Winter 2020/2021
Online seminar on Mondays from 12:00pm to 1:00pm.
This series are organized by Colin Brauner, Katie Marshall and Phil Matthews. Please email the organizers if you wish to attend.
For available recorded zoom lectures please click HERE. To login use your Zoology username and password.
Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Host |
Jan 11 | Ora Johannsson | UBC | Where to from here: opportunities for biologists/zoologist | Colin Brauner |
Jan 18 | Mark Cembrowski | UBC | Cell-type-specific rules of spatial memory in the brain | Ben Matthews |
Jan 25 | Rachael Heuer | University of Miami, RSMAS | Crude oil and beyond: using toxicology to better understand fish physiology | Chris Wood |
Feb 1 | Andrea Reid | UBC Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries | Fish–People–Place: interweaving knowledges to elucidate Pacific salmon fate | Colin Brauner |
Feb 8 | Deepa Pureswaran | Laurentian Forestry Centre | Northern range shift of spruce budworm | Katie Marshall |
Feb 15 | Family Day and midterm break - No seminar | |||
Feb 22 | Paloma González-Bellido | University of Minnesota | Neural adaptations and behavioral strategies of aerial and visually guided predatory insects | Ben Matthews |
Mar 1 | Joanna Kelly | Washington State University | Gene regulation and the repeated evolution of hydrogen sulfide adapted fish | Jeff Richards |
Mar 8 | Danielle Levesque | University of Maine | A tale of two mammals: what thermoregulatory phenotypes can tell us about responses to climate | Katie Marshall |
Mar 15 | Inna Sokolova - Peter W. Hochachka Memorial Lecture | University of Rostock | Mitochondrial mechanisms in stress tolerance and metabolic adaptations to fluctuating oxygen conditions: A case study of marine bivalves | Trish Schulte |
Mar 22 | Lucy Hawkes | University of Exeter, England | TBA | Bill Milsom |
Mar 29 | Andrew McKechnie | University of Pretoria, South Africa | Hot, hotter…gone? Global heating increases the risks of both direct mortality and chronic, sublethal fitness costs for desert birds | Bill Milsom |