Bloody red shrimp swimming in the Great Lakes.

What's Happening in Biology

Featured News

Fueling a healthier future

November 20, 2025

When ZoRaw Chocolates co-founder Gigi Gill graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from the University of Waterloo in 2016, she imagined a career that would make a real difference.

Studying pain at its source

November 19, 2025

Biology student Anne Hambly is already training in fundamental procedural skills that may lead to surgical training while studying the development of chronic pain.

Hooked on research

November 17, 2025

University of Waterloo students and researchers packed up a portable lab and fishing gear for a week-long expedition off the coast of Nova Scotia.

Featured Events

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.