase (4CL) gene expression” on Tuesday November 8, 2005. The seminar will be held in Michael Smith Lab., Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 10:19 AM on November 7, 2005
UBC Botanical Garden Lecture
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
David Tarrant, UBC Botanical Garden, “will present a talk entitled Winter Planters” on Monday October 31, 2005. The seminar will be held in the UBC Botanical Garden Reception Ctr., 12:00 noon.
For more information on UBC Botanical Garden courses and lectures, please visit UBC Botanical Garden Courses and Lectures.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 11:34 AM on October 28, 2005
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
David Bird, North Carolina State University, will give a presentation entitled “Plants respond to mutualistic rhizobia and parasitic root-knot nematodes via a common pathway” on Tuesday November 1, 2005. The seminar will be held in Michael Smith Lab., Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 11:31 AM on October 28, 2005
UBC Botanical Garden Lecture
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Douglas Justice, UBC Botanical Garden, will present a talk entitled Common Conifers on Monday October 24, 2005. The seminar will be held in the UBC Botanical Garden, Reception Ctr., 12:00 noon.
For more information on UBC Botanical Garden courses and lectures, please visit UBC Botanical Garden Courses and Lectures.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 4:24 PM on October 21, 2005
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
David Bird, Department of Botany, UBC, will give a presentation entitled A Tale of Three Cell Types: Alkaloid Biosynthesis Is Localized to Sieve Elements in Opium Poppy on Tuesday October 25, 2005. The seminar will be held in Michael Smith Laboratories, Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 4:20 PM on October 21, 2005
UBC Botanical Garden Lecture
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Ingrid Hoff, will be giving a presentation entitled The Good, The Bad, The Ugly...Bugs on Monday October 17, 2005. The seminar will be held at the Botanical Garden Reception Centre, 12:00 pm.
For more information of UBC Botanical Garden lectures, please visit: UBC Botanical Garden Lectures.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 4:25 PM on October 14, 2005
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Corinne Cluis, M.Sc. Candidate, Dept. of Botany, UBC., will be giving a talk entitled A gain-of-function mutant of AtMKK9 affects multiple hormone signals in Arabidopsis thaliana on Tuesday October 18, 2005. The seminar will be held in Michael Smith Laboratories, Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 4:21 PM on October 14, 2005
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Beverley Green, Dept. of Botany, UBC, “will present a talk entitled the Genomics Deluge Hits the Red Line: Insights into Photosynthesis, Photoprotection and Molecular Evolution in the Ocean on Tuesday October 11”, 2005. The seminar will be held in Michael Smith Laboratories, Auditorium, 12:30 pm
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 10:07 AM on October 11, 2005
Biodiversity Research Centre lecture
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
The Beaty Museum of Natural History, part of the Biodiversity Research Centre lecture: David Suzuki, UBC Zoology, will be giving a presenation entitled Why biodiversity matters in a changing world on Thursday October 13, 2005”. The seminar will be held in the Life Sciences Centre, West Atrium, 7 pm.
In addition to the lecture, six graduate students, including our own Colin Bates, Audrey DeKoning and Jeff Saarela, will be presenting posters of their research after the talk.
Tickets required: free at UBC Biodiversity.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 10:00 AM on October 11, 2005
MSL Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Robert Waterston, Dept. of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, will give a presentation ( title “TBA) on Thursday September 29, 2005. The seminar will be held in MSL Lecture Theatre Rm. 102, 4:00 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 10:22 AM on September 26, 2005
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Joe Chappell, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA, will be presenting a talk entitled “Unraveling the Wizardry of Terpene Biosynthesis in Plants on Tuesday September 27, 2005. The seminar will be held in Michael Smith Laboratories Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Host: Jörg Bohlmann, Michael Smith Laboratories Auditorium, UBC
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 10:15 AM on September 26, 2005
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Mike Gray, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., will give a presentation entitled “Mitochondrial genome evolution: going off in all directions on Tuesday September 20, 2005. The seminar will be held at 12:30 pm, Michael Smith Laboratories Auditorium.
