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...

🎉🎉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...

Congratulations to PhD student Christina Rossi for winning the New Phytologist Foundation Best Poster Award at the recently held International Plant Proteomics Conference in Banff, Alberta! 👏🌱🧬 www.inppo2025.org #InPPO @newphyt.bsky.social @laurierbiology.bsky.social

Muskox, The North, and @laurierbiology.bsky.social 's Christine Dunbar @christinedunbar.bsky.social ! #WILDLAB cabinradio.ca/237771/news/...

Congratulations to PDF Dr. Janet Velázquez Pérez (co-supervised with Prof. Poynter & Prof. DeWitte-Orr) for being a recipient of the 2025 North American Comparative Immunology (NACI) Workshop Travel Award to attend the meeting in Halifax! 👏🌱🧬 @laurierbiology.bsky.social

Exciting day in the #DrosLife lab as #HE450 directed studies student Haley presented her project findings! #ScienceDoughnuts #Drosophila

Great talk today by #DrosLife lab’s Laura Hampel on her incredible integrative work on physiology, senescence and reproduction in #Drosophila!

Excellent presentation by our lab's PhD candidate Christina in the Laurier Chemistry-Biology Interface (CBI) Symposium today! @laurierbiology.bsky.social Christina shared her research on identifying and characterizing putative regulators of thermosensitive plant immunity using #proteomics. 👏🌱🧬

Congratulations to our lab's #CH490 BSc thesis student Arma for her great talk in today's #LaurierChemistryBiochemistry Honours Thesis presentations! 👏🌱🧬 @laurierbiology.bsky.social

Postdoc fellow Janet Velázquez Pérez will be presenting at the 37th Annual #CanadianSocietyForImmunology Conference 2025 in Gatineau, Quebec! LINK: www.csi-sci.ca/scientific_m... Janet will share her #NFRF -funded work on developing novel RNA-based therapeutics! 🌿🧬🐟 @laurierbiology.bsky.social

Graduate officer Dr.Jonathan Wilson welcomes everyone to today’s #LaurierBiology MSc research symposium! @wilson-jm.bsky.social

Big day of #LaurierBiology Honours Thesis research projects!

SUPER excited to welcome the newest #GoldenHawks to @laurierbiology.bsky.social! 💜💛💜

#LaurierBiology faculty members hard at work spending Friday afternoon writing congratulatory postcards to #Laurier students accepted into our various programs! #BestBiologyDepartment

PhD candidate Christina Rossi will be presenting at the 6th International Plant #Proteomics Organization Conference 2025 in Banff, Canada! LINK: www.inppo2025.org Christina will present her work building upon the 2022 study on CBP60g-mediated plant immune resilience: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Celebrating the (almost-)last experiments of our lab's BSc research students this semester! @laurierbiology.bsky.social #BI499 #BI495 #CH490 #HonoursThesis #DirectedStudies Thanks to #LadyGlaze for the treats! #ScienceDoughnuts

Polymorphism: my latest Birdword comic for Cornell Lab. www.allaboutbirds.org/news/birdwor...

NEW: Apply for COMPASS Pathfinders Program! www.compassscicomm.org/compass-path... Eligibility: * You work in conservation in North America (incl. Caribbean) * Your work is directly informed by science &/or Indigenous knowledge (incl. research, policy, comms, partnerships) Deadline April 7. 🧪🌎🦤

The program is fully remote and will allow scholars to remotely re-engage with academia after being pushed outside the university space.

My university is accepting applications for the Visiting Researcher - Scholars at Risk Program, established to support scholars who are facing threats to their life, liberty or academic career, &/or have been forced to leave their academic position because of such threats. www.wlu.ca/academics/re...

It was a memorable #OntarioBiologyDay 2025 with Laurier's Magnificent 13! @laurierbiology.bsky.social #HonoursThesis #UndergraduateResearch #OBD2025

Hawk inking is done! Now to add the lettering for this #LaurierBiology poster! #SciArt #birb