The Elgar Companion to Valleys

(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023)
FIP 140

This unique Companion showcases the importance of valleys and their socio-economic, physical and cultural landscapes across three continents. Expert scholars in the field offer a broad range of disciplinary perspectives on the topic, discussing key historical and contemporary issues governing and transforming valleys.

(Description Source: Edward Elgar Publishing)

Authors

Luis L.M. Aguiar is an assistant professor of Sociology at UBC Okanagan. His academic research career focuses on investigating building cleaners’ campaigns to ‘crisise’ neoliberalism. By ‘crisising’, he means their campaigns and organized attempts to argue the trauma of neoliberalism and its consequences in cleaners’ workplaces, personal lives and communities. This interest leads him to study cleaners’ strategies and discourses of resistance neoliberal policies of the erosion of industrial citizenship. He seeks to understand and follow how resistance against an emerging post-industrial citizenship is being organized between cleaners and their union across borders.

Donna Senese is an associate professor Geography at UBC Okanagan. She is also the associate dean of undergraduate students.

Diana E. French is an associate professor emerita at UBC Okanagan in the department of Anthropology.
 

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Nava and Karen
Animals Working with Humans

(1st-Place Award International Society for Anthrozoology Sydney, Australia, 2018)
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Founded by Dr. John-Tyler Binfet, B.A.R.K brings together university students, trained therapy dogs and handlers in an effort to reduce stress, combat homesickness, foster interpersonal connections, and promote the overall social-emotional well-being of students.

Throughout the academic year, B.A.R.K offers sessions at the Library, in the Engineering, Management and Education Building, Fipke Building and VEDA Exclusive Student Living. You can find the dates and times of their sessions on their website.

(Description Source: UBC Okanagan)

Authors

Carlee Dobbyn Photography is responsible for the award-winning photo of Nava and Karen.

John-Tyler Binfet is an associate professor in the department of the Okanagan School of Education and in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia. He has two distinct research streams: 1) the investigation of kindness in school including how children, adolescents, and teachers understand what it means to be kind within a school context; and 2) the effects of canine-assisted interventions on undergraduate student well-being. Dr. Binfet is the director of UBC’s Building Academic Retention through K9’s (B.A.R.K.) program. Founded in 2012, B.A.R.K. routinely sees 60+ therapy dogs brought to campus to support students’ stress reduction and overall well-being. In 2021 he became the director of the Centre for Mindful Engagement.

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“Temporal Mitogenomics of the Galapagos Giant Tortoise from Pinzón Reveals Potential Biases in Population Genetic Inference”

(Journal of Heredity 109 (6), 631-640, 2018)
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Empirical population genetic studies generally rely on sampling subsets of the population(s) of interest and of the nuclear or organellar genome targeted, assuming each is representative of the whole. Violations of these assumptions may impact population-level parameter estimation and lead to spurious inferences. Here, we used targeted capture to sequence the full mitochondrial genome from 123 individuals of the Galapagos giant tortoise endemic to Pinzón Island (Chelonoidis duncanensis) sampled at 2 time points pre- and postbottleneck (circa 1906 and 2014) to explicitly assess differences in diversity estimates and demographic reconstructions based on subsets of the mitochondrial genome versus the full sequences and to evaluate potential biases associated with diversity estimates and demographic reconstructions from postbottlenecked samples alone. Haplotypic diversities were equal between the temporal samples based on the full mitochondrial genome, but single gene estimates suggested either decreases or increases in diversity depending upon the region. Demographic reconstructions based on the full sequence were more similar between the temporal samples than those based on the control region alone, or a subset of 3 regions, where the trends in population size changes shifted in magnitude and direction between the temporal samples. In all cases, the estimated coalescent point was more distant for the historical than contemporary sample. In summary, our results empirically demonstrate the influence of sampling bias when interpreting population genetic patterns and punctuate the need for careful consideration of potentially conflicting evolutionary signal across the mitochondrial genome.

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Authors

Michael Russello is a Professor of Biology at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan). He received his PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Columbia University in 2003. Work in his lab at UBC is at the interface of ecology and evolution, investigating the genomics of adaptation, life history variation, population dynamics and speciation. These basic insights contribute to informing wildlife conservation and invasive species management in Canada and beyond.

Evelyn L. Jensen is a broadly trained biologist with research interests in conservation biology, population genetics, evolution and molecular ecology. She was named the Graduate Researcher of the Year at UBC Okanagan in 2016. Her research group at Newcastle University (est. 2020) works in a wide variety of study systems, from the conservation of Galapagos giant tortoises to monitoring outbreaks of the invasive Asian hornet in the UK.
 