Host: Patrick Keeling, Department of Botany, UBC.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 11:12 AM on September 16, 2005
Bioinformatics Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Paola Bonizzoni, Associate Professor, Dipartimento di Informatica Sistemistica e Comunicazione Universit Degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy will give a seminar entitled Novel Method to Predict the Exon-Intron Structure of a Gene that is Optimally Compatible to a Set of Transcript Sequences on Monday August 22, 2005 at 3:00pm. The seminar will be held in Rm X530, UBC ICICS (INSTITUTE FOR COMPUTING, INFORMATION AND COGNITIVE SYSTEMS), 2366 Main Mall.
Abstract:
Alternative splicing (AS) is currently considered as one of the main mechanisms able to explain the huge gap between the number of predicted genes and the high complexity of proteome in humans. The rapid growth of ESTs data has encouraged the development of computational methods to predict alternative splicing from the analysis of ESTs alignment to genome sequences. I present a novel computational method to predict gene structure and (AS) from EST/transcript data based on EST against genome alignment and graph-theoretic analysis of transcripts data.
The problem of predicting constitutive and alternative splicing is formalized as an optimization problem, where the optimal multiple transcript alignment minimizes the number of exons and hence of splice site observations. A splice site predictor based on this new approach to AS prediction is implemented in the software tool ASPIC (Alternative Splicing PredICtion). Extensive bench marking showed that ASPIC outperforms other existing methods in the detection of novel splicing isoforms, in minimizing over-predictions and requiring a lower computation time for processing a single gene and an EST cluster. An experimental analysis of ASPIC prediction data is discussed in the presentation.
For more information on the Bioinformatics Event Calendar, visit VanBug Event Calendar.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 12:09 PM on August 18, 2005
Centre for Plant Research Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Dr. Claus Passreiter,Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology, Heinrich Heine University, Dusseldorf, Germany, will give a presentation entitled Terpenoids from Medicinalplants and their Activities against Insects on Friday July 15, 2005. The seminar will be held in Centre for Plant Research lounge (MacMillan 318D) at 1:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 4:59 PM on July 13, 2005
Botany Seminar - Dr. K. Pryer
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Dr. Kathleen Pryer, Associate Professor, Dept. of Biology, Duke University, Candidate for Botany Headship, will give a presentation entitled the Evolution and Diversification of 'Seed-free' Vascular Plants on Tuesday July 12, 2005. The seminar will be held in SCARFE 100, 11:00a.m.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 1:01 PM on July 8, 2005
Botany Seminar - Dr. M. Dale
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Dr. Mark Dale, Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Alberta, Candidate for Botany Headship, will present a talk, title TBA, on Thursday July 14, 2005. The seminar will held in FNSC 60, 11:00a.m.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 10:05 AM on July 8, 2005
Botany Seminar - Dr. Robert Jansen
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Dr. Robert Jansen, Blake Centennial Professor & Chair, Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Candidate for
Botany Headship, will give a presentation entitled Phylogenetic and Molecular Evolutionary Studies of Angiosperms Based on Whole Chloroplast Genomes on Wednesday July 6, 2005. The seminar will be held in Scarfe 100, 11:00 a.m.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 11:44 AM on June 30, 2005
Botany Seminar - Dr. Fred Sack
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Dr. Fred Sack, Professor & Chair, Dept. of Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology, Ohio State University, Candidate for Botany Headship, will give a presentation entitled Stomatal Development in Arabidopsis on Monday July 4, 2005. The seminar will be held in Scarfe 100, 11:00 a.m.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 5:38 PM on June 29, 2005
Botany Seminar - Dr. Rowan Sage
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Dr. Rowan Sage, Professor & Chair, Dept. of Botany, University of Toronto, Candidate for Botany Headship, will present a talk entitled the Evolution of C4 Photosynthesis on Friday July 8, 2005. The seminar will be held in Scarfe 100, 11:00 a.m.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 4:42 PM on June 29, 2005
Michael Smith Laboratories Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Dr. Hennie Van Vuuren, Director, UBC Wine Research Ctr., will give a presentation entitled Genetically Engineered Wine Yeasts - A New Era in Wine Making on Thursday May 26, 2005. The seminar will be held in MSL Auditorium, 4:00 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 3:31 PM on May 20, 2005
Vancouver Desert Plant Society Lecture
