Look at the post from the Beaty Museum of the winners for the 2023 Biodiversity Research Photo Competition! 📷 by Isidora Silva-ValderramaTitle: Beautiful DiseaseLocation: SuRDC, Summerland, Okanagan Valley, BCDate: 18 OCT 2022Description: Everything looks green at the beginning of the summer, but as the season goes on, the symptoms of this devastating fungal disease in…

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.

“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!

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.

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…