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esy016

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“Sockeye salmon repatriation leads to population re-establishment and rapid introgression with native kokanee”

(Evolutionary Applications 9 (10), 1301-1311, 2016)
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Re-establishing salmonid populations to areas historically occupied has the substantial potential for conservation gains; however, such interventions also risk negatively impacting native resident stocks. Here, we assessed the success of the hatchery-assisted reintroduction of anadromous sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) into Skaha Lake, British Columbia, Canada, and evaluated the genetic consequences for native kokanee, a freshwater-obligate ecotype, using single nucleotide polymorphism genotypic data collected from the reference samples of spawning Okanagan River sockeye and Skaha Lake kokanee presockeye reintroduction, along with annual trawl survey and angler-caught samples obtained over an eight-year period. Significant differentiation was detected between sockeye and kokanee reference samples, with >99% stock assignment. Low proportions of sockeye and hybrids were detected within 2008 and 2010 age-0 trawl samples; however, by 2012, 28% were sockeye, rising to 41% in 2014. The number of hybrids detected rose proportionally with the increase in sockeye and exhibited an intermediate phenotype. Our results indicate that the reintroduction of anadromous sockeye to Skaha Lake is succeeding, with large numbers returning to spawn. However, hybridization with native kokanee is of concern due to the potential for demographic or genetic swamping, with ongoing genetic monitoring necessary to assess the long-term effects of introgression and to support interactive fisheries management.

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Authors

Andrew J. Veale is a former UBC Okanagan post-doctoral associate interested in how genetics and genomics can inform the management of invasive species and fisheries.

Michael Russello is a Professor of Biology at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan). He received his PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Columbia University in 2003. Work in his lab at UBC is at the interface of ecology and evolution, investigating the genomics of adaptation, life history variation, population dynamics and speciation. These basic insights contribute to informing wildlife conservation and invasive species management in Canada and beyond.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12430

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“Genotyping-in-Thousands by sequencing reveals marked population structure in Western Rattlesnakes to inform conservation status”

(Ecology and Evolution 10 (14), 7157-7172, 2020)
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Delineation of units below the species level is critical for prioritizing conservation actions for species at-risk. Genetic studies play an important role in characterizing patterns of population connectivity and diversity to inform the designation of conservation units, especially for populations that are geographically isolated. The northernmost range margin of Western Rattlesnakes (Crotalus oreganus) occurs in British Columbia, Canada, where it is federally classified as threatened and restricted to five geographic regions. In these areas, Western Rattlesnakes hibernate (den) communally, raising questions about connectivity within and between den complexes. At present, Western Rattlesnake conservation efforts are hindered by a complete lack of information on genetic structure and degree of isolation at multiple scales, from the den to the regional level. To fill this knowledge gap, we used Genotyping-in-Thousands by sequencing (GT-seq) to genotype an optimized panel of 362 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from individual samples (n = 461) collected across the snake’s distribution in western Canada and neighbouring Washington (USA). Hierarchical STRUCTURE analyses found evidence for population structure within and among the five geographic regions in BC, as well as in Washington. Within these regions, 11 genetically distinct complexes of dens were identified, with some regions having multiple complexes. No significant pattern of isolation-by-distance and generally low levels of migration were detected among den complexes across regions. Additionally, snakes within dens generally were more related than those among den complexes within a region, indicating limited movement. Overall, our results suggest that the single, recognized designatable unit for Western Rattlesnakes in Canada should be re-assessed to proactively focus conservation efforts on preserving total genetic variation detected range-wide. More broadly, our study demonstrates a novel application of GT-seq for investigating patterns of diversity in wild populations at multiple scales to better inform conservation management.

(Description Source: Wiley Online Library)

Authors

Danielle A. Schmidt is a PhD student in the department of Biology at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan). Her MSc research studied the population genetics of Western Rattlesnakes to help inform conservation management.

Michael Russello is a Professor of Biology at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan). He received his PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Columbia University in 2003. Work in his lab at UBC is at the interface of ecology and evolution, investigating the genomics of adaptation, life history variation, population dynamics and speciation. These basic insights contribute to informing wildlife conservation and invasive species management in Canada and beyond.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6416

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Seasonal Sociology

(University of Toronto Press, 2020)
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Life in Canada is marked, celebrated, enjoyed, and dreaded in ways that respond specifically to the seasons. Sociological thinking allows people to ask questions about things that may otherwise be taken for granted. Thinking about the seasons sociologically opens up a unique perspective for studying and understanding social life. Each chapter in this collection approaches the seasons and the passage of time as a way to explore issues of sociological interest. The authors use seasonality as a device that can bridge, in fascinating ways, small-scale interpersonal interactions and large formal institutional structures. These contemporary, Canadian case studies are wide-ranging and include analyses of pumpkin spice lattes, policing in schools, law and colonialism, summer cottages, seasonal affective disorder, New Year’s resolutions, Vaisakhi celebrations, and more. Seasonal Sociology offers provocative new ways of thinking about the nature of our collective lives.