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Gary Lewis, M.Sc. graduate of Botany, owner of Phoenix Perennials, will present a talk entitled Plants and Plant Ecology of the American Deserts on Thursday May 26, 2005. The seminar will be held in the VanDusen Floral Hall, 7:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 3:28 PM on May 20, 2005
UBC Bioinformatics Centre Lecture
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Dr. Joanne Fox, Head, Support & Training, UBC Bioinformatics Ctr., will give a presentation entitled An Integrated Approach to Offering
Resources and Support for the UBC Research Community on Friday May 27, 2005. The seminar will be held in IRC Rm. 3 12:00 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 3:21 PM on May 20, 2005
Botanical Garden Lecture
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Douglas Justice, UBC Botanical Garden, will give a presentation entitled Research Update on the Snake Bark Maples on Tuesday May 10, 2005. The seminar will be held in the UBC Botanical Garden Reception Centre, 12:00 noon.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 11:59 AM on May 9, 2005
Michael Smith Laboratories Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Dr. Carl Douglas, Prof. & Head, UBC Botany, will give a presentation entitled Trees, weeds, and genomes: Integration of metabolism into plant development and defense on Thursday April 28, 2005. The seminar will be held in MSL Auditorium, 4:00 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 11:03 AM on April 22, 2005
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Kristoffer Palma, Ph.D. Candidate, Genetics Program, UBC, MOS4 and MOS6; two new players in plant disease resistance signaling identified in a "sneaky" screen in Arabidopsis on Tuesday April 19, 2005. The seminar will be held in Michael Smith Auditorium, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 2:18 PM on April 15, 2005
Center for Plant Research Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Justin Borevitz, Assistant Professor, Univ. of Chicago, Div. of Biological Sciences, Dept. of Ecology & Evolution, will give a presentation entitled Genome wide patterns of variation in Arabidopsis thaliana from array hybidization on Wednesday April 20, 2005. The seminar will held in Michael Smith Lecture Theatre, 12:30 pm.
He is the leading light in microarray-based mapping using affy arrays and SNP variation. Although he has worked on Arabidopsis, he is interested in other systems, and is the Cronk lab's collaborator on the XAM (eXtremeArrayMapping) work they have planned in poplar.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 2:11 PM on April 15, 2005
UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Peter Wharton, Curator of the David C. Lam Asian Garden, UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research, will give a presentation entitled Botanical Travels in Viet Nam and Yunnan on Tuesday April 12, 2005. The seminar will be held in the UBC Botanical Garden Reception Centre, 12pm.
For more information about UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research's education and outreach programs, visit UBC BGCPR Education and Outreach
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 11:21 AM on April 8, 2005
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Chris Somerville, Dept. of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Botany Graduate Student Invited Speaker, will present a talk entitled Genetic dissection of cell wall synthesis and function on Tuesday, April 12, 2005. The seminar will be held in MICHAEL SMITH LABORATORIES AUDITORIUM, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 11:17 AM on April 8, 2005
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Shauna Somerville, Dept. of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Botany Graduate Student Invited Speaker, will give a presentation entitled Mutational analysis of susceptibility suggests a role for the host cell wall on Wednesday April 13, 2005. The seminar will be held in BIOSCIENCES 2000, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 11:14 AM on April 8, 2005
Michael Smith Laboratories Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Andre Marziali, Assist. Prof., Physics & Astronomy, UBC, will give a talk entitled An electrophoretic method for isolating and pre-concentrating nucleic acids on Thursday April 14, 2005. The seminar will be held in MSL Auditorium, 4:00 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 11:11 AM on April 8, 2005
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Lee Johnson, Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Botany, UBC, will give a presentation entitled “MONOPTEROS in Poplar, or, “How I cloned and partially characterized an Auxin Response Factor from a model tree to learn about the relationship between primary and secondary vascular development” on Tuesday April 5, 2005. The seminar will be held in the Michael Smith Laboratories Main Lecture Room, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 3:27 PM on April 1, 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
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 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
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
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.
