Congratulation to Michelle Tseng and her collaborators on being one of the recipients of the 2022 Campus as a Living Lab Fund Competition, which this year partnered with Wellbeing to expand the opportunities provided through the competition and support more projects advancing new ideas and innovations in Wellbeing, for their project …
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/
Seminars
There is no seminar scheduled for the summer. We will post seminar information for the fall once we have it.
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
Assistant Professor
1. Abscisic acid-regulated gene expression networks
Animals often employ a fight-or-flight strategy when facing challenges. By contrast, plants handle challenges on site through many molecular, morphological, and physiological…
Facility
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 website at https…
Courses
Botany 546 is a 'tailor-made' course in special topics not available in the regular array of graduate courses which can be arranged with specific instructors and can be taken for 2, 3, 4, or 6 credits. The 546 option may also be suggested when enrollment in a regular graduate course is too small to warrant offering it in a conventional format…