Deadlines & important upcoming dates | FOR PI's & GRADUATE STUDENTS Recruiting faculty and grad student volunteers for Biology Imagine Day mixer! - Imagine Day, Sept 8th Tuesday We're looking for faculty and grad student volunteers who want to join us for our lunch mixer (over pizza!) on Imagine Day. Please reach out to Jessica Ni: jessica.ni@ubc.ca if you're interested! For graduate students, especially if you did your undergraduate degree at UBC and gained research experience through BIOL448, 449, BUDR (or another way!), we'd be excited for you to come share your research experience with Biology students!
Imagine UBC | FOR EVERYONE 2026 Fall Faculty Symposium - Friday, September 11 at 2pm - Beaty auditorium We have an exciting lineup of faculty members, one from each cluster, that will give a 30 minute talk including time for questions: Kayla King (Evolution)
Ninan Abraham (Cell/Developmental Biology)
Sweta Agrawal (Comparative Physiology)
Kendall Calhoun (Ecology) To be immediately followed by a joint barbecue & beers event at the BRC Courtyard at 4pm! 2026 Fall Faculty Symposium | | FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS & PI's Canada Graduate Research Scholarship-Doctoral (CGRSD) - Applications due on Sep 15 at noon PST
CGRSD | FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS Understanding your Zoology stipend workshop -Tuesday, September 22 at 12 pm in Biosciences 4223 - West wing Lunch will be provided! RSVP here Mimi will be hosting an info session for Zoology grad students to give an overview on how student stipends are organized and set up for each academic year, the difference between your different funding sources, common problems we may run into with different funding sources, and what you should do if your pay is incorrect (hint: contact Mimi). | | FOR POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS Applications for a 2027 Liber Ero fellowship are now open! - deadline of November 1, 2026 The Liber Ero Fellowship Program supports exceptional post-doctoral fellows who address pressing conservation challenges of relevance to Canada. For more details | FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS & POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS RNA Innovation @ UBC Catalyst Grant - applications will close September 22, 2026 This funding opportunity is designed to stimulate new interdisciplinary collaborations, accelerate innovative RNA-focused research, and catalyze the development of projects that position investigators for future external funding, partnerships, and translational impact. More information | | 2025-Zoology Department Meetings
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
BRC Multipurpose room 1014/1024 Next meetings:
Monday, September 28, 2026
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
Monday, November 16, 2026 — Promotion Cases
Thursday, December 17, 2026 — Joint Meeting with Botany
Monday, January 11, 2027 — Reappointment Cases | FOR EVERYONE 2026 BRC news and upcoming events! - Judith Mank will serve as interim director from July 1st 2026 to June 30 2027
- SAVE THE DATE: Eco-Evo Retreat - November 11 - 13, 2026
BRC events calendar | ZEDI - Zoology Equity Diversity Inclusion
The Zoology Equity Diversity Inclusion (ZEDI) committee is here to address concerns and promote EDI in the department. These concerns could apply to any group of individuals who work or study in our department, including undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, administrative and research staff, and teaching and research faculty. For example, last October ZEDI hosted an event for undergraduates on tips and approaches to get started in research at UBC.
If you have a concern, comment, or suggestion please reach out to us using this anonymous Qualtrics survey, or directly via email at zoology.edi@zoology.ubc.ca. | | | | 🌟 Xueqin Huang
Zoology Workplace Excellence Award | | | 🌟 Patrick Tamkee
The Zoology Golden Donut Award | | UBC Emeritus College Award | 🌟 Carl Walters
Excellence in Innovative and Creative Endeavours Read more | | Sweta Agrawal, Heather Bruce & Callista Yee amongst the UBC researchers awarded Canada Foundation for Innovation - CFI JELF funding! UBC Research + Innovation | 🟣 AWARDS AND FUNDING 🟣 Faculty Research Awards — call for nominations, expression of intent by the end of September 15; final submission by the end of November 16: - The Killam Emerging Faculty Research Fellowship: recognizing faculty members at the earliest stages of their careers who are poised for substantial international impact
- The Engaged Research Award: recognizing faculty members who are committed to engaged research and knowledge exchange with non-academic communities
- The Innovation Award: recognizing individuals who demonstrate a strong commitment to creating societal and economic value through sponsored research, technology transfer, and entrepreneurial activities
Check submission process | 🖥️ ZCU TIP 💽 UBC Internet of Things (IoT) Wi-Fi: UBC quietly launched their long awaited Internet of Things (IoT) wi-fi network on August 17th. This allows Students, Faculty, and Staff to register and connect devices that were not capable of connecting to the existing UBC wireless networks such as ubcsecure and ubcvisitor.
Typical use cases would be devices such as 3D printers or wireless sensors that can’t connect to ubcsecure due to WPA2-Enterprise security.
Please note that all IoT devices in the department should be secured as per:
https://cio.ubc.ca/information-security/policy-standards-resources/U11
Securing Internet of Things (IoT) Devices including Operating System, Firmware, and Software updates.
If you need to network devices on the IoT wi-fi network with Zoology networks such as wired ethernet ports in the Biological Sciences/BRC/LSI buildings or Zoology VPN, please contact the ZCU and we can begin discussions with UBC IT for creating Departmental IoT networks to securely meet your needs. For more details | 🐠 Aquatics - InSeas forms 🐡 For your convenience, the InSEAS Fish Form package has been separated into individual documents, PDF & word.docx formats. These documents will be available via the Zoology Webpage, click button below. The documents include: - Flowchart - Steps for Bringing Animals into InSEAS 2026
- Request for space form 2026
- Water Quality Guidelines and Water Quality Monitoring Plan
- Species Specific Husbandry Form 2026
- Water Quality Monitoring Record Sheet* 2026
- Fish Health Monitoring Record Sheet* 2026
- Fish Health Monitoring Rubric and Body Condition Scoring 2026
- Monthly fish audit log* 2026
- Quarantine & Biosecurity forms - 2026
* these 3 documents are the ACC approved Standardized Set of Monitoring Sheets for the InSEAS facility.
InSEAS fish form package | Committees and other units - updates | BIOLOGY Program:
CTLT:
- Teaching Development Program: September 17, 2026–May 15, 2027 | Hybrid
Apply by September 10: https://ctlt.ubc.ca/tdp UBC Department of Statistics: annual opportunities to get free stats advice - Term 1 (Sep-Dec 2026): under the supervision of a Statistics professor, graduate Statistics students will provide free project-specific consultations, including a report of recommendations, as part of their STAT 551 practicum consulting course. Submissions are accepted now until Nov 1. To apply, send a 1-page project description (see sample) to asda@stat.ubc.ca.
- Term 2 (Jan-Apr 2027): a chance to get free data analysis from students taking STAT 450/550/540. Apply by Dec 6 and if your project is selected, submit your data Jan 5 2027.
For more details, please visit the Dept. of Statistics website. | BIOLOGY COMMUNITY PANTRY - please contribute to replenish the pantry! Who is it for? Biology undergraduate students Where is it? Biosciences, 2nd floor, East wing | | REFUNDABLE CONTAINER RECYCLING in Biological Science Building: 100% of the money collected will go to purchase food for the Biology Community Pantry ⬆️ ⬅️ Look out for the refundable recycling bins | | Friday Zoology Coffee & Donuts
September
September 04: Biosci Courtyard
September 11: LSC 1416
September 18: BRC Courtyard
September 25: Biosci Lounge Please remember to bring your own mug! All members of the department are welcome! Venues might change - for latest updates, please check the zoology website: Friday Coffee and Donuts schedule | | Please disregard the unsubcribe button below - you are receiving this message because you are a member of the Department of Zoology. If you have question or any NEWS or UPDATES to share EMAIL US | | | | | |