Continue reading "Faculty of Forestry Hosts International Bio-Diversity Expert"
Posted by Eric La Fountaine at 4:22 PM on February 1, 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
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.
Continue reading "Evolutionary Biology Seminar"
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
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
Vancouver Institute Lecture
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Mr. David Tarrant, UBC Botanical Garden, will give a presentation entitled Chasing Spring Around the World on Saturday December 4, 2004. The seminar will be held in Woodward IRC, Lecture Hall 2, 8:15 pm.
Join Canadian gardening legend David Tarrant as he chases the season of rebirth around the world.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 2:23 PM on December 3, 2004
Evolution, Ecology, and Biodiversity Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Cort Griswold will give a presentation entitled Theoretical models of the genetics of adaptation on Wednesday December 8, 2004. The seminar will be held in FNSC Rm. 60, 4:00 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 12:18 PM on December 3, 2004
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Sophie Boizard, Ph.D. Candidate, UBC Botany, the role of kelp holdfast morphology and biomechanics in juvenile recruitment and adult survivorship on Tuesday November 30, 2004. The seminar will be held in BioSciences 2000, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 2:30 PM on November 25, 2004
Evolution, Ecology & Biodiversity Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Jim Elser, Biological Stoichiometry from Genes to Ecosystems on Wednesday December 1, 2004. The seminar will be held in Fam. & Nutr. Sci., Rm. 60, 4:00 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 2:27 PM on November 25, 2004
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Gary Bradfield, UBC, Botany, will give a presentation entitled From tidal marshes to subalpine forests: a diversity of contributions from a plant ecology lab on Tuesday November 23, 2004. The seminar will be held in BioSciences 2000, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 4:02 PM on November 18, 2004
Biology Film Festival
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Gattaca (1997) wil be shown at the Biology Film Festival on Wednesday November 24, 2004. The event will be held in Biosciences Rm. 2000, 7:30 pm.
Everyone is welcome. Admission is free.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 3:57 PM on November 18, 2004
Phylogenetic Systematics and Historical Biogeography Course
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
A course in phylogenetic systematics and historical biogeography for Ph.D. students will be offered at the Institute of Biology at the University of Copenhagen, March 7-18, 2005. From the course announcement, “The aim of the course is to teach Ph.D. students the theory and methodology of phylogenetic systematics and historical biogeography. Thereby enabling them to use and critically evaluate current methods.”
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Posted by Eric La Fountaine at 10:51 AM on November 17, 2004
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Igor Kovalchuk, Dept. of Biological Sciences, U. of Lethbridge, will preset a talk entitled Systemic recombination signal - the plant response to compatible pathogens on Tuesday, November 16, 2004. The seminar will be held in BioSciences 2000, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 3:15 PM on November 12, 2004
Evolution, Ecology, and Biodiversity Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Andrew MacDougall, Univ. of Regina, Biology Dept., will give a talk entitled Stability dynamics in dynamic ecosystems on Wednesday November 17, 2004. The seminar wil be held in Rm 60, FNSC, 4:00 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 3:01 PM on November 12, 2004
Vancouver Natural History Society
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Vancouver Natural History Society evening program will host a presentation titled In the Footsteps of John Davidson: the Flora of Garibaldi Provincial Park on Thursday November 18, 2004. The event will be held at 730pm, 1100 Chestnut St.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 2:56 PM on November 12, 2004
UBC Botanical Garden & Centre for Plant Research Lecture
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Linda Jennings, M.Sc. candidate (Whitton Lab), will present a talk titled Townsendia aprica: A rare Utah endemic on Tuesday November 9, 2004. The seminar will be held in the Botanical Garden reception centre, 12:00 pm.
