Arts Building (ART)

About the Talk Populations locally adapted to specific environmental conditions are especially at risk as climate shifts may outpace their capacity to adapt to new conditions. This talk introduces genomic vulnerability, an approach for identifying populations most vulnerable to climate change and how we use population and landscape genomics to estimate genomic vulnerability in the […]

About the Talk Identifying climate-resilient coral reefs demands both precise ecological field data and unprecedented global coordination. Leveraging MERMAID, the largest open-access coral monitoring platform, this talk connects frontline marine science to global climate and biodiversity frameworks. Expect a candid, science-to-action perspective on what it takes to translate ecological data into durable conservation wins. About […]

About the Talk Do animals actually seek each other out, or do they just end up together at the same resource hotspots? Drawing on theoretical models and field data from caribou, this talk unpacks the critical overlap between spatial ecology and social networks—and why studying either in isolation may misread animal fitness. Speaker Dr. Eric […]

The Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science presents this talk as part of the Department of Biology Seminar Series. About the talk This work explores how early-life gut inflammation and the microbiome shape brain immune cells (microglia), with lasting consequences for neural development and behaviour. Using models of inflammatory bowel disease, findings show that disrupted […]

The Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science presents this talk as part of the Department of Biology Seminar Series. About the talk How can science educators meaningfully engage with Indigenization in ways that are collaborative, sustained, and impactful? In this session, Dr. Welsh will explore approaches for beginning and nurturing engagement with Goal 4: Indigenizing […]

The Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science presents this talk as part of the Department of Biology Seminar Series. About the talk Selfish genetic elements bend the rules of Mendelian inheritance to increase their own transmission—often at a cost to the organism. Although widespread and evolutionarily significant, these elements have historically been difficult to study […]

The Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science presents this talk as part of the Department of Biology Seminar Series About the talk Developing accurate, physics‑based computational models of nucleic acids, proteins and lipids requires fitting many unknown parameters across diverse experimental datasets. Conventional modelling approaches are often opaque and difficult to reproduce, creating barriers to […]