Lansdowne Lecture - Dr. Ken Raffra

(Professor, Dept of Entomology, University of Wisconsin - World renowned Forest Ecologist)

Public Lecture - Thursday, November 17, 7:00 pm Bob Wright Centre, Room A104 "Anatomy of a Tipping Point: Why being a bark beetle is difficult, and how we've made it easier.

Forest Biology/Biology Seminar - Friday, November 18, 2:30 pm ECS125 "Constraints and drivers of bark beetle outbreaks: How small-scale processes can generate large-scale consequences when they surpass critical thresholds"

EVERYONE WELCOME

Fall 2011

The fall 2011 semester is off to a great start with 10 new members.  Welcome to Laura Gray (Postdoctoral Fellow), Juan Aldana, P-E Shay (PhD students), Anne Berland, Stacy Boczulak and Amy Franklin (MSc students) within the CREATE Program.  Also joining the Centre are new students Annette Alber (PhD student) and Ian Boyes, Cayla Naumann and Amber Paulson (MSc students).

University Graduate Fellowships and Awards 2011-12

Anne Berland (MSc student) - President's Award
Stacy Boczulak (MSc student) - University of Victoria Fellowship
Neil von Wittgenstein (MSc student) - University of Victoria Fellowship

2011 Summer Student Symposium and Social

Thanks to the five Forest Biology Summer Students who gave excellent (and entertaining) presentations on their research projects at our first Summer Student Symposium and Social held July 12th at Dr. Hawkins home. Faculty, adjunct professors, postdocs and graduate students connected to the Centre all thoroughly enjoyed the presentations and the light refreshments. We hope to make this an annual event! [Link to fotos]

Welcome

Welcome to Kazuko Yoshida and Vincent Walker, our two most recent post-doctoral fellows who joined us in June from Japan and France, respectively. Kazuko is working on transcriptional regulation in poplar in the Constabel Lab, and Vince is on a CREATE collaborative project between UVic and the Laurentian Forestry Centre looking at poplar phenolic metabolism

Congratulations

Congrats to Alpha Wong (Constabel and Perlman labs), for being awarded a prestigious Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGSM) in the latest competition.

NSERC CREATE

NSERC CREATE Program in Forests and Climate Change Announced on June 4th

June 4, 2010
The federal government announced today that the Centre for Forest Biology will receive over $1.6 million from NSERC over six years for the new  NSERC CREATE Program in Forests and Climate Change. This will provide funding to graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and undergraduates for research in projects on the interaction of forests with climate change. It will also fund more formal training opportunities including new graduate workshops and internships. Research projects are based at UVic and will involve collaborations among labs within the Centre for Forest Biology or with collaborating scientist at the Ministry of Forests and Range, the Pacific Forestry Centre, or other universities.

The major themes for the research program are:  i) nutrition, physiology and genetics of trees for enhanced carbon sequestration and stress adaptability, ii) control of carbon allocation to stable ecologically significant compounds within trees, in particular phenolic phytochemicals, and iii) plant-soil-environment interactions, with emphasis on greenhouse gas dynamics in soils. Within participating Forest Biology laboratories, students will have be able to learn a variety of physiological, biochemical, molecular, and bioinformatic techniques. Through collaborating labs, the students will have access to cutting-edge tools in genomics, proteomics and metabolomics.

The program will provide outstanding training and research opportunities for qualified graduate students and trainees. For further information contact the Centre (forbiol@uvic.ca). Application procedures will be posted shortly. See also http://web.uvic.ca/forbiol/create/index.html

Forest Biology Tree Walk

Please enjoy our campus tree walk!

Tree list, map, and notes.