For more information on lectures and courses offered by UBC Botanical Garden, please visit UBC Botanical Garden courses and lectures.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 3:44 PM on November 5, 2004
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Dr. Reinhard Jetter, Dept. of Botany, UBC, will give a presentation entitled Waxes on top of everything? Morphology, physiology and ecology of leaf surfaces on Tuesday November 9, 2004. The seminar will be held in BioSciences 2000, 12:30 pm
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 3:36 PM on November 5, 2004
Evolution, Ecology, & Biodiversity Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Greg Sharam will give a talk entitled The decline and restoration of riparian forest fragments in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania on Wednesday November 10, 2004. The seminar will be held in Fam. & Nutr. Sci., Rm. 60, 4:00 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 3:32 PM on November 5, 2004
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Sandra Jackson, Univ. of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ, will present a talk titled “Do Microtubules Direct Cellulose Microfibril Orientation in the Secondary Cell
Wall?” on Tuesday November 2, 2004. The seminar will be held in BioSciences 2000, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 10:16 AM on October 28, 2004
Cell Biology Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Andrew Fire will give a presentation entitled Cellular Responses to Foreign Nucleic Acids on Thursday November 4, 2004. The seminar will be held in Friedman Lecture Hall, 11:00 am.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 10:01 AM on October 28, 2004
Credit Course in Biomes & Plants of BC
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Malaspina University-College is offering a 3 credit course in Biomes &
Plants of B.C., Biology 359, May 3 to 30, 2005. This 4-week field-oriented
course is on the biogeoclimatic zones of B.C., their dominant plant species,
and techniques of plant identification.
For more information contact Bill McMillan (mcmillan@mala.bc.ca) or visit Malaspina Biology 359.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 11:00 AM on October 21, 2004
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Cheryl Martin, M.Sc. Candidate, UBC Botany, will give a presentation titled Carbon acquisition strategies by Phytoplankton Assemblages in the Bering Sea on Tuesday October 26, 2004. The seminar will be held in BioSciences 2000, 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 10:46 AM on October 15, 2004
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Dr. Keith Adams, Agricultural Sciences, UBC, will give a presentation entitled Evolutionary genomics and gene silencing in polyploids on Tuesday October 19, 2004. The seminar will begin at 12:30 pm in BioSciences 2000.
For more information about Dr. Adams' research, please visit Keith Adams Laboratory.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 4:08 PM on October 14, 2004
Statistics Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Dana Aeschliman will give a presentation entitled Several examples of statistics used in experiments involving microarrays and protein 2-D gels at the Stats seminar, on Thursday October 21, 2004. The seminar will be held in Rm 302, LS Klinck Bldg, 4pm.
Abstract: For the past nearly two years of work I have
focused almost exclusively on aiding researchers in high
throughput molecular biology. I have aided them by creating software
for their use as well as helping with the design and analysis of
experiments involving two color microarrays or protein 2-D gels. I will
begin with a brief introduction of these kinds of data sets and will
subsequently discuss some of the work that I have done in this area.
For directions to the LS Klinck building, please visit the IT Services Map.
Upcoming event are posted on the Bioinformatics Event Calendar.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 11:43 AM on October 14, 2004
Vancouver Natural History Society
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Terry Taylor will present a talk entitled Ecology of Local Mushrooms (a slide show of Rene Savenye's photographs) on Thursday October 21, 2004. The seminar will be held at the Vancouver Museum 1100 Chestnut St., 7:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 11:42 AM on October 14, 2004
2004 Ecology and Evolution Retreat
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
UBC Biodiversity Research Centre is hosting the 2004 Ecology and Evolution Retreat for graduate student, post-doc or graduate student supervisor in the field of ecology and evolution. The retreat will be held October 30-31. Grad students and post-docs will present short talks and posters. Deadline for abstracts is Oct. 15. Cost is $125. For more information visit the retreat webpage.
