Trilogy Lab
tri-kingdom eco-evo
BIO 348
Genomics & Bioinformatics
This course provides students with experience in accessing and navigating high-performance computing to work through the basic steps of a genomic project. Students learn regular expression, bash and R in order to filter, align, assemble and run basic population genomic and phylogenomic analyses on NGS data.
Botany 332 students performing vegetation surveys at Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada
Behind the scenes at the Royal BC Museum
BIO 457
Conservation Biology & Biodiversity
We take a broad look at conservation as it relates to life sciences, but also economics, politics, social science and psychology. This course prepares students for careers in conservation biology; covering topics from monitoring, demographics, habitat suitability models, conservation genetics and reserve design. The course also provides students a taste of what it might be like to work with stakeholders that have a range of values.
BIO 372
Plant Ecology
Covering plant ecology topics such as pollination biology, global change, biomes, ecosystem processes etc. Course was developed with labs covering statistical design and vegetation survey techniques.
Vegetation surveys at Pipers Lagoon
BIO 322
Terrestrial Ecosystems
Upper level ecology course detailing major ecosystem processes and fluxes ranging from C/N cycles, soil microbial activity and plant ecophysiology.
Soil fractionation
BIO 121
Introductory Zoology (labs)
Introduction to major animal groups, anatomy and physiology.
Learning bird anatomy & physiology with help from the raptor centre
Mark-recapture of crickets
BIO 202
Ecology
Introduction to broad ecological concepts and topics for both animals and plants in terrestrial and aquatic settings.
BIO 402
Evolution
Upper-level course that guides students through evolutionary theory. Topics include natural selection, phylogenetics, population genetics, coevolution, genomic evolution, and sexual selection.
Making phylogenies from pie recipes!
