Séminaires en biologie | Faculté des sciences

Le Département de biologie invite régulièrement des conférenciers à présenter un séminaire de recherche à notre département diversifié. Tous les membres de notre communauté à l'Université d'Ottawa et à l'OCIB sont les bienvenus et encouragés à y assister.

Veuillez noter que les séminaires se déroulent principalement en anglais.

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Automne 2026

Date	Heure	Salle	Conférencier/conférencière	Titre du séminaire	Host Name
Lundi 21 sept. 2026	10h30 - 11h30	DRO214	Laurie Chan (uOttawa)	Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Research on Toxicology and Environmental Health: A 40-Year Journey	Kristin Eccles
Mercredi 21 oct. 2026	10h30 - 11h30	BSC140	Philippe Thomas (Environment and Climate Change Canada)	Rooted in Relationships. Driven by Discovery. Wildlife health, Indigenous partnerships, and the CIEMG vision.	Tuan Bui
Lundi 9 nov. 2026	10h30 - 11h30	DRO214	Steve Perlman (University of Victoria)	Selfish sex chromosomes	Howard Rundle

Années précédentes

Été 2026

Date	Heure	Salle	Conférencier/conférencière	Titre du séminaire	Hôte
1 juin 2026	10:30	DRO214	Dre Erin Zimmerman	‘Polite’ Botany for the Fairer Sex: The Changing Roles of Women in Plant Science	Carole Yauk et Julian Starr

Hiver 2026

Date	Heure	Salle	Conférencier/conférencière	Titre du séminaire	Hôte
12 janvier 2026	10:30-11:30	DRO214	Dr Thomas Kazmirchuk (Queen's University)	Designing the Future of Medicine	Prof. Xuhua Xia
26 janvier 2026	10:30-11:30	DRO214	Dr Toby Spribille (University of Alberta)	Microbial composition and metabolic complementarity in lichens: towards in vitro resynthesis of the one of our most visible terrestrial symbioses	Prof. Nicolas Corradi
23 février 2026	10:30-11:30	STM117	Dr Roslyn Dakin (Carleton University)	Competition and coexistence in birds	Prof. Jessica Forrest
9 mars 2026	10:30-11:30	DRO214	Dr Terrence Bell (University of Toronto)	Assessing and changing soil microbial survival across diverse environments	Prof. Marina Cvetkovska and Prof. Allyson MacLean
23 mars 2026	10:30-11:30	DRO214	Dr Castaneda Cortes (Institut national de la recherche scientifique)	From Genes to Behavior: Linking Endocrine Disruption and Srd5α2 Function in Amphibian Reproduction	Prof. Jan Mennigen
30 mars 2026	10:30-11:30	DRO214	Dr David Smith (Western University)	The evolution of transcriptional architecture in organelle genomes	Prof. Nicolas Corradi
13 avril 2026	10:30-11:30	DRO214	Dr Grégory Bulté (Carleton University)	Breathing, breeding, and burying: the underwater life of northern map turtles	Biology Graduate Student Association
20 avril 2026	10:30-11:30	DRO214	Dr Matthew Meier (Santé Canada)	Getting out of the rat race: Rethinking toxicology with genomics and machine learning	Prof. Carole Yauk

Hiver 2025

Date	Conférencier(ère)	Titre	Hôte
23 janv.	Dr Jannice Friedman (Queen's University)	Genetic constraints on the evolution of plant reproductive strategies	Dre Jessica Forrest
30 janv.	Dr Christina Davy (Carleton University)	Aeroconservation for the fragmented skies	Dre Julie Lee-Yaw
6 fév.	Annual Morand-Ferron Memorial Seminar Dr Simon Reader (McGill University)	Social cues and risk assessment: Causes and consequences of learning from others	Dr Vincent Careau
13 fév.	Dr Adam Algar (Lakehead University)	Tropical lizards and boreal frogs: from microclimate to macroecology	Dr Jeremy Kerr et Dre Julie Lee-Yaw
27 fév.	Dr Michael Downey (uOttawa)	Systems biology of polyphosphate metabolism: from protein binding to antibiotic resistance	Dre Gilda Stefanelli
6 mars	Dr Marco Leonti (University of Cagliari, Italy)	How taste shaped the use of botanical drugs	Dr Cory Harris
13 mars	Dr Lynn Gillespie (Canadian Museum of Nature)	Botanical studies in the Canadian Arctic: taxonomic complexity in an under-explored region	Dr Yaseen Mottiar et Dr Julian Starr
27 mars	Dr Tuan Bui (uOttawa)	How the spinal cord learns to move (so that you don’t have to think about it)	Dr Michael Jonz
3 avril	Dr Tyler Smith (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)	Co-developing food systems research with the Inuit Community of Makkovik	Dre Heather Kharouba
10 avril	Dr Shelley Arnott (Queen's University)	Ecological context drives zooplankton response to freshwater salinization	Dre Jessica Forrest
17 avril	Dr Julian Starr (uOttawa)	Tiger nuts and velcro plants: a walk through the phylogeny, biogeography, and diversity of sedges (family Cyperaceae)	Dre Marina Cvetkovska

Automne 2025

Date	Heure	Emplacement	Conférencier	Titre du séminaire	Hôte
Sept. 15	10h30-11h30	DRO214	Prof. Jeremy Kerr (uOttawa)	Shelter from the storm? Why microclimates matter as climate changes	Prof. Vincent Careau
Sept. 12	10h30-11h30	STEM464	Dr Chris Martyniuk (University of Florida)	What can new approach methods tell us about the toxicity of perfluorinated chemicals?	Profs. Jan Mennigen and Vance Trudeau
Sept. 22	10h30-11h30	DRO214	Dr Marc Johnson (University of Toronto)	From cities to climates: Adapting to environments locally and globally during a biological invasion	Prof. Vincent Careau
Oct. 3	10h30-11h30	DRO214	Dr. Jonathan Wilson (Wilfrid Laurier University)	The enigmatic fish pseudobranch. The story of the fake gill and eye oxygenation	Prof. Katie Gilmour
Oct. 15	13h00-15h30	STM117	Dr Axel Hutt (Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique)	Endogenous brain activity tunes brain dynamics: general anaesthesia and occipital alpha-blocking	Prof. Jérémie Lefebvre
Oct. 15	13h00-15h30	STM117	Dr Stephen Coombes (University of Nottingham)	Mathematical neuroscience: large-scale brain modelling	Prof. Jérémie Lefebvre
Oct. 31	10h30-11h30	DRO214	Dr Aerin Jacob (Conservation de la nature Canada)	Conserving living landscapes, creating lasting legacies	Prof. Heather Kharouba
Nov. 17	10h00-11h30	DRO214	Dr. Bhaja Padhi (Santé Canada)	Reliable mRNA biomarkers for toxicology: A pathway to reproducibility, comparability, and regulatory confidence	Prof. Marc Ekker
Dec. 1 (remis à une date ultérieure)	10h30-11h30	DRO214	Plus d'information à venir.	Plus d'information à venir.	Plus d'information à venir.

Automne 2024

Date	Conférencier(ère)	Titre	Hôte
September 19	Dr Odette Laneuville	Transcriptomic characterization during long missions aboard the International Space Station and from an Earth-based space analogue	Dr Rajendhran Rajakumar
October 3	Dr Patrick Murphy (University of Rochester)	Repetitive elements compete for epigenetic factors during embryonic development	Dre Gilda Stefanelli
October 10	Dr Eugene Fletcher (Carleton University)	Re-designing biological systems in yeast for industrial applications	Dr Yaseen Mottiar
October 24	Dre Katrine Turgeon (Université du Québec en Outaouais)	How do dams modify aquatic ecosystems' biodiversity and trophic structure over time and space?	Dre Heather Kharouba
October 31	Dr Armand Séguin (Canadian Forest Service)	A rapid test for the direct detection of ash infestation by the emerald ash borer: science fiction or reality?	Dr Yaseen Mottiar
November 7	Dr Minoru Koyama (University of Toronto)	Neuronal mechanisms underlying flexible locomotor behaviour development	Dr Tuan Bui
November 21	Dr Andy Turko (University of Guelph)	Interactions between physiological plasticity and habitat choice in changing environments	Dre Emily Standen
November 28	Dre Anna Hargreaves (McGill University)	Where do species interactions matter most?	Dre Julie Lee-Yaw

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