Weekly Seminars Archive

Weekly Seminar 2023-2024


2023-2024 Weely Seminar Schedule
DATE SPEAKER TITLE VENUE
22 Sept Molecular insights into plant immune systems under climate change
BGS 0165
29 Sept

This special seminar is The 2023

The Bird Genoscape Project: Harnessing the power of genomics to advance migratory bird conservation
 BGS 0165
6 Oct

Gene sharing across the eukaryotic tree of life: highways, byways, and bike paths
 BGS 0165
13 Oct Symbiosis as an adaptive process: understanding transitions to more complex life forms Zoom
20 Oct

What does not kill you makes you more complex: The role of stress in the evolution of multicellularity, altruism and cancer BGS 0165
30 Oct ecture) Bird migration in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula In-person (in CAM seminar series due to BGRF)
30 Oct-5 Nov STUDY BREAK
10 Nov Conserving biodiversity in Canada’s agroecosystems: a landscape ecology approach BGS 0165
17 Nov Plant cell wall signalling and pathways for cell wall synthesis
 BGS 0165
24 Nov Environmental change and the determinants of genetic diversity: recent progress and new challenges

BGS 0165
8 Dec Louis-Philippe Hamel Understanding plant responses to the production of enveloped VLPs

BGS 0165
10 Dec - 7 Jan EXAM PERIOD/HOLIDAY SEASON BREAK
12 Jan Towards a mechanistic science of global change: from cells to ecosystems and human well-being BGS 0165
19 Jan Modern Tree Biology - Epigenomics and Physiology in stress and development BGS 0165
26 Jan Redesigning STEM Curricula to Create Equity in Undergraduate Research Opportunities BGS 0165
2 Feb

This special seminar is The 2024

How to give bacteria food poisoning – antibiotics that hijack nutrient transporters BGS 0165
9 Feb Tactile sensing and learning in insect feeding and plant pollination Zoom
16 Feb Population and Quantitative Genomics of Deer BGS 0165 and Zoom
17-25 Feb READING WEEK
1 Mar Female mate choices in Drosophila melanogaster: unravelling multilevel female control and adaptive plasticity BGS 0165
8 Mar Engineering production of New-to-Nature Terpenoids in Saccharomyces cerevisiae BGS 0165
15 Mar Monarch butterflies were just listed as Endangered in Canada, but are they really in trouble? Zoom
22 Mar CNGC-mediated Ca2+ signaling at the nexus of immunity and development BGS 0165
29 Mar GOOD FRIDAY
5 Apr The effect of social experience on gene expression, circuit function, and behaviors BGS 0165

There are occasions when notable speakers visit the department who are not part of the weekly series. Those seminars will be listed below and will also explore a wide range of topics. All are welcome to attend!

Special Seminar Schedule

DATE SPEAKER(S) TITLE or DETAILS TIME VENUE
10 Jun

(1) Prof. Nicoletta Del Buono

and

(2)Dr. Flavia Esposito

(1) Investigating tumor pathologies through computational mathematics of multi-omics integration

(2) Integrating Biological Data Analysis using low-rank based computational and statistical methods

 12:30 - 2:30 pm

3M Centre Room 3250
16 Nov

Developing a Precision Healthcare framework for Indigenous Australians

 1:00-2:00 pm

3M Centre Room 3250

Weekly Seminar 2022-2023

2022-2023 Weely Seminar Schedule
DATE SPEAKER TITLE VENUE
7 Oct

Geographic variation in monarch butterfly migration success
Zoom
14 Oct Plant Chronobiology: A Protein Perspective
Zoom
21 Oct

Old dog, new tricks: Using data science techniques to solve ecological problems
 BGS 0153
28 Oct

 ecture)		 From beneficial symbioses to plant-based vaccines: Adventures in the MacLean lab

 

 Zoom
31 Oct-5 Nov STUDY BREAK
11 Nov Determining the Limits of Flexibility to Understand Responses to Environmental Change
 BGS 0153
18 Nov The impacts of microplastics on crickets, and crickets on microplastics
 BGS 0153
25 Nov The importance of intraspecific variation for ecological prediction

BGS 0153 and ZOOM
2 Dec The role of above and belowground biodiversity in ecosystem functioning: from concept to application
BGS 0153 and ZOOM
10 Dec - 2 Jan EXAM PERIOD/HOLIDAY SEASON BREAK
13 Jan Acclimation of photosynthesis and leaf respiration to warming and elevated CO2 – Results from experimental field studies in boreal and tropical regions

