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LaurierBiology @laurierbiology.bsky.social · Jun 25

Kicking off a full-day faculty retreat for the #BestBiologyDepartment!
#LaurierBiology

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LaurierBiology @laurierbiology.bsky.social · 2d

Please join us this Friday @ 2:30 for the next #LaurierBiology seminar given by Dr. Tomas DeFalco from @westernu.ca! All welcome! DM for #Zoominar link!

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Danve Castroverde @danvec.bsky.social · 2d

We are honoured to host Dr. Tom DeFalco ( #Western #UWO ) as our Seminar Speaker this Friday (Oct 10th) at 2:30 PM! The seminar will be hybrid (in-person with Zoom). @laurierbiology.bsky.social

Please DM for the link!

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Danve Castroverde @danvec.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks to all our GENEROUS sponsors! @cspbscbv.bsky.social @jxbotany.bsky.social @cp-cellreports.bsky.social @newphyt.bsky.social @laurierbiology.bsky.social @neurosnap.bsky.social @biochambers.bsky.social @cdnsciencepub.com

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Danve Castroverde @danvec.bsky.social · 5d

The 2025 #CSPB_ERM conference website is now ONLINE!
LINK: event.fourwaves.com/erm2025

Early registration: Oct. 24
Regular registration: Oct. 25-Nov. 12
Abstract deadline for oral/poster presentations: Oct. 24

Student/postdoc registration fees are heavily discounted. See you soon!

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LaurierBiology @laurierbiology.bsky.social · 5d

TOMORROW!

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LaurierBiology @laurierbiology.bsky.social · 5d

Will DM you link in the am!

LaurierBiology @laurierbiology.bsky.social · 5d

TOMORROW!

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LaurierBiology @laurierbiology.bsky.social · 5d

Let me know if you need a Zoominar link if you can't make it in person!

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 9d

My former PhD student, Dr. Madi Landrum, is giving a talk on her very cool (hot?!) research this Friday! Check it out! 🔥 🧪 #BEASTLab

LaurierBiology @laurierbiology.bsky.social · 10d

Please join us this Friday for our next #LaurierBiology departmental seminar my post-doctoral researcher Dr. Madi Landrum! 2:30pm in BA209 + online! All welcome! DM for Zoominar link!

Poster advertising departmental seminar entitled "People, Fire, and Climate: Exploring Human-Environment Relationships Over the Holocene"

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Danve Castroverde @danvec.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you very much to Editor Martin Balcerowicz (@transcription.bsky.social) for highlighting our work in the September issue of @theplantjournal.bsky.social!

Article: doi.org/10.1111/tpj....
Research Highlight: doi.org/10.1111/tpj....

@laurierbiology.bsky.social @cspbscbv.bsky.social

Too hot to defend: elevated temperature compromises systemic acquired resistance

Click on the article title to read more.

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 8d

Needed a 3rd whiteboard for the decision map for two-sample analyses in today’s #BI393 Biostatistics class, so dug out an old (reliable) overhead projector!

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LaurierBiology @laurierbiology.bsky.social · 9d

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LaurierBiology @laurierbiology.bsky.social · 10d

Please join us this Friday for our next #LaurierBiology departmental seminar my post-doctoral researcher Dr. Madi Landrum! 2:30pm in BA209 + online! All welcome! DM for Zoominar link!

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 16d

A super-busy Monday in the #DrosLife lab, with the start of mating assays for directed studies student Rimsha (with help from Haleigh and Owen), plus culturing and a fly food cook!! Fortunately there are #ScienceDoughnuts! #Drosophila

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Danve Castroverde @danvec.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you very much to Medicine Guides Peter & Lydia Isaacs for hosting the 1st Biology Medicine Walk for @laurierbiology.bsky.social members! 🌱🌿🍃

Special thanks to the AVP Indigenous Initiatives Office, Indigenous Knowledge Fund and Biology IDEA Committee (esp. Caroline & Tristan)!

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Katie Cook @katiecandraw.bsky.social · 17d

Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.

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Daniel Colón-Ramos @dacolon.bsky.social · 17d

Vaccination and health mural by Diego Rivera, 1932, painted to highlight how science helped fight disease (Detroit Institute of Art)

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LaurierBiology @laurierbiology.bsky.social · 18d

Please join us on Friday Sept 26th @ 2:30 in BA209 (or online) for an incredible #LaurierBiology departmental seminar by our own Dr. Zhongwei Zou! All welcome! DM for #Zoominar link!

LaurierBiology @laurierbiology.bsky.social · 19d

Today #LaurierBiology students, staff & faculty are kicking off our departmental seminar series by learning about local flora through the perspective of Indigenous knowledge systems led by Medicine Guide Peter Isaacs, a respected Six Nations elder who works with the Crowshield Lodge organization

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Danve Castroverde @danvec.bsky.social · 23d

Our @laurierbiology.bsky.social lab welcomes our "new" students this academic year!

- Previous BSc student Vanessa is returning for an MSc Integrative Biology degree.

- Previous volunteer students Ritchi, Tanya and Jaya are returning to conduct their #HonoursThesis research.

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Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 27d

ggplot2 4.0.0 is out and the new `paper`, `ink`, `accent` theme variables look super cool! Just pick 2-3 colors 🎨 to make your plots look great! I'm excited to hook this up to brand.yml 😉

A ggplot2 plot showing a classic `mpg` scatter plot. The code uses `theme_gray()` with `paper = "cornstalk"` for a light yellow background, `ink = "navy"` for navy blue text and points, and `accent = "tomato"` which is applied to the smoothing line created with `geom_smooth()`

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Danve Castroverde @danvec.bsky.social · 26d

Our lab's @micropub7n.bsky.social manuscript led by former BSc thesis student Karen Liu is now published online! @laurierbiology.bsky.social

Here we report defence hormone-related gene expression in pathogen-infected tomato plants at two temperatures:
micropublication.org/journals/bio...

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LaurierBiology @laurierbiology.bsky.social · 26d

Only 3 days? Someone’s slacking!

Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 26d

Biology Department

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Comic. [Building with large sign in front of it[ SIGN: Welcome to the *Biology Department* It has been [changeable sign: 3] days since we discovered something existentially horrifying about bugs that makes you question your whole reality

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 28d

Final @laurierbiology.bsky.social seminar posters is! #SciArt

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LaurierBiology @laurierbiology.bsky.social · 28d

Welcome back @wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social #GoldenHawks! Our first #LaurierBiology seminar of the year is by our own Dr. Zou on Sept 26th @ 2:30 in BA209 (+ online). All are welcome to attend! DM for #Zoominar registration link!

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