Students in Rachel Wilson’s BIOL 230 (Fundamentals of Ecology) course recently went to Totem Plant Science Field Station on the UBC campus to look for isopods and contribute to an ongoing long-term experiment dating back to 2009. Rachel was especially excited to return to the site this term after a pandemic-caused hiatus. “This trip was …
Monthly Archives: November 2021
TA Spotlight – Maisie Musor
Hi! I’m Maisie and my pronouns are She/Her. I am from Maine, on the Northeast coast of the United States, and I completed my BS in Chemistry in 2020 at the University of Maine. As an undergraduate, I worked on a wide variety of research projects such as optimizing cellulose-based bioplastics, helping study anti-biotic resistance …
Peer Tutor Spotlight – Ruby Burns
Hello! I’m Ruby, and I’m in my third year in the Biology program working towards an Honours degree in marine biology. I’m from Mississauga, ON – you may notice that there are no oceans there, which is why I came all this way to study them! This is my first term as a peer tutor, …
TA Spotlight – Jack Bacon
Jack is a PhD candidate in the Wyatt lab at the Vancouver Prostate Centre, a joint UBC/VCH research facility located on the Vancouver General Hospital campus. He holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of British Columbia and initially enrolled in the Master of Science program in the faculty of Genome Science and …