Thanks to #LaurierBiology’s Dr. @leonardlab.bsky.social on excellent bedeling at today’s convocation!

#LaurierBiology faculty members out to celebrate the graduates at this morning’s convocation ceremony! #BestBiologyDepartment

Just picked up the bound copy of Laura’s MSc thesis for the #DrosLife lab library!

Lots of faculty here this morning for convocation!

#LaurierBiology faculty members out to celebrate the graduates at this morning’s convocation ceremony! #BestBiologyDepartment

Thanks to #LaurierBiology’s Dr. @leonardlab.bsky.social on excellent bedeling at today’s convocation!

Congratulations to all the #LaurierBiology undergraduate and graduate students convocating today!

‘Economics Nobel prize won by researchers who showed how science boosts growth’ by @philipcball.bsky.social in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Join us in Alicante (again!) in April 2026 for all things #Drosophila in Spain! #DrosoSpain2026 #savethedate

Hope everyone is enjoying the start of Fall Reading Week! Our next (spooky?) departmental activity happens on Halloween when students in the #BI499 honours thesis program present their (haunted?) research proposals! 🎃 👻

🚨CSEE 2026: Call for Symposium & Workshop Proposals! Got a great idea for a session? Now's your chance to shape the CSEE 2026 program! 🗓️ Deadline: Nov 3, 2025 @ 9:00 PM 📋 Submit via: event.fourwaves.com/csee2026 Full instructions + selection criteria on the site.

We’re so excited to welcome you all to CSEE 2026 in Toronto!

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!

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!

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

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!

TOMORROW!

TOMORROW!

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

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

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!

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!

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

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)!

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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 😉

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...

Only 3 days? Someone’s slacking!

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

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!

SAVE THE DATE - Nov 29th, 2025 (Sat) CSPB Eastern Regional Meeting at Wilfrid Laurier University! @cspbscbv.bsky.social @laurierbiology.bsky.social Featuring outstanding scientists as Plenary Speakers - Dr. @edelplopez.bsky.social and Dr. Eliana Gonzales-Vigil! Registration details coming soon!

Congratulations to PDF Dr. Janet Velázquez Pérez for being awarded a 2025 #LaurierWinS Hypatia Award for outstanding women in science! Well done and greatly deserved! 👏👏👏 @laurierbiology.bsky.social

Happy to share this short preprint (micropublication) based in part on former BSc student Karen Liu's honours thesis project! @laurierbiology.bsky.social @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Today we report how plant immune preparedness against future infections is negatively intercepted by elevated temperatures! @theplantjournal.bsky.social #OpenAccess This work was initiated by my first MSc student Alyssa Shields. @laurierbiology.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Big congratulations to @laurierbiology.bsky.social grad student Laura Hampel who successfully defended her #LaurierBiology MSc thesis on the physiological and behavioural consequences of prolonged blue light exposure! #DrosLife #DrosLight #ScienceDoughnuts

Congratulations to PhD student @rossichristina.bsky.social for receiving the @cspbscbv.bsky.social Best Student Paper Award (Honourable Mention)! Christina's #PlantCellEnv publication was based on her previous MSc thesis research @laurierbiology.bsky.social. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

15 years ago (today) I started my dream job here @laurierbiology.bsky.social! #TimeFlies

A chronological archive of the ~180ish posters I have made (so far) for #LaurierBiology departmental seminars, since I began in 2014! #SciArt flic.kr/s/aHBqjCj3BL

Thank you to #LaurierBiology’s Dr. Heidi Swanson for running today’s departmental retreat!

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

Extremely PROUD of PhD student Christina Rossi for her great talk and for being an outstanding ambassador of our @laurierbiology.bsky.social research program here in Gent! 🤩🌱🧬 Shout-out to our #Proteomics collaborators Dr. Jennifer Geddes-McAlister and Dr. Jason McAlister (MCB Guelph)!

Excited to share our lab's research in the August edition of the #Thermomorphogenesis Journal Club! @laurierbiology.bsky.social Our study was initiated by my first MSc student Alyssa & has been preprinted on @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social. Thanks for the kind invite, Prof. @rodrigoreislab.com!

#Goldenhogs!

Happy @kenmaly.bsky.social appreciation day to all who celebrate! 👕⚗️💙 #RealTimeChem #RealTimeKen #ImJustKenMaly #FluorescentFriday #Kenergy 😜 @louisedawe.bsky.social

SUPER excited to share our lab's #LaurierBiology research as one of the Main Symposium Speakers at the CBA Annual Meeting! Thanks to the organizers for the kind invitation. See you all next week in St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador! 🌱🧬😻 @laurierbiology.bsky.social

🎉🎉Congratulations to #LaurierBiology’s Dr. Danve Castroverde @danvec.bsky.social who is being awarded today with a Donald F. Morgenson Faculty Awards for Teaching Excellence!🎉🎉 www.wlu.ca/features/202...