(Description Source: University of Toronto Press)

Authors

Ondine Park is an assistant professor of Sociology at UBC Okanagan. She is a critical cultural sociologist and social theorist whose research explores the ways in which every day spatio-temporalities are imagined, represented, and challenged. She received her PhD from the University of Alberta. Her research interests also include the suburban imaginary, theories of space and spatialization, as well as seasonal and aesthetic sociology.

Tonya K. Davidson is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University.
 

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La Temprana Sombra de Caín

(Almuzara Universidad, 2022)
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Mucho se ha hablado y publicado acerca del cainismo español, pero muy poco es lo que se ha profundizado en las raíces de tal evocación. Esta idea es, básicamente, el motor de este ensayo: rastrear la sombra del fratricida bíblico, proyectada en nuestra historia más temprana.

Planteado así el arranque, caí bien pronto en la cuenta de que el resultado de mis investigaciones podía servir, además, para abordar un espacio poco explorado o inexistente en la literatura interpretativa sobre la Biblia. Se echaba en falta un texto, accesible a un público muy amplio, que destacara el valor literario e ideológico de la Biblia, sobre todo de la Biblia hebrea, cuyo peso, tal y como se sustenta en este libro, ha sido tan grande en la narrativa histórica hispana.

El ensayo se divide en dos partes: la primera aborda los diferentes rostros del fratricida, así como la trayectoria literaria de la figura de Caín dentro de la literatura bíblica, canónica y apócrifa. El recuerdo de este personaje sirve como excusa y como guía para apreciar el virtuosismo de obras maestras de la literatura antigua como Génesis o el Libro de Samuel; en siguientes capítulos ilumina igualmente la suerte de transformaciones que, en lo religioso y en lo literario, experimentó la literatura bíblica a través de los siglos. En la segunda parte abordamos la sombra oblicua de esa personificación del fratricidio por excelencia que es Caín; muy especialmente en las narraciones de la historia de España. Desde Isidoro de Sevilla (descendiente directo de la tradición adversus iudaeos de la patrística latina) hasta apologetas como Ximénez de Rada o López de Ayala, la tradición cronística hispana aprovechó aquella temprana sombra de Caín para armar narrativas con la capacidad de avalar el desprecio a otras comunidades religiosas o explicar fratricidios con el apoyo de las Escrituras.

(Description Source: Almuzara Universidad)

Author

Francisco Peña Fernández is an associate professor in the Department of Languages and World Literatures at the University of British Columbia and Coordinator of the World Literatures Program. He earned his BA in Ancient and Medieval History at the Universidad de Sevilla (Spain) his PhD in Hebrew Philology and Religious Studies at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) and his PhD in Medieval Spanish Literature at the University of California, Davis

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“APP Genetic Deficiency Alters Intracellular Ca²⁺ Homeostasis and Delays Axonal Degeneration in Dorsal Root Ganglion Sensory Neurons”

(JNeurosci 42 (35), 6680-6691, 2022)
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The activation of self-destructive cellular programs helps sculpt the nervous system during development, but the molecular mechanisms used are not fully understood. Prior studies have investigated the role of the APP in the developmental degeneration of sensory neurons with contradictory results. In this work, we sought to elucidate the impact of APP deletion in the development of the sensory nervous system in vivo and in vitro. Our in vivo data show an increase in the number of sciatic nerve axons in adult male and female APP-null mice, consistent with the hypothesis that APP plays a pro-degenerative role in the development of peripheral axons. In vitro, we show that genetic deletion of APP delays axonal degeneration triggered by nerve growth factor deprivation, indicating that APP does play a pro-degenerative role. Interestingly, APP depletion does not affect caspase-3 levels but significantly attenuates the rise of axoplasmic Ca²⁺ that occurs during degeneration. We examined intracellular Ca²⁺ mechanisms that could be involved and found that APP-null DRG neurons had increased Ca²⁺ levels within the endoplasmic reticulum and enhanced store-operated Ca²⁺ entry. We also observed that DRG axons lacking APP have more mitochondria than their WT counterparts, but these display a lower mitochondrial membrane potential. Finally, we present evidence that APP deficiency causes an increase in mitochondrial Ca²⁺ buffering capacity. Our results support the hypothesis that APP plays a pro-degenerative role in the developmental degeneration of DRG sensory neurons, and unveil the importance of APP in the regulation of calcium signaling in sensory neurons.

