Department of Biology Seminar Series Fall/Winter 2025-26
WINTER 2026
| Month | Date | Host | Speaker | Institution | Seminar Title | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September | 5 | No Seminar | ||||
| 12 | No Seminar | |||||
| 19 | Hanna Lab | Dr. Rowenna Gryba | Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) | Understanding Arctic species through Indigenous Knowledge and animal movement | Recording: Dr. Gryba | |
| 26 | Hepworth Lab | Dr. Jean-Sebastien Parent | Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Naked Oat Laid Bare: The Genetic Underpinnings of Oat Floral Architecture | This talk will not be recorded. | |
| October | 3 | Hanna Lab | Dr. Andrew Tanentzap | Ecosystem Health from Molecules to Landscapes | Zoom Link | |
| 10 | No Seminar | |||||
| 17 | No Seminar | |||||
| 24 | No Seminar | |||||
| 31 | Dr. Karl Loeffler-Henry | Carleton University | Warning signals, deception, and when to bluff: the evolutionary ecology of information exchange between predators and prey | Zoom Link | ||
| November | 5 | Cooke Lab | Dr. Len Hunt | Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Lakehead University | Using human dimensions research to help understand and reduce uncertainty in natural resource management | NOON on Wednesday Zoom Link |
| 7 | Dr. Andrea Norris | Environment & Climate Change Canada | Weaving Indigenous science in conservation through healing our connections with the Land | ZOOM LINK | ||
| 14 | Davy Lab | Dr. Sandra Klemet-N’guessan | University of Waterloo | Tous ensemble: adopting science equity and outreach for transformative impact in environmental sciences | 11 AMZOOM LINK | |
| 21 | ||||||
| 28 | ||||||
| December | 5 | Rowland Lab | Dr Wubishet Bekele | Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Pangenomics Informed Cereal Breeding | ZOOM |
| 12 | ||||||
| 19 | Bennett Lab | Emmanuel Opito | ||||
| 26 | No Seminar | |||||
WINTER 2026
| Month | Date | Host | Speaker | Institution | Seminar Title | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2 | No Seminar | ||||
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| 16 | ||||||
| 23 | Wong Lab | POSTPONED New date TBD. Dr. Amanda MacFarlane | Integrating evidence to inform nutrition policy with a side of AI in evidence synthesis | Zoom Link | ||
| 30 | ||||||
| February | 6 | MacMillan Lab | Jackie Lebenzon | Mechanisms and consequences of flight muscle remodelling in insects | Zoom Link | |
| 13 | ||||||
| 20 | No Seminar | |||||
| 27 | Wong Lab | Andrew Purssell | Impact of Antibiotics on the Fecal Microbiome During Stem Cell Transplantation | Zoom Link | ||
| March | 6 | |||||
| 13 | MacMillan Lab | Jennifer Provencher | Assessing the fate and effects of microplastics at the Experimental Lakes Area | Zoom Link | ||
| 20 | Bennett Lab | Ronnie Drever | Natural Climate Solutions for Canada: areas of opportunity, mitigation potential, and other practical considerations | Zoom Link | ||
| 27 | MacMillan/Cooke Lab | Andy Turko | Comparative conservation physiology of imperilled freshwater fishes | Zoom Link | ||
| April | 3 | No Seminar | ||||
| 10 | ||||||
| 17 | Buxton Lab | Kyle Bobiwash | ||||
| 24 | McCully Lecture In Plant Biology Hepworth Lab | Xue Pan | Small domains, big impact: How plant hormones control growth and development | Zoom Link |