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McGill University's Dept of Biology explores fundamental questions about the origin, #evolution, development, and #behaviour of living organisms. #biodiversity #ecology #neurobiology #molecularbiology
Are you curious about graduate school in biology, neuroscience, or a similar field?
The McGill Biology EDI committee is holding an event aimed at taking some of the mystery out of graduate school.
Come to our panel discussion to have all your questions about graduate school answered!
The McGill Biology EDI committee is holding an event aimed at taking some of the mystery out of graduate school.
Come to our panel discussion to have all your questions about graduate school answered!
November 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Are you curious about graduate school in biology, neuroscience, or a similar field?
The McGill Biology EDI committee is holding an event aimed at taking some of the mystery out of graduate school.
Come to our panel discussion to have all your questions about graduate school answered!
The McGill Biology EDI committee is holding an event aimed at taking some of the mystery out of graduate school.
Come to our panel discussion to have all your questions about graduate school answered!
Congratulations to Rodrigo Migueles-Ramírez, who successfully defended his PhD thesis on the "Quantification of the intracellular dynamics of molecular complexes using spatiotemporal image correlation spectroscopy". He was co-supervised by Paul Wiseman (Chemistry, Physics) & Arnold Hayer (Biology).
October 30, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Congratulations to Rodrigo Migueles-Ramírez, who successfully defended his PhD thesis on the "Quantification of the intracellular dynamics of molecular complexes using spatiotemporal image correlation spectroscopy". He was co-supervised by Paul Wiseman (Chemistry, Physics) & Arnold Hayer (Biology).
Meet our new Biology graduate students - the 2025-26 cohort:
www.mcgill.ca/biology/grad...
www.mcgill.ca/biology/grad...
October 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Meet our new Biology graduate students - the 2025-26 cohort:
www.mcgill.ca/biology/grad...
www.mcgill.ca/biology/grad...
August 13, 2025 at 4:26 AM
August 13, 2025 at 4:07 AM
August 13, 2025 at 3:36 AM
In the Conservation, Ecology, Evolution & Behaviour (CEEB) seminar series this week, Dr. Laura Dee, University of Colorado Boulder (www.lauraedee.com), will speak on "Preservation of natural systems and biodiversity under global change".
Date & time: Thurs May 1, 4pm. Place: Stewart Biology N2/2.
Date & time: Thurs May 1, 4pm. Place: Stewart Biology N2/2.
April 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
In the Conservation, Ecology, Evolution & Behaviour (CEEB) seminar series this week, Dr. Laura Dee, University of Colorado Boulder (www.lauraedee.com), will speak on "Preservation of natural systems and biodiversity under global change".
Date & time: Thurs May 1, 4pm. Place: Stewart Biology N2/2.
Date & time: Thurs May 1, 4pm. Place: Stewart Biology N2/2.
In the Conservation, Ecology, Evolution & Behaviour (CEEB) seminar series this week, Dr. Katie Marshall from UBC (www.marshall-lab.com) will be speaking on "Hot topics in “cool” adaptations: how Canada’s invertebrates survive the winter".
Thursday April 24, 4pm, in Stewart Biology N2/2.
Thursday April 24, 4pm, in Stewart Biology N2/2.
April 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
In the Conservation, Ecology, Evolution & Behaviour (CEEB) seminar series this week, Dr. Katie Marshall from UBC (www.marshall-lab.com) will be speaking on "Hot topics in “cool” adaptations: how Canada’s invertebrates survive the winter".
Thursday April 24, 4pm, in Stewart Biology N2/2.
Thursday April 24, 4pm, in Stewart Biology N2/2.
In this week's Conservation, Ecology, Evolution & Behavior seminar, Dr. Guilherme Gainett (Harvard Medical School) will speak about "The molecular basis of visual systems diversification in chelicerates: from eye loss to major transitions in eye types". Thursday April 17 at 4pm, Stewart Biology N2/2
April 15, 2025 at 3:24 AM
In this week's Conservation, Ecology, Evolution & Behavior seminar, Dr. Guilherme Gainett (Harvard Medical School) will speak about "The molecular basis of visual systems diversification in chelicerates: from eye loss to major transitions in eye types". Thursday April 17 at 4pm, Stewart Biology N2/2
This week's Neurobiology & Behaviour seminar speakers are PhD candidates Heike Schuler (Bagot Lab) speaking on "Neural representation of valenced behaviors", and Yujia Li (Watt Lab) speaking on "The role of Rhomboid-3 in Aging Cerebellum".
Friday, April 11, 1:30-2:30pm, Stewart Biology S3/4
Friday, April 11, 1:30-2:30pm, Stewart Biology S3/4
April 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This week's Neurobiology & Behaviour seminar speakers are PhD candidates Heike Schuler (Bagot Lab) speaking on "Neural representation of valenced behaviors", and Yujia Li (Watt Lab) speaking on "The role of Rhomboid-3 in Aging Cerebellum".
