The Departments of Botany and Zoology at the University of British Columbia invite applications for a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Marine Eukaryotic Microbial Ecology. This is a tenure track position, with initial appointment to be made at the Assistant Professor level, beginning no earlier than July 1, 2012. We seek an outstanding …
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Sep 30
Seeing biosphere's dark matter
We are organizing a symposium within 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), which will take placein the City of Vancouver, Canada in February 2012. Our symposium will be part of a special, day-long seminar “Unlocking Biology’s Potential and will verse on the exploration of uncultured microbial diversity, its …
Sep 26
Teach evolution not creationism
Are you in the UK? Sign the Creationism In Schools Isn’t Science petition!
Sep 02
Genome analysis exposes hidden sex secrets
Comment on “Conserved meiotic machinery in Glomus spp., a putatively ancient asexual fungal lineage” by S. Halary et al. 2011. The origin and significance of sex remains one of the most intriguing topics in evolutionary biology. Sexual reproduction requires a big deal of complexity and energy expense at all levels, from the intricate molecular gymnastics …
Aug 25
Graduate Student Position in Algal Evolutionary Genomics
Biology Department, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada One graduate student (Ph.D.) position is available in the laboratory of Dr. Adrian Reyes-Prieto in the Biology Department of the University of New Brunswick at Fredericton. Dr Reyes-Prieto is seeking an enthusiastic graduate student interested in genomic sciences, evolutionary biology and microbial diversity. The candidate should have …
Aug 18
Halary et al. accepted – On meiosis in mycorrhizal fungi
Just accepted in Genome Biology and Evolution: “Conserved meiotic machinery in Glomus spp., a putatively ancient asexual fungal lineage” by Sebastien Halary, Shehre-Banoo Malik, Levannia Lildhar, Claudio H. Slamovits, Mohamed Hijri and Nicolas Corradi.
Jul 20
Dalhousie #4 TheScientist's "Best Places to Work"
Dalhousie University came out in the 4th place in this year’s “Best Places to Work in Academia” survey by TheScientist.com http://the-scientist.com/2011/07/01/best-places-to-work-academia-2011/
Jun 30
Gile and Slamovits 2011, Protist
Just accepted: Gile and Slamovits – Phylogenetic position of Lophomonas striata Butschli (Parabasalia) from the hindgut of the cockroach Periplaneta americana. Protist, in press. Link to the article What’s the paper about? Parabasalid protists are a very diverse but poorly known type of microbes. They include Trichomonas vaginalis, probably the only parabasalid known to non-specialists …
Jun 05
Renny attends summer course on NGS
Renny Lee is leaving for two weeks to the Kellog Biological Station, Michigan State University to attend the Bioinformatics Summer Course 2011 on “Analysing Next-Generation Sequencing Data”. Course’s description: This intensive two week summer course will introduce attendees with a strong biology background to the practice of analyzing short-read sequencing data from Roche 454, Illumina …
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