Posted by Eric La Fountaine at 3:06 PM on October 12, 2004
UBC Botanical Garden & Centre for Plant Research Lecture
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Christia Roberts, will give a presentation titled "A Horticulturist visits China" on Tuesday Oct 12. The seminar will be held at then UBC Botanical Garden Reception Cetre (6804 SW Marine Drive), 12:00 noon.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 10:33 AM on October 7, 2004
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Dr. Jeannette Whitton, Dept. of Botany, UBC, will be giving a presentation entitled "Ecology, genetics and plant speciation: Some examples from the sunflower family" on Tuesday October 12, 2004. The seminar will begin at 12:30 pm, BioSciences 2000.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 10:21 AM on October 7, 2004
Chemistry Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Dr. Reinhard Jetter, Dept. of Botany, UBC, will give a talk titled "There is
more than one way to skin a leaf: Biological Chemistry of Plant Surfaces" on Tuesday October 12, 2004. The seminar will be held in Chemistry Rm. B250, 12:45 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 9:38 AM on October 7, 2004
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
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
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Huanquan Zheng, Dept. of Botany, UBC, will give a presentation titled, VLCFA elongation controls cell expansion in Arabidopsis organogenesis on Tuesday September 21. The seminar will be held in BioSciences 2000 at 12:30 pm.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 12:35 PM on August 12, 2004
2nd Canadian Plant Genomics Workshop
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
The 2nd Canadian Plant Genomics Workshop will be held in Québec City, August 29 - September 1, 2004. The major theme for the workshop will be functional genomics, with Canadian and International speakers presenting on the latest developments. "Intended to promote and enhance networking amongst Canadian researchers, this workshop will bring together top genomics guest speakers of international caliber, along with Canadian leaders in genomics research, all within the context of one of the most historic cities in North America."
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Posted by Eric La Fountaine at 10:38 AM on August 10, 2004
Biotechnology Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Alana Clegg will present a special seminar titled, Subcellular Localization of the Tobacco MAPKs SIPK and WIPK in Response to Pathogen attack by Harpin and Megaspermin on Wed. August 11, 2004 at 12 noon in the Plant Science Lounge, MacMillan 318D. All are welcome, graduate students in Plant Science and all investigators and associates of the UBC Centre for Plant Research are encouraged to attend.
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Posted by Eric La Fountaine at 10:23 AM on August 5, 2004
2004 Poplar Council Annual Meeting
Category(-ies): Conferences , Genomics , Seminars/Workshops
The Poplar Council of Canada (PCC) is holding its annual meeting on the UBC campus in Vancouver, August 8 to 11, 2004. The second annual Forrest Genomics Workshop, sponsored by Genome BC Forestry Genomics (Treenomix), will be held on August 7, concurrent with the PCC meeting. This year’s meeting focuses on the integration of forest genomics into the work of foresters at all levels of research and industry.
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Posted by Eric La Fountaine at 10:41 AM on August 3, 2004
UBC Biotechnology Lab Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Dr. Peter Philippsen of the University of Basl will present a talk titled, “The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the filamentous fungus Ashbya gossypii: conserved gene sets but different life styles”, at a seminar hosted by the UBC Biotechnology Lab on Friday, July 23, 2004 from 12:00 - 1:00 in Wesbrook 201. Information about Dr. Philippsen's research can be found in the Biennial Report of his research group.
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Posted by Eric La Fountaine at 10:15 AM on July 15, 2004
Natural Hybridization and Introgression
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Thure Hauser, Senior Scientist at Risø National Laboratory in Denmark sent the following workshop announcement:
First Announcement of Workshop and Ph.D. course:
“Natural hybridization and introgression: from genomics to ecology”
Denmark, November 27-30, 2004
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Posted by Eric La Fountaine at 2:52 PM on July 12, 2004
Biotechnology Laboratory
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
The UBC Biotechnology Laboratory presents Dr. Steven Oliver, of the University of Manchester, who will be giving a seminar "Old Wine In New Bottles: Genomic Approaches To Speciation And Fitness" on Thursday, June 3, 2004 in Wesbrook 201, from 10:00 - 11:00 am.
