Two Botany professors are among the nineteen UBC researchers announced as Canada Research Chairs. Learn more here: https://research.ubc.ca/crc-nov-2022!
FROM MOLECULES TO BIODIVERSITY
News
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As of summer 2022, Dr. Alex Moore (she/they) is an Assistant Professor co-appointed at UBC Botany and the Faculty of Forestry. We are thrilled to be working with them! …
Seminars
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
Professor
The long-term goal of our research program is to understand the molecular mechanisms of plant innate immunity. We study plant defense against pathogen infection in the context of gene regulation, protein-protein interaction and signal…
Facility
The University of British Columbia Herbarium is the largest in Canada west of Ottawa, and is home to over half a million plant specimens from around the world. This collection is critical to the identification, monitoring, and conservation of…
Courses
This course focuses on developing a student’s oral communication skills, introductory writing skills and ability to critically evaluate research papers in the cell and developmental biology literature. The exercises require the student to deliver clear, effective and polished oral and written presentations describing data and summarizing…