Past Events

COESP Bee is back! The CBS Office of Educational Scholarship and Practice Biology Education Exchange (BEE) is offering timely topics throughout Fall 2024. No registration required. 

Join us for the College of Biological Science's Festive Celebration. Please register by Dec. 2. 

Talk by Dr. Liana Zanette, Western University. All interested are welcome to attend.

Talk by Alannah Grant and Jonathan Chu, University of Guelph. All interested are welcome to attend.

The Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences is pleased to host Dr. Billie-Jo Hardy from the University of Toronto and Dr. Amy Bombay from Carleton University. They will be speaking about their experiences developing a biological health research training program with First Nations health professionals and researchers.  Both researchers will present virtually, but there will be an in-person viewing option, with refreshments available.

Dr. Robin Duncan is the Associate Professor of the Department of Kinesiology and Health Sciences in the Faculty of Health at the University of Waterloo and director of the Lipid Enzyme Discovery Lab. Her research program focuses on characterizing novel enzymes in lipid metabolism. With the support of NSERC and the Barth Syndrome Foundation, her lab has discovered a role for the enzyme PLAAT1, and its downstream bioactive endocannabinoid signaling products, in cardiolipin metabolism.

Talk by Keshia Talking Waters DeFreece Lawrence, Harvard University. All interested are welcome to attend.

Featuring Dr. Hélène Carabin, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology and One Health and Professor in the Department of Pathology and Microbiology at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, and in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at the School of Public Health, Université de Montréal

Dr. Anthony Mittermaier, professor and interim dean of students in the Department of Chemistry at McGill University, will present Dynamics of Guanine Quadruplexes. 

Thinking about graduate school? Join us for CBS Graduate Preview Day to learn more about the master's and doctoral programs offered in the College of Biological Science!  Meet current graduate students and hear about their research, learn about CBS programs and how to apply, and tour research facilities. Free pizza!