 BGS 0165 and ZOOM
20 Jan Using thermal physiology to explain patterns of biodiversity and response to climate change
 BGS 0165
27 Jan Taking a One Health approach to the recovery of endangered bats
 via Zoom
3 Feb

To Be Or Not To Be: The Epididymal Stem Cell Paradox
 Zoom
10 Feb Isabel Desgagné-Penix Metabolism of alkaloids in Amaryllidaceae plants
 Zoom
17 Feb For better or worse, we can change microbes quickly
 BGS 0165 and Zoom
24 Feb READING WEEK
3 Mar Towards a mechanistic science of global change: from cells to ecosystems and human well-being
 BGS 0165
10 Mar Genomic approaches to antifungal resistance in the fungal pathogen Candida albicans
 BGS 0165
17 Mar The Freshwater Biodiversity of Trinidad & Tobago: A Model Species in a Model System
 Zoom
24 Mar Population density and site-occupancy dynamics of understory birds across an Amazon forest disturbance frontier
 Zoom
31 Mar A Study of Place: The Role of Long-Term Field Station Data in Land Management, Policy and Science-driven Decisions in the Adirondack Park
 Zoom
7 Apr GOOD FRIDAY

There are occasions when notable speakers visit the department who are not part of the weekly series. Those seminars will be listed below and will also explore a wide range of topics. All are welcome to attend!

Special Seminar Schedule

DATE SPEAKER TITLE or DETAILS TIME VENUE
Wed. 3rd May Pier Morin

Investigating the molecular changes underlying insecticide response in the Colorado potato beetle

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Passcode: AM3ZqL

 10:30 am

Thurs. 19th Jan Integrating genomics and disease ecology to understand wildlife-pathogen interactions in heterogeneous environments 3:30 pm

BGS 2084

Weekly Seminar 2021-2022

Weekly Seminar Schedule 2021-2022
DATE SPEAKER TITLE
24 Sept

Save some for later: carbohydrate storage in herbaceous perennial plants
1 Oct Phenotypic plasticity and the evolutionary origins of novel traits
8 Oct

Neat things we’ve learned about bats and hibernation while studying white-nose syndrome
15 Oct

 ecture)		 Fantastic microbes and how we use them
22 Oct How do montane insects experience and respond to climate change means and extremes?
29 Oct High power insects: The biomechanics of jumping and striking
1-5 Nov STUDY BREAK
12 Nov A Deep Dive into Marine Mycology
19 Nov Two subgroups of Arabidopsis receptor-like kinases regulate intra- and inter-species pollen-pistil interactions
26 Nov High altitude adaptation and control of breathing in deer mice and songbirds
3 Dec The Evolutionary Maintenance and Loss of Phenotypic Plasticity in Membranes and Metabolism
10 Dec - 3 Jan EXAM PERIOD/HOLIDAY SEASON BREAK

7 Jan

CANCELLED

 Untangling microbe-driven and chemical mediated plant and insect interactions
14 Jan GATA4/5/6 family transcription factors are conserved determinants of cardiac versus pharyngeal mesoderm fate
21 Jan Biology meets art: what does it take to prepare a field guide for birds.
28 Jan For the love of fish: How changes to aquatic habitats impact fish physiology
4 Feb

This special seminar is The 2022 Uchida Lecture

 Cancer Patient Digital Twins
11 Feb Metabolic regulation of cell fate decisions
18 Feb Carrie Wu The good, the bad, and the ugly: Exploring invasion genetics of high-risk invasive plants in the US mid-Atlantic with undergrads
19 Feb READING WEEK
4 Mar Retention and Reactivation of Ancestral Developmental Potentials
11 Mar A metabolic shift brought on by a lesion-mimic phenotype
18 Mar How do mites adapt to their environments?
25 Mar Evolution of sexual communication through species interactions
15 Apr GOOD FRIDAY

There are occasions when notable speakers visit the department who are not part of the weekly series. Those seminars will be listed below and will also explore a wide range of topics. All are welcome to attend!

Special Seminar Schedule

Special Seminar Schedule 2021-2022
DATE SPEAKER TITLE or DETAILS TIME VENUE
24 Mar Brian Branfireun

Helen Battle Research Fellowship Seminar

"The genetic basis of mercury methylation"

 3:00-4:00 pm

BGS 0153 and Zoom
1 Apr
 Mariam Hayward and Melissa Gordon Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Decolonization for NSERC Discovery Grants 12:30 pm

澳门六合彩开奖预测 personnel may join on Zoom at 12:20 pm for the 12:30 presentation.