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Posted by at 11:46 AM on May 31, 2004
UBiC/Zoology Bioinformatics Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Dr. Uwe Ohler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, will be presenting a lecture on Friday, May 14 entitled "Computational Biology of Gene Regulation Mechanisms", UBC Family and Nutritional Sciences Bldg Rm 60, 12:00 pm.
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Posted by at 10:17 AM on May 10, 2004
UBC Botanical Garden & Centre for Plant Research Lecture
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Shona Ellis will be presenting a lecture entitled "Basics about Bryophytes" on Monday 10th May 12:00 pm, Botanical Garden Reception Centre
Posted by at 9:53 AM on May 10, 2004
Dr. Alise Cassidy public lecture
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Dr. Cassidy will be presenting a lecture entitled "Supporting students to take responsibility for their own learning" on Friday 30th April, 9.30 am, Room 318D, lounge.
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Posted by at 11:44 AM on April 28, 2004
Lord Robert May special seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Lord Robert May will be presenting a seminar entitled "The future of biodiversity in a crowded world" on Friday 30th April, 2.30pm IRC 2, Woodward Instructional Research Centre (2194 Health Sci. Mall).
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Posted by at 11:13 AM on April 23, 2004
Bioinformatics Candidate Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Dr. Brad Barbazuk Donald Danforth Plant Science Center will be giving a seminar on Thursday, April 15 2004 entitled, “Getting to the good stuff”… an investigation of gene recovery and biases observed in two reduced representation sequencing techniques when applied to the genome of Zea mays ”; Royal Bank Cinema, Chan Centre, 11:00 am.
Posted by at 9:59 AM on April 13, 2004
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Michael Lipsen, Ph.D candidate, UBC Botany will be presenting a seminar entitled “Nutrient dynamics and Phytoplankton Response in the Northeast Subarctic Pacific,” on April 13th at 12:30 pm, BioSciences 2449.
Posted by at 9:45 AM on April 13, 2004
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
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
Workshop for Microarray Analysis
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Silicon Genetics, in conjunction with the Array Facility at VGH, will be offering a 4-day GeneSpring workshop April 5-9 in Vancouver.
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Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 4:03 PM on February 24, 2004
Seminars and Lectures Calendar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops , Website News
Having difficulty keeping track of plant-related seminars at UBC and the Lower Mainland? The UBC Centre for Plant Research is now keeping track of seminars in the Lectures and Seminars Calendar, which can be quickly accessed from the grey bar in the upper right of any non-forums CPR web page.
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Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 3:14 PM on February 24, 2004
*omics Discussion Group
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
*OMICS DISCUSSION GROUP
NEXT MEETING:
Thursday FEBRUARY 5th
4:00-5:00 pm
Room 2449 BioSciences Building
6270 University Boulevard, UBC
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Posted by at 11:24 AM on February 3, 2004
Botany Seminar
Category(-ies): Genomics , Seminars/Workshops
Dr. Quentin Cronk will be giving a presentation at the Botany Seminar: "the molecular genetics and ecology of asymmetry in flowers". The seminar will be held on Tuesday - January 27, 2004 at 12:30pm, in the BioSciences main lecture room (BioSci 2000).
Dr. Quentin Cronk is the Director of the UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 11:22 AM on January 26, 2004
Evolution, Ecology and Biodiversity Seminar
Category(-ies): Evolution , Seminars/Workshops
Dr. Quentin Cronk, Director of the UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research, will give a presentation entitled "Timing evolution: studying dispersal, radiation and host-parasite evolution using molecular calibration".
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Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 11:20 AM on January 26, 2004
Botany/Zoology Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Camille Parmesan, School of Biological Science, Univ. of Texas, Austin, CRC candidate in Conservation Biology, will be giving a presentation entitled "Climate change impacts in natural systems and their conservation implications" on Thursday January 29, 2004. The seminar will be held at 4:00 pm in Scarfe 100.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 11:08 AM on January 26, 2004
'Taxonomy and the genus Echinacea'
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Shannon Binns, Agricultural Sciences and the Centre for Plant Research, UBC, will give a presentation on Monday December 8, 2003 as the speaker for the Botanical Garden & Centre for Plant Research Lecture: "Taxonomy and the genus Echinacea". The seminar will be held at 12:00pm in the Botanical Garden Reception Center, 6804 SW Marine Drive.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 1:28 AM on December 4, 2003
Plant Evolution Group
Category(-ies): Evolution , Seminars/Workshops
PEG is an interdepartmental "working group" that meets bi-weekly to discuss our research on various aspects of the evolutionary biology of plants.
