FROM MOLECULES TO BIODIVERSITY

The Botany Department at UBC’s Point Grey campus is on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ (hunq’umin’um’) speaking xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam). We are working to understand and address harmful colonial legacies that have affected our current ways of teaching and conducting research, by listening and learning how to strengthen Indigenous voices in our classrooms and workspaces, and by building trust and partnerships with Indigenous scholars and communities. We recognize that this is a work in progress. We appreciate that making space for Indigenous knowledge and perspectives will support a deeper understanding of our relationships with plant, fungal and microbial life on Earth.You can learn more about the Musqueam here: https://www.musqueam.bc.ca/our-story/

The Botany Department at UBC’s Point Grey campus is on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ (hunq’umin’um’) speaking xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam). …We are working to understand and address harmful colonial legacies that have affected our current ways of teaching and conducting research, by listening and learning how to strengthen Indigenous voices in our classrooms and workspaces, and by building trust and partnerships with Indigenous scholars and communities. We recognize that this is a work in progress. We appreciate that making space for Indigenous knowledge and perspectives will support a deeper understanding of our relationships with plant, fungal and microbial life on Earth. You can learn more about the Musqueam here: https://www.musqueam.bc.ca/our-story/

Highlights

Seminars

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    The Botany Department is one of the largest and strongest botanical/plant-science-focused departments in North America, offering a wide range of research and educational programs from the molecular to biodiversity.

    Faculty

    • Michelle Tseng

      Michelle Tseng

      Assistant Professor
      Aquatic and Insect Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. We investigate the effect of changing environments on insect and aquatic communities; We use field and laboratory experiments, syntheses of published literature, and natural history collections to investigate ecological and evolutionary responses to climate and habitat change; Our work is grounded in ecological and evolutionary theory and has applications to conservation biology and healthy ecosystems.

    Facilities

    • CCCM

      CCCM

      The Canadian Center for the Culture of Microorganisms (CCCM) maintains living specimens of marine phytoplankton, freshwater microalgae and fungal isolates for research, teaching and commercial use. Please visit the CCCM…

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    Graduates

    The Department offers graduate degree programs at both Doctoral and Master’s level. Graduate students are an active and engaged part of the UBC Botany department.