Department of Biology
ESC 350
200 University Ave. W
Waterloo, Ontario,
Canada N2L 3G1
Phone: (519) 888-4567 ext. 32569
Fax: (519) 746-0614
Affiliations
Friday, April 29, 2011 — 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM EDT
Speaker: Dr. Stefan Green
(Director, DNA Services Facility, University of Illinois @ Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA)
Title of Seminar: "Microbial life in the Uranium-contaminated subsurface: Genetics, Physiology and Community Composition"
[Host: Dr. J.D. Neufeld]
All are welcome!
Friday, April 29, 2011 — 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM EDT
There will be a Coffee Hour in the Biology Lounge.
Hope to see you there!
The BGSA
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 — 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM EDT
Speaker: Dr. Graham Thompson
(Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON)
Title of Talk: "Evolutionary Genetics of Social Life: Lessons from termites and bees"
All are welcome!
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 — 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM EDT
View the full program schedule (PDF).
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 — 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
IBMB Seminar Series
Guest Speaker: Dr. Dehua Pei
(Professor, Department of Chemistry, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.)
Title of Seminar: "Specificity Profiling of Signaling Proteins through Combinatorial Chemistry"
All are welcome!
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 — 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM EDT
Title of Proposal: "Novel polymer production in engineered Sinorhizobium meliloti"
Supervisor: T. Charles
Committee Members: B. Moffatt; J. Neufeld
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 — 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM EDT
Title of Thesis: "The effects of plant gross morphology on the foraging efficiencies of generalist predators"
Supervisor: K. Cuddington
Committee Members: R. Hall; S. Murphy
Chair: B. McConkey
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 — 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
IBMB Seminar Series
Guest Speaker: Dr. Ronald J. Neufeld
(Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Queen's University, Kingston, ON)
Title of Seminar: "Design of Complex Nanoparticulate Carriers for Oral Delivery of Insulin"
All are welcome!
Please contact Dr. Frank Gu if you would like to meet with Dr. Ronald Neufeld on the day of his seminar.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 — 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM EDT
Speaker: Dr. Evgeny Pavlov
(Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine,
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia)
Title of Seminar: "Molecular basis of mitochondrial ion transport: roles of inorganic
polyphosphate and polyhydroxybutyrate"
[Host: Dr. Z. Leonenko]
All are welcome!
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 — 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM EDT
Title of Proposal: "Microbial Ecology of Ammonia Oxidation in the Grand River"
Supervisor: J. Neufeld
Committee Members: W.D. Taylor; B. Butler; S. Schiff (Earth Sciences)
Monday, April 18, 2011 — 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM EDT
Title of Proposal: "Expression and functional analysis of an alpha-glucosidase, a family 31 glycoside hydrolase from Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron"
Supervisor: D. Rose
Committee Members: T. Charles; B. Glick
Monday, April 18, 2011 — 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM EDT
Title of Thesis: "Characterizing the immune response to Flavobacterium pyschrophilum, and possible resistance/susceptibility conferring major histocompatibility alleles in Oncorhychus mykiss"
Supervisor: B. Dixon
Committee Members: J. Witt; C. Dupont; J. Lumsden
Chair: B. Moffatt
Monday, April 18, 2011 — 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM EDT
Title of Proposal: "Comparing the Food Web Interactions of a Recent Invader, Hemimysis Anomala, in Multiple Ecosystems of the Great Lakes Basin"
Supervisor(s): M. Power; J. Marty
Committee Members: R.I. Hall; M. Koops
Friday, April 15, 2011 — 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM EDT
(Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, U.S.A.)
Title of Seminar: "The Earth Microbiome Project: A new paradigm in geospatial and temporal studies of microbiology ecology"
[Host: Dr. J.D. Neufeld]
All are welcome!
Thursday, April 14, 2011 — 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM EDT
Title of Proposal: "Spatial and temporal patterns of planktonic primary production in Lake Simcoe with special attention to non-summer and nearshore processes"
Supervisor: R.E.H. Smith
Committee Members: R. Hall; W.D. Taylor; J. Winter
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 — 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM EDT
Guest Speaker: Dr. Catharine Winstanley
(Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia)
Title of Presentation: "Rats, risk and research: What can rats teach us about the neurobiological basis of impulsivity and gambling?"
Coffee/Refreshments will be available.
All are welcome!
Please contact Dr. Matt van der Meer if you would like to meet with Dr. Winstanley on the day of her visit.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 — 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM EDT
Guest Speaker: Dr. Christine Dupont
Title of Seminar: "Zen and the Art of Symbiont Maintenance"
All are welcome!
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 — 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM EDT
This meeting if for faculty only.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 — 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
IBMB Seminar Series
Guest Speaker: Dr. James W. Gauld
(Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON)
Title of Seminar: "Computational Insights Into Enzymes Relevant to Porphyrin Biosynthesis"
All are welcome!
Please contact Dr. Guy Guillemette if you would like to meet with Dr. James Gauld on the day of his seminar.
Monday, April 4, 2011 — 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM EDT
Food and drinks will be provided!
All Biology Faculty are invited to attend!
Please RSVP: uwbugs@gmail.com
Monday, April 4, 2011 — 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT
Title of Thesis: "Ecological Modelling of Lake Erie, Sensitivity Analysis and Simulation of Nuturient, Phytoplankton, and Zoo Plankton Dynamics"
Supervisor(s): R. Smith; J. Craig (Civil & Env. Eng.)
Committee Members: D. Barton; B. Tolson (Civil & Env. Eng.); Y. Zhao
Friday, April 1, 2011 — 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM EDT
Speaker: Dr. Douglas Fudge
(Assistant Professor, Dept. of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON)
Title of Seminar: "The Biology of Hagfish Slime"
All are welcome!
Friday, April 1, 2011 — 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM EDT
There will be a Coffee Hour on Friday, April 1st at 10:00 a.m. in the Biology Lounge. There will be another Baked-good competition celebrating the arrival of Spring! Hopefully the spring weather will arrive soon. Any type of goodies with a spring theme can be entered into the competition. There will also be some fruit provided by the BGSA.