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The UTSC Office of the Vice-Principal Research & Innovation’s Celebration of Research Excellence Lecture Series returns this Fall. This series features award-winning UTSC faculty presenting cutting-edge research, sharing innovations and discoveries that are advancing new knowledge and improving lives in Canada and around the world. Reflecting the diversity of faculty accomplishments in the humanities, social sciences and physical and life sciences, and from both emerging and established scholars, this series will showcase UTSC’s innovative research environment.
Celebration of Research Excellence Lecture Series #2 – A Brief History of the Fish Communities of the Great Lakes: Past, Present, Future with Professor Nicholas Mandrak
The fish communities of the Laurentian Great Lakes are young, having colonized the basin since the recession of the last Ice Age about 12,000 years ago. Despite their young age, distinct species and communities were evolving prior to European colonization. However, colonization led to impacts on the fish communities, such as overexploitation and habitat degradation, that resulted in the loss of native, and the gain of invasive, species. As a result, the Great Lakes environment and, hence, the fish communities, are very different now and face an uncertain future under climate change.
Date: Wednesday, December 1st, 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. |
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Please join Professor Peter Molnar and our Toronto Zoo partners for their next live discussion on Feb 9th at 11:00 a.m. Great for all ages!! Link to YouTube: https://youtube.com/user/TorontoZooChannel. Link to event page on the Zoo website: https://www.torontozoo.com/events/VirtualPolarBearTalk#evt
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Spatiotemporal restriction of FUSCA3 by class I BPCs promotes ovule development and coordinates embryo and endosperm growthCongratulations to Professor Gazzarrini and her group for their outstanding work on identifying an important regulatory component for coordinating ovule and seed development. Their recent paper in The Plant Cell, the field’s premier journal, was also highlighted in a brief on the journal’s website. Wu J, Mohamed D, Dowhanik S, Petrella R, Gregis V, Li J, Wu L and Gazzarrini S (2020) Spatiotemporal restriction of FUSCA3 by class I BPCs promotes ovule development and coordinates embryo and endosperm growth. The Plant Cell. Published April 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.19.00764 |
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Genetic study sheds light on the origin of kiwi birdsProfessor Jason Weir and his team at the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, published a new paper in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showing evidence that New Zealand's kiwi birds are much newer than previously thought. Read the full article here. |
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Pioneer Collaboration To Save Local SpeciesResearchers at the Department of Biological Sciences collaborate with Parks Canada and the Toronto Zoo, in order to help threatened species in the Rouge Valley. The project started with the release of 36 radio-transmittor-tagged Blanding turtles into restored wetlands of the park, which would allow the researchers to track their activity in the wild. The full story is available here. |
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UTSC's Canadian Centre for World Hunger Research PartnershipUTSC's Canadian Centre for World Hunger Research (CCWHR, headed by Herbert Kronzucker) has partnered with the Centre for Global Engineering (CGEN) and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health to launch a new joint ‘Public Health Diagnostics Initiative’ (PHDi) on health and nutrition, which has received a major funding award from the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering (at UT St. George). As one of five projects in the initiative, the CCWHR will collaborate with engineers to develop a low-cost nanoparticle-based soil-fertility sensor for rice fields, to be deployed in developing nations. |
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New Findings on the mating call of Tree CricketsOur Chair, Andrew Mason, makes loud noise – as loud as the mating calls of the tree crickets! |
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