Dr. Celeste Leander, Professor of Teaching in the Departments of Botany and Zoology, has received a 2023 West Coast Teaching Excellence Award. The honour, awarded to top post secondary teachers in British Columbia and the Yukon by the BC Teaching and Learning Council (BCTLC), recognizes Dr. Leander’s deep commitment to student-centred teaching…
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/
Highlights
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
Univ. Killam Professor
My lab employs population genomic approaches, computational methods, and field and greenhouse studies to study plant adaptation and speciation. We are especially interested in how gene flow, both within and between species, influences these…
Facility
The Department of Botany maintains a greenhouse that facilitates research projects ranging from ecology and systematics to cell and developmental biology.
Contact Oscar Dorado Ruiz for more information: 604-822-9681 or oscar.dorado@…
Courses
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…