Upcoming Events

Integrative Biology seminars are held Thursdays from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in SSC 2315. Coffee and cookies at 11 a.m. All interested are welcome to attend. Dr. Megan Bontrager from the University of Toronto will present "Limits to adaptation at range edges."

Thinking about professional or graduate school in the field of biological sciences? Don’t miss Professional Schools Night, hosted by the CBSSC Academic Subcommittee!  This event features multiple info sessions with professional programs from across Ontario and beyond, including Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, Physician Assistant, Veterinary Medicine, Medical Radiation Sciences, and more.  Start at the welcome/info booth in the atrium to grab a name tag & snacks, and overview the event itinerary & map, then head to classrooms for program-...

Dr. Stephanie Anzman-Frasca from the University of Buffalo will be presenting as part of the HHS Seminar Series on March 25th from 12 to 1 p.m. More about Dr. Anzman-Frasca's work: Families may view dining out as a special occasion, but surveillance data suggest that many families with children consume restaurant foods frequently, and that children have poorer quality dietary intake when they do. In this talk, Dr. Anzman-Frasca will review potential approaches to promoting healthier dietary intake among children in restaurants, including targeting the foods...

Jonathan Heeney, Professor at the University of Cambridge, is CSO and founder of DIOSynVax; “Digitally Immune Optimised Synthetic Vaccines”, a clinical stage Biotech based in Cambridge UK. DIOSynVax’s Computational Vaccine antigen technology leverages AI to design broadly protective vaccine antigen payloads to protect from high consequence diseases of humans and animals. The company has advanced vaccine candidates for seasonal, universal and pre-pandemic (H5Nx, H1N1, H7N2, etc) Influenza, pan-Beta Coronaviruses and a Mpox vaccine carrying broad Filovirus and Arenavirus payloads that...

CBS students: We want to hear from you! All College of Biological Science undergraduates are invited to share their experiences, ideas, questions, and concerns, regardless of the topic (e.g. courses, research opportunities, campus climate, accessibility, community, student supports). Regardless of the topic, your voice matters. Join us for the full session or drop in as your schedule allows. Drinks and snacks provided.  For more information or to request an accommodation, please contact Dr. Amr El Zawily at ...

U of G’s College of Biological Science is pleased to host the Canadian premiere of Wayumi, which follows David Good, a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology student, and his mother, Yarima, as they attempt to reunite a family separated for 30 years. The film is a journey across continents and generations, exploring what it means to belong. Against the backdrop of breathtaking landscapes and navigating Venezuelan bureaucracy, their story unfolds as a meditation on resilience, cultural survival, and the ties that endure across time and distance. Drawing from hundreds of...

Integrative Biology seminars are held Thursdays from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in SSC 2315. Coffee and cookies at 11 a.m. All interested are welcome to attend. Dr. Greg Albery from Trinity College Dublin will present "Spatial & social behaviour and wildlife disease."

Dr. Devin Schweppe, Assistant Professor in the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington, will present the next MCB Seminar. All are welcome to attend. Light refreshments will be served.   

As part of the One Health Seminar Series, Dr. Kathleen Angell will present “From Vector to Consequence: A One Health Approach to Lyme Disease Surveillance”. The event will be held in-person in OVC ECLA 1725, as well as online. Kathleen Angell is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the G. Magnotta Research Lab at the University of Guelph, where her work bridges field and laboratory research on Lyme disease, integrating tick ecology with Borrelia transmission and host–vector interactions. She earned her PhD in Infectious Disease Epidemiology from the University of Nebraska Medical Center...

Integrative Biology seminars are held Thursdays from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in SSC 2315. Coffee and cookies at 11 a.m. All interested are welcome to attend. Dr. Carrie Branch from Western University will present "Cognitive adaptation and female mate choice in a food-caching bird."