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Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 4:40 PM on December 3, 2003
"Hybridization and Ecological Divergence in Wild Sunflowers"
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Davidson Lecture: Loren Rieseberg, Biology Dept., Indiana Univ., will be addressing to UBC on Thursday December 4, 2003 with a lecture entitled "Hybridization and Ecological Divergence in Wild Sunflowers". The seminar will be held at 2:00pm in Biological Sciences Rm 2000.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 4:32 PM on December 3, 2003
Botanical Garden Seminar
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Dr. Quentin Cronk will be giving a free noon hour seminar on January 12, detailing some of the recent research projects being pursued at the Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research. The seminar will be held at 12pm in the UBC Botanical Garden Reception Centre (6804 S.W. Marine Drive).
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Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 10:35 AM on December 3, 2003
"Molecular genetics of hypersensitive cell death in plant defenses"
Category(-ies): Genomics , Seminars/Workshops
Jean Greenberg, Dept. of Biology, Univ. of Chicago, will give a presentation on Tuesday December 2, 2003 as the speaker for the Botany/Biotechnology Seminar: "Molecular genetics of hypersensitive cell death in plant defenses". The seminar will be held at 12:30 pm, in Biological Sciences Building Rm 2000.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 10:25 AM on December 1, 2003
"The Thin Green Line: Plants and the Future of Humanity"
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Dr. Quentin Cronk, Director of the UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research, will be addressing the Vancouver Institute on November 22, 2003 with a lecture entitled The Thin Green Line: Plants and the Future of Humanity. The lecture begins at 8:15 p.m. in Lecture Hall No. 2 of the Woodward Instructional Resources Centre at the University of British Columbia.
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Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 10:16 AM on November 14, 2003
Earth Under Threat: People and Plants of the Amazon Rainforest
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Professor Sir Ghillean Prance is a former director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and a former senior vice president of the New York Botanical Garden.
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Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 4:00 PM on November 7, 2003
"Weeding out the genes: genome-wide approaches using Arabidopsis"
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
Dr. Joseph Ecker, from the Salk Institute, will give a presentation on Thursday November 13, 2003 as the key speaker for the lecture series in systems biology: "Weeding out the genes: genome-wide approaches using Arabidopsis". The seminar will be held at 12pm in Lecture Hall No. 6 of the Instructional Resources Centre.
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Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 4:32 PM on November 5, 2003
First *Omics Discussion Group
Category(-ies): Genomics , Seminars/Workshops
FIRST MEETING: Thursday October 30th
Faculty members, graduate students, postdocs and research associates will be interested in attending this first event - a seminar/poster session.
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Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 11:28 AM on October 30, 2003
"Sex, Parental Conflict and Infanticide: the Role of Maternal Effects in Plant Development"
Category(-ies): Genomics , Seminars/Workshops
Dr. Ueli Grossniklaus of the University of Zurich will be giving a presentation on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 as the Botany Graduate Student Association's invited speaker: "Sex, parental conflict and infanticide: the role of maternal effects in plant development". The seminar will be held at 12:30pm in Bio 2000, Biological Sciences Building.
Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 11:01 AM on October 17, 2003
"Defining 'Biodiversity': Do we know what we are trying to save?"
Category(-ies): Seminars/Workshops
The Faculty of Forestry is hosting Dr. Bryan Norton as the inaugural speaker for the Namkoong Family Lecture Series on 16 October at 5:45 PM in the Forest Science Centre. You are invited to join.
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Posted by Dorothy Cheung at 3:59 PM on September 30, 2003