Friday, April 11, 1:30-2:30pm, Stewart Biology S3/4
Friday, April 11, 1:30-2:30pm, Stewart Biology S3/4
This week's Conservation, Ecology, Evolution & Behavior (CEEB) seminar speaker is Prof. David Vasseur from Yale University (vasseurlab.yale.edu).
Title: "Linking thermal performance curves to population dynamics enables forecasting of extinction risk"
Thursday, April 10 at 4pm, Stewart Biology N2/2
Title: "Linking thermal performance curves to population dynamics enables forecasting of extinction risk"
Thursday, April 10 at 4pm, Stewart Biology N2/2
April 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This week's Conservation, Ecology, Evolution & Behavior (CEEB) seminar speaker is Prof. David Vasseur from Yale University (vasseurlab.yale.edu).
Title: "Linking thermal performance curves to population dynamics enables forecasting of extinction risk"
Thursday, April 10 at 4pm, Stewart Biology N2/2
Title: "Linking thermal performance curves to population dynamics enables forecasting of extinction risk"
Thursday, April 10 at 4pm, Stewart Biology N2/2
This week's invited speaker in the Conservation, Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour seminar series is Prof. Megan Bontrager (eeb.utoronto.ca/profile/bont...) from the University of Toronto.
March 31, 2025 at 4:02 PM
This week's invited speaker in the Conservation, Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour seminar series is Prof. Megan Bontrager (eeb.utoronto.ca/profile/bont...) from the University of Toronto.
McGill Biology Honours Research Symposium (Thursday April 17): 16 talks about undergraduate student research on topics including evolution, behaviour, thermal ecology, and cell biology.
March 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
McGill Biology Honours Research Symposium (Thursday April 17): 16 talks about undergraduate student research on topics including evolution, behaviour, thermal ecology, and cell biology.
This week, one of Canada's (& the world's) leading herpetologists and longtime McGill Professor, David Green, will give his retirement seminar.
March 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
This week, one of Canada's (& the world's) leading herpetologists and longtime McGill Professor, David Green, will give his retirement seminar.
Next week, Dr. Laura Hug (Univ of Waterloo) will give a talk on novel viruses in municipal landfills. The Hug Lab (uwaterloo.ca/hug-research...) aims to define microbial diversity & function at contaminated sites, develop new bioremediation tools, and study how microbes are shaping the environment.
March 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Next week, Dr. Laura Hug (Univ of Waterloo) will give a talk on novel viruses in municipal landfills. The Hug Lab (uwaterloo.ca/hug-research...) aims to define microbial diversity & function at contaminated sites, develop new bioremediation tools, and study how microbes are shaping the environment.
McGill Biology Prof. Lauren Chapman (www.mcgill.ca/chapman-lab/) will be giving her retirement seminar
"Tropical Tales: Lessons learned from a career in the field" on Thursday, March 13, 4 pm in Stewart Biology N2/2 (& on Zoom: www.mcgill.ca/biology/semi...).
"Tropical Tales: Lessons learned from a career in the field" on Thursday, March 13, 4 pm in Stewart Biology N2/2 (& on Zoom: www.mcgill.ca/biology/semi...).
March 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
McGill Biology Prof. Lauren Chapman (www.mcgill.ca/chapman-lab/) will be giving her retirement seminar
"Tropical Tales: Lessons learned from a career in the field" on Thursday, March 13, 4 pm in Stewart Biology N2/2 (& on Zoom: www.mcgill.ca/biology/semi...).
"Tropical Tales: Lessons learned from a career in the field" on Thursday, March 13, 4 pm in Stewart Biology N2/2 (& on Zoom: www.mcgill.ca/biology/semi...).
We have an Instagram page to keep track of our departmental seminars and other events!
www.instagram.com/biomcgill/
www.instagram.com/biomcgill/
December 19, 2024 at 8:32 PM
We have an Instagram page to keep track of our departmental seminars and other events!
www.instagram.com/biomcgill/
www.instagram.com/biomcgill/
McGill biologists investigated whether one fish species can be a useful surrogate to learn about the environmental stress tolerances of a closely related threatened species. Their results offer a cautionary tale for studying surrogate species for conservation.
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November 18, 2024 at 11:25 PM
McGill biologists investigated whether one fish species can be a useful surrogate to learn about the environmental stress tolerances of a closely related threatened species. Their results offer a cautionary tale for studying surrogate species for conservation.
academic.oup.com/conphys/arti...
McGill Biology researchers describe one of the richest dinosaur fossil sites in Saskatchewan, confirming the presence there of the horned dinosaur Centrosaurus apertus (a close relative of Triceratops).
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November 18, 2024 at 11:17 PM
McGill Biology researchers describe one of the richest dinosaur fossil sites in Saskatchewan, confirming the presence there of the horned dinosaur Centrosaurus apertus (a close relative of Triceratops).
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10....
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10....