FROM MOLECULES TO BIODIVERSITY
Article by the Samuels lab
Trees and other plants need strength to stand upright and move water effectively from their roots to their leaves. That strength comes from the cell walls that plant cells build around themselves as they grow. Cell wall material makes up most of the mass of plants. Trees that live for many years form more and…
Yujun Peng, a member of Dr. Yuelin Zhang’s lab group, was recently awarded the Dewar Cooper doctoral fellowship for her work on the salicylic acid hormone signaling pathway. Her lab group focuses on how plant immune responses are regulated against the pathogen invasion, and early studies show that salicylic…
The Samuels lab studies how plant cells secrete their cell walls, both the polysaccharides and specialized cell wall components such as lipids and lignin. Our approach is to integrate cell biology with molecular biology and biochemistry to put…
Biology Learning Centre (BioSc 1114): this room is available for quiet study and is also where some BIOL course TAs/Peer Tutors hold scheduled office hours.
Meeting rooms: there are a number of meeting rooms in the North and East wings of…
The goal of this course is for students to gain confidence in their ability to formulate and analyze ecological and evolutionary models. The course consists of one lecture and one computer lab per week. In the lab, students use software to apply the basic analytical techniques developed in the lectures to various population models. In addition…
