Featured News
Travis Craddock and Will Percival receive funding for bold, new research
May 20, 2026
Dr. Travis Craddock and Dr. Will Percival have been awarded funding through the New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) 2025 Exploration Competition.
Welcome new faculty members in Biology and Chemistry
May 19, 2026
Biology and Chemistry are pleased to welcome two cross-appointed faculty members, Duong Bui and Kirsten Meyer.
What is a virus?
May 13, 2026
As more viruses are being discovered and studied, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to determine what distinguishes them from cells. New research conducted by Dr. Jozef Nissimov and his team has uncovered a genome of a cyanophage (a virus that infects cyanobacteria) that defies conventional distinctions between viruses and cells.
Taking flight in biology
May 11, 2026
Biology student Bethany Duford immersed herself in hands-on learning, including bird banding, collecting biological data, and spending time at the Queen’s University Biological Station.
Featured Events
Walk to End ALS- Kitchener-Waterloo
June 6, 2026
Join the Kitchener-Waterloo Walk to End ALS, hosted at the University of Waterloo.
Waterloo EcoEvo Journal Club: Winter 2026
The EcoEvo Journal Club meets bi-weekly on Fridays from 12-1pm in B2-226.
March 13
Felix Albert Lawson (Broders lab) will lead the discussion of: Chisholm et al. 2011. Metacommunity diversity depends on connectivity and patch arrangement in heterogeneous habitat networks. Ecography 34: 415-424, 2011
March 27
Patrick Lauriault (Trant Lab) will give a research talk about: Sustainable Overwinter Caribou Densities Inferred from Lichen Forage Supply and Energetic Requirements
April 10
Harshina Brijlall (Müller lab) will lead the discussion on: TBD
Pursuits in Applied and Theoretical Science (PATh) Symposium 2026
April 7, 2026
Join Us for the 2nd Annual PATh Science Symposium!
All students and faculty members in the Faculty of Science or the Dept. of Applied Math are invited to the Path Science Symposium.