Weekly Seminar 2020-2021

Weekly Seminar Schedule 2020-2021
DATE SPEAKER TITLE
18 Sept

Optimal flight and migration strategies in birds: building a paradigm from aerodynamics, wind tunnel experiments to wild tracking
25 Sept Do the little things run the world?
2 Oct Oceans & Fisheries in a Changing World
9 Oct

Graduate student nominated speaker

 Herbivores in the tundra: from caribou and caterpillars, to Icelandic sheep
16 Oct

Special Seminar:
The Uchida Lecture

 ecture)		 Cancer as a Mitochondrial Metabolic Disease: Implications for Novel Therapeutics
23 Oct The ecology and underlying physiology of embryonic dormancy in annual killifishes

 
30 Oct Feeding, sleep, and microbial interactions affect Drosophila nutrition
6 Nov STUDY BREAK
13 Nov Regulation of aromatic amino acid biosynthesis in plants

Please join the ZOOM webinar at 

When prompted use the passcode: 136440.
20 Nov Surviving and thriving in trash – microbial diversity and function in municipal landfills

25 Nov

HELEN BATTLE LECTURE

Rima Messana

Wednesday, 7:00 pm
NOTE: Change in time and day
27 Nov Patrick Collins Skating on thin ice
4 Dec Jon Harrison Physiological and evolutionary interactions among body size, metabolic rate and oxygen
11 Dec - 1 Jan HOLIDAY SEASON BREAK
15 Jan Neil Shubin Finding Your Inner Fish: From Expeditions to Enhancers
22 Jan Nancy Simmons Bat Diversity in a Changing World
29 Jan Mary Salcedo What’s inside an insect wing? Structure, flows, and function
5 Feb Sarah Otto Genomic Scope of Adaptive Mutations in the Face of Environmental Challenges
12 Feb Britt Wray Too Hot to Handle: the difficult emotions of living in climate crisis and what coping can look like
19 Feb READING WEEK
26 Feb Patricia Brennan Sexual conflict and genital evolution in vertebrates
5 Mar Kristy Wan Intracellular control and coordination of motile cilia
12 Mar Muriel Grenon Multiple benefits of the Cell EXPLORERS programme – a STEM public engagement model in Ireland
19 Mar

(1) Robert Buchkowski

(2) Anthony Percival-Smith

(1) Structure and stoichiometry in soil food webs

(2) Phenotypic non-specificity of transcription factor function
26 Mar

(1) David Smith

(2) Brent Sinclair

(1) A series of short stories on genome evolution in plants, algae and protists

(2) Remember travel?
2 Apr GOOD FRIDAY

Weekly Seminar 2019-2020

Sept. 20, 2019 (1) Claryana Araújo-Wang Taiwanese white dolphin: on the brink of extinction
(2) Nasim Amiresmaeli Using thermal biology theory to choose climate-matched biological control agents for an emerging agricultural pest
(3) Erin Brandt Thermal biology and species distributions of jumping spiders across a desert elevational cline

September 27, 2019 Hakeem Lawal What’s Acetylcholine Got to Do With It? Effects of Alterations in the Vesicular Acetylcholine Transporter on Synaptic Activity

October 3, 2019 Priscilla Wehi Biographical Sketch Special Seminar

October 4, 2019 Megan Frederickson The evolution of cooperation between hosts and microbes

October 11, 2019 Brent L. Lockwood Genetic and physiological mechanisms of response to environmental change Graduate Student Invited Speaker

October 18 2019 Roman Krawetz BGRF 2019 Laudenbach Lecture

October 25, 2019 Thomas D. Sharkey Will global climate change affect isoprene emission from plants?

November 1, 2019 Candace Brunette-Debassige Indigenizing the Academy through Teaching and Learning

November 15, 2019 Jonathan Houghton There and back again: ocean wanderers in an ever-changing system

November 22, 2019 Thomas Hurd Divide and conquer: how deleterious mitochondrial DNA is eliminated in the germline

November 29, 2019 Bogumil Karas The End of Life As We Know It: building synthetic genomes for cells and organelles Helen Battle Lecture

December 6, 2019 Joanna Wilson From genome to function: determining the role of cytochrome P450 enzymes in aquatic species

January 17, 2020 Dr. Tugce Balci A Canadian Framework for Unsolved Genetic Diseases: Matchmaking, Care4Rare-SOLVE and RDMM

January 24, 2020 (1) Vojislava Grbic RNAi as reverse genetics tool in two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticaen
(2) Danielle Way North and South: A year in global change biology research

January 31, 2020 Nicolas Corradi The genetics of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi

February 7, 2020 Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido Behavioral strategies and neural adaptations driving visually guided predation in aerial insects

February 14, 2020 Bailey C. McMeans Swim fast and slow, cycle lipids high and low; differential responses of freshwater fish to winter conditions

February 28, 2020 Aashiq H. Kachroo Systematic humanization of yeast biological processes to understand human biology, disease and evolution

March 6, 2020 Martin L. Duennwald Coping with stress and disease – co-chaperones, the unsung heroes of protein quality control

March 13, 2020 Robert Buchkowski Empirical and theoretical insights into the feedbacks between green and brown food chains

Weekly Seminar 2018-2019

September 14, 2018 Daniel A. Hahn From sleeping beauties to macho males: how understanding mechanisms of stress hardiness can impact our understanding of adaptation, speciation, and sexual selection

September 21, 2018 Dean Betts P66Shc and Awe: The role of the stress adaptor protein in early embryo development and pluripotency

September 28, 2018 Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis Gastrulation: cellular differentiation & the loss of pluripotency in vivo in embryos and in vitro in gastruloids The Uchida Lecture

October 5, 2018 Rafael Otfinowski Integrating plants, roots, and soil nematodes to restore northern prairie ecosystems Graduate Student Invited Speaker

October 26, 2018 Alistair Rogers From the Arctic to the tropics, improving the representation of photosynthesis in Earth system models

November 2, 2018 Arthur E. Weis When to Do It: selection on phenology through the general, social and internal environments

November 9, 2018 Rick Simpson The evolution of complex courtship traits: covariation and interactions between hummingbird displays, plumage, and color appearance

November 16, 2018 John Stinchcombe Adaptation and constraint in introduced plant species

November 26, 2018 Sapna Sharma On thin ice: Are lakes feeling the heat?

November 30, 2018 Barb Katzenback Amphibian skin innate immunity: Newly generated Xenopus laevis skin epithelial cell lines and their role in sensing viral infections

December 7, 2018 Emilie Widemann, Julien Le Roy and Sameer Dixit Spider mite: from biology to adaptation

January 11, 2019 Stephanie J DeWitte-Orr Double stranded RNA: an understudied nucleic acid with a big punch

January 18, 2019 Elizabeth Weretilnyk Coping with low phosphate: Lessons from the extremophyte Eutrema salsugineum

January 25, 2019 Fred Dick and Greg Kelly New applications of CRISPR-Cas9 genetic engineering for the study of vertebrate development and disease

February 1, 2019 Megan E. Meuti Uncovering the Molecular Regulators of Seasonal Responses in Mosquitoes

February 8, 2019 Angela B. Lange Integrative control of feeding and reproduction in the Chagas disease vector, Rhodnius prolixus

February 15, 2019 Amanda Roe Functional ecology of spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) and the importance of intraspecific variation

March 1, 2019 (1) Alex S. Torson Transcriptomic and metabolomic changes in overwintering Asian longhorned beetles
(2) Sara Lupi Role of the gut-hormone ghrelin in the control of avian migratory behavior
(3) Meghan Duell Emerald ash borer thermal tolerance in established and new invasive populations

March 8, 2019 (1) Chris Guglielmo Using isotopic analysis of breath H2O and CO2 to measure energy expenditure and fuel use of migratory birds
(2) Hugh Henry Reduced precipitation = drier or colder? A multi-site perspective

March 15, 2019 Dinesh Christendat Protein engineering approaches to study the Evolution and Diversity of enzymes in Specialized Metabolism

March 22, 2019 Amanda E. Bates Thermal Safety, Environmental Variability and Biodiversity Change Graduate Student Invited Speaker

March 22, 2019 Helen Petropoulos Helen Battle Lecture

March 29, 2019 John P. Wiebe New Approach To Breast Cancer: etiology, detection, intervention, treatment

April 3, 2019 Joe Bowden Climate change impacts in the north with a focus on terrestrial arthropods Special Biology Seminar

April 5, 2019 Julien Muffat Humanized Models Of Microglial Development Shed Light On Viral Teratogenicity And Neurodegenerative Processes

April 12, 2019 Zoë Lindo Can beach debris reveal long distance dispersal events for Oribatid mites on Haida Gwaii?