(Description Source: JNeurosci)

Authors

Andrés de León is a postdoctoral researcher at UBC Okanagan. He received his PhD from McGill University in Canada.

Julien Gibon is an assistant professor without review, and research lab manager in the Biology department at UBC Okanagan. His research interests include learning and memory, the central nervous system, neurotrophins, neuronal activity, synaptic activity and plasticity, as well as mechanisms of persistent firing activity in the cortex. He received his PhD from the University of Grenoble in France.

Philip A. Barker is Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus in Kelowna, BC. He also serves as Associate Vice-President, Research for both the Okanagan and Vancouver campuses.

Prior to joining UBC in 2015, Dr. Barker was the Scientific Director of the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University in Montreal, held a Canada Research Chair in Molecular Neuroscience (Tier 1), and was Chair of the McGill University Innovation Steering Committee.

Dr. Barker is a molecular biologist and biochemist. His research program examines how extracellular cues translate into intracellular signaling pathways that regulate life and death decisions in neurons and cancer cells.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0162-22.2022

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Industrial Policy
The Coevolution of Public and Private Sources of Finance for Important Emerging and Evolving Technologies

(Cambridge University Press, 2022 )
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Dismissing industrial policy because ‘governments cannot pick winners’ is counter-productive. This Element studying selected major innovations illustrates the fact that virtually all major new technologies have been developed by a synergetic cooperation between the public and the private sectors, each doing what it can do best. By examining how R&D is financed, rather than where it takes place, the authors show that the role of the public sector is much more pronounced than is often thought. The nature of the cooperation − who does what − varies with the nature of each innovation so that simple, one-size-fits-all, rules about what each sector should do are suspect. These results are particularly important because they challenge the scepticism in the United states and elsewhere about the importance of industrial policy, a scepticism that threatens to undermine the long-term, and necessary cooperation, between the public and private sectors in promoting growth-inducing innovations.

(Description Source: Cambridge University Press)

Author

Dr. Kenneth I. Carlaw is currently a professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He received his Ph.D. (2000) from Simon Fraser University, Canada and has held lecturer and senior lecturer positions at the University of Canterbury.

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Cultivating Kindness
An Educator’s Guide

(University of Toronto Press, 2022)
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Cultivating Kindness sheds light on just how children and adolescents are kind, especially in school. Grounded in psychological and educational research on kindness and supported with illustrations capturing the voices of public school students, this book enhances our understanding of kindness.

Written with educators in mind, Cultivating Kindness draws from surveys and interviews with more than three thousand children and adolescents. Author John-Tyler Binfet shares perspectives on kindness from the very individuals we hope will embrace kindness. Interwoven among examples from students are findings from peer-reviewed studies on topics exploring the role of joy and stress contagions on fostering or thwarting kindness, the concept of kind discipline, and how to measure kindness in school. This book also includes a kindness checklist to guide educators wishing to implement and foster kindness in their classrooms or schools. In addition to practical scenarios challenging the reader to respond kindly, a repository of kindness resources to support the continued kindness education of readers is also included.

(Description Source: University of Toronto Press)

Author

John-Tyler Binfet is an associate professor in the department of the Okanagan School of Education and in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia. He has two distinct research streams: 1) the investigation of kindness in school including how children, adolescents, and teachers understand what it means to be kind within a school context; and 2) the effects of canine-assisted interventions on undergraduate student well-being. Dr. Binfet is the director of UBC’s Building Academic Retention through K9’s (B.A.R.K.) program. Founded in 2012, B.A.R.K. routinely sees 60+ therapy dogs brought to campus to support students’ stress reduction and overall well-being. In 2021 he became the director of the Centre for Mindful Engagement.

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How to Submit Artwork

If you know of other book or journal covers, or other academically inspiring artwork that is connected to work carried out by UBCO artists, scholars or researchers and that is consistent with UBCO’s educational mission, please email your suggestions to classroom.artwork@ubc.ca.

The UBC Okanagan Classroom Artwork Project began in 2019 with support from the Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences. It is now a joint project of UBCO’s Faculties and the Office of the Provost.

Artwork and other images that are a part of this project are displayed solely for educational purposes.