Summer 2013 - New Members
Welcome to:
- Genoa Alger (CREATE summer student, Dr. von Aderkas lab)
- Gillian Cook (summer research assistant, Dr. von Aderkas lab)
- Jenny Phan (CREATE summer student, Dr. Hintz lab)
- Junsu Kwon (CREATE summer student, Dr. Ehlting lab)
- Meaghan Duke (summer research assistant, Dr. von Aderkas lab)
- Natasha Broznitsky (CREATE summer student, Dr. Hawkin lab)
- Stephanie Korolyk (summer research assistant, Dr. von Aderkas lab)
- Tieling Zhang (research technician, Dr. Constabel lab)
- Tim Boyarski (CREATE summer student, Dr. Constabel lab)
- Torry Oravec (research technician, Drs. Ehlting/Constabel lab)
Workshop in Professional Skills Development: May 23 - 29, 2013.
As part of the CREATE Program in Forests and Climate Change, Centre for Forest Biology will be putting on a workshop in Professional Skills Development. Topics include intellectual property, grant writing, science and public policy, and science communication with the media/general public, and are geared at graduate students. Details
Forest Biology Symposium and Centre for Forest Biology 25th Anniversary Celebration will be held April 23rd - Final Schedule
Over 90 people attended the Forest Biology Symposium and enjoyed the talks, poster presentations and the cake in celebration of 25th Anniversary of the Centre for Forest Biology. Photos
April 9th Cafe Scientifique with Peter Constabel at Hermann's Jazz Club - details (Check out the writeup of his work on blueberries in The Ring)
IDEAFest 2013 - Centre for Forest Biology Guided Tree Walk was held March 7, 2013
More than 130 people joined Dr. Patrick von Aderkas for the guided tour and were regaled with stories and interesting facts of many of the trees surrounding the quadrangle in the centre of the campus. (Photos)
Spring 2013 - New Member
Welcome to Marie Vance, CREATE PhD student with Dr. Patrick von Aderkas
2012-13 Forest Biology Award Winners:
Amelia Leith Memorial Fellowship:
Anne Berland, Natalie Prior and Alpha Wong
Lewis J. Clark Fellowship:
Russell Chedgy
M.C. Melburn Award:
Amber Paulson
R.W. Ford Scholarship:
Natalie Prior
Members of the Centre and associates will gather for the annual Forest Biology Holiday lunch at the Bev Glover Greenhouse December 7th at noon
On September 29th the Center for Forest Biology hosted an Open House and Greenhouse Tours as part of the UVic 50th Anniversary Festival (pictures)
Tours of the plant collections and displays of current research and teaching in plant biology:
- Plants that move!
- Ancient plants with a 250 million year history!
- Plants that defend themselves against enemies!
- Stressed-out plants!
The forest plant challenge:
- Test yourself against the clock in a mix and match of local forest plant species
- Learn some unique medicinal properties of local plants
Forest Biology Tree Walk Scavenger Hunt:
- Prizes were given for tracking down unique trees on campus
Fall 2012 - New Members
The fall 2012 semester is off to a great start with 6 new members. Welcome to Stefan Little and Subinoy Biswas (Postdoctoral Fellows), David Ma and Kate Donalshen (MSc students), Miko Huang and Howard Tang (MSc students within the CREATE Program).
Congratulations to Vasko Veljanovski who successfully defended his PhD thesis (20 August 2012)
University Graduate Fellowships and Awards 2012-13
Stacy Boczulak (MSc student CREATE Program) - NSERC PGS 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]
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NSERC CREATE
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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
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