Past Events

Butterflies on the Brink: The Story of the Mottled Duskywing tells the story of a University of Guelph project to reintroduce an endangered butterfly. The documentary follows the research and recovery team, led Dr. Ryan Norris from the Department of Integrative Biology and biologist Jessica Linton, with support from the Cambridge Butterfly Conservatory team, as they work to reintroduce the mottled duskywing butterfly to Pinery Provincial Park.

Butterflies on the Brink: The Story of the Mottled Duskywing tells the story of a University of Guelph project to reintroduce an endangered butterfly. The documentary follows the research and recovery team, led Dr. Ryan Norris from the Department of Integrative Biology and biologist Jessica Linton, with support from the Cambridge Butterfly Conservatory team, as they work to reintroduce the mottled duskywing butterfly to Pinery Provincial Park.

Interested in the Master of Wildlife Biology? Join our virtual information session! Program Director Dr. Sherri Cox will share more details about the program and will be available to answer specific questions. 

Aranya Iyer and Mariel Terebiznik, co-founders of Field Research in Ecology and Evolution Diversified (FREED), will be speakers at the next CBS Community Seminar Series. FREED is dedicated to increasing access to field work, research experiences and skills for students who are underrepresented in the fields of ecology and evolutionary biology.

The Department of Integrative Biology wishes to announce the upcoming thesis defence of: Arya Horon - MSc Integrative Biology Wednesday, December 11th, 2024 at 1:00 PM (EST) virtually via the Microsoft Teams link below. Arya will present her thesis "Do Caribou Surf? An Empirical Test of the Green Wave Hypothesis for Woodland Caribou in Ontario, Canada". The examination committee includes: Chair - Dr. Nicholas Bernier Co-advisor - Dr. John Fryxell Co-advisor - Dr. Quinn Webber Departmental Examiner - Dr. Robert McLaughlin

The Department of Integrative Biology wishes to announce the upcoming thesis defence of: Emma Mably - MSc Integrative Biology Tuesday, December 10th, 2024 at 9:30 AM (EST) in-person in SSC 2315 and hybrid via the Teams link below. Emma will present her thesis, "Squirrels and the City: Exploring the development of the gut-brain axis via maternal effects in response to urbanization in wild eastern grey squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis)".

The Bioinformatics Program wishes to announce the upcoming thesis defence of: Maysa Niazy - PhD Bioinformatics Monday, December 9th, 2024 at 11:00 AM (EST) in the Summerlee Science Complex room 2315, and hybrid via the Teams link below. Maysa will present her thesis, "Statistical Methods for High-Dimensional Complex Data with Application for Microbiome Studies".

The Department of Integrative Biology wishes to announce the upcoming thesis defence of: Kendra Gardner - MSc Integrative Biology Friday, December 6th, 2024 at 9:00 AM (EST) in SSC 2315 and hybrid via the Teams link below. Kendra will present her thesis "Assessing Lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus) Diets in Canadian Sea Cages Using Morphological and DNA Metabarcoding Analyses". 

The Department of Integrative Biology wishes to announce the upcoming thesis defence of: Juni Rechter - MSc Integrative Biology Wednesday, December 4th, 2024 at 1:00 PM (EST) in SSC 1504 and hybrid via the Teams link below. Juni will present their thesis "Improving the domain generalisation of camera trap image classifiers using inserted animal cutouts".