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Researchers Revealed! Dr. Jonathan Davies
Jonathan describes how incorporating evolutionary history can help us understand the drivers of disease emergence. He is currently investigating how diseases in natural plant systems spillover to domestic and agriculture plants.
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Jonathan Davies in the iBios Podcast of January 2023
“In this episode of Biodiversity Speaks, Dr. Jonathan Davies speaks about his work in phylogenetics and evolutionary biology. From underground trees to acknowledging the privilege that comes with doing fieldwork abroad, this episode has it all”– extracted from the description of the podcast. @ibiosprogram Listen to it here!
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Researchers Revealed! Dr. Alaina Pfenning-Butterworth
Alaina describes the ongoing and future aims of a UBC Grant for Catalyzing Research Clusters funded international working group examining the intersection of climate change, biodiversity, and infectious disease.
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Global change at the nexus of climate, biodiversity and disease symposium
A one-day symposium to highlight researchers at UBC studying the intersection of climate change, biodiversity loss, and infectious disease. This symposium also served as a springboard for method development and data analysis for a working group, involving 11 participating scientists from 8 universities and research institutions across North America, to examine the causal pathways between…
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International Workshop of Grapevine Trunk Diseases – Mikulov, Czeck Republic
During the week of the 10-14th of July , 2022, Isidora Silva-Valderrama attended the IWGTD 2022 in Czeck Republic. This event, held every 3 years, showcases the latest advances and research in Fungal Grapevine Trunk Diseases. Isidora presented the preliminary results of the 3rd chapter of her Master’s thesis, where we generated a model to…
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The Davies Lab at the Botany Symposium
Last Friday, all of the members of our Lab presented their work at the Botany Research Symposium at UBC, Vancouver. Nick Bard talked about “Surveying fungal biodiversity: a genome mining approach” where he explained his work developing a pipeline to easily find fungi from large datasets of genome sequencing with huge applications. Isidora Silva-Valderrama talked…
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BRC photo competition 2022
The PhyloEcology Lab at the BRC photo competition 2022! Isidora Silva-Valderrama won the People’s Choice Award for her photo “Life Carries on Even When the Changes are Great”. She described the photo as follows:“Grapevine Trunk diseases have devastating effects around the globe, and there is no known cure for infected plants. Some of the most…
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