FROM MOLECULES TO BIODIVERSITY
A new grassroots effort—announced this month in Trends in Ecology and Evolution—is calling for a reevaluation of some terminology used in ecology and evolutionary biology (EEB) to make it more inclusive and precise.
The initiative, the EEB Language Project was launched by like-minded scientists across the United States and Canada,…
Congratulation to Michelle Tseng and her collaborators on being one of the recipients of the 2022 Campus as a Living Lab Fund Competition, which this year partnered with Wellbeing to expand the opportunities provided through the competition and support more projects advancing new ideas and innovations in Wellbeing, for their project …
There has been increasing interest in the biology and ecology of viruses and other pathogens that infect microalgae. Viruses that infect bacteria and phytoplankton play a key role in the dynamics of organisms and nutrients in marine and…
The University of British Columbia Herbarium is the largest in Canada west of Ottawa, and is home to over half a million plant specimens from around the world. This collection is critical to the identification, monitoring, and conservation of…
This course is an introduction to population and quantitative genetics. The topics emphasize evolutionary biology, with an aim at developing a conceptual and mathematical understanding of the genetic basis of genetic variation and evolution. The course is co-taught with BIOL 434.
Instructor: Dr. Mike Whitlock (whitlock@zoology